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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Yes, them and those idiots who run the GOP. They deserve each other.
You are right, but mountains of economic payments will NEVER be enough. If they stopped, Al and Jesse wouldn't make any money.
How many sessions did that have discussing the fact that the vast majority of homicides of young black men are murders committed by other young black men? And that homicides of young black men by police, usually justifiable homicides, are down in noise statistically?
What? Reality doesn’t matter to these folks?
Well then, never mind.
How many sessions did that have discussing the fact that the vast majority of homicides of young black men are murders committed by other young black men? And that homicides of young black men by police, usually justifiable homicides, are down in noise statistically?
What? Reality doesn’t matter to these folks?
Well then, never mind.
did they have
Ohio Ping
They need their own country, police force, government.
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Turned that down when President Monroe ‘fixed’ it up for them.
Lets face it , ‘they’ do not want anything they have to ‘build’ for themselves, they would rather have what ‘we’ built. (Yes, a lot of them were and still are a part of the building of this country etc)
enough said.
Yup.
They are much freedom fighters as the Iraqi Insurgents we freedom fighters.
I read this the other day on here and it’s crystal clear what’s going on.
“A freed slave doesnt want freedom...he wants to be the new master.”
Black is the new Chinese.
Great. I begin a 13 week work assignment next monday in
Cleveland.
My old home town.
Was just up there for a funeral.
Three of my idiot liberal union distant family members went out of their way to seek me out and deliver an anti-Trump rant.
I think the Dems have mobilized their forces against him.
You got that right, when the NBPP comes recruiting, all the sudden they ain’t so down for the struggle because the NBPP wants to get in a shooting war, they just don’t have the troops yet.
Now you’re catching on...
Saying ‘Black Lives Matter’ sounds better than the actual meaning of ‘Stick it to Whitey’.
The movement is another means to seek retribution.
Truthfully. How could they possibly complain if they did?
But they aren’t leaving and no one is going to give up the land to make it happen.
Except to gangbangers.
back in the day when we could admire people and respect people...I have so little admiration for most people nowadays...
That’s Southwest Ohio, between Dayton and Cincinnati. It’s definitely not anything like the Cleveland area, since it leans much more rightward (despite what Boehner does).
No they don’t.
Ferguson is about 40% black. Cleveland and Baltimore are about 80% black or more.
But the interesting thing about this is that in Cleveland and Baltimore the blacks elect the political leaders in their communities and yet all of this anti-black racism exist in their communities that permits their young black men to be killed by the police in their streets.
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