S.C. Secessionist Party, Black Nationalist Movement call for peace, civil discourse

Zyphlin · Aug 16, 2017

[FONT=&quot]Two very different groups joined forces outside Charleston City Hall Tuesday to send a unified call for peace and civil conversations amid racial tensions.[/FONT][FONT=&quot]

The South Carolina Secessionist Party and the Charleston Black Nationalist Movement challenged people on both sides of issues of race, the Confederate flag and monuments issues to avoid violence and come together to have real conversations.[/FONT]
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"I know this is a very awkward scene," Shakem Amen Akhet, of the Charleston Black Nationalist Movement, said. "Never before have you seen these two separate factions together standing at one podium."

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Huge props to the leaders of both of these groups for being actual adults in this and embracing the principles of free speech and assembly and the general spirit of the American ethos. Two groups that almost assuredly rarely agree, especially on the issue at hand, can recognize that despite these disagreements violence and illegal activity is not the proper way of dealing with it.

In the midst of all that's going on right now, with the extremists on all sides hunkering down and declaring the need and desire for more conflict, more illegality, more violence, it's good to see two groups so generally separated stepping up and being a model example of how to handle this. And doing so in a location that many would consider a hot bed for this type of thing going the other direction.[/FONT]

joG · Aug 16, 2017

Re: S.C. Secessionist Party, Black Nationalist Movement call for peace, civil discour

Zyphlin said:
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Huge props to the leaders of both of these groups for being actual adults in this and embracing the principles of free speech and assembly and the general spirit of the American ethos. Two groups that almost assuredly rarely agree, especially on the issue at hand, can recognize that despite these disagreements violence and illegal activity is not the proper way of dealing with it.

In the midst of all that's going on right now, with the extremists on all sides hunkering down and declaring the need and desire for more conflict, more illegality, more violence, it's good to see two groups so generally separated stepping up and being a model example of how to handle this. And doing so in a location that many would consider a hot bed for this type of thing going the other direction.[/FONT][/COLOR]

Are you trying to say that the President's more evenhanded approach to the violence groups do each other is better than that of the last one?

But you are right. If they come through with a less aggressive stance the two leaders are cool

Zyphlin · Aug 16, 2017

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joG said:
Are you trying to say that the President's more evenhanded approach to the violence groups do each other is better than that of the last one?

But you are right. If they come through with a less aggressive stance the two leaders are cool

First, this thread had zero to do or say about the President or his response.

Second, my take on the President's original response was that I had no issue with his even handed approach to the violence, but did have an issue with his even handed approach regarding "hatred" and "bigotry" that was on display.