What is "Black Lives Matter"?

[Alpo]

Huh. Last week I used one of those weed torches to kill a patch of weeds quickly. Let's say I was blackened a little. Do I matter yet?

You mattered a lot more before you started arguing with Bug about the little guy with big ears.

 

[jamil]

My wife and I started watching the last dance on Netflix last night. It’s about Rodman, Jordan and Pippen. I loved watching these guys play and wishing I was them as a little kid. I think these people need to look at these men and how much all of America loved them. And then tell me how all whites are racist. These men were hero’s to myself and most of my friends when I was growing up.

Okay. Let me show you what that really looks like:

Simply having the capacity to like/admire black people just for their raw physical ability, within a system of meritocracy rather than a system which recognizes the impact of intersectional lived experience of people of color, and not for their intrinsic value imbued by their race alone, does not confer acceptance of an anti-racist commitment to the cause to tear down the institutions that disfavor people of color. It takes courage to be anti-racist and to call out the inherent systemic racism of white cultural institutions like "meritocracy". That is the essence of "white fragility". You should simply prefer athletes of color over white athletes to regard as heroes because their lived experience makes them less privileged. You must also have the courage to enjoin the activism, to work along side people of color not just to end the racist meritocracy within the NBA, but to call out and tear down all the racist institutions in America. Only then can you be tolerated.






Disclaimer: Of course the above is satire intended to expose how uber woke people might try to deconstruct your post. It's sad that I have to add the disclaimer because I think it should be clearly received as satire. But people have taken it seriously in the past so...

 

[jamil]

You mattered a lot more before you started arguing with Bug about the little guy with big ears.

Yeah, but that's what the scroll bar is for.

 

[BugI02]

You mattered a lot more before you started arguing with Bug about the little guy with big ears.

Doesn't mean that much to me, to mean that much to you

From the song Old Man, by the way

 

[Alpo]

Yeah, but that's what the scroll bar is for.

TLDR

What did Bug say? I have him on ignore

 

[sempifi99]

Is it a movement? Is it an organization?

I saw the topic come up in another thread on the murders in Dallas.

The linked article from January of 16 gives some insight as to what "Black Lives Matter" really is and what is behind it.

Reds Exploiting Blacks: The Roots of Black Lives Matter

I thought it may be worth sharing here so people know and are aware.

Best regards.

Interesting article

 

[JettaKnight]

TLDR

What did Bug say? I have him on ignore

I dunno. I put a teal filter on my monitor.

 

[BugI02]

Do you bring anything, to any discussion, besides a spoon?

 

[jamil]

TLDR

What did Bug say? I have him on ignore

I think he said he has you on ignore.

 

[Route 45]

According to WGCL-TV, Cedar Grove High School Interrelated Teacher Brian Papin commented beneath the photo, writing: “Again! Your [sic] doing it wrong! One knee on the center of the back one one [sic] the neck and lean into it until death! You saw the video! Get it right or stop f***ing around!”

https://www.foxnews.com/us/viral-photo-kneeling-white-baby-neck-black-lives-matter-arrest

 

[looper]

BLM is nothing but a racist terrorist group
Look at the founders and the actions of those involved

 

[jamil]

BLM is nothing but a racist terrorist group
Look at the founders and the actions of those involved

Well. Not "nothing" but. They're Marxist too. That's something.

 

[looper]

I stand corrected

 

[erasure]

Had difficulty deciding where to post this, here or funny political pictures...

a list of demands posted in Louisville

source

 

[Route 45]

Had difficulty deciding where to post this, here or funny political pictures...

a list of demands posted in Louisville

source

Here ya go:

 

[eldirector]

For point #3, shouldn't 23% of the classes be taught be a black woman?

I mean, I know they are just trying to line the RIGHT pockets with these demands, but they should at least be consistent. Otherwise, their real motives kinda stand out.

 

[KLB]

Does that mean that black owned businesses can employ no more than 23% black staff?

 

[jamil]

It's fair that if we're going to impose the exact demographic proportions it better be all of them. So if the population is 1% Samoan, then 1% of your employees better be Samoan. **
















** Oh, maybe we didn't think that out very well.

 

[BigRed]

Here ya go:

Damned marxist goons can demand in one hand and **** in the other. Let's see which one fills up first.

 

[BugI02]

It's fair that if we're going to impose the exact demographic proportions it better be all of them. So if the population is 1% Samoan, then 1% of your employees better be Samoan. **
















** Oh, maybe we didn't think that out very well.

Not much of a problem unless you have 100 or more employees