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If you keep people poor enough, long enough, they're going to revolt, though there are better ways to present their case than violence and stealing.
Chicago goes into lockdown as bridges raised and freeway exits closed to restrict access to downtown | Daily Mail Online
Ariel Atkins, a BLM organizer, called the looting 'reparations'.
'I don't care if someone decides to loot a Gucci or a Macy's or a Nike store, because that makes sure that person eats,' Atkins said. 'That makes sure that person has clothes.
'Anything they wanted to take, they can take it because these businesses have insurance.'
Okay but you can loot Goodwill and thrift shops and have clothes too.
I think you're missing the point.
No, I think you are.
I think you're missing the point.
If you keep people poor enough, long enough, they're going to revolt, though there are better ways to present their case than violence and stealing.
If you keep people poor enough, long enough, they're going to revolt, though there are better ways to present their case than violence and stealing.
Chicago goes into lockdown as bridges raised and freeway exits closed to restrict access to downtown | Daily Mail Online
Ariel Atkins, a BLM organizer, called the looting 'reparations'.
'I don't care if someone decides to loot a Gucci or a Macy's or a Nike store, because that makes sure that person eats,' Atkins said. 'That makes sure that person has clothes.
'Anything they wanted to take, they can take it because these businesses have insurance.'
If looting is reparations, by that same logic, lynching is criminal justice.
Blacks who are poor are not kept that way by whites.
If looting is reparations, by that same logic, lynching is criminal justice.
Blacks were once considered property...so maybe the vandalism and looting of property is in a way, reparations.
So what if they bust a few windows and take crap they don't even want...property can be replaced...but black lives can't.
Ariel Atkins, a BLM organizer, called the looting 'reparations'.
Blacks were once considered property...so maybe the vandalism and looting of property is in a way, reparations.
Black slave labor built this country and they got nothing in return for it. So what if they bust a few windows and take crap they don't even want...property can be replaced...but black lives can't.
The reasons behind the looting of property and the lynching of property are like night and day.
What are you saying, it's genetic?
That is certainly easy to say when it is not your property that is being looted and/or destroyed, wouldn't you say, Moot?
And I did not realize that we were put in a situation where we either have to watch black people being murdered without redress OR allow businesses to be destroyed and property theft on a massive scale without redress. Why exactly do we have to countenance either one?
Lynching is the unjustified killing of other people out of grievance, whether or not they did anything wrong.
"Looting as reparations" is the unjustified theft and destruction of other people's property out of grievance, whether or not they did anything wrong.
Were you ever denied the right to own property? If not, then how can you say it's not justified?
Does Black Wall Street ring a bell?
Police cars and police stations aren't your property either.
We don't ...we just have to understand it and I don't think you do...especially after you compared property damage to lynching.
Yet, you think lynching is justifiable and property damage is not.Because that which is despicable if done to you is equally despicable if done to another under similar circumstances.
I have also never been raped. I can say with a clear conscience that it would not be justifiable for another person to rape someone else.
MLK is dead too...and yet the same racial disparity that he had to deal with existed long before he was born and 60 years later it still exists today. Why is it so difficult to understand?Yep. Tulsa rings a bell. It was a mass-lynching and unjustified looting.
One wicked act does not justify another. Especially when the aggrieved parties are all dead and those who carried out the act are all dead as well.
Yet, you think lynching is justifiable.
MLK is dead too...and yet the same racial disparity that he had to deal with existed long before him and 69 years it still exists today. Why is it so difficult to understand?
A lot of blacks had never heard of the Tulsa Black Wall Street until the George Floyd protests. That's because for well over a hundred years, Blacks were not only excluded from our institutions and denied their rights...but they were also denied their place in history.
If you keep people poor enough, long enough, they're going to revolt, though there are better ways to present their case than violence and stealing.
Chicago goes into lockdown as bridges raised and freeway exits closed to restrict access to downtown | Daily Mail Online
Ariel Atkins, a BLM organizer, called the looting 'reparations'.
'I don't care if someone decides to loot a Gucci or a Macy's or a Nike store, because that makes sure that person eats,' Atkins said. 'That makes sure that person has clothes.
'Anything they wanted to take, they can take it because these businesses have insurance.'
If you keep people poor enough,
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