saw something earlier, went something like..
You see a black man murdered by a white cop. I see an innocent man murdered by a corrupt cop. Stop always seeing colour. #BEHUMAN
Floyd was no saint, an armed robber and no stranger to courts or jail, but he was entitled to be processed by the system and not have a cop be judge jury and executioner
comment by somethingelse (U3109)
posted 3 minutes ago
Floyd was no saint, an armed robber and no stranger to courts or jail, but he was entitled to be processed by the system and not have a cop be judge jury and executioner
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Yes I totally agree
comment by somethingelse (U3109)
posted 2 minutes ago
Floyd was no saint, an armed robber and no stranger to courts or jail, but he was entitled to be processed by the system and not have a cop be judge jury and executioner
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He was found to have used a fake bill in a shop. It's not known whether this was intentional or not. Yet he was murdered for it by the police.
He was unarmed, and his previous conviction (2007) is completely irrelevant.
I agree in the main. George Floyd was murdered by a white cop. This does not mean all white people need to apologise for being white. I only apologise for things that I can control; I wont be bending the knee.
comment by πππGini Mini Mane Mo (Babel’s Missing Chin) πππ (U22043)
posted 34 minutes ago
I agree in the main. George Floyd was murdered by a white cop. This does not mean all white people need to apologise for being white. I only apologise for things that I can control; I wont be bending the knee.
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Each to their own.
It's not a case of people apologising for their ethnicity but a gesture of solidarity.
comment by What would Stuart Pearce do? Better than Gozer the Gozerian (U3126)
posted 38 minutes ago
comment by πππGini Mini Mane Mo (Babel’s Missing Chin) πππ (U22043)
posted 34 minutes ago
I agree in the main. George Floyd was murdered by a white cop. This does not mean all white people need to apologise for being white. I only apologise for things that I can control; I wont be bending the knee.
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Each to their own.
It's not a case of people apologising for their ethnicity but a gesture of solidarity.
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Kneeling as an act of subservience. Not a sign of solidarity. Nobody every said get down on your knees for solidarity.
comment by What would Stuart Pearce do? Better than Gozer the Gozerian (U3126)
posted 57 minutes ago
comment by πππGini Mini Mane Mo (Babel’s Missing Chin) πππ (U22043)
posted 34 minutes ago
I agree in the main. George Floyd was murdered by a white cop. This does not mean all white people need to apologise for being white. I only apologise for things that I can control; I wont be bending the knee.
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Each to their own.
It's not a case of people apologising for their ethnicity but a gesture of solidarity.
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Exactly. Everything depends on interpretation. If you see it as something done to show togetherness in a common cause then do it. If you feel it's apologising or servitude don't do it. That's the point of a free and equal world
Black lives matter is some kind of positive racism, - why do they matter any more than anyone else...& why do they need to keep telling us so
What if there was a white lives matter campaign...oh then there'd be trouble.
Same as things like the black actors guild, or the Black lawyers association...how is this allowed.
comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 16 minutes ago
Black lives matter is some kind of positive racism, - why do they matter any more than anyone else...& why do they need to keep telling us so
What if there was a white lives matter campaign...oh then there'd be trouble.
Same as things like the black actors guild, or the Black lawyers association...how is this allowed.
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You're missing the point mate.
comment by kneerash-23 Cara Gold (U6876)
posted 37 minutes ago
comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 16 minutes ago
Black lives matter is some kind of positive racism, - why do they matter any more than anyone else...& why do they need to keep telling us so
What if there was a white lives matter campaign...oh then there'd be trouble.
Same as things like the black actors guild, or the Black lawyers association...how is this allowed.
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You're missing the point mate.
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I get it, but elaborate.
White guys are the minority in many sports, so so there be white football or boxing or athletic unions now?
Just as an example.
We have black pride days and events, but you ever suggest a white pride or cultural event, lol?
When Megan has a white dad and black mom, she is called black.....the white patent is airbrushed out.
Just little examples of the new normal.
comment by thebluebellsarablue (U9292)
posted 25 minutes ago
comment by kneerash-23 Cara Gold (U6876)
posted 37 minutes ago
comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 16 minutes ago
Black lives matter is some kind of positive racism, - why do they matter any more than anyone else...& why do they need to keep telling us so
What if there was a white lives matter campaign...oh then there'd be trouble.
Same as things like the black actors guild, or the Black lawyers association...how is this allowed.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
You're missing the point mate.
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I get it, but elaborate.
White guys are the minority in many sports, so so there be white football or boxing or athletic unions now?
Just as an example.
We have black pride days and events, but you ever suggest a white pride or cultural event, lol?
When Megan has a white dad and black mom, she is called black.....the white patent is airbrushed out.
Just little examples of the new normal.
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exactly this....
White people simply don't face the same world most black people do.
Black lives matter isn't saying white people don't matter but it's especially relevant in America just read the history of black people, it's pretty straight forward.
Saying all lives matter is a cop out.
If you think black people have it as easy as white people then you're mistaken, slavery ended and Jim crowe started, it's never really stopped.
TBAB you talk of a white pride day etc. They're on constantly throughout the year. Paddy's Day, the 12th, St George's day etc. They're all white pride days basically and are celebrated annually.
comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 1 hour, 53 minutes ago
Black lives matter is some kind of positive racism, - why do they matter any more than anyone else...& why do they need to keep telling us so
What if there was a white lives matter campaign...oh then there'd be trouble.
Same as things like the black actors guild, or the Black lawyers association...how is this allowed.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is moronic. Would you go to a breast cancer awareness event and start complaining about the lack of of focus on lung cancer? When people say we need to save the amazon rainforest do you ask people to think about the other rainforests too?
It isn't black lives matter more, it's not only black lives matter. It's black lives matter too - and they need to keep saying this because a lot of the time black lives are treated as if they don't matter.
All lives can't matter until black lives matter.
No one is claiming white people don't face issues in life or haven't had hard lives, but black people face more prejudice than white people do on a daily basis.
If so many Black people are angry then it's probably worth listening to them.
comment by kneerash-23 Cara Gold (U6876)
posted 56 minutes ago
White people simply don't face the same world most black people do.
Black lives matter isn't saying white people don't matter but it's especially relevant in America just read the history of black people, it's pretty straight forward.
Saying all lives matter is a cop out.
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Agree....
I accept that narrative.
Personally, I am not going to get grief like a black person from cops and accept that reality.
That said, BLM members yesterday said the NHS was racist against black covid patients in favour of white ones, so beware their message too.
Black people are attacking white innocent by standard and cops for the crimes of four cops, two of whom ain't white btw.
BLM want white folk to pay reparations for slavery to them, so you go first kneerash, mate lol
comment by kneerash-23 Cara Gold (U6876)
posted 39 minutes ago
No one is claiming white people don't face issues in life or haven't had hard lives, but black people face more prejudice than white people do on a daily basis.
If so many Black people are angry then it's probably worth listening to them.
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I concur again.
One thing though, now with all cops charged there is no need to risk covid with mass crowds and already we have seen insane mobs packed together, so second spike due soon.
comment by thebluebellsarablue (U9292)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by kneerash-23 Cara Gold (U6876)
posted 39 minutes ago
No one is claiming white people don't face issues in life or haven't had hard lives, but black people face more prejudice than white people do on a daily basis.
If so many Black people are angry then it's probably worth listening to them.
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I concur again.
One thing though, now with all cops charged there is no need to risk covid with mass crowds and already we have seen insane mobs packed together, so second spike due soon.
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It was never just about george floyd and those 4 officers though.
comment by kneerash-23 Cara Gold (U6876)
posted 58 minutes ago
TBAB you talk of a white pride day etc. They're on constantly throughout the year. Paddy's Day, the 12th, St George's day etc. They're all white pride days basically and are celebrated annually.
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I was tongue in cheek about the idea of a white only day or white power event, mate.
Paddys day and even the twelfth are not about race and are more diverse now......ST George's day goes largely unnoticed tbf.
There are events, days, weeks for Black people only, and I find it odd when we are meant to be colour blind, not seeing skin tone, but then have a day for Black skin culture?
Do we have a Chinese day or asian day btw?
In football, w hsve black players union, but in EPL a minority would be white British players now, so is a union needed, or say American football or basketball?
Why are there so few white boxers, sprinters now too?
The brit Awards and Oscars are too white, but is sport too black?Imagine bringing that up, but we accept when black folk say they are not winning awards enough in music or film, even though they also have music of black origin too?
Do you see what I am.getting at?
comment by Christopher (U20930)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by thebluebellsarablue (U9292)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by kneerash-23 Cara Gold (U6876)
posted 39 minutes ago
No one is claiming white people don't face issues in life or haven't had hard lives, but black people face more prejudice than white people do on a daily basis.
If so many Black people are angry then it's probably worth listening to them.
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I concur again.
One thing though, now with all cops charged there is no need to risk covid with mass crowds and already we have seen insane mobs packed together, so second spike due soon.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
It was never just about george floyd and those 4 officers though.
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Never said it was.
Crowds breaking covid advice is dangerous too, if black lives matter, right?
When a black cop shoots a white guy, is it racist?
If a black cop shoots a black guy, is it racist.
Was Floyd killed because the cop hated black folk?
comment by Christopher (U20930)
posted 1 hour, 3 minutes ago
comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 1 hour, 53 minutes ago
Black lives matter is some kind of positive racism, - why do they matter any more than anyone else...& why do they need to keep telling us so
What if there was a white lives matter campaign...oh then there'd be trouble.
Same as things like the black actors guild, or the Black lawyers association...how is this allowed.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is moronic. Would you go to a breast cancer awareness event and start complaining about the lack of of focus on lung cancer? When people say we need to save the amazon rainforest do you ask people to think about the other rainforests too?
It isn't black lives matter more, it's not only black lives matter. It's black lives matter too - and they need to keep saying this because a lot of the time black lives are treated as if they don't matter.
All lives can't matter until black lives matter.
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Hmmm.
I live in a 99% white country so how does that work here?
Who said black lives don't matter, Christopher?
When was that the White view here?
Do you assume white America thinks blacks don't matter, as that is racist right there.
Cops kill whites too....whites are poor too.
You are going to sit people more and white people who back you when a cop kills a black guy will start to go, what about us???
White guys are the minority in many sports,
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What is this based on?
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RACISM AND MAKING A STANCE
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posted on 4/6/20
saw something earlier, went something like..
You see a black man murdered by a white cop. I see an innocent man murdered by a corrupt cop. Stop always seeing colour. #BEHUMAN
posted on 4/6/20
Floyd was no saint, an armed robber and no stranger to courts or jail, but he was entitled to be processed by the system and not have a cop be judge jury and executioner
posted on 4/6/20
comment by somethingelse (U3109)
posted 3 minutes ago
Floyd was no saint, an armed robber and no stranger to courts or jail, but he was entitled to be processed by the system and not have a cop be judge jury and executioner
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yes I totally agree
posted on 4/6/20
comment by somethingelse (U3109)
posted 2 minutes ago
Floyd was no saint, an armed robber and no stranger to courts or jail, but he was entitled to be processed by the system and not have a cop be judge jury and executioner
----------------------------------------------------------------------
He was found to have used a fake bill in a shop. It's not known whether this was intentional or not. Yet he was murdered for it by the police.
He was unarmed, and his previous conviction (2007) is completely irrelevant.
posted on 4/6/20
I agree in the main. George Floyd was murdered by a white cop. This does not mean all white people need to apologise for being white. I only apologise for things that I can control; I wont be bending the knee.
posted on 4/6/20
comment by πππGini Mini Mane Mo (Babel’s Missing Chin) πππ (U22043)
posted 34 minutes ago
I agree in the main. George Floyd was murdered by a white cop. This does not mean all white people need to apologise for being white. I only apologise for things that I can control; I wont be bending the knee.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Each to their own.
It's not a case of people apologising for their ethnicity but a gesture of solidarity.
posted on 4/6/20
comment by What would Stuart Pearce do? Better than Gozer the Gozerian (U3126)
posted 38 minutes ago
comment by πππGini Mini Mane Mo (Babel’s Missing Chin) πππ (U22043)
posted 34 minutes ago
I agree in the main. George Floyd was murdered by a white cop. This does not mean all white people need to apologise for being white. I only apologise for things that I can control; I wont be bending the knee.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Each to their own.
It's not a case of people apologising for their ethnicity but a gesture of solidarity.
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Kneeling as an act of subservience. Not a sign of solidarity. Nobody every said get down on your knees for solidarity.
posted on 4/6/20
comment by What would Stuart Pearce do? Better than Gozer the Gozerian (U3126)
posted 57 minutes ago
comment by πππGini Mini Mane Mo (Babel’s Missing Chin) πππ (U22043)
posted 34 minutes ago
I agree in the main. George Floyd was murdered by a white cop. This does not mean all white people need to apologise for being white. I only apologise for things that I can control; I wont be bending the knee.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Each to their own.
It's not a case of people apologising for their ethnicity but a gesture of solidarity.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Exactly. Everything depends on interpretation. If you see it as something done to show togetherness in a common cause then do it. If you feel it's apologising or servitude don't do it. That's the point of a free and equal world
posted on 4/6/20
Black lives matter is some kind of positive racism, - why do they matter any more than anyone else...& why do they need to keep telling us so
What if there was a white lives matter campaign...oh then there'd be trouble.
Same as things like the black actors guild, or the Black lawyers association...how is this allowed.
posted on 4/6/20
comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 16 minutes ago
Black lives matter is some kind of positive racism, - why do they matter any more than anyone else...& why do they need to keep telling us so
What if there was a white lives matter campaign...oh then there'd be trouble.
Same as things like the black actors guild, or the Black lawyers association...how is this allowed.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
You're missing the point mate.
posted on 4/6/20
comment by kneerash-23 Cara Gold (U6876)
posted 37 minutes ago
comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 16 minutes ago
Black lives matter is some kind of positive racism, - why do they matter any more than anyone else...& why do they need to keep telling us so
What if there was a white lives matter campaign...oh then there'd be trouble.
Same as things like the black actors guild, or the Black lawyers association...how is this allowed.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
You're missing the point mate.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I get it, but elaborate.
White guys are the minority in many sports, so so there be white football or boxing or athletic unions now?
Just as an example.
We have black pride days and events, but you ever suggest a white pride or cultural event, lol?
When Megan has a white dad and black mom, she is called black.....the white patent is airbrushed out.
Just little examples of the new normal.
posted on 4/6/20
comment by thebluebellsarablue (U9292)
posted 25 minutes ago
comment by kneerash-23 Cara Gold (U6876)
posted 37 minutes ago
comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 16 minutes ago
Black lives matter is some kind of positive racism, - why do they matter any more than anyone else...& why do they need to keep telling us so
What if there was a white lives matter campaign...oh then there'd be trouble.
Same as things like the black actors guild, or the Black lawyers association...how is this allowed.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
You're missing the point mate.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I get it, but elaborate.
White guys are the minority in many sports, so so there be white football or boxing or athletic unions now?
Just as an example.
We have black pride days and events, but you ever suggest a white pride or cultural event, lol?
When Megan has a white dad and black mom, she is called black.....the white patent is airbrushed out.
Just little examples of the new normal.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
exactly this....
posted on 4/6/20
White people simply don't face the same world most black people do.
Black lives matter isn't saying white people don't matter but it's especially relevant in America just read the history of black people, it's pretty straight forward.
Saying all lives matter is a cop out.
posted on 4/6/20
If you think black people have it as easy as white people then you're mistaken, slavery ended and Jim crowe started, it's never really stopped.
posted on 4/6/20
TBAB you talk of a white pride day etc. They're on constantly throughout the year. Paddy's Day, the 12th, St George's day etc. They're all white pride days basically and are celebrated annually.
posted on 4/6/20
comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 1 hour, 53 minutes ago
Black lives matter is some kind of positive racism, - why do they matter any more than anyone else...& why do they need to keep telling us so
What if there was a white lives matter campaign...oh then there'd be trouble.
Same as things like the black actors guild, or the Black lawyers association...how is this allowed.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is moronic. Would you go to a breast cancer awareness event and start complaining about the lack of of focus on lung cancer? When people say we need to save the amazon rainforest do you ask people to think about the other rainforests too?
It isn't black lives matter more, it's not only black lives matter. It's black lives matter too - and they need to keep saying this because a lot of the time black lives are treated as if they don't matter.
All lives can't matter until black lives matter.
posted on 4/6/20
No one is claiming white people don't face issues in life or haven't had hard lives, but black people face more prejudice than white people do on a daily basis.
If so many Black people are angry then it's probably worth listening to them.
posted on 4/6/20
comment by kneerash-23 Cara Gold (U6876)
posted 56 minutes ago
White people simply don't face the same world most black people do.
Black lives matter isn't saying white people don't matter but it's especially relevant in America just read the history of black people, it's pretty straight forward.
Saying all lives matter is a cop out.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Agree....
I accept that narrative.
Personally, I am not going to get grief like a black person from cops and accept that reality.
That said, BLM members yesterday said the NHS was racist against black covid patients in favour of white ones, so beware their message too.
Black people are attacking white innocent by standard and cops for the crimes of four cops, two of whom ain't white btw.
BLM want white folk to pay reparations for slavery to them, so you go first kneerash, mate lol
posted on 4/6/20
comment by kneerash-23 Cara Gold (U6876)
posted 39 minutes ago
No one is claiming white people don't face issues in life or haven't had hard lives, but black people face more prejudice than white people do on a daily basis.
If so many Black people are angry then it's probably worth listening to them.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I concur again.
One thing though, now with all cops charged there is no need to risk covid with mass crowds and already we have seen insane mobs packed together, so second spike due soon.
posted on 4/6/20
comment by thebluebellsarablue (U9292)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by kneerash-23 Cara Gold (U6876)
posted 39 minutes ago
No one is claiming white people don't face issues in life or haven't had hard lives, but black people face more prejudice than white people do on a daily basis.
If so many Black people are angry then it's probably worth listening to them.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I concur again.
One thing though, now with all cops charged there is no need to risk covid with mass crowds and already we have seen insane mobs packed together, so second spike due soon.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
It was never just about george floyd and those 4 officers though.
posted on 4/6/20
comment by kneerash-23 Cara Gold (U6876)
posted 58 minutes ago
TBAB you talk of a white pride day etc. They're on constantly throughout the year. Paddy's Day, the 12th, St George's day etc. They're all white pride days basically and are celebrated annually.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I was tongue in cheek about the idea of a white only day or white power event, mate.
Paddys day and even the twelfth are not about race and are more diverse now......ST George's day goes largely unnoticed tbf.
There are events, days, weeks for Black people only, and I find it odd when we are meant to be colour blind, not seeing skin tone, but then have a day for Black skin culture?
Do we have a Chinese day or asian day btw?
In football, w hsve black players union, but in EPL a minority would be white British players now, so is a union needed, or say American football or basketball?
Why are there so few white boxers, sprinters now too?
The brit Awards and Oscars are too white, but is sport too black?Imagine bringing that up, but we accept when black folk say they are not winning awards enough in music or film, even though they also have music of black origin too?
Do you see what I am.getting at?
posted on 4/6/20
comment by Christopher (U20930)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by thebluebellsarablue (U9292)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by kneerash-23 Cara Gold (U6876)
posted 39 minutes ago
No one is claiming white people don't face issues in life or haven't had hard lives, but black people face more prejudice than white people do on a daily basis.
If so many Black people are angry then it's probably worth listening to them.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I concur again.
One thing though, now with all cops charged there is no need to risk covid with mass crowds and already we have seen insane mobs packed together, so second spike due soon.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
It was never just about george floyd and those 4 officers though.
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Never said it was.
Crowds breaking covid advice is dangerous too, if black lives matter, right?
When a black cop shoots a white guy, is it racist?
If a black cop shoots a black guy, is it racist.
Was Floyd killed because the cop hated black folk?
posted on 4/6/20
comment by Christopher (U20930)
posted 1 hour, 3 minutes ago
comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 1 hour, 53 minutes ago
Black lives matter is some kind of positive racism, - why do they matter any more than anyone else...& why do they need to keep telling us so
What if there was a white lives matter campaign...oh then there'd be trouble.
Same as things like the black actors guild, or the Black lawyers association...how is this allowed.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is moronic. Would you go to a breast cancer awareness event and start complaining about the lack of of focus on lung cancer? When people say we need to save the amazon rainforest do you ask people to think about the other rainforests too?
It isn't black lives matter more, it's not only black lives matter. It's black lives matter too - and they need to keep saying this because a lot of the time black lives are treated as if they don't matter.
All lives can't matter until black lives matter.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Hmmm.
I live in a 99% white country so how does that work here?
posted on 4/6/20
Who said black lives don't matter, Christopher?
When was that the White view here?
Do you assume white America thinks blacks don't matter, as that is racist right there.
Cops kill whites too....whites are poor too.
You are going to sit people more and white people who back you when a cop kills a black guy will start to go, what about us???
posted on 4/6/20
White guys are the minority in many sports,
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What is this based on?
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