Only in America...
- Thread starter Sincilbanks
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What you can't see is the Batmobile in flames just off camera!
Americans really are idiots. Someone wrongfully killed, I know let's burn down a dozen cities. I struggle to understand why anyone would chose to live in some of the places. I'm sure there are some perfectly reasonable people over there, but they appear to have quite a high number of lunatics. Clearly being governed by the biggest of all isn't ever going to help the situation.
An old Japanese colleague of mine narrowly avoided being the victim of a drive by shooting in a bar near one of our factories over there (Orangeburg, South Carolina).
Americans really are idiots. Someone wrongfully killed, I know let's burn down a dozen cities. I struggle to understand why anyone would chose to live in some of the places. I'm sure there are some perfectly reasonable people over there, but they appear to have quite a high number of lunatics. Clearly being governed by the biggest of all isn't ever going to help the situation.
An old Japanese colleague of mine narrowly avoided being the victim of a drive by shooting in a bar near one of our factories over there (Orangeburg, South Carolina).
Of course it's not, but we're not party to the feelings of helplessness, oppression and inequality that some of those people put up with on a daily basis. When no-one in authority listens to anything you say no matter how often you say it then eventually something snaps and you vent your rage in the only way those people will listen.
MLK on the subject
And when the enforcement authorities respond like this:
One has to ask, who is escalating what here?
And one final point, one sees a marked difference between how those (mainly) white people who turned up to protest at the lockdown in the US absolutely armed to the hilt and the authorities reaction to those protesters absolutely enraged that another black man had died at the hands of the police force and none of the 4 officers involved were even arrested...
I'm pretty sure that many black people over there are drawing exactly the same equivalences...
MLK on the subject
And when the enforcement authorities respond like this:
One has to ask, who is escalating what here?
And one final point, one sees a marked difference between how those (mainly) white people who turned up to protest at the lockdown in the US absolutely armed to the hilt and the authorities reaction to those protesters absolutely enraged that another black man had died at the hands of the police force and none of the 4 officers involved were even arrested...
I'm pretty sure that many black people over there are drawing exactly the same equivalences...
It's not just rioting and looting though is it, as if that isn't bad enough (I wonder how all the ordinary decent working class victims feel about their businesses and livelihoods being destroyed). Two other people have also been killed during this 'protest'. The initial death was inexcusable on any level and the subsequent violence, destruction and deaths are also inexcusable on any level. The people involved are all responsible for their own actions; politics is no excuse for individual actions.
Notty, As you're asking, murder is equivalent to murder in my opinion. Where have I said there are no power imbalances or I fail to recognise the hideous history of racism in the US; I choose to reject all murder as acceptable, I choose not to differentiate. Ask yourself, is the murder of the two people in protest to the original murder not equivalent? Are you suggesting the murder of the two people is an acceptable response to the initial murder? I don't assume I know what you are thinking I choose to ask.
I'm not sure what murders you're referring to but you've failed to answer my question about
You've failed to answer my question. What should black people in the US do about being executed by white cops?
Until you answer that all your responses are mealy-mouthed apologetic right-wing excuses for whire violence against black people.
Until you answer that all your responses are mealy-mouthed apologetic right-wing excuses for whire violence against black people.
Two people it has been reported have been shot dead during the protests. Sadly I do not profess to have any answers as to what the solution is but that doesn't mean that retaliatory violence and murder are excusable or answers in my opinion. On the contrary in my opinion it just adds to entrenched division. Out of interest Notty do you think that violence and murder are the solution and if not what do you think black people in the US should do about being executed by white cops?
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