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I guarantee that the majority of you who preach about Black Lives Matter don't even know the details about what happened other then the fact that a boy was shot and killed. Let's look over the fact that the police officer was assaulted and threatened and had a fight to keep his weapon away from him... When the kid ran the cop chases him and eventually the kid stopped turned and ran towards the cop, feared... FEARED for his life he shoots... But no... All that matter is that it's a white guy that kills a black guy... That's all that matters... That it HAS to be a race issue... If this was a white cop and white boy or a black cop and white boy everyone would side with the cop.
statistically you will be the last person you will see before you die #damn
"So, it’s just fake to pretend that the association of young black men with violence comes out of thin air. Young black men murder 14 times more than young white men. If the kinds of things I just mentioned were regularly done by whites, it’d be trumpeted as justification for being scared to death of them.
It’s not that black communities are in complete denial about these statistics — Stop the Violence events are a staple of high-crime areas. But let’s face it: black America isn’t nearly as indignant about black boys killing one another or whites as about the occasional white cop killing one black boy, even though the former wreaks much more havoc in black communities. There is no coordinated nationwide movement equivalent to the one Martin galvanized. There are no thoughtful films “exploring” black-on-black crime the way Fruitvale Station treats the death of Oscar Grant, a young black man who was killed by transit police in Oakland, Calif.
And recent example illustrates how many blacks feel about who is murdering whom. Two weeks ago, an NYPD cop killed 14-year-old Shaaliver Douse. Douse was in the process of shooting other people, and had been charged with shooting someone else in May — and yet his aunt compared him to Martin. In her mind, the main sin was the white cop’s.
Granted, it seems a lot easier to do something about the Zimmermans than the black thugs. Protest profiling and police departments institute new programs. But black thugs aren’t moved by protests, so it can seem like we’re just stuck with them.
But who’s to say what would happen if black America exerted even half of the emotional fervor and brainpower it does over cases like Martin’s to thinking about how to keep black boys from going wrong? Annette John-Hall had some wise words on this last year. What kind of self-image do we have to assume we can only change others, but not ourselves?"
- John McWhorter, Professor of Linguistics and American Studies at Columbia University , Black American
Violent black-on-black crime, not police brutality, is the REAL threat to Black Americans. Yes, police brutality needs to be addressed, but if you REALLY want to enact the most change possible, start protesting homicides of young black men by young black men. Where are the protests in Chicago's Roseland neighborhood? 30 shootings in 3 days, 4 of which were fatal, and where is that fucking hashtag? Put your Black Lives Matter slogans to good use and make change where the most change can be made.
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Can you just be attracted to one person regardless of sex? A guy I know loves women, but also fell for this guy, but he told me that he's never even thought of a guy as attractive before or after that one man. It seems like some true love level shit if thats the case.
Sometimes I just want to curl up in a ball and cry like a baby. It seems to help me get out my emotions from all the current crap in my life.