What did we expect??????

[chuckiechan]

How about trying to fix the problem instead of putting band-aids on the symptoms?

I’ll bite. How?

 

[noonereal]

When the President uses terms like "thugs", and quotes racists with lines like, "when the looting starts, the shooting starts", did he not expect this would bring it to him? Does he not know the suffering strife & pent-up frustration that comes with a pandemic? A crashed economy? 20% unemployment? Shortages of food & medical supplies? Does he not look out the window of his private taxpayer-funded jet, or palatial estate in Florida?

he does know, he does not care about the victims. He figures a hot civil war benefits him and he will keep egging his followers to start shooting.

 

[HumblePi]

I’ll bite. How?

How about doing things like not killing 14 year old kids because they're walking on the sidewalk wearing a hoodie? How about not throwing a 78 year old black man with a beer in his hand to the pavement and tasering him? How about not calling peaceful protesters 'sons of bitches'?

We can erase the 'white privilege' stigma by treating everyone equally. There are a lot of things that have been put on the top shelf for blacks that are on the low shelves for people like us. Easy for us, difficult or out of reach entirely for them. There's no two ways around the fact that whites in this country have advantages that minorities just don't have. It doesn’t mean you’re rich. It doesn’t mean you’re luckier than a lucky black guy. Nobody wants you to be crippled with guilt. Nobody has ever wanted that, or means those things.

If you understand that you are privileged merely by being white, that's enough because you may look deeper into this epidemic of hatred. A young black guy made a twitter video to music. It was a list of things his mother warned him not to do when he goes out into public. "Never look too long at a white woman. Never wear a hooded sweatshirt. Never talk back to a cop if he accuses you of something you didn't do. Don't hang around with your friends in a group on the street. Don't play your music too loud. Don't keep your hands in your pocket."

Trump doesn't really have control over our society and racial relations but he most certainly has a lot of influence on outcomes. I wouldn't know where to start to fix this race issue in this country. All I can recommend is for every one of us to examine our own prejudice and ask ourselves why.

 

[Noodlegawd]

There are protests all over the country, which is similar to the summer that many of our cities burned in the 90's. My question is what did we expect, that the killing of unarmed black men would go on forever with a small peaceful protest after each killing and then things would go back to normal? Well we have a president who told the police not to be polite, but to rough them up. And now he uses the old racists statement that when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Trump likes to throw red meat to his "friends" in the white hoods. I have been expecting this kind of anger for years and now it is here and we will once again give lip service and police departments will continue to hire and keep people who should never wear the uniform. The policeman in Minnesota had 17 complaints in his file, two of which he was disciplined for. Do you know what it takes for a policeman to actually have a disciplinary action in his folder? And this was not his first "kill". He even beat up an unarmed man and then shot him in the stomach. And yet this an was still employed as a police officer. So hopefully the rest of the protests become and remain peaceful, but everyone should have seen this coming.

I would at least expect people not to destroy property and hurt innocent people because someone else did something wrong.

 

[chuckiechan]

How about doing things like not killing 14 year old kids because they're walking on the sidewalk wearing a hoodie? How about not throwing a 78 year old black man with a beer in his hand to the pavement and tasering him? How about not calling peaceful protesters 'sons of bitches'?

We can erase the 'white privilege' stigma by treating everyone equally. There are a lot of things that have been put on the top shelf for blacks that are on the low shelves for people like us. Easy for us, difficult or out of reach entirely for them. There's no two ways around the fact that whites in this country have advantages that minorities just don't have. It doesn’t mean you’re rich. It doesn’t mean you’re luckier than a lucky black guy. Nobody wants you to be crippled with guilt. Nobody has ever wanted that, or means those things.

If you understand that you are privileged merely by being white, that's enough because you may look deeper into this epidemic of hatred. A young black guy made a twitter video to music. It was a list of things his mother warned him not to do when he goes out into public. "Never look too long at a white woman. Never wear a hooded sweatshirt. Never talk back to a cop if he accuses you of something you didn't do. Don't hang around with your friends in a group on the street. Don't play your music too loud. Don't keep your hands in your pocket."

Trump doesn't really have control over our society and racial relations but he most certainly has a lot of influence on outcomes. I wouldn't know where to start to fix this race issue in this country. All I can recommend is for every one of us to examine our own prejudice and ask ourselves why.

We have spent trillions trying to raise their economic status, and yet we still replace them with cheap immigrant labor. WTF are people thinking.

In California it’s getting “cool” to de select Latinos in favor of hiring blacks, so that’s progress, but you still need to get people where the jobs are. Sitting on a stoop in the ghetto waiting for a job to find you won’t work if the economics aren’t there, do you may have to move to where the jobs are.

Like most liberals they know the questions to ask, they just expect someone else to fix the problem.

 

[TypicalRussian]

No, you are wrong. How can you possibly equate "a man loses custody unjustly, why dont fathers riot and loot Target?" with the four hundred years of blacks being enslaved, persecuted, hung by their necks, dragged by chains behind a pickup truck, denied the right to vote, segregated from whites, stuffed into inner city ghettos, being paid less money for the same job as a white man, spit on, killed by cops for no reason? How can you possibly relate that in any way with a man that loses custody of his children?

If a man loses custody of his children in this country, that means it has been decided by a court of law that either he poses a threat to himself or his children, that's why he's not allowed custody. That is by far and away the worst comparison to the plight of minorities over the centuries that I've ever heard.

oh you bastard!!!!! the court is so anti man, all men lose custody of theri children, there are SO MANY cases of this, it has nothing to do with the court "seeing a threat"

Fathers Rights article WHY MEN LOSE IN FAMILY COURT