Posted on 07/26/2015 2:02:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Attendees of the Convening's opening ceremony raise their fists as a symbol of power during an organizer's speech.
Activists from across the nation converged in Cleveland this weekend for a conference meant to draw national attention to police brutality and race relations in the wake of a number of incidents involving police and black Americans.
The National Convening of the Movement for Black Lives began Friday at Cleveland State University where activists will attend sessions that range from viewing films to open discussions on topics that highlight issues that affect all aspects of black culture.
The conference is happening amid an escalating national discussion about law enforcement's interaction in black communities. Those issues are illustrated through several high-profile incidents that began in the summer of 2014 with the shooting death of Michael Brown Jr. by a Ferguson, Missouri police officer and continue through this month when Sandra Bland was found dead in a Texas jail cell where she was being held after a routine traffic stop.
The conference is being held in Cleveland, a city where two police officers remain under investigation in the Nov. 22, 2014 shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice. The Cleveland police department is now operating under a federal reform agreement that came after the U.S. Justice Department's two-year-long probe of the department's use-of-force practices and policies....
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“...range from viewing films to open discussions on topics that highlight issues that affect all aspects of black culture.”
For the slow learners; no, not all aspects. Only the ones that cast Whitey in the proper light and promote infinite victimhood. These folks spend money to attend these things?
How come white folks don’t need conferences and discussion groups to tell them how to be white, or to expose whatever wrongs were committed by one group against another group?
We shoulda picked our own.
We go over all those questions during White History Month.
You all negros going to shoot each other here too?
There’d have been more, but they were aborted.
I expected to see more Mexican ponchos and dog bowls on their heads. I guess they only dress that way for whitey.
Back in 1979 forced busing came to the Cleveland Pubic Schools. It destroyed the city.
Productive people (of all colors) moved out of Cleveland to send their kids to suburban schools.
Slowly the ghetto rats took over.
You don’t know how glad I am to have moved out of that cesspool 24 years ago.
My wife’s company HQ is in Mason, Ohio. What’s that like?
“This country sure is paying dearly for all that damn cotton.”
Yup! Now we have cities full of obsolete farm equipment!
How many black lives didn’t matter in Cleveland this weekend when they were gunned down by black gangbangers?
What about nationwide?
Just curious.
Please direct me to some airtight stats on that. I don't doubt you, I just want irrefutable facts.
Here is one source-
The problem is not in finding sources, the problem is choosing the most credible sources to mainstream folks, from amongst an embarrassment of riches when I google it.
They get no support from me as long as they say that “White lives matter” is racist.
In the warp and woof of history, many things go into what constitutes future events. Much blood was shed on both sides of the war to work through that issue (not that it was the prime cause). I think it's a fallacy to ascribe some kind of "karma" from the agricultural economics and cultural mores of the 19th century to today's problems. More closely related are the "War on Poverty" initiatives which were instituted in the 1960s, which decimated black families.
Finally — somebody is willing to go to Cleveland for a convention.
Don’t have a clue.
They need their own country, police force, government.
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