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Fiery
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To all the people saying the Floyd situation is not about race, I politely disagree
#26712190 - 06/01/20 07:07 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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I'm just going to present a few statistics just for informational purposes. I'm not taking any sides or trying to argue, but some people don't know this
More white people are killed by police than black people, every year, sometimes by the hundreds more.
For instance, in 2018 457 white people were shot and killed by police, and only 223 black people
https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/
However, like every year, 2016 for example, there were TWO THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTY AFRICAN AMERICANS KILLED: And 2570 of them were at the hand of a black person.
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-2016/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-3.xls
So black people are killing each other by the THOUSANDS, and white people are not killing black people by the thousands.
Of course the Floyd issue *IS* about police brutality and unchecked officers... HOWEVER- Anyone saying that if the races were reversed or it was a white man killed these riots would still be happening, is blatantly wrong.
Race is a *MAJOR* factor if not one of the top driving factors of this unrest.
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Re: To all the people saying the Floyd situation is not about race, I politely disagree [Re: Fiery] 1
#26712230 - 06/01/20 07:20 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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The bottom class that takes all the shit tends to be the same class that dishes out the most shit to each other.
There's a word for that, I can't think of what it is...
Racial profiling is absolutely a part of it. Unrest revolving around the classes being divisible into minority race and not, minority sex and not, is also part of it.
There's a big stacked bottle of tension there. And to be quite honest I don't think we'd be having riots right now if the economy looked better, employment were higher, and our future looked more hopeful.
Also alot of schools/school buildings are closed. Lots of young people have less commitments right now.
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Fiery
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Re: To all the people saying the Floyd situation is not about race, I politely disagree [Re: CookieCrumbs]
#26712234 - 06/01/20 07:22 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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True, all that stuff you said is just more fuel and also a contributing cause of these riots !
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Re: To all the people saying the Floyd situation is not about race, I politely disagree [Re: Fiery] 1
#26712321 - 06/01/20 07:58 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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Yeah you’re not supposed to say that stuff otherwise you’re “racist”..
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Re: To all the people saying the Floyd situation is not about race, I politely disagree [Re: Amanita86]
#26712411 - 06/01/20 08:24 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
Amanita86 said: Yeah you’re not supposed to say that stuff otherwise you’re “racist”..
I must have missed the memo. 
And I'm not racist. I don't judge a person until I see their actions and words.
I dislike ignorant, violent, wasteful, and toxic people. No matter what color their skin is. There just so happens to be lots of black people who fit that bill, and white people, and asian people and all people and so on.
So sorry if I don't like you, and you think that it's because of your race, but you are WRONG All that proves is that the people who think I'm racist for whatever reason, are actually the racists themselves.
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Re: To all the people saying the Floyd situation is not about race, I politely disagree [Re: Fiery]
#26712449 - 06/01/20 08:34 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
Fiery said: All that proves is that the people who think I'm racist for whatever reason, are actually the racists themselves. 
That’s usually how it goes...
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Re: To all the people saying the Floyd situation is not about race, I politely disagree [Re: Amanita86]
#26712464 - 06/01/20 08:37 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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I mean if you're using your welfare card to buy junkfood, getting pregnant again when you already have 4 kids you can't afford, and flipping tricks to buy drugs when you can't even afford diapers, yeah, I don't like you, regardless of your skin color. And if it's a non white person, now I'm a racist. When in fact that description fits tons of white people and I dislike them the same,.
Was just trying to come up with an example but stuff like that pisses me off.
I guess I *AM* racist, against racist people. And bad/shitty people.
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Re: To all the people saying the Floyd situation is not about race, I politely disagree [Re: Fiery]
#26712613 - 06/01/20 09:44 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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Your new avatar is a man spelunking?!
Fieryyyyyreeeee
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Re: To all the people saying the Floyd situation is not about race, I politely disagree [Re: The Blind Ass]
#26712635 - 06/01/20 09:57 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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Edited by qman (06/01/20 09:59 PM)
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Re: To all the people saying the Floyd situation is not about race, I politely disagree [Re: qman]
#26712665 - 06/01/20 10:11 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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I haven't seen anyone say this isn't about race just that riots andmlooting is bad and antifa is behind it all funded by Jeff besos soul contract with George Soros value in gold
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Edited by Seriously_trippin (06/01/20 10:11 PM)
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