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

See this is how you demonize them. You act like only black lives matter when it's "black lives matter too". You refuse to accept that. Why? Because you have been brainwashed by all the right-wing media trash to dismiss that.

So it's not possible to have a rational discussion with you anymore. You simply are unable to consider anything but the narrative that is in your head.

 

You are spouting the propaganda of racists and radicals....sounds like you've been the one brainwashed.

 

BLM, a movement started on the great "hands up, don't shoot" lie pushed so hard by the liberal media who wanted it to be true.

 

yes I understand and disagree with the founders ideas. I looked them up thanks to you. But from interviews with some of the organizers of specific events they were indeed going based on the concept that black lives matter just like white ones.

 

which caused many on the right to overlook the documented history of discrimination by the police in the area, and instead focus only on this one case.

 

This is true.

Then the investigation vindicated Officer Wilson.

 

I am not saying every member of BLM are aware of the founders goals. However, they are associating with a racist/anarchy driven organization. That is deeply troubling and I cannot over look that. Likewise, an organization that was founded by motivated racists/separatists would get as much ire from me and I suspect far more negative attention from the media. I don't see how someone as reasonable as you can over look this point.

It does not mean that there is perfect equality in this country or that black people are not viewed as second class citizens by the government and the rest of the country. However it does mean BLM is not the voice for fairness or measured change.

 

I don't have a problem with black people like you do. So I think you have the color issue, not me.

Attacking a group of people who are upset about police brutality by undermining that goal by trying to delegitimize it by making stuff up about the group is sad and pathetic. And kinda evil.

How is the quest for fair treatment wrong? So if someone idiot talks about pigs in a blanket, it means everyone has to stop and drop their protest of police brutality?

It's like this - you are an idiot. But that doesn't mean all white people are idiots at all. Just you. Too bad you are not smart enough to understand that.

 

It just dawned on me.... You have been posting for a decade and I don't think you have ever said anything enlightening or worth considering or giving pause to.

 

Making stuff up??? Look at the video I posted a few post earlier. Have you ever heard the joke 99% of lawyers give the other 1% a bad name? Well it may not be 99% of the BLM that give it a bad name but seriously there are a lot. As a comparison, the liberal media would jump all over the one or two idiots at a tea party rally and try to paint the entire group with a broad brush. I am sure there are at least a few people in the BLM who are in it for good reasons, but a there is a large majority who give it a bad name.

 

How many? All I see is the same freaking video in one town being used to condemn everyone in the movement.

You are making the one making an acquisition here. Ans you say it's a large percentage. What percentage? over 50%? You say 99% or close to it. Based on what?

The Tea Party has a bad name not because of a few idiots holding up signs because of the views expressed by EVERY TEA PARTY MEMBER IS CRAZY. From ted cruz to Sarah Palin they are all nuts. The idiots at rallies are just to make fun of them. But you know what, assuming things about the entire Tea Party based on a handful of the group isn't right either.

So basically you are saying that it's ok to label an entire movement in a negative light as payback to the liberal media establishment.

At least you should how you operate.

 

Nothing like a Great Deception to win your loyalty and concern. It's hard to realize how large and grotesque was the false narrative perpetrated on us for days about the death of Michael Brown... with the Justice Department fanning the flames.

 

1. Gosh, with you around... I don't need me.
2. Then put "Too" in the group name and don't prop up invalid symbols like Michael Brown
3. I carried you from a "handful" to a "streetful" (of which there is video evidence) and I'm the one with a narrative stuck in my head....?

 

So calling out documented discrimination isn't shining a light on a problem that needs to be fixed, but instead its fanning the flames?

 

The "Too" is implied. Gosh - most people aren't so stupid that they need it there!

 

CML, I know you're intellectually challenged but nobody claims racism when a black person kills a black person BECAUSE BLACK PEOPLE DON'T KILL BLACK PEOPLE OUT OF RACISM.

Fact is people like you don't give two ****s about black people killing black people. If you did, you'd support an improvement in school systems, a move away from the drug war to drug treatment, and there would be a concerted effort to address problems in inner city communities. Black on black crime is out of sight out of mind for you because it doesn't happen in your neighborhood. The only time you give a **** about it is when black people are protesting white privilege, police brutality, and systemic inequalities that call your indifference on the carpet. Only then are you concerned with black on black crime as a distraction. It's pathetic. BTW, there are stop the violence peace walks in cities all across America protesting the violence in these communities. Of course it doesn't get a lot of play on Fox News so you don't have first clue about them.

 

Have you ever heard the joke 99% of lawyers give the other 1% a bad name? Well it may not be 99% of the white community that gives it a bad name but seriously there are a lot. As a comparison, the conservative media would jump all over the one or two idiots at a BLM rally and try to paint the entire group with a broad brush. I am sure there are at least a few people in the white community who are good people, but there is a large majority who give it a bad name.

Wait, wut?


Virginia Man Convicted of Hanging Dummy by Noose in Yard
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/09/23/us/ap-us-noose-conviction-1st-ld-writethru.html?_r=0

ROCKY MOUNT, Va. — A Virginia man accused of hanging a black-faced dummy in his yard where his black neighbors could see it has been convicted of violating a state law against displaying a noose to intimidate people.

A judge returned a guilty verdict Tuesday against 51-year-old Jack Turner of Rocky Mount. Turner could face up to five years in prison and fines of up to $2,500.

Multiple news outlets report Turner was arrested in June after hanging a life-sized dummy wearing a black ski mask from a tree in his yard. Turner initially told investigators the dummy was a scarecrow, said Franklin County Sheriff's Capt. Paul Caldwell. However, Turner later said the figure was meant to scare people and that he is racist.

A 2009 Virginia statute makes it a felony to display a noose with the intent of intimidating someone. Prosecutor Robert Deatherage said he believes this is the first time someone had been convicted under the statute.

Neighbors John and Kena Mitchell, who are African American, testified that Turner was cordial when they first moved into a house next door to him in November 2013. Relations gradually soured, they said, and Turner began calling the police to report disturbances. They also testified that Turner raised his middle finger to them on several occasions.

On the afternoon of June 17 — the same day that nine black churchgoers were massacred in Charleston, South Carolina — the dummy was hung in the noose in Mitchell's yard.

Since Turner's arrest, he has displayed a Confederate flag on his porch and another in a window that faces the Mitchells' home, witnesses said.

"If he can hang a noose, I don't know what's going to happen. I fear for my family's safety," John Mitchell said in court.

Defense attorney Holland Perdue argued the noose was displayed on private property, while the state law applies to nooses displayed in a "public place." He said in this case, it amounted to constitutionally protected free speech. The defense plans to appeal the judge's decision, Perdue said.

Turner is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 8 in Franklin County Circuit Court.



Ex-Ole Miss Student Slapped With 6 Months In Prison For Noose Incident
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/graeme-harris-prison-sentence-james-meredith

A former University of Mississippi student who pleaded guilty to helping hang a noose around the neck of the James Meredith statue on campus was sentenced Thursday to six months in prison.

U.S. District Court Judge Michael P. Mills sentenced Graeme Phillip Harris to six months in prison and one year supervised release for helping place a rope around the neck of the statue of Ole Miss' first black student, according to a news release from the Justice Department.

The noose was found around the neck of the Meredith statue in February 2014. An outdated Georgia state flag containing the Confederate "stars and bars" was also draped on the statue's shoulders.

Harris was slapped with federal civil rights charges in connection with the vandalism more than a year later. His attorneys said it was "patently untrue" that Harris helped hang the noose on the statue and pointed out that another, unidentified student who they said admitted to the vandalism was not indicted. Nevertheless, Harris struck a plea agreement and pleaded guilty to a charge of threatening force to intimidate black students and employees at the university.

The DOJ release noted the investigation was ongoing.

 

Most people aren't stupid enough to think there is a need to say "black lives matter" in the first place, most just assume that obviously black lives matter as much as any others. Since you are already dealing with a fairly stupid movement started by radicals and racists, you really can't assume that they mean "too".

 

There is when blacks get treated like dogs by the police. But keep living in your fantasy world.