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Black Lives Matter "Platform"

X Factor said:
The current incarnation in based on the belief and premise that police officers of all races are systematically killing black people and they're doing it entirely because the person is black and with no justification at all. Since I reject that premise and the stats show otherwise, I reject the group founded on what I consider a lie.
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oh it goes well beyond that. They even shut down a totally unrelated peaceful gathering in toronto, where there had been a total of 1 killing by cops in 12 months, not of a black suspect, until the organizers agreed to ban off duty cops from participating. That seems a level of senseless vindictiveness i usually accuse of trump supporters
 
if they want to make their message about a real problem like the obscene prison levels in this country, largely from the drug war that was concocted to deprive liberty to the (mostly black) political enemies of nixon, it's the politicians and lawyers they should go after. Cops are just enforcing the law. Sometimes they do it badly, but they can't put 1/3 of black men away for years and years for victimless crimes. Also, protests should only be held in settings that don't make everyone respond "WTF are they doing here?!" They simply need better strategy if they want to effect real change

i think partly there's been a long established organization for black civil rights in this country (NAACP), so another is likely only to appeal to reactionaries, and then they start craving more and more attention


Also their platform...we don't even do all that crap for white kids in grade school. Try living off food stamps only for instance. Those "reparations" read more like "I wanna be a bum all my life GIMME"
 
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Kal'Stang said:
WTH is "environmental racism" and "food apartheid"? I can figure out the rest of the idiocy but...WTH are those? :confused:
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Food Apartheid is well.. when was the last time you went grocery shopping for finer foods in the "hood". I know that sounds racist as ****, but that is how it was explained to me by a friend whose very mixed up in all this BLM SJW crap. Black people often don't have access to fresh fruits, veggies, meats because the local stores are less well stocked, generally poorly maintained. You'd never see an HEB Central Market (look it up if you don't know) in South Central LA . It's because white people keep the good food for themselves and leave the weeks old food for the rest. Cheap Fast Food is readily available in these neighborhoods but good fare is harder to come by.

If you think I'm kidding... there are people that feel this way.
 
Renae said:
Food Apartheid is well.. when was the last time you went grocery shopping for finer foods in the "hood". I know that sounds racist as ****, but that is how it was explained to me by a friend whose very mixed up in all this BLM SJW crap. Black people often don't have access to fresh fruits, veggies, meats because the local stores are less well stocked, generally poorly maintained. You'd never see an HEB Central Market (look it up if you don't know) in South Central LA . It's because white people keep the good food for themselves and leave the weeks old food for the rest. Cheap Fast Food is readily available in these neighborhoods but good fare is harder to come by.

If you think I'm kidding... there are people that feel this way.
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To be frank...your friend and those that believe this crap are idiots. Hell, looking at that picture I saw the same exact foods that I've seen in stores from here in Bonners Ferry ID to Spokane WA. and many towns/cities inbetween. As for fast food restaurants, I can't count how many fast food joints I've seen in the same area as mentioned before because there are so many.

Idiocy. *shakes head and makes disgusted sounds*
 
If you are BLM you know you are in trouble when the "journalists" think you demands are so crazy that they dont want to talk about it.
 
Renae said:
Food Apartheid is well.. when was the last time you went grocery shopping for finer foods in the "hood". I know that sounds racist as ****, but that is how it was explained to me by a friend whose very mixed up in all this BLM SJW crap. Black people often don't have access to fresh fruits, veggies, meats because the local stores are less well stocked, generally poorly maintained. You'd never see an HEB Central Market (look it up if you don't know) in South Central LA . It's because white people keep the good food for themselves and leave the weeks old food for the rest. Cheap Fast Food is readily available in these neighborhoods but good fare is harder to come by.

If you think I'm kidding... there are people that feel this way.
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It should be obvious, fresh quality produce is expensive, hood dwellers don't buy expensive so store owners in the hood don't stock it.
 
Kal'Stang said:
To be frank...your friend and those that believe this crap are idiots. Hell, looking at that picture I saw the same exact foods that I've seen in stores from here in Bonners Ferry ID to Spokane WA. and many towns/cities inbetween. As for fast food restaurants, I can't count how many fast food joints I've seen in the same area as mentioned before because there are so many.

Idiocy. *shakes head and makes disgusted sounds*
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Not going to disagree with you at ALL.
 
I don't care what their "platform" is. I do not support racism. Also, lol at those reparation "DEMANDS."
 
blaxshep said:
It should be obvious, fresh quality produce is expensive, hood dwellers don't buy expensive so store owners in the hood don't stock it.
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You can put it in stores, you can help fund the purchase of produce , and hood dwellers still will not buy it, because that is not what they want to eat.

The neighborhood welcomed the addition, and perceived access to healthy food improved. But the diets of the neighborhood’s residents did not.

This verdict comes from a study that compared shopping behavior in Morrisania with a neighborhood a mile away with similar demographic characteristics. “There were not a lot of things that really changed,” said Brian Elbel, an author and an associate professor of medicine at New York University. “Consumption didn’t really change. Purchasing didn’t really change.”

The work adds to a growing body of evidence that merely fixing food deserts will not do nearly as much to improve the health of poor neighborhoods as policy makers had hoped. It seems intuitive that a lack of nearby healthy food can contribute to a poor diet. But merely adding a grocery store to a poor neighborhood, it appears, doesn’t make a very big difference. The cost of food — and people’s habits of shopping and eating — appear to be much more powerful than just convenience
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/09/u...lthy-food-doesnt-mean-theyll-buy-it.html?_r=0

This is just one more case where the do-gooders ramble on for years about something but get proven to not know what they are talking about....which leads to wasted efforts, because they dont bother to learn before starting projects.If it "sounds right" they assume that it is right.

Another example: We have been told for 50 years that we should floss, I get lectured on this every dentist visit, but did you know that there is almost no evidence that it works? Because no one bothered to check, they just assume it works, then they tell us it works, they they give us **** if we dont do it.
The AP asked the government for proof that flossing works. The answer: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - Vox


DEMAND PROOF!
 
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