Black lives matter : in their own words(really)

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Until everyone views themselves as an occupant, a temporary one at that of this planet. In the next 200 years this planet and the Universe will throw at us stuff which makes things at the moment seem like chicken feed.
 

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We can be HEROES, just for one day.


A bipartisan resolution proposes awarding the Congressional Gold Medal, one of the highest awards a civilian can receive in the United States. to Capital Police Officer Eugene Goodman.


Kirk Burkhalter, a former NYPD detective, examined the confrontation between Capitol Police officer Eugene Goodman and rioters at the U.S. Capitol. He said Goodman appears in the video to be doing three tactical things simultaneously: leading rioters away from the Senate chambers, coordinating for backup on the second-floor landing, and exercising extreme restraint to prevent injury or loss of life.

Goodman, 40, is a Native of DC. A vet who served in the Army from 2002 to 2006, deploying with the 101st Airborne Division to Iraq for a year. His awards include a combat infantryman badge, indicating he was in ground combat.

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Now that there is this info about what he was actually doing, I regret a post that I made here, late last week, of a TikTok video that made fun of officer Goodman.

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Now that there is this info about what he was actually doing, I regret a post that I made here, late last week, of a TikTok video that made fun of officer Goodman.

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Don't remember the post, A.B., but it's all good. NONE of us understood what he actually doing. That's the BEAUTY of it.

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Today's study in RANK HYPOCRISY

127 Republicans Who Voted To Overturn The Election Results Are Now Praising MLK | HuffPost

BTW: Please Let 2021 Be the Year Republicans Are Banned From Quoting MLK | The Mary Sue

AND courtesy of the fkr-in-chief - AS EXPECTED:

Trump Administration’s '1776 Report' Justifies Slavery, Three-Fifths Compromise | HuffPost

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, only two days before Donald Trump leaves office, the Trump administration released a report from its “1776 Commission” that excuses slavery, justifies the racist Three-fifths Compromise and rails against socialism and “identity politics.”

The 45-page report reads in places like a right-wing manifesto: It makes excuses for slavery and the Three-fifths Compromise that declared slaves counted as less than full humans. It decries socialism and “identity politics,” celebrates the right to bear arms and calls the anti-abortion movement one of the nation’s “great reforms.”

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It's called P R I V I L E G E:

Police Seize Firearms From Black Men at Virginia Rally for Gun Rights While White Gun Rights Activists Go Unimpeded | Top News | US News

RICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) - Police stopped a car of Black men and confiscated two of their guns at Virginia's annual "Lobby Day" on Monday while white gun rights activists defied local laws unimpeded in the state capital of Richmond.

In a day with racial tensions on display, Black protesters denounced what they called a double standard in a state where people are free to openly carry firearms.

Virginians converge on the capitol each Lobby Day to petition state legislators on issues of public interest, but the day has been dominated by gun rights activists in recent years. It coincides with Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which honors the slain civil rights hero.

Reuters witnessed the police stop of the African Americans, which stood in contrast to dozens of white pro-gun activists on foot and in hundreds of trucks that drove through Richmond's streets flying "Guns Save Lives" flags without police interceding.

They were stopped one block from Richmond's memorial to Confederate General Robert E. Lee, less than an hour after a white, anti-government "boogaloo" leader boasted on a megaphone that his group was violating gun and ammunition laws.

Donald Trump's most enduring legacy: The right-wing has a dangerously overblown sense of entitlement | Salon.com

How the Trump administration's '1776 Report' warps the history of racism and slavery


THE FLIP SIDE:

NAACP New Orleans Branch Condemns Rouses’ Executives for Support of Trump-Inspired Insurrection - Big Easy Magazine
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The pampered racist:

NBC News:
Kenosha killing suspect Rittenhouse's bond terms changed after bar visit

Attorneys for Rittenhouse did not object to the changes. Rittenhouse is accused of killing two amid protests last year.

A Wisconsin judge has modified the release conditions for Kyle Rittenhouse, the teen charged with killing two men amid protests in Kenosha last year, after prosecutors alleged he drank beers and was "serenaded" with the Proud Boys anthem* at a bar while out on bail.

An attorney for Rittenhouse did not object to the change in bond conditions after they were proposed in January. Rittenhouse, now 18, is free after posting $2 million bail.


Under the new terms, Rittenhouse is barred from drinking alcohol and prohibited from associating with any group or person known to menace others on the basis of things like race or religion. He can't have any weapons.

The 18-year-old is charged with fatally shooting two people in Kenosha on Aug. 25 during protests and unrest over the police shooting of Jacob Blake. His attorneys have argued that he was acting in self-defense. His case has been supported by some on the right.

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* Kyle Rittenhouse, out on bail, flashed white power signs at a bar, prosecutors say
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To which BLM are you referring? Groups said to represent BLM or the movement/ideology ITSELF?

And to which BLM "messages"?

The message about disparities in law enforcement's response when black people and minorities are involved? The message about shifting priorities and funding more toward community development and mentorship initiatives than military grade artillery and weaponry for municipal police? The message about more community representation, oversight, and input into local law enforcement practices?

If there's ANYTHING that could be UNQUESTIONABLE gleaned from the Capitol Riots, it is the FACT that had those participants been BLACK, it would've been a FAR different outcome. There is NO QUESTION about that.

The Capitol riot exposed police double standards | Donald Trump News | Al Jazeera

‘I’m not surprised’: Black protesters, clergy decry double standard in Capitol riot | News Break

An FBI Agent Went Undercover to Study White Supremacists. He’s Now Speaking Out About Racist Police. – Mother Jones

And while there may rightfully be objections to some of the more violent tactics and rhetoric that have come from some actors claiming to represent the entire movement,

the notions of a more equally balanced law-enforcement response, regardless of race, and more community outreach, development, oversight, and COOPERATION with local law enforcement, seem to ME to be sound principles.

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Indeed there are. Fucking awful. I recommend a great book I've been reading lately by Crystal M. Fleming called "How to Be Less Stupid About Race." She outlines the scope of the problem and gives some helpful ideas for ways to, well, be less racist.
 
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Activists in Kenosha say they are hurt and disappointed after the no-charging decision in Jacob Blake shooting - CNN

It's been almost five months since Jacob Blake was shot in the back seven times by Officer Rusten Sheskey.
Sheskey, a White officer, shot Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, while responding to a domestic incident on August 23, 2020. Blake survived the shooting but was left paralyzed from the waist down.

No charges were brought against Sheskey, or for the other two officers involved in the incident, the district attorney in Kenosha, Wisconsin, said Tuesday.

The announcement, local activists say, further deflated any hopes of change in the lakeside city that already had tension with law enforcement, even before Blake's shooting.

GUARDIANS OF DEMOCRACY:

Black troops defending the US Capitol from pro-Trump rioters took a moment to snap a photo with Rosa Parks' statue

AND THOSE WHO AREN'T:

We’ve Had a White Supremacist Coup Before. History Buried It. – Mother Jones
The Confederate battle flag, which rioters flew inside the US Capitol, has long been a symbol of white insurrection

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Wow!... The things I was NEVER taught about in American Public Schools' history classes, (for instance, the Tulsa race massacre), I find out about from reading in the Politics Forum at LPSG.com!... Thank you, @b.c.

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Oh yes... Tulsa, Wilmington, my city, and more - all buried in history written by those of P R I V I L E G E. Like W. Barr who's quoted as saying "history is written by winners." He sure as sht oughta know that NOW, eh?

Mass grave found in search for 1921 Tulsa race massacre victims | The Independent
New Orleans Massacre (1866)
Not Just Tulsa: Race Massacres That Devastated Black Communities In Rosewood, Atlanta, and Other American Cities | BET
Black Then | 8 Successful and Thriving Black Communities Destroyed by Racist White Neighbors
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