[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by davem4616

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Hopefully greater minds than mine with the resources will focus on how to address the systemic underlying issues and put all the puzzle pieces together....

It starts with a ZERO TOLERANCE for racists/bigots... in law enforcement.

And those willing to stand up, in spite of the 'thin blue line'...and speaking up about it.

Then let's go from there.

[OhioBuckeye]

Originally Posted by Tennisbum

Most are not protesting, just getting their hands on free things and destroying others property.
I saw that one was shot by a shop owner. Need a few more of those to slow them down. 10 people were murdered in Chicago over the weekend and nobody raised an eyebrow, go figure!

It also shows their mentality, they’re looting, burning & rioting in there own neighborhoods. The next thing they’ll be protesting will be we have no groceries, clothing, etc. etc. I feel bad for the elderly in those neighborhoods that get a prescription filled because these young people I think they think this is a big party. Just look at the news on TV & look at some of these young people laughing & yoking it up. Is this the way these parents brought these young people & had no control. Our country is going to hell in a hand basket.

[GoodLife]

Originally Posted by ColdNoMore
Those of you who would rather focus on the fires/looting, instead of what has brought people to the point where they feel they are at the end of their rope, have nothing to lose, because no one cares how the African-American community has been constantly mistreated and abused...YOU are also to blame.

If you just stand on the sidelines and refuse to recognize and to become active and support true equality, you are no different than those German citizens...who just stood by while Hitler rounded up Jews/critics/gays/Etc.

So you chose to support the African American community by moving to The Villages?

[oneclickplus]

Originally Posted by Bay Kid

With all the destruction in Minneapolis we are looking like a 3rd world country. 2 wrongs don't make a right. Stealing and destroying someone's business is not protesting.

That's because we allowed the 3rd world to run across our borders with no consequences.

[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by GoodLife

So you chose to support the African American community by moving to The Villages?

I moved here solely for the golf and unlike so many others, am actually ashamed of the attitudes of so many TV'ers toward minorities...and the lack of diversity here.

Whereas for many others, it is the lack of diversity...that most attracted them to TV

[GoodLife]

Originally Posted by ColdNoMore

I moved here solely for the golf and unlike so many others, am actually ashamed of the attitudes of so many TV'ers toward minorities...and the lack of diversity here.

Whereas for many others, it is the lack of diversity...that most attracted them to TV

If you are so ashamed of the attitudes here and lack of diversity I think you'd be more happy in one or more of our fine cities. They are more diverse and have nice golf courses too, plus you won't be surrounded by racists.

If you really want to help minorities, I suggest you donate to the committee to reelect the President, since during his first term unemployment for those groups went to their lowest levels ever.

[Reesie]

Originally Posted by Shbullet

ColdNoMore Im proud to be a old white person and refuse to be placed in a category that paints me as racist or anti black just because Im an old white man. Just quit that self righteous BS forum that tries to imply that your above all others. We all have empathy for what happened but I refuse to take personal blame for any of it. And no Im not the problem...at all

Sir, IMHO, if you as a “proud, old, white person” are not doing anything to solve the problem, you ARE part of the problem.
Our age gives us experience. Our age gives us knowledge.
Not one single person can say “I’m not the problem”.

[Pamelah]

Derek Chauvin had racked up 18 complaints against him. Is this typical? 3 strikes and you’re out? Not with the unions. Same as teacher unions supporting crappy teachers. Angers me

[Pamelah]

Really? Examples please with the party at fault.

[kendi]

Originally Posted by Bay Kid

With all the destruction in Minneapolis we are looking like a 3rd world country. 2 wrongs don't make a right. Stealing and destroying someone's business is not protesting.

True. Sad thing is that type of mentality has been happening since man has been on the face of the earth. Don’t think it’s going to change now.

[janewk]

You are 200% right. Isn't it too bad not everyone thinks this way. Its so simple!

[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

It's pretty simple.

[nn0wheremann]

Originally Posted by Bay Kid

With all the destruction in Minneapolis we are looking like a 3rd world country. 2 wrongs don't make a right. Stealing and destroying someone's business is not protesting.

If you want law and order, work for justice. The logical contrapositive, if you do not work for justice, you will not have law and order also is true. what the policemen did was not justice. Thus there is an absence of law and order.

[retiredguy123]

The violence and looting remind me of what Barney Fife always said.

If he was still around, he would have told Minneapolis to "nip it in the bud".

[GoodLife]

Originally Posted by Pamelah

Really? Examples please with the party at fault.

I'm sure you can take a wild guess

Wayne Isaacs, a New York City police officer who shot and killed Delrawn Small in July 2016, was acquitted in November 2017.

Jason Stockley, a former St. Louis police officer who shot and killed Anthony Lamar Smith in 2011, was acquitted in September 2017.

Betty Shelby, a former Tulsa, Oklahoma, police officer who killed Terence Crutcher in 2016, was acquitted in July 2017.

Ray Tensing, a former University of Cincinnati police officer who killed Samuel DuBose in 2015, was let go after a second mistrial in June 2017.

Dominique Heaggan-Brown, a Milwaukee police officer who killed a fleeing black man in 2016, was acquitted in June 2017.

Jeronimo Yanez, a former St. Anthony, Minnesota, officer who killed Philando Castile in 2016, was acquitted in June 2017.

Baltimore police officers Edward Nero, Caesar Goodson and Brian Rice, who were charged after the in-custody injury and resulting death of Freddie Gray in 2015, were found not guilty in separate bench trials, on charges that ranged from second-degree depraved heart murder to official misconduct in 2016

Howie Lake and Blane Salamoni, the Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police officers involved in the shooting death of Alton Sterling in 2016, did not receive civil rights charges from the Department of Justice.

Brentley Vinson, the Charlotte, North Carolina, police officer who officials said shot and killed Keith Lamont Scott in 2016, was not charged in the man’s death.

Bryan Mason, the Columbus, Ohio, police officer who shot and killed 13-year-old Tyre King in 2016, was not charged in the boy’s death.



Matt Kenny, the Madison, Wisconsin, police officer who shot and killed Tony Robinson in 2015, was not charged.

Darren Wilson, the former Ferguson, Missouri, police officer who shot and killed Mike Brown in 2014, was not charged with the unarmed teen’s death.

Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback, the Cleveland, Ohio, police officers involved in the shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014, were not charged.

Daniel Pantaleo, the New York City police officer who held Eric Garner in a chokehold before his death in 2014, was not charged.

Anthony Carelli, the White Plains, New York, police officer who fatally shot Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. in 2011, was not indicted by a state grand jury. In 2016, a jury in a civil case brought by Chamberlain’s family found the city of White Plains and its police officers were not liable for the man’s death.