What are they protesting?

[MakeBuffaloGreatAgain]

Can someone please explain what these athletes are protesting?

 

is it:

1) That black men are killing other black men at a much higher rate than any other race in the US?

 

2) That although black males make up about 8% of the population in the US, they commit about 50% of the violent crimes?

 

3) That unarmed white males are almost twice as likely to be shot by police than unarmed black males?

 

4) That Trump has created over 700,000 thousand jobs in project communities and is trying to rebuild what Democrats promise every 4 years, but never actually follow through with?

 

5) That the ridiculous high rate of murder in the black community is only rivaled by the ludicrous culture to not snitch and wipe their neighborhoods clean of criminal scum?

 

To me, it seems the issues that really trouble them are solvable within their own community. Try embracing the police. Call them when you see gang/drug/violent activity. If there is a white thug in my neighborhood, you can bet that every neighbor is calling the cops on him, and if he gets shot and killed.... FANTASTIC! It doesn't matter the color, I hate criminals. Why are suburban neighborhoods safe? because we snitch like some MOFOs! We don't discriminate on color. Heck, we just got rid of a white squatter in my neighborhood a week ago(the whole community helped get that POS out).

[GoBills808]

They doing it to make you mad. It's personal.

[BringBackOrton]

They are protesting the injustice against Michael Bennet that died as a story in 24 hours when the video came out.

[MakeBuffaloGreatAgain]

They doing it to make you mad. It's personal.

that really seems like the only logical answer... but it leaves me more bewildered than mad.

[boyst]

They doing it to make you mad. It's personal.

my God I think that's it.

 

We are so !@#$ed as a species

[Boatdrinks]

They doing it to make you mad. It's personal.

Not really. That is the goal of the media, to advance the narrative no matter how loosely related it is to the facts . It suits their overall agenda to paint anyone who may like Trump and may disagree with the protesting as a racist. They are driving this machine ... hard.

[Kelly the Dog]

Welcome to the 50s.

[HappyDays]

Welcome to the 50s.

Remember when Obama set race relations back 50 years? Thank god we have a president that brought everyone together again

[Tiberius]

But there's good people on both sides! Lol

[goldenboy81]

Remember when Obama set race relations back 50 years? Thank god we have a president that brought everyone together again

Hahahhahaa

[Prickly Pete]

Remember when Obama set race relations back 50 years? Thank god we have a president that brought everyone together again

 

Yeah, instead we could've had Hillary in office, doing for relations between the sexes, what Obama did for race relations.

[blzrul]

Not really. That is the goal of the media, to advance the narrative no matter how loosely related it is to the facts . It suits their overall agenda to paint anyone who may like Trump and may disagree with the protesting as a racist. They are driving this machine ... hard.

ROFLMAO! And it's nice that so many people fall for the ruse of the evil media. It's a major conspiracy and you're all victims.

[MakeBuffaloGreatAgain]

I guess it's just easier to say,"they racist", than to actually be a benefit to your community. Funny how all those racist white republicans in Texas were saving people of all colors with their own boats/time/resources. And where was BLM and antifa? Dang those good old boys proving identity politics wrong, yet BLM only seems to look out for themselves(looting/rioting/robbing).

[Juror#8]

Where did you grow up?

 

!@#$ it, don't answer that.

 

I already know.

 

But it's a place where real !@#$ed up **** can be explained with rhetoricals and cherry-picked statistics.

 

They're protesting what they believe is a material level of disparate treatment. You may not see it or agree with it. Maybe you're one of the lucky niggas(ers) who've never felt harassment or weird vibes from someone with less melanin in their skin because you have more in yours. Maybe you're white and just have never felt harassment solely based on skin color.

 

Racism is real. It's mostly marginalized and overstated in the media. But the **** is real brother.

 

Don't agree with them; that's cool and it's ultimately your prerogative. But don't trivialize their experiences as if their sense of frustration and grievance can or should be rectified by your hand-picked statistics.

[DC Tom]

Can someone please explain what these athletes are protesting?

 

is it:

1) That black men are killing other black men at a much higher rate than any other race in the US?

 

2) That although black males make up about 8% of the population in the US, they commit about 50% of the violent crimes?

 

3) That unarmed white males are almost twice as likely to be shot by police than unarmed black males?

 

4) That Trump has created over 700,000 thousand jobs in project communities and is trying to rebuild what Democrats promise every 4 years, but never actually follow through with?

 

5) That the ridiculous high rate of murder in the black community is only rivaled by the ludicrous culture to not snitch and wipe their neighborhoods clean of criminal scum?

 

To me, it seems the issues that really trouble them are solvable within their own community. Try embracing the police. Call them when you see gang/drug/violent activity. If there is a white thug in my neighborhood, you can bet that every neighbor is calling the cops on him, and if he gets shot and killed.... FANTASTIC! It doesn't matter the color, I hate criminals. Why are suburban neighborhoods safe? because we snitch like some MOFOs! We don't discriminate on color. Heck, we just got rid of a white squatter in my neighborhood a week ago(the whole community helped get that POS out).

 

Oh, just !@#$ off, moron.

[Prickly Pete]

Where did you grow up?

 

!@#$ it, don't answer that.

 

I already know.

 

But it's a place where real !@#$ed up **** can be explained with rhetoricals and cherry-picked statistics.

 

They're protesting what they believe is a material level of disparate treatment. You may not see it or agree with it. Maybe you're one of the lucky niggas(ers) who've never felt harassment or weird vibes from someone with less melanin in their skin because you have more in yours. Maybe you're white and just have never felt harassment solely based on skin color.

 

Racism is real. It's mostly marginalized and overstated in the media. But the **** is real brother.

 

Don't agree with them; that's cool and it's ultimately your prerogative. But don't trivialize their experiences as if their sense of frustration and grievance can or should be rectified by your hand-picked statistics.

 

It goes both ways. I'm white and get plenty of weird vibes, and have felt harassment based solely on the color of my skin. Like virtually every day, here in Los Angeles.

Edited September 23, 2017 by OJABBA

[MakeBuffaloGreatAgain]

Where did you grow up?

 

!@#$ it, don't answer that.

 

I already know.

 

But it's a place where real !@#$ed up **** can be explained with rhetoricals and cherry-picked statistics.

 

They're protesting what they believe is a material level of disparate treatment. You may not see it or agree with it. Maybe you're one of the lucky niggas(ers) who've never felt harassment or weird vibes from someone with less melanin in their skin because you have more in yours. Maybe you're white and just have never felt harassment solely based on skin color.

 

Racism is real. It's mostly marginalized and overstated in the media. But the **** is real brother.

 

Don't agree with them; that's cool and it's ultimately your prerogative. But don't trivialize their experiences as if their sense of frustration and grievance can or should be rectified by your hand-picked statistics.

I know what it's like to be judged on skin color, background, and beliefs. My family had to sell our house and live in a small church in the inner city just to keep the lights on of a church, that my father pastored. I was shot at in a drive by playing basketball when I was in middle school because I was white at the basketball court. "F*** you white f****ts" was all they said as they drove by and shot at us.

 

I heard from coaches and players that I was good (as a corner back) at playing football for a white guy in college, all the time. I was questioned by teachers and students for being conservative in the Fine Arts department. I received lower grades because of my political belief in a couple classes in college.

 

Racism exists, but I have seen pure hatred far more on the left side. Is it any wonder that republicans donate more to charities than democrats? But I will never use other people ignorance as an excuse to keep myself down. That's just personal pride.

 

On a side note, I applied to 4 Ivy League schools as a Caucasian, and as a Native American. Every one as a Caucasian was rejected, but every one as a Native American offered me scholarships. I don't think that was coincidence. I would be pretty confident to say that it is harder to succeed in this country as a white or Asian male, than any other type of demographic.

[GoBills808]

OK, those still tuning in to this trainwreck of a thread: 5-10 pages of how hard it is to be a white male in the US incoming. Feel free to skip ahead.

[Andrew in CA]

I know what it's like to be judged on skin color, background, and beliefs. My family had to sell our house and live in a small church in the inner city just to keep the lights on of a church, that my father pastored. I was shot at in a drive by playing basketball when I was in middle school because I was white at the basketball court. "F*** you white f****ts" was all they said as they drove by and shot at us.

 

I heard from coaches and players that I was good (as a corner back) at playing football for a white guy in college, all the time. I was questioned by teachers and students for being conservative in the Fine Arts department. I received lower grades because of my political belief in a couple classes in college.

 

Racism exists, but I have seen pure hatred far more on the left side. Is it any wonder that republicans donate more to charities than democrats? But I will never use other people ignorance as an excuse to keep myself down. That's just personal pride.

 

On a side note, I applied to 4 Ivy League schools as a Caucasian, and as a Native American. Every one as a Caucasian was rejected, but every one as a Native American offered me scholarships. I don't think that was coincidence. I would be pretty confident to say that it is harder to succeed in this country as a white or Asian male, than any other type of demographic.

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[Kelly the Dog]

I know what it's like to be judged on skin color, background, and beliefs. My family had to sell our house and live in a small church in the inner city just to keep the lights on of a church, that my father pastored. I was shot at in a drive by playing basketball when I was in middle school because I was white at the basketball court. "F*** you white f****ts" was all they said as they drove by and shot at us.

I heard from coaches and players that I was good (as a corner back) at playing football for a white guy in college, all the time. I was questioned by teachers and students for being conservative in the Fine Arts department. I received lower grades because of my political belief in a couple classes in college.

Racism exists, but I have seen pure hatred far more on the left side. Is it any wonder that republicans donate more to charities than democrats? But I will never use other people ignorance as an excuse to keep myself down. That's just personal pride.

On a side note, I applied to 4 Ivy League schools as a Caucasian, and as a Native American. Every one as a Caucasian was rejected, but every one as a Native American offered me scholarships. I don't think that was coincidence. I would be pretty confident to say that it is harder to succeed in this country as a white or Asian male, than any other type of demographic.

So are you white and lied on your IVY league applications, or not really white but a good part Native American so you didn't really suffer racism for being white because you're not really white?

[Paulus]

OK, those still tuning in to this trainwreck of a thread: 5-10 pages of how hard it is to be a white male in the US incoming. Feel free to skip ahead.

Straight black males are the white males of black people, fwiw.

 

 

Honestly, everyone suffers different bullsheet. The real common denominator is socioeconomic, but feel free to use religion, race, ethnicity, country of origin etc. to try and make it up that socioeconomic ladder.

 

 

SJW are just using the same capitalistic principles as racists do, in order to maintain some sort of socially constructed feeling of superiority. The really good ones make it up the ladder using the aforementioned divide and conquer philosophy.

[MakeBuffaloGreatAgain]

So are you white and lied on your IVY league applications, or not really white but a good part Native American so you didn't really suffer racism for being white because you're not really white?

1/64 Native American, maybe 1/128, not too sure. Nez perce... probably more than Elizabeth Warren.

So are you white and lied on your IVY league applications, or not really white but a good part Native American so you didn't really suffer racism for being white because you're not really white?

1/64 Native American, maybe 1/128, not too sure. Nez perce... probably more than Elizabeth Warren.

[Prickly Pete]

OK, those still tuning in to this trainwreck of a thread: 5-10 pages of how hard it is to be a white male in the US incoming. Feel free to skip ahead.

 

Here, do your part...

 

http://www.reparations.me/

[Kelly the Dog]

1/64 Native American, maybe 1/128, not too sure. Nez perce... probably more than Elizabeth Warren.

 

1/64 Native American, maybe 1/128, not too sure. Nez perce... probably more than Elizabeth Warren.

Got it. So half of one ankle is Native American. Cool. Did you try to get a piece of some casinos, too?

[GoBills808]

 

Here, do your part...

 

http://www.reparations.me/

Perfect. Dismissive, shortsighted, assuming I'm white. The drone trifecta.

[Prickly Pete]

Perfect. Dismissive, shortsighted, assuming I'm white. The drone trifecta.

 

You forgot "accurate".

[Paulus]

Got it. So half of one ankle is Native American. Cool. Did you try to get a piece of some casinos, too?

Honestly, I would. Then again, I have seen tribal politics in a few of the cities I have lived in. The best story I remember is the tribal elders had a vote on purity needed to be in the tribe. They raised the threshold and started to kick people out of the tribe who were not pure enough. Kids were being locked out of the reservation schools, because all of a sudden they weren't pure enough anymore. I mean, less casino money going to those who were not pure enough really lined the elders' pockets...

Edited September 24, 2017 by Paulus

[Kelly the Dog]

Honestly, I would. Then again, I have seen tribal politics in a few of the cities I have lived in. The best story I remember is the tribal elders had a vote on purity needed to be in the tribe. They raised the threshold and started to kick people out of the tribe who were not pure enough. Kids were being locked out of the reservation schools, because all of a sudden they weren't pure enough anymore. I mean, less casino money going to those who were not pure enough really lined the elders' pockets...

Yep. Some of the elders of the tribes are ridiculous. I have first hand knowledge of that. And some of the tribes do amazing things with their money. Pretty much like every group of people I imagine.

[GoBills808]

 

You forgot "accurate".

Sure. You replied with a link to a reparations website. Shallow end of the pool and you're still in over your head.

[BillsFan4]

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I had the same reaction.

[Doc Brown]

Remember when Obama set race relations back 50 years? Thank god we have a president that brought everyone together again

[MakeBuffaloGreatAgain]

Who is to blame that the highest violent crime rates are always in democrat run cities? I liked how they rioted in Baltimore with a black police chief, black mayor, majority black city counsel, black judges, under a black president and black district attorney. And almost all those black elected officials were democrats. Seems the like a common denominator in keeping black people down is the plantation mindset of the democrat elites. As long as they give just enough hand outs and encourage single parent house holds, the Democrats know their slaves will stay on the plantation. And every 4 years, they bring out the whip and snap them to the voting booths.

[boyst]

this is the dumbest thread of all the race threads.

[MakeBuffaloGreatAgain]

this is the dumbest thread of all the race threads.

Well, if ya ain't first, yer last.

[Bad Things]

Can someone please explain what these athletes are protesting?

 

is it:

1) That black men are killing other black men at a much higher rate than any other race in the US?

 

2) That although black males make up about 8% of the population in the US, they commit about 50% of the violent crimes?

 

3) That unarmed white males are almost twice as likely to be shot by police than unarmed black males?

 

4) That Trump has created over 700,000 thousand jobs in project communities and is trying to rebuild what Democrats promise every 4 years, but never actually follow through with?

 

5) That the ridiculous high rate of murder in the black community is only rivaled by the ludicrous culture to not snitch and wipe their neighborhoods clean of criminal scum?

 

To me, it seems the issues that really trouble them are solvable within their own community. Try embracing the police. Call them when you see gang/drug/violent activity. If there is a white thug in my neighborhood, you can bet that every neighbor is calling the cops on him, and if he gets shot and killed.... FANTASTIC! It doesn't matter the color, I hate criminals. Why are suburban neighborhoods safe? because we snitch like some MOFOs! We don't discriminate on color. Heck, we just got rid of a white squatter in my neighborhood a week ago(the whole community helped get that POS out).

If you honestly wanted answers to these questions, you wouldn't be coming onto this board to ask us.

You would open your mind and study the situation.

 

Instead, you just stir the pot and spread your BS.

Sad!

[Paulus]

Yep. Some of the elders of the tribes are ridiculous. I have first hand knowledge of that. And some of the tribes do amazing things with their money. Pretty much like every group of people I imagine.

Exactly, you can break people down into any type of grouping, but they still are people.

[MakeBuffaloGreatAgain]

If you honestly wanted answers to these questions, you wouldn't be coming onto this board to ask us.

You would open your mind and study the situation.

 

Instead, you just stir the pot and spread your BS.

Sad!

Not really. All the answers are just like yours. Saying,"because racism, open your mind." But I haven't seen 1 stat that proves otherwise. Show me anywhere that blacks are treated worse than whites by police(spike lee movies don't count).

 

These stats aren't cherry picked. They are evidence that this whole, we need to change BS is just that, BS. There's no systemic racism in the police departments. That's all fabricated and proven wrong by real data.

[ExiledInIllinois]

Where did you grow up?

 

!@#$ it, don't answer that.

 

I already know.

 

But it's a place where real !@#$ed up **** can be explained with rhetoricals and cherry-picked statistics.

 

They're protesting what they believe is a material level of disparate treatment. You may not see it or agree with it. Maybe you're one of the lucky niggas(ers) who've never felt harassment or weird vibes from someone with less melanin in their skin because you have more in yours. Maybe you're white and just have never felt harassment solely based on skin color.

 

Racism is real. It's mostly marginalized and overstated in the media. But the **** is real brother.

 

Don't agree with them; that's cool and it's ultimately your prerogative. But don't trivialize their experiences as if their sense of frustration and grievance can or should be rectified by your hand-picked statistics.

My liberal best buds are killing me... Killing me I tell ya.

 

"...they believe is a material level of disparate treatment..."

 

Because of skin color or phucked up logic, education, or the way people conduct their lives inappropriately by flaunting the law and by not keeping their schit and act in order. I am talking all colors, races, creeds, genders... You know: Humans.

 

Follow the rules, don't break the law and keep your nose clean, 99% of all the problems go away. Work towards educating oneself and applying real skin, that is moral conduct, into the game.

 

I just had a boater last weekend call the race card out on me because he wanted to do whatever he wanted to do. Run the red traffic light and do what he pleased. Him missing the signal and the lock turn had nothing to do with his skin color. He wasn't even in sight when the signal changed and gates started moving shut. Yet, he came in anyway. You know, because he could. Just bark me down, say I am treating him like a piece of schit and point to his skin. Not a damn thing I can do to enforce safety to the people and their property in the lock chamber while he shoots in under full wake... Let alone violating the security zone of a DoD structure. I guess I could have called the Coast Guard, that would have taken hours. And yet, all the while I was ready to break from operating and safety protocol and slam on the emergency stop... Put undo stress on a 60 year old system and possibly shutting down millions of dollars a day of getting product to market if an mechanical breakdown was caused by the e-stop. Yet, all he could think about was his skin color, somebody was picking on him, and having to wait an extra half hour before getting home.

 

I was pissed and deeply offended, but not in a Snowflake way. Pissed that he was so sociopathic. These are the stories of phucked up logic, education, risk taking with their's and other's property & lives that usually precipitate encounters turning into an unruly emotional clusterphuck. Not because of skin color. But, because of character and moral obligations to do what's right in society. I get it dude, I don't like authority and "the man" just as much as the next... But we follow the law and keep your nose clean. With regard to this incident, I can sight the US Code if you want... If you think I am schitting you.

 

Anyway. As usual, I change gears a little bit. I look to writings of somebody who was considered a "racial liberal" during her day. A person that died way to soon in life. A realist that called it the way she seen it. So un-PC before the term was even invented. Even know she was considered a racial liberal, you can refute that and see her as a realist, realist that we all should be!

 

Flannery O'Connor once wrote:

 

2 Feb 63 (to "A" in reference to troubles with Louise): "The Negro's method of escape is foolproof. She can effect complete mental absence when she wants to--she's there, grinning, agreeing but gone gone. No white person can cope with this, not even my parent."

 

11 Oct 63 (to Janet McKane): "The local Negroes have just petitioned the city council to do the usual things... One item on their list was to integrate the library. It turns out the library has been integrated for a year and they didn't know it...

 

...O'Connor also goes on in many letters to comic recitations of negro misbehavior among the workers on her mother's farm--from lye and boiling water throwings, to cuttings, drunkenness, lying and her mother's endless fruitless efforts to keep them out of trouble.

 

So, given this evidence, was O'Connor a closet racist, a secret segregationist or merely a creature of her time and place? The latter comes closest, but I think there is another answer.

 

O'Connor held the world's face to the fire in almost everything she wrote. She was a realist. She did not romanticize anything. With blacks, she was the antithesis of political correctness even before the term was invented. She reported black behavior as it was, offering neither explanation, excuse or apology.

 

She told the truth as she saw it. A good writer does no less. Those who attempt a revisionist flattery are really practicing idolatry. The result, in her case, is a disservice.

 

From:

 

http://www.flanneryoconnor.org/hildrup.html

 

 

I am with you my friend... But when is the BS really going to end and really bring real "skin" in the game we call society!

Edited September 24, 2017 by ExiledInIllinois

[Coach Tuesday]

The OP is the embodiment of a "deplorable." That's it right there: a live one.

[KDIGGZ]

I know what it's like to be judged on skin color, background, and beliefs. My family had to sell our house and live in a small church in the inner city just to keep the lights on of a church, that my father pastored. I was shot at in a drive by playing basketball when I was in middle school because I was white at the basketball court. "F*** you white f****ts" was all they said as they drove by and shot at us.

I heard from coaches and players that I was good (as a corner back) at playing football for a white guy in college, all the time.

This was similar to my experience as a good athlete playing sports. Maybe I grew up sheltered but I didn't know racism in any form existed until I got older and started playing on high level aau basketball teams. There were only a couple white players from the suburbs and we were bullied and tormented because of the color of our skin. We were called every name in the book and intentionally fouled. The bus rides to games were hell. The tormenting and name calling was almost too much to bear. But apparently if you are considered white then it doesn't count. Black people can't be racist because their great great great great grandparents that they never met were slaves by people not related to me because my family is from Sicily and didn't come here until the 1920's. Oh and btw I'm 3% African according to my DNA test. How much do you need to have to not be a "cracker" because maybe the bullying could have been avoided if I knew that at the time. If everyone did their dna test they would see nobody is pure anything and we are all just homosapiens so who cares if someone has slightly different skin. Stop labeling people.