Race in America - Riots Explode in Chicago

[jhu72]

JHU shuts down construction site where noose has been found.

[kramerica.inc]

All lives matter

I don’t want to hear about prostate cancer concerns. All cancer matters. When the Heart Association calls for annual donations, I ask them why don’t they make calls for all diseases?

When you tell them out don’t feel like donating, do they torch the local police precinct or courthouse?

[Typical Lax Dad]

All lives matter

I don’t want to hear about prostate cancer concerns. All cancer matters. When the Heart Association calls for annual donations, I ask them why don’t they make calls for all diseases?

When you tell them out don’t feel like donating, do they torch the local police precinct or courthouse?

[DocBarrister]

London (CNN)Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury and head of the Church of England, has said the church should reconsider its portrayal of Jesus as a White man.

Speaking to the BBC Today Programme, Welby was asked whether the way the western church "portrays Jesus" needed to be "thought about again" and "re-imagined" in light of recent Black Lives Matter protests following the death of George Floyd.

"Yes, of course it does," he said, adding that Jesus was portrayed differently in countries around the world. He was regularly in touch with Anglican Church leaders from around the world, he said, who did not portray Jesus as White.

"You go into their churches and you don't see a White Jesus -- you see a Black Jesus, or Chinese Jesus, or a Middle Eastern Jesus -- which is of course the most accurate.

"You see a Fijian Jesus -- you see Jesus portrayed in as many ways as there are cultures, languages and understandings."

Welby added that the representations of Jesus were not, however, "who we worship" but rather served as a "reminder of the universality of the God who became fully human."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/27/uk/justi ... _expansion

DocBarrister

[kramerica.inc]

All lives matter

I don’t want to hear about prostate cancer concerns. All cancer matters. When the Heart Association calls for annual donations, I ask them why don’t they make calls for all diseases?

When you tell them out don’t feel like donating, do they torch the local police precinct or courthouse?

You can’t defend it. Gotcha.

[Typical Lax Dad]

All lives matter

I don’t want to hear about prostate cancer concerns. All cancer matters. When the Heart Association calls for annual donations, I ask them why don’t they make calls for all diseases?

When you tell them out don’t feel like donating, do they torch the local police precinct or courthouse?

You can’t defend it. Gotcha.

You mean you don’t tell the people at St. Jude’s that all cancer patients matters, not just kids with cancer? I wasn’t asking about the reaction. I am asking what YOU do. You can’t defend it?

[kramerica.inc]

All lives matter

I don’t want to hear about prostate cancer concerns. All cancer matters. When the Heart Association calls for annual donations, I ask them why don’t they make calls for all diseases?

When you tell them out don’t feel like donating, do they torch the local police precinct or courthouse?

You can’t defend it. Gotcha.

You mean you don’t tell the people at St. Jude’s that all cancer patients matters, not just kids with cancer? I wasn’t asking about the reaction. I am asking what YOU do. You can’t defend it?

Uhm, I didn’t say BLM or ALM.
YOU defended BLM with your analogy.
When I questioned you and continued your analogy you posted an emoji instead of continuing to defend your position.

[Typical Lax Dad]

All lives matter

I don’t want to hear about prostate cancer concerns. All cancer matters. When the Heart Association calls for annual donations, I ask them why don’t they make calls for all diseases?

When you tell them out don’t feel like donating, do they torch the local police precinct or courthouse?

You can’t defend it. Gotcha.

You mean you don’t tell the people at St. Jude’s that all cancer patients matters, not just kids with cancer? I wasn’t asking about the reaction. I am asking what YOU do. You can’t defend it?

Uhm, I didn’t say BLM or ALM.
YOU defended BLM with your analogy.
When I questioned you and continued your analogy you posted an emoji instead of continuing to defend your position.

Cooter did and you jumped in....

[Matnum PI]

Anyone in this thread read "White Fragility"?

[Andersen]

White Fragility is on my short list. I'll be reading it this summer.

Here's a good review:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/ ... is-flawed/

[jhu72]

Anyone in this thread read "White Fragility"?

Nope. Looks interesting.

[kramerica.inc]

And right on cue!

When black people are in pain, white people just join book clubs

Anyone in this thread read "White Fragility"?

Speaking of which:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washin ... utType=amp

I watch many of my white friends and acquaintances perform the same pieties they played out after Trayvon, Eric, Sandra, Korryn, Botham, Breonna. They are savvy, practiced consumers of Meaningful Things: They’ve listened to “Serial” and become expert critics of our broken criminal justice system after just one season. They’ve watched “Insecure” and can suddenly imagine life as Molly or Issa. They’ve shared the preordained “amplifying” social media post that just reads “This,” followed by a link to something profound from a black voice.

This is all to say that when things get real — really murderous, really tragic, really violent or aggressive — my white, liberal, educated friends already know what to do. What they do is read. And talk about their reading. What they do is listen. And talk about how they listened.

What they do is never enough. This isn’t the time to circle up with other white people and discuss black pain in the abstract; it’s the time to acknowledge and examine the pain they’ve personally caused.
...

And yet white people tend to take a slow route to meaningful activism, locked in familiar patterns, seemingly uninterested in really advancing progress. Theirs is still a world of signs and signaling, where actions like joining book clubs — often based in some “meaningfully curated” readings that are probably easy to name: “White Fragility,” “How to Be an Anti-Racist,” “Between the World and Me,” maybe even “All About Love” — take precedence

[youthathletics]

Where is the Black Leadership?


...AND the equality that those past leaders before this era sought , much of it has been entertained and written into law. This current President has fought, brought forth representatives of the black community and signed into legislation many of the items those before him ignored or side-stepped, coupled with a continuing decline in black employment, which statistically shows progress.

as the article finishes.....
There are no easy cures for the problem of unarmed black people getting killed. But without strong black leadership, the solutions will likely continue to prove elusive.

At a minimum, these protests will likely provide the needed re-structure in training and discernment.

[MDlaxfan76]

yeah, it's all about the color of their skin, right?

Only "black leadership" can stop black people from killing black people, it's their responsibility!!!

Couldn't have anything to do with poverty and the drug trade...

[Peter Brown]

yeah, it's all about the color of their skin, right?

Only "black leadership" can stop black people from killing black people, it's their responsibility!!!

Couldn't have anything to do with poverty and the drug trade...

Democrats talk a big game but when you get down to it, they’re all phonies.

I see MD left out education (controlled by two teacher unions who donate exclusively to Democrats - who seem only to care about preventing charter schools from competing), urban Democratic policies which demonstrably lead to inner city ruination (Not to mention corruption a la Catherine Pugh), and the prosecution complex (ably represented on the Democrats go-to network, MSNBC, which employs no fewer than 7 ex DOJ prosecutors).

Here’s a trick: ask the next big-mouth woke-riddled Democrat if he owns or works at a ‘Second Chance’ company, offering jobs to ex-felons (almost all of whom are black or Hispanic). They don’t. Because they don’t actually give two shinolas.

[Matnum PI]

And right on cue! When black people are in pain, white people just join book clubs

While a book worthy of discussion, it's far from a "book club" book. Closer to a self-help or how-to book. I'm going to guess you haven't read the book. If you read the book (with an open mind), you'd feel foolish for criticizing someone for reading, discussing, and taking it seriously.

[Matnum PI]

White Fragility is on my short list. I'll be reading it this summer.

Nope. Looks interesting.

I found it to be enlightening on many levels and, more importantly, it's changed the way I see and relate to the world. Specifically with relation to racism. If read with an ear to learn and grow, I find it hard to believe that this book won't change a person in very real ways. If nothing else... Read it so i'll have someone to talk to about it.

[CU77]

Seattle protester hit by car on closed highway dies, second remains in serious condition, officials say

https://www.foxnews.com/us/seattle-prot ... ghway-dies

A deliberate murder of a young woman peacefully protesting. And a second attempted murder.

[Typical Lax Dad]

yeah, it's all about the color of their skin, right?

Only "black leadership" can stop black people from killing black people, it's their responsibility!!!

Couldn't have anything to do with poverty and the drug trade...

Economic opportunity solves a lot of problems. How bad was the crime in Baltimore when the city was thriving economically and you had wider participation.....well paying jobs for average folk? My guess is as the jobs left and drugs came in, crime went up? That would be a wild guess. Those black folks moved the jobs out of the city? My wild guess would be no?

[Typical Lax Dad]

And right on cue! When black people are in pain, white people just join book clubs

While a book worthy of discussion, it's far from a "book club" book. Closer to a self-help or how-to book. I'm going to guess you haven't read the book. If you read the book (with an open mind), you'd feel foolish for criticizing someone for reading, discussing, and taking it seriously.

You got the foolish part right.