Victimization of law enforcement ....

A lot of them need to find different careers, along with some mayors and some judges and some prosecutors.

Yep. When they are killing unarmed folks, yep. Stay the course until they are all removed.

Disrespect breeds disrespect.

 

That's a lie. The 13th Amendment, when it abolished slavery, did so except for convicts. Through the prison system, the vestiges of slavery have remains. I know it. You know it. And most Blacks in the United States know it even if white people won't acknowledge it.

ALl we did was switch from one type of slavery to another.

Nope. I'm pretty sure that I didn't forget that. How many were unarmed? How many of the 385 were unarmed and white?

It hardly supports your racists rants either.

Call it what you want. White privilege affords you that. But I'll continue to combat the racism and racial oppression on this board and throughout the church. Your long-windedness ain't nothing but a rehash of what white "Christians" did in the face of slavery and Jim Crow.

I'm not your son, old white man. My dad died over 20 years ago.:thumbs: But I understand your need to father someone.

Gosh man. You're barely holding on to your sanity as it is. You wouldn't know truth if it bit you on your wicked tongue.

 

Yep. In some cases they've gone too far.

Your premise is flawed. So far as I know your scenario has only happened in the Michael Brown case.

 

Only 100? So 26% of all people killed by cops were from a race that comprises 16% of the population. :tonofbricks:

 

That 16% of the population is rife with thugs and gang members. Many of them deserve to be shot and killed.

 

As exemplified here...

[sarcasm]I'm sure that's what Jesus would say.[/sarcasm] :laugh:

 

Yep, just like I said. Call themselves Christians and like the "Christians" of slavery and Jim Crow, they cosign with the murders and the lynchings and the burnings and the hangings and the beatings and the rapes.

Perhaps this is the reason the hand of God shall continue to come against the increasingly repeat brand of wickedness coming from folks who say they are His followers.

 

I think only a very small minority is anti-police. A larger majority is anti-bad police. Anti-getting-stopped-and-frisked-and-magically-dying-in-custody. That type of anti is much more prevalent.

I also believe this is just the beginning of what is to come. Right now, Blacks as a group are pushing back against maltreatment and corruption, but such things are happening to many citizens in many forms. The nation is smoldering. Just a few things included:

1. Corrupt government. Voter voices go unheard while massive corporations buy their way to what they want. The people have finally started noticing and getting upset.

2. Increased costs of living with lower working hours and lower job availability. Definitely a source of major stress.

3. The number of authority figures found to be harming the children in this country in various ways. The testing scandals for profit, teachers raping kids, child protective services kidnapping children from hospitals. People are angry.

4. Living under the threat of terrorism, while at the same time watching our military disarm and our borders open up. People are scared.

And much more.

When people are upset, stressed out, scared, and can't get their voices heard, what do you think will happen?

And guess what? Those who are acting out about race relations are actually being heard! All the talking and discussion, the filing of complaints, the meetings - they did not work. Just like it isn't working for so many other issues. Are others ready to take back and restore our government and country? I think it is finally a thought. I think we (or another generation) will be able to look back one day and realize this explosion of demand for changes in race relations was the catalyst for other major protests for the betterment of the United States.

 

I agree Gina. And I think what people are gonna find is that, yes race is a factor for maltreatment in this country. But there also is a level of classism that's crazy. I think the lady slapping the young girl and telling her to go back to her section 8 housing speaks loudly about the attitudes of the haves towards the have nots.

In that regard, I would have to finally agree with JEremiah Wright about America's chickens finally coming home to roost. We created this mess and have for 400+ years allowed it to fester because slavery of some sort has made this country extremely wealthy. Be it the slavery of old or the slavery of the modern day prison industry.

People are gonna look back on this and compare it to the Civil War and the Civil Rights movement of the 50s and 60s. And they are gonna see and hear the Vines and Instagram pics of their white parents saying "if they would just obey" or "they are just thugs, shoot them all" and wonder how they could be related to these folks who said they were Christians, but showed no love for anyone who didn't look or think or share the same class as they did.