[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by mjpuleo

well, all i know is that i am now retired, but when i did work many years ago my company took away our Columbus Day holiday and gave us Martin Luther King holiday--what was that all about??

Changing from someone who never set foot on American soil...for a great American leader?


Just a wild guess though.

[kathy1516]

Originally Posted by ColdNoMore

Gee, it's interesting that those are the exact same things that were said about the protests against the Vietnam War and...for Civil Rights and Women's Suffrage.

I guess it's true that; "The more things change...the more they stay the same."

Oh Black Lives Matter were there too?
Mmmm seems like I remember the Weather Underground being one of those special social justice seekers that you so eagerly defend.

[lwmilo]

Originally Posted by Fredman

You obviously are not seeing what I see. I think if the members of BLM had jobs there would not be so many protests. I have had it with the protests.

Why is it BLACK lives matter.?..All lives matter...As soon as these anti white organizations get with it, we can have unity and TOGETHER can make changes if,
need be.

[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by kathy1516

Oh Black Lives Matter were there too?
Mmmm seems like I remember the Weather Underground being one of those special social justice seekers that you so eagerly defend.

And they too, were just a small %...of the overall number of protestors.

Thank you for making my point.


P.S. I have NEVER, nor will EVER, "eagerly (or otherwise) defend" the criminals...who are looting/arsonists/promote violence.

[Scorpyo]

Originally Posted by kathy1516

Oh Black Lives Matter were there too?
Mmmm seems like I remember the Weather Underground being one of those special social justice seekers that you so eagerly defend.

You forgot one of the more pacifist groups - The Black Panthers

[ALadysMom]

Originally Posted by lwmilo

Why is it BLACK lives matter.?..All lives matter...As soon as these anti white organizations get with it, we can have unity and TOGETHER can make changes if,
need be.

If ALL black lives matter, then why aren’t they expressing outrage and protesting over the murders of innocent black babies & children in shootings & millions of black babies who are killed every year in abortions? What about the outrage for all of the black NY nursing home residents who were killed unnecessarily by placing COVID Positive cases in their facility? It’s very selective black lives that matter.

BLM is not what they seem to be.
It’s a giant lie.

Of course ALL lives matter. How in the world did we allow them to make that controversial? If they actually wanted fairness and equal treatment, they would realize how hypocritical it is to assert that only (certain) lives matter. Fairness and equality must apply to ALL.

They don’t want the American ideal of fair & equal justice because they don’t want AMERICA to continue.

[ALadysMom]

Originally Posted by Scorpyo

You forgot one of the more pacifist groups - The Black Panthers

In the 60s if anyone would have predicted that we would be dealing with identical issues and violent destructive race riots 50+ years later and IMMEDIATELY AFTER our first black President had 8 years in office, would you have believed it?

This is genuinely bizarre. It’s like deja vu. Russian collusion, impeachment, race riots, global cooling (aka warming) and...next....inflation. Sounds like the same song, second verse.

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by ALadysMom

If ALL black lives matter, then why aren’t they expressing outrage and protesting over the murders of innocent black babies & children in shootings & millions of black babies who are killed every year in abortions? What about the outrage for all of the black NY nursing home residents who were killed unnecessarily by placing COVID Positive cases in their facility? It’s very selective black lives that matter.

BLM is not what they seem to be.
It’s a giant lie.

Of course ALL lives matter. How in the world did we allow them to make that controversial? If they actually wanted fairness and equal treatment, they would realize how hypocritical it is to assert that only (certain) lives matter. Fairness and equality must apply to ALL.

They don’t want the American ideal of fair & equal justice because they don’t want AMERICA to continue.

Agreed

[donassaid]

BLM is a Marxist organization out to create anarchy. This stopped being about George Floyd long ago. Just a convenient excuse.

[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by Guest

In the 60s if anyone would have predicted that we would be dealing with identical issues and violent destructive race riots 50+ years later and IMMEDIATELY AFTER our first black President had 8 years in office, would you have believed it?

Hearing and seeing the pent up outrage/racism/bigotry/hatred/vitriol during those 8 years...I'm personally not surprised in the least.

If decency and sanity prevails, we'll soon start to see...a reverse of these trends.

[J1ceasar]

Many people supported communism too until they found out they were just pawns

[greenflash245]

maybe these are outside paid agitators doing this?

[Cranford61]

Originally Posted by Guest

Last night in Madison, WI a group of 200 to 300 protesters brought down statues on the grounds of the Capitol.

One of the statues decapitated and dragged into a lake was of Civil War Col. Hans Christian Heg. Heg was an anti-slavery activist and leader of an anti-slave catcher militia in Wisconsin who fought for the Union.

If BLM protesters are vandalizing statues of slave owners, obviously Madison protesters need a history lesson.

Also, Democratic WI State Sen. Tim Carpenter, was assaulted after taking a cellphone video of protesters. "Punched/kicked in the head, neck, ribs," Carpenter tweeted around 4 a.m. "Maybe concussion, socked in left eye is little blurry, sore neck & ribs. 8-10 people attacked me. Innocent people are going to get killed. Stop violence now Plz!"

I'm trying to figure out how any of this is an attempt to further the Black Lives Matter Movement.

Riskless mayhem and looting is fun.

[Byte1]

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

Very abrasive language. It sounds as if it is at all possible to get into a person's mind to answer Why they believe or DO something. It is NOT possible. And assuming the worst possible motive will NOT breed confidence in someone's opinion.

Some of us followed the incident from the beginning. Maybe that is why we KNOW a bit more than those that picked it up half way through the game schedule?
"Abusive language?" How does an observation get interpreted as "abusive?"

[Bellavita]

I think someone is trying to make the BLM movement look bad. It is a common fact most Americans know very little of history.