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Message 1802246 - Posted: 12 Jul 2016, 22:21:05 UTC

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/07/12/four-cops-reportedly-walk-out-wnba-game-after-players-wear-black-lives-matter-shirts.html
Four cops reportedly walk out of WNBA game after players wear 'Black Lives Matter' shirts
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The president of a Minneapolis police union Tuesday commended a quartet of officers who reportedly walked off their jobs providing security at a WNBA game on Saturday night after some players wore “Black Lives Matter” shirts calling for change after recent police shootings.

President Obama wrote:
I see how easily we slip back into our old notions, because they’re comfortable, we’re used to them. I’ve seen how inadequate words can be in bringing about lasting change. I’ve seen how inadequate my own words have been. And so, I’m reminded of a passage in John’s Gospel, “let us love, not with words or speech, but with actions and in truth.”
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We also know that centuries of racial discrimination, of slavery, and subjugation, and Jim Crow; they didn’t simply vanish with the law against segregation. They didn’t necessarily stop when a Dr. King speech, or when the civil rights act or voting rights act were signed. Race relations have improved dramatically in my lifetime. Those who deny it are dishonoring the struggles that helped us achieve that progress. But we know…

But America, we know that bias remains. We know it, whether you are black, or white, or Hispanic, or Asian, or native American, or of Middle Eastern descent, we have all seen this bigotry in our own lives at some point. We’ve heard it at times in our own homes. If we’re honest, perhaps we’ve heard prejudice in our own heads and felt it in our own hearts. We know that. And while some suffer far more under racism’s burden, some feel to a far greater extent discrimination’s stain. Although most of us do our best to guard against it and teach our children better, none of us is entirely innocent. No institution is entirely immune, and that includes our police departments. We know this.

And so when African-Americans from all walks of life, from different communities across the country, voice a growing despair over what they perceive to be unequal treatment, when study after study shows that whites and people of color experience the criminal justice system differently. So that if you’re black, you’re more likely to be pulled over or searched or arrested; more likely to get longer sentences; more likely to get the death penalty for the same crime. When mothers and fathers raised their kids right, and have the talk about how to respond if stopped by a police officer — yes, sir; no, sir — but still fear that something terrible may happen when their child walks out the door; still fear that kids being stupid and not quite doing things right might end in tragedy.

When all this takes place, more than 50 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, we cannot simply turn away and dismiss those in peaceful protest as troublemakers or paranoid.

But it looks like the president of a Minneapolis police union refuses to see the racism in America! And that is the problem with America!

President Bush wrote:
At our best, we practice empathy, imagining ourselves in the lives and circumstances of others. This is the bridge across our nation’s deepest divisions.

And it is not merely a matter of tolerance, but of learning from the struggles and stories of our fellow citizens and finding our better selves in the process.

At our best, we honor the image of God we see in one another. We recognize that we are brothers and sisters, sharing the same brief moment on Earth and owing each other the loyalty of our shared humanity.

At our best, we know we have one country, one future, one destiny. We do not want the unity of grief, nor do we want the unity of fear. We want the unity of hope, affection and high purpose.


http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2016/07/12/former-miss-alabama-calls-dallas-cop-shooter-martyr.html
The first African-American Miss Alabama called the man who shot and killed 5 Dallas police officers during a Black Lives Matter protest on Thursday a "martyr."

Kalyn Chapman James, who was crowned in 1993, said in a tearful video on Facebook Sunday that while she doesn't want to "feel this way," she finds it difficult to be sad for the departed police officers and "can't help but feeling like the shooter was a martyr."

"And I know it's not the right way to feel because nobody deserves to lose their lives," she said in the two minute video. "But I'm so torn up in my heart about seeing these men, these black men, being gunned down in our community...I wasn't surprised by what the shooter did to those cops and I think a lot of us feel the same way and I know it's not right and I definitely don't condone violence against innocent people."

The comments on James' video were overwhelmingly positive. Many thanked the former beauty pageant winner for voicing her opinion.

"I TRULY relate to you," one person wrote. Another said, "You are not alone As you were speaking I was crying with you because I share the same experience."
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She also claimed the wife of one of the slain police officers reached out to her after seeing the video to say she "wasn't mad, she understood what I was saying and that she forgave me."

James also apologized for her comments, telling WPMI, "I apologize to anyone who was offended by my comments — my heart was not filled with hate."

There is a lot of pain, hurt and anger out there. Unfortunately far too much of it justified by a small number of bigots.

As the President says, we must not "slip back into our old notions, because they’re comfortable" like the Minneapolis police union wants.
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Message 1802444 - Posted: 13 Jul 2016, 23:16:39 UTC

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Is Packin' Racist?

Is da Coppers Blendin' In by Not Lookin' ThreatAning by Not Wearin' BodArmor, Not Racist?

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Message 1803154 - Posted: 17 Jul 2016, 17:41:17 UTC

Time fO dA Head Black Man in Charge to Talk To His Sons.

After Proper Lecturing to His Sons, dA Head Black Man in Charge needs to Talk To His People.

Then, dA Head Black Man in Charge shall IMMEDIATELY RESIGN.

OBiden can then be dA New Head Black Man in Charge.

Woe Be US.

Yappin' dA GOoD Yap, As USual.

May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!!
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Message 1805666 - Posted: 29 Jul 2016, 20:43:19 UTC

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/black-lives-matter-most-disturbing-train-ride-of-my-life-racism-a7151161.html
This week I had one of the most disturbing train rides of my life – and it changed my perspective on Black Lives Matter

I tune into the conversation around me and hear the kids. Let me emphasize KIDS. Kids making a game plan for what they will do if the police start to shoot them – because they are black

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Message 1814214 - Posted: 1 Sep 2016, 0:54:12 UTC

White Lives Matter designated as a hate group.
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2016/white-lives-matter
A radical counter-movement erupts in response to Black Lives Matter, with racist activists working hard to spread its claims.

Black Lives Matter was born in the aftermath of the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin, picked up steam after the 2014 police killings of black men in Ferguson, Mo., and New York City, and is today a major social movement seeking racial justice and equality. But the movement set off a reaction among many whites and others who insisted that “every life” matters. Many conservatives chimed in, even suggesting that the movement was really a hate group, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, at the time a Republican presidential candidate, claimed it advocated “the murder of police officers.”

Now comes White Lives Matter (WLM), a small but virulent movement that goes far beyond anything Christie or anyone in the conservative mainstream has said. Its main activists, to put it plainly, are unvarnished white supremacists.

Emanating from the fever swamps of the radical right, it’s somewhat difficult to trace WLM’s precise evolution and leadership structure. But it’s clear that one of its key leaders, if not the leader, is 40-year-old Rebecca Barnette (or Rebekha, as she sometimes spells it online), a Tennessean who is also vice president of the women’s division of the racist skinhead group Aryan Strikeforce. In June, Barnette announced that she also had been appointed director of the women’s division of the National Socialist Movement, America’s largest neo-Nazi group. Barnette, who describes herself as a “revolutionist” who is working to “create a new world” for white people, appears to run both the WLM website and the movement’s Facebook page.

The WLM website describes the movement as “dedicated to promotion of the white race and taking positive action as a united voice against issues facing our race.” “The fiber and integrity our nation was founded on is being unraveled … [by] homosexuality and mix[ed] relationships,” it says. “Illegal immigration, healthcare, housing, welfare, employment, education, social security, our children, our veterans and active military and their rights … are the issues we face as white Americans. The laws and immoral orders the current administration are passing are drastically … targeting everything the white way of life holds dear.”

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Message 1816346 - Posted: 11 Sep 2016, 11:10:23 UTC

The 1st country to promote an ALM group will get my vote!

All Lives Matter.
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Message 1816488 - Posted: 11 Sep 2016, 20:09:41 UTC - in response to Message 1816346.  

The 1st country to promote an ALM group will get my vote!

All Lives Matter.


Of course all lives matter. The BLM movement isn't trying to say that black lives are somehow more important than white lives or yellow lives. BLM is trying to say that black lives are on equal footing as everyone else - yet they aren't being treated as such, therefore BLM was designed to bring attention to the matter.
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Message 1816489 - Posted: 11 Sep 2016, 20:16:58 UTC - in response to Message 1816488.  

I understand that Ozz, but as seen by the WLM report, thought ALM would stop racist groups such as WLM in their tracks because by attacking that, they attack themselves in the same breath :-)
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Message 1816502 - Posted: 11 Sep 2016, 20:51:42 UTC - in response to Message 1608033.  

Just a question.

Are negative attitudes based upon Race? Or perhaps more importantly, Culture and Sub-Cultures within different Race's and Ethnic Groups?

I'd say that "negative attitudes" are based on Race.
For those attitudes to be based on Culture, or sub-Culture, of others would require
knowledge far more extensive than the average person has even of their own Culture, or sub-Culture.
For a lot of people it really is black, brown, yellow, or white.
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Message 1819187 - Posted: 23 Sep 2016, 17:38:27 UTC

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CHARLOTTE_POLICE_FATAL_SHOOTING_CONGRESSMAN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-09-23-10-23-52
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- A Republican congressman who represents the Charlotte area said Thursday that people are protesting in the city because they "hate white people."

U.S. Rep. Robert Pittenger, whose district includes parts of Charlotte and its suburbs, was asked by an interviewer for Britain's "BBC Newsnight" what grievance the protesters have.

In the video posted online Thursday, Pittenger responded: "The grievance in their mind is - the animus, the anger - they hate white people because white people are successful and they're not."

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Message 1819306 - Posted: 24 Sep 2016, 4:46:49 UTC

http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2016/09/baseball-player-tweets-racist-message-then-pulls-apology-out-of-the-im-not-a-racist-handbook-examined/
The Seattle Mariners have suspended Steve Clevenger for the remainder of the 2016 season without pay. Clevenger spent Thursday tweeting out vile messages about Keith Lamont Scott, who was gunned down by Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., police, and those who have been protesting his death. In theory, the suspension sounds good until you realize that Major League Baseball’s regular season is over in two weeks.
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Seattle Mariners backup catcher-infielder Steve Clevenger tweeted some pretty hateful messages Thursday, only to backtrack once his team shamed him into an apology.

Clevenger tweeted: “Black people beating whites when a thug got shot holding a gun by a black officer haha [s–t] cracks me up! Keep kneeling for the anthem!”

He then added: “BLM is pathetic once again! Obama you are pathetic once again! Everyone involved should be locked behind bars like animals!”

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