Oh, swell. It's after 3:30am, Nov. 24, 2015. Five #BlackLivesMatter protesters in Minneapolis have been shot by masked white male terrorists also wearing bullet-proof vests. The protesters were peacefully demonstrating against a recent suspicious shooting and killing of a black man by police. Witnesses claim the victim of the initial shooting was wearing handcuffs at the time and other alleged witnesses were pushed back into their homes by police soon afterwards. As for tonight, details are still trickling out about it all.
Now, are you bothered by any of that? Maybe you think our most imminent threat is ISIS and Syrians. Well, stop freaking out like idiots over terrorists sneaking into the US with Syrian refugees, for which the odds are pretty freaking low, and realize "We have met the enemy and he is us!". The white terrorists want conflict to brew and boil just like ISIS does.
Violent American left-wing extremists had pretty much faded away by the very early 1970s but right-wing terror has continued to be a greater threat to all of us than any foreign entity and has a history of deadly violence going back well over 150 years. Many only recently became aware of all the threats and menacing continually experienced by black students at Mizzou and right on the heels of that comes this incident. Additionally, a black man was recently beat up and kicked at a political rally by a white crowd supporting a presidential candidate who did not discourage the forceful removal of the man. That same candidate posted false statistics yesterday from a Neo-Nazi group in order to vilify black people. That same candidate is claiming there were crowds of supposedly Muslims cheering by the thousands, the destruction of the World Trade Center towers on 9/11 from over in New Jersey, when their is zero proof of any such thing ever happening. That candidate refuses to back down from his absolute lies about about black violence, Mexicans, Muslims, Syrians and more. He has no shame at all and is both embracing and playing upon the schmucks who will adore him for that stuff.
The shooting in Minneapolis of a handcuffed man by a cop remains to be fully addressed, investigated or handled within a court of law. We've seen a startling number of police-involved killings of black people in the last year alone. This shit is why #blacklivesmatter is important. It's not about black lives being more important. You're an idiot if that's what you think is what's being said. It's a movement to show that black lives are being ended and black people are being incarcerated at much, much higher rates than people of other "races". They receive longer sentences than white people. They are offered less favorable plea deals. They are systemically treated poorly and it just perpetuates other problems.
It doesn't matter how much you think cops walk on water and can do no harm. The truth is there's a significant number of them who apparently consider there to be an open season on black people who aren't even armed or sometimes even resisting. Other cops are tolerating that shit and might as well be the shooters, IMHO. These black people are not at fault for being shot and killed because they just didn't show enough respect for the officers, had bad manners or were disrespectful. It doesn't freaking matter that there was an incident of one black man who carried a gun who had a nice peaceful encounter with the police. His happy little story was making the rounds on the net thanks to some people who wanted to say "See, if those blacks would just play nice, obey the nice police thrashing them, tazing them or holding a gun on them and just know their place as a minority, they'd be fine!" Go talk to some black people and see where 'behaving' or even being 'compliant' got them. It won't always be a pleasant story. A large number of problematic encounters for black people with police stem not from an observed crime but for them simply being black.
Get your god damn head out of your ass if you somehow think all those black people (and any other race of people) in the news must have done something wrong to merit being killed. Do you think it's more likely for them to be criminals because they're caught being black? It makes me disgusted when I hear white people just waiting to hear some little detail on the news that they can then use to place the onus for being shot or mistreated on the victim. "Ohhhh! He might have stolen cigarillos!", "Ohhh! See! He touched the officer with is elbow!", "Oh, see he's dressed like a gangster (or his pants are low)!", "Ohhh, he was found to have sold pot in school!" I guarantee someone can dig up some illicit act or mere twitch in your past that merits being shot and killed just as much as all those now-deceased black people. Maybe you also blame rape victims for being raped based upon what they were wearing or any flirting they did before their rape.
We've got bad cops when there shouldn't be any. One bad one reflects poorly on ALL of them if they do nothing about it; if they clear themselves of wrong doing; or if a number of them can be tied to white supremacist leaders and groups. There is no acceptable number of bad killer cops no matter how much you worship the police. It doesn't matter how nice and wonderful and valiant a cop you know happens to be if people are still being killed by other cops for no adequate reason! Now, take those sentences and you'll only have to change a few words to make them apply to sexually abusive priests within the Roman Catholic Church. Do you think it only applies to kiddy-fiddling priests and not the police now?
How is it acceptable in any police manual or any situation outside of a legitimate theater of war overseas, to arrive at a park with reports of a small child allegedly with a gun and then slay him with repeated gunfire? It was a toy gun the child had and shooting the child should have NEVER been option even if the child had an actual damn gun. But the kid was black and the first investigations cleared the cop of any wrong doing. So let's all go back to our happy lives!
How the hell can you universally praise police forces in this country when those incidents happen? How can all cops be good or competent if so many cases exist of mentally-impaired people being tazed to death, beaten to death or shot? There are people on my friends list here who have lost family members in just such situations, so STFU if you think any of that's excusable.
Now, to think we've got this blowhard, bullying and racist son of a bitch in Donald Trump that wants to lead our nation and he's got legions of brainless morons who love him, showing up like it's a rally in 1930s Berlin. He's embarrassing our entire nation without even being in office. If YOU follow him, you're probably a brainless and probably racist moron, who votes against their own interests every year, and who probably has no problem with rounding up people of a particular ethnicity or faith into camps and into corresponding databases. You are quite clearly not a critical thinker. Trump and his followers are some of the most dangerous threats to America to come along in a while.
All the wackjobs are being stirred up, empowered, motivated and mobilized by Trump's senseless hate and empty rhetoric. He almost... almost makes some of his fellow GOP candidates look significantly more acceptable instead of marginally more acceptable to have in the proverbial life raft from a sinking ship, (certainly not as elected officials!).
As you can see, I'm way past caring if anyone doesn't like being chastised for supporting Trump, being racists, bigots, xenophobes and homophobes, for ridiculing #blacklivesmatter and blindly supporting the police and any other leaders of law enforcement, for claiming to be Christians but hating and hating and hating others because they're not white, not straight and not Americans, for urging the closing of borders to Syrian refugees who desperately need our help, and for refusing to seek facts and data about the experiences of the downtrodden in America instead of judging them all to be 'takers', 'bums', 'welfare queens', 'losers', 'lazy' and more because a rich man told you they were and since you've got what you want already and thus anyone else be damned now.
Maybe you're the person who falls for the anti-gubmint rhetoric, again from very rich people with very rich friends, that says gubmint should get out of the way with all that safety, inspections, pollution controls, taxes, consumer protections and regulations. You'll be first to sue when a product harms you or you're hurt in the process of making it. You'll be the first to cry out for gubmint to come and help you after a disaster but don't want anyone else to get help. Maybe you despise all those handouts for people but have no problem with handouts to corporations.
You don't understand how helping other people out of the shit holes they're in actually helps you. You'd rather clasp your wallet to yourself, lock your doors and windows and send the police out to shoot the dark-skinned people so you can sleep and wake the next day warmed by your ideologies to continue pretending those lesser beings have no reason to be upset, tired of having nothing and lacking opportunities. You don't think you'd start selling crack, robbing people, fighting to keep what's yours, taking what you think others owe you due to the chip on your shoulder and more if you lived beneath the suppression of someone else's boot for so long? Sometimes you're really no different than the people you detest. Sometimes you're just in a nicer neighborhood.
You're in the majority right now. You are not the victim of the minorities. You are advantaged because they are disadvantaged.
You're the reason members of minorities continue to be shot without repercussion by police. You're the reason black people and other groups have suffered so long and cannot get a leg up in life so they can compete on an even playing field with you. You're the bastards afraid of losing your grip on privilege and power in a world you just expect to be handed to you. You're the one with entitlement issues. You're the one who takes and doesn't give back. You're the one who makes your own situation worse. You're the one who refuses to acknowledge in 2015 that they still reap the benefits of our nation being being built upon the backs of cheap minority labor on land we committed genocide upon in order to take for our own. You're the one who doesn't want to admit that so many suffer to this day because of what those centuries of servitude perpetuate within families, cultures and communities. The chickens will come home to roost.
You're all that is wrong with the United States of America.
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