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Guerilla Prophet @jaykelly26
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Can we share this instead of that cop picture please
11:36 PM - 4 Dec 2014
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Steve Marmel @Marmel
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This is gorgeous: Students in Quebec were asked to send protest route to cops. Their reply: #ICantBreathe #EricGarner
1:00 PM - 10 Dec 2014
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The Crisis Magazine @thecrisismag
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#ICantBreathe Protesters in Paris march in solidarity with #EricGarner and #MikeBrown #BlackLivesMatter #GrandJury
7:30 PM - 6 Dec 2014 Washington, DC, United States
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About 100 protesters upset with the Eric Garner decision gathered in Bryant Park Thursday: http://ny1ne.ws/rf2HaF
1:13 AM - 12 Dec 2014
Ame 林 @amehaya_
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This lil kid out rallying for #AkaiGurley in the rain today! Sign reads "NYPD: don't shoot, I'm 6!" #nyc2ferguson
3:40 PM - 6 Dec 2014
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JU @JigmeUgen
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FIRST THEY CAME FOR BLACK MEN, AND WE DID NOTHING #BlackLivesMatter #ICantBreathe #EricGarner #ShutItDown #Ferguson
6:16 PM - 6 Dec 2014
CECILE EMEKE @cecileemeke
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"I dont trust dispassionate people in a world on fire." <<< THIS. So much.
1:22 PM - 6 Dec 2014
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steve2470
(37,457 posts)brer cat
(24,592 posts)Their father's hell did slowly go by,
And feed them on your dreams
The one they picked, the one you'll know by.
and tears.
Don't shoot I'm six!
helpmetohelpyou
(589 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Black lives matter. Period.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I posted a report on our experience here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1252
Cha
(297,503 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)new cycle. Sad.
flvegan
(64,411 posts)I know, it's not as photogenic, but speciesism sucks too. Just 2 cents more, not instead, but beyond.
Avalux
(35,015 posts)Once we get the hang of it, the world will make the shift.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)There is a well-founded reason for focusinig on #blacklivesmatter.
flvegan
(64,411 posts)#missedthepoint
#everylifematters
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)#what's so hard to understand about that?
flvegan
(64,411 posts)Do please keep in mind I've gone far beyond black/white/human. You seemed to get it at first.
#clueless
#speciesism
#thishashtaghasmadethistupid
#Idontknowhatalifeis
#livesonlymatterasfarasIcare
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)How is the focus on black lives lost inapropriate?
flvegan
(64,411 posts)Look it up. It's a word.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Look it up. It's a word.
flvegan
(64,411 posts)Please. Compare all v your little window.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)My "little window" also says the documented evidence indicates that this is a much bigger problem with black male victims of police brutality and excessive force.
I see no problem in focusing on the most significant part of the problem first. And I wholeheartedly support the slogans...
"Hands up. don't shoot!"
"Black lives matter."
KMOD
(7,906 posts)So why do you feel the need to dismiss the focus on certain lives, even though they all matter.
I'm glad you've been able to go beyond black/white/human, but you seem to fail to see that many in the world have not.
I don't dismiss, most of everyone else does. *ALL* is what it is, subject to the "focus on certain lives" being more important right now, even though they all matter.
Oh dear, I fear you won't get that. LOL
KMOD
(7,906 posts)All lives matter. Everyone gets that part.
Yet you seem very concerned about anyone stating that black lives matter.
I find it very hard to understand that you, who claims to feel that all live matter, would take umbrage with that.
flvegan
(64,411 posts)All lives matter, huh?
Care to share about the rest of your emotional, baseless response?
my emotional, baseless response.
It's that really the depth of your intelligence?
sheshe2
(83,853 posts)You feel the need to jump on and derail ones thread. Why is that?
Is it that black lives mean less to you as they are being taken at a far higher rate that whites?
sheshe2
(83,853 posts)yet that is not the point of my Op.
Show me the statistics that show more white men are being stalked, profiled and murdered by cop. The disgusting use of excessive force toward people of color is not being used on white men. That is a fact.
Oh wait here is the Bundy Ranch. White men draw on federal agents. They walk away scott free. Bundy is a thief that have cost the taxpayers millions. They fucking walk.
Michael died cause he was black and Wilson just plain hated him.
Four and a half hours they left him uncovered in the street.
Don't play with me.
The response to the peaceful protests?
Why did this not happen to the armed men at Bundt's Ranch, yet it happened to unarmed black men in Ferguson?
flvegan
(64,411 posts)I've been here a long time and I've never seen anyone miss it like this.
"yes all lives matter"
Back that up outside your emotional post, please.
Reminder: ALL lives. Go ahead.
sheshe2
(83,853 posts)you must be aware that we have one hell of a racist problem going on in this country. Do black lives not matter to you at the rate they are being taken? It far exceeds white men dying at the hands of the cops. You do know that correct?
And do not tell me I am being emotional, that is a mans way of trying to shut a woman up. Trust me I know, my ex did it all the time.
flvegan
(64,411 posts)As I stated and you can't grasp, all lives matter to me. They don't to you, it seems. It's not black or white. When you get a grip on "all lives matter" maybe you see it too, and it's not such a political football.
Best to you.
sheshe2
(83,853 posts)When you can grasp that fact we can talk. And yes, you did your righteous male smack down on me. You are not superior to me in any way. Yes all lives matter, yet if you can not and will not see what is happening before your eyes then I am profoundly sorry for you. BLACK MEN ARE BEING SHOT WITH EXCESSIVE FORCE AT A HIGH RATE! You seem totally unaware of that fact. You say you care about all lives, yet you don't seem to care about their lives.
Hands up Don't Shoot!
KMOD
(7,906 posts)Your words.
If all lives matter, why the heck does it bother you so much that we are focusing on some lives? They all matter, right?
flvegan
(64,411 posts)"They all matter, right?"
YOUR words.
KMOD
(7,906 posts)You are the one, who it seems feels that parsing all, into some groups, is a problem.
You claim you believe that all lives matter, but you seem very offended by discussion where one part of all is examined.
flvegan
(64,411 posts)KMOD
(7,906 posts)I think you've done a fine job of proving that yourself.
sheshe2
(83,853 posts)that was a nasty smack down from him from a male to a woman. It is the way to shut her up. It was the way to shut ME up. I am not the hell sitting down and shutting up.
I've been here a long time and I've never seen anyone miss it like this.
"yes all lives matter"
Back that up outside your emotional post, please.
Reminder: ALL lives. Go ahead.
Don't blame me. I voted for Kucinich.
Thank you~
cwydro
(51,308 posts)All human lives.
And in my opinion, all living creatures.
Not always a fan of you flvegan, but this post is spot on.
sheshe2
(83,853 posts)We stand today, two weeks after the shooting Death of Unarmed John Crawford, a week and a half after the Police Shooting Death of Unarmed Michael Brown, about a week after the shooting of Death of Ezell Ford in Los Angeles, in the wake of the Choke-Hold Death of Eric Garner in New York, years after the shooting death of unarmed Sean Bell and Amadour Diallo also in New York, years now after the Shooting Death of Unarmed and Hand-cuffed, Face Down Oscar Grant in Oakland, years after the shooting death of unarmed Kendrec McDade in Pasadena, a decade after the asphyxiation of unarmed Johnny Gammage in Pittsburgh, more decades after the choke-hold police Murder cover-up of Ron Settles in Signal Hill, the Police shooting of Eula Love over a $22 water bill payment in 1979, and of so many others.
We are told these are isolated incidents. We are told that they are simply the Officers procuring their own safety and if only the "suspects" had surrendered or obeyed they would still be alive today.
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How often does that record get put on in the iPad when Police want to drown out the cries of an outraged public, until they forced to find out what really happened and it's not anything like the Police initially claimed? How often do Police shoot and kill unarmed suspects who pose no real threat to them? How often does this happen to Black People? How often does it happen to White People? Or anyone?
The truly frightening thing is that we apparently don't know. We have no idea. Not even a clue. We've been tracking the statistics about Crime for decades at individual police agencies and in the FBI Uniform Crime Report, But those reports don't document exactly when Cops become Murdering Criminals. This fact - which has sparked police riots and racial unrest going all the way back to the 1960's - is still a mystery.
According to Fivethrityeight.com - no one tracks this.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/24/1324132/-How-Often-are-Unarmed-Black-Men-Shot-Down-By-Police#
Bullshit!
flvegan
(64,411 posts)Thank you, not looking for fans and respect those that call me out/tell me so.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)But my conscience demands that I support them and oppose injustice wherevere it manifests.
sheshe2
(83,853 posts)But my conscience demands that I support them and oppose injustice wherevere it manifests
Solly Mack
(90,779 posts)ucrdem
(15,512 posts)Powerful images. K'n'R!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)This was an exceedingly worthwhile and meaningful exception.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)because we must not let the right-wing exploit a tragedy to stop a just cause
edit: I guess it's too late to kick this thread