Black Lives Matter is an honorable movement and is in no way racist

I find it funny and ironic that some of the same people who paint the Tea Party with a broad brush based on a few idiots expect others not to do the same for the BLM movement.

 

Really now.

 

You're like an entry level race baiter. Oh the whites have good parents, the Asians are just so smart, and the blacks have no rules and are dumb. kthanxbai

That gap that you cite with children born out of wedlock and the income gaps that you cite have existed since the Civil War. Why do you think that is? You want to cite facts in a vacuum without context as if they're proof of something but somehow you fail to explain what exactly they're evidence of in American society and what caused them. Yes, it's really easy to explain that children that come from single parent families that are poor and in particular don't have a cultural history of their own have many more obstacles to achieving financial success in life. Why is that exactly? Why don't you explain because you seem to be imposing a culture of poverty that permeates all races as simply black culture which you've defined with just straight stoopid. Please explain how violent rap, black culture caused all the single parent households and poverty in the 1910s, the 1920s, the 1930s, the 1940s, etc.

 

bmd is perhaps being shown something about himself he didn't even realize.

bmd, you should think Cometswin, and let him open your eyes on this issue.

 

Relatively speaking, when comparing to Blacks where about 70% of kids grow up in a single-parent household, it's a small percentage.

 

Although those are the rankings, the difference between the median household income of Blacks, Native Americans, and Hispanics is only a couple thousand dollars. All 3 groups are very similar in terms of household income.

Yet there is a huge difference in the number of kids raised in single parent households.

So the financial situations, while certainly part of it, is not ALL of it.

 

None of that was racist. Those were factual observations that I experienced.

The truth is the truth, no matter how uncomfortable it makes you feel.

 

In 1950, only 17% of Black children lived in single-parent households. That means 83% lived with two parents.

That number is now 70% of Black children live in single parent households, and only 30% or so live with both parents.

That is a staggering decline.


And before you say it, yes, all races have seen a decline in the number of single-parent households. But it has affected the Black community way beyond any other race. It's not even close.


Another thing to note... only 8% of Black babies were born out of wedlock in 1950. 92% were born to married parents!

Like I said... there have been declines across the board with all races, but poverty does not explain it all, as other races have not seen near the decline even though they are virtually as poor.

 

Well the Tea Party wants to gut social security and medicare, they want even more guns in America, they want to outlaw abortion, they oppose gay marriage, they want to repeal Obamacare and replace with more of the same nonsense that leaves the poor uninsured and under served, they actually want to de-regulate Wall Street (holy hell), they want to embolden states rights to be outside the reach of the federal government, and they want to drill baby drill. So it's like a buffet of wingnut.

Whereas BLM simply wants equal justice for black Americans.

Yeah, that's about the same level of crazy.

What's incredibly sad about the backlash to a movement to ensure equal justice for blacks is there is always an incredible level of backlash to any idea or movement that tries to improve the lives of minorities in America. This has always been the case. People talk a good game about how they believe in equality but in practice they really don't and they're really not interested in doing anything about ensuring equality in America. Even an incredible kiss ass movement to ensure equality for minorities would be met with resistance from conservatives. It's the same as it's ever been.

And I'll cite this post.

James Byrd was tied to a truck and dragged to his death by a couple of scumbag racists. So as you can see, a movement to ensure equality born from such a brutal and disgusting murder would still be quasi-racist according to giddyup. And if THAT kind of crime can't be a flash point for ensuring equality for minorities in America then ANY movement would be racist to conservatives in America. ANY movement. That is the reality. This type of backlash is in line with the conservative logic paradigm where religious discrimination against minorities that is condemned is basically intolerant. Yes, intolerance of intolerance is wrong according to conservatives just as trying to ensure rights, justice, and equality for minorities against racists is racist. Well that's just special.

 

Why has the gap always existed?

 

What's telling is that you have never changed your mind or asked a question or tried to learn something once in your time here. You've always taken the opposing view of blacks on every single instance. You never switch - which just shows you are not here to debate but to preach and spew and troll.

Nothing you say has merit because it doesn't come from a place of trying to discuss with others and reach a higher point. Granted, few here do, but on occasion I've seen many posters do that.

It's ironic that there is a gang of posters on both sides who do this. But I noticed that it is especially rigid on the right.

 

Gap between what?

 

I'm pretty sure he's talking about the empty gap between his ears.

 

Interesting, can you name one left leaning poster that has moved to the right on a single issue in the history of the board?

 

I for one - have moved a lot more to the center than I was before. There are a few - they aren't the typical loudest lefties but I've seen a few surprised me. I'd also say Major has moved towards the center on some issues.

 

When it comes to this BLM nonsense, it's really not "left vs right" so much as it is those who support racism in some instances vs those who don't support racism in any instance.

Knowing the views of those who put the whole thing together and the leaders in the movement, those who don't support racism in any instance couldn't possibly support the BLM people.

 

The problem I have with BLM is this...

They don't seem to care whether the it was justified when the police uses lethal force.

The Michael Brown thing REALLY turned me off to them.

It comes out that Michael Brown was fighting with the cop and trying to take his gun. The whole "hands up don't shoot" thing was a complete lie, and yet they STILL act like Michael Brown had his hands up and the cop just murdered him.

It wasn't about "black lives matter". The officer's life mattered. That's why I hate the phrase "black lives matter" because it pits the black perpetrator against the officer. In that case, the officer's life mattered. I am on the side of right and wrong... not black and white.

And why don't we hear protests about that officer in South Carolina and that officer in Cincinnati? The officer in South Carolina shot an unarmed man running away in the back and the officer in Cincinnati shot a man in the head for trying to drive away during a petty traffic stop. Those were the REAL instances of a cop just murdering someone.

But nope... no protests. You know why? Because those cops were rightfully arrested and charged.


There are real instances of police acting badly... and just as bad, other cops cover for them. I am 100% against that kind of behavior. And I could get behind some real protests against actual bad behavior.


But I am completely turned off by the "Black Lives Matter" movement. It's run by racial activists who aren't concerned with the truth and many of those who subscribe to the movement are extremists and racists.

 

That's exactly the problem. The Micheal Brown situation was a total embarrassment.....and people STILL chant "hands up don't shoot" at BLM gatherings.

 

Riiiight.

 

Which part of that do you disagree with?