Originally posted by Uncle Buck
I support the right to kneel and protest...This is the way to do it not like fergeson or Baltimore.
here is my issue, Obama was in office for 8 years. That was the time to get shit done. What was ever done about chicago? Obama's so called hometown? He also had the chance to unite everyone but IMO he drove everyone further apart. Crickets when cops were getting shot in their patrol cars but leading the masses when the cops fucked up.
With that said, I grew up in the NYC projects. I went to the same schools, same doctors, shopped in the same stores as many people who "looked" different than me but I dont know what it is like to walk a mile in their shoes. Their journey is certainly differnt than mine.
People assume just because Obama was black, his role in office was just to make black lives better. He actually cared about everyone. I also think people forget is mixed and he was actually raised by the white side of his family. He faced his own share of racial problems and his mom never sugarcoated him about it. She went about it the right way, which is why he ended up level headed. Also, can't forget the fact that they really didn't want to pass anything he brought to congress.
The main topic was military. Like I said, it's the arrogant ones getting upset and I only say this because a large amount of military are fine with the fact that it's peaceful. When things are getting done nonviolently it seems that's when the people have the most to say.
Honestly, i don't expect white people to ever fully understand what minority's go through. That's ok. That's not the problem. No one cares if they do. We care about the insensitivity. No ones kneeling to "disrespect" anything. They kneel to demonstrate that not all the things stated are true, therefore one cannot truly stand up for something that doesn't represent them.
You guys can go around acting like racism isn't a big thing in the states these days. It is. News flash, everyone knows it. There are literally foreigners who are baffled at the fact that so many white Americans can act like nothing is wrong. The US lets things sit around and fester until it becomes necessary for something to be done (I.e, the conditions of school systems and prisons).
There's nothing to say to each other that'll really change our minds on this situation. But hayrow, your being all deny, deny, deny and I'm really trying to figure out what your problem is. The only group that would want to kill you is a terrorist organization and that's not even because of skin color, they want to kill all Americans so.
The racist shit is always on the news, don't think of them as isolated events. And stop pardoning racist people who get caught at racist rally's but say they aren't. It's bullshit
