Posted on 08/23/2014 3:49:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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TOURE: I don't know what exactly happened when Michael Brown and Darren Wilson collided but I know too well the heart ache it has caused a nation where many feel that black life is worth less. This sign saying black lives matter is so simple and so powerful and so insane that we still feel the need to say it. In the 50s, blacks march with a sign saying 'I Am A Man.' The difference between those sentiments is paper thin. Blacks are still trying to get America to see and treat black people as if black and white lives matter equally. Sensing that black life matters less comes most often and most acutely from seeing these frequent incidences where black men are gunned down by police. The victims of police shootings are disproportionately black.
We live in a nation where an unarmed Eric Garner, surrounded by multiple officers who interrogated him for selling cigarettes, is killed but a mass murderer in Aurora, Colorado, who killed many people using multiple guns, was somehow taken peacefully. A nation where white men can walk into restaurants openly brandishing real assault weapons like performance art and are asked to leave while a black man in an Ohio Wal-Mart was shot while holding a BB gun that he picked up inside that very store. A nation where Cliven Bundy supporters are allowed to meet federal force with their own force and allowed to aim guns at federal officials and have those officials fall back while in Ferguson, protesters were tear-gassed.
The anger, the pain, the trauma around the differential treatment and the violent losses of black life is all too familiar. That's why people all over the country converged on Ferguson and protested with the locals....
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if the protest organizers had waited for the facts to come out, would there have been any protests?
As if they care about facts.
If The Protests In Ferguson Had Been Peaceful Would America Have Concluded That The People In Ferguson Are All Criminals?
Sure that is the response you are hoping for?
Exactly, this was never about ‘facts’ - (on both sides) - this is about an ‘excuse’ to do what we are watching happen across the country.
The civil society is disintegrating before our eyes. Horror usually follows with unbelievable brutality in order to keep the rulers safe and in power.
“Toupe”.
LOL! That’s a keeper.
Don’t care, Toure.
In fact, I find the staggering extent of your shocking stupidity and rampant dishonesty rather funny.
You have nothing but by disrespect and loathing.
All the worst to you.
Actually civil society is just fine in most of America. As usual, its mostly the urban areas that are a problem and as usual again, they’re looking for everyone else to blame.
would America have listened to what? Why it people should not defend themselves when attacked?
Yeah, I listened.
Looked that way and saw a bunch of trashy bastards looting and rioting.
Is that what they wanted? Because that’s what I see.
Kind of hardens my heart toward that segment of society.
That what y’all wanted?
As in listen to the misinformation coming from the MSM?
I guess this is why no one cares when a Black murders a White otr beats them near to death. Well this has taught me something important, Whites need to riot, loot and burn so that the world will pay attention!
Listen to what? There was as much looting and stealing as protesting.
If Dorian Johnson had told the truth, would the people of Furguson have protested in the first place?
-PJ
If Michael Brown had been a "peaceful thug" would he have been shot?
Act like thugs get treated like thugs.
Not that complicated really.
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