You said "don't give a rip about protests, most of them including this one are ridiculous.". I just gave you some examples of protests that got stuff done.
You're naming stuff and acting like it isn't talked about. We talk about our issues in our community, and we work to fix them. We can actually focus on more than one issue at a time, so GTFOH with that!
A lie? Tamir Rice didn't deserve to die. Philando Castile didn't deserve to die. Sandra Bland? Freddie Gray? Other cases? Why do I have to have more fear than my white peers when dealing with police? Why are we getting harassed because "we fit the description" when that description was vague? Why do store automatically assume brown people are stealing? Why are black people automatically labeled as "thugs" for dressing a certain way or listening to certain music, but when white people do it, it's cool?
My brother was leaving work, on his way home, and got detained by cops a block away from where we lived because he "looked the guy." They said he had on a green tee shirt, my brother was wearing his blue work polo. They said he had long dreads with a green hat, my brother had baby twists with NO hat on. They said he was black, my brother is Dominican. The only thing that matched was his shoe color (black), and his backpack (blue). That racist stop-and-frisk crap plagued every one of us brown people in New York City (and there are number to back up that it was unfairly profiling us).
Come on man, you might not be living our experiences, but don't try to discredit what we say when we go through it.
You need to do more than talk about it, instead you demonize folks that actually bring it to light that are black.
The black community is the black communities biggest problem. It isn’t us against them, we’re all in this together.
One reason you have fear is because you e been told constantly cops have it out for black people. Why don’t you look at the actual facts and numbers.
I suppose you think the crime stats that show blacks commit most crime is because cops target blacks?
I always hear that “ you haven’t lived our existence”, that road goes both ways.
You are being used, blacks vote 90% Democratic. Do you think they want you to have some kind of grand epiphany? An awakening where you realize you’ve been fed a line of bs, that they simply want to keep you in line so you’ll continue to be a reliable voting block? How has Detroit, St. Louis, Chicago, Baltimore, Newark and on and on improved the lives of the black citizens that have continually supported Dem city Gov?
They’re still using you, keeping you afraid, and in need of their handouts. That isn’t freedom.
My 2 younger brothers father is black, our mother is white. I don’t judge any person by the color of their skin, only by their actions.
I’m the type of person that is getting fed up, there is nothing anyone of us can do to change the past. We can dwell on it, all we want, but it won’t change a thing.
We can change the future, and if black folks don’t realize that nothing the Govt does will change their plight if they can’t change themselves then nothing will ever change, ever.
