Rather than a Malcolm X, we need a black person to stand up and tell the black community "Hey Guys, wise up and stop doing this stupid shit and maybe you wouldn't get arrested or shot so much!"
Mike Brown got shot because it all started with a store robbery, something he shouldn't have done in the first place.
The Store Robbery started a chain of events that would have been impossible otherwise. This starts and stops with that stupid robbery and his stupid decision to carry it out.
I wasn't there, so I didn't see what happened. You can hear stories from people, but what I heard were different witnesses saying this or that. Should he have a memorial? I guess it depends on the situation at hand. It's not my business whether he should or shouldn't -- I have no opinion for that.
this thread is so out of line........ it's disgusting.
I hope a mod shuts it down soon.
"The pen is mightier than the sword.. and considerably easier to write with."
Yes, whites could be less racist, but yet don't pull the fault away from the blacks at the same time. There are a LOT of blacks doing stupid shit and getting themselves in trouble. Not every black, mind you, but there's a good number of them and it does not help the fucking problem any.We need a white person to stand up to whites and tell them to stop being racist.
Every time a black person commits a violent crime, it only makes the racism worse. They have a bad reputation anyways.
How do you make that reputation better? I can tell you that it ISN'T by participating in crime, joining gangs, etc.
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We have scientific forensic evidence that supports what most of the witnesses have said.
memorial.....
Family and close friends do have memorials on the sides of the roads, all over the country.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with memorials as such, even if the person they are for would be a serial killer. Family does not necessarily turn their back on a family member, even if they failed and did something wrong. Neither do real friends.
"The pen is mightier than the sword.. and considerably easier to write with."
This topic is quite the litmus test of who's a racist and who's not.
"It's 2013 and I still view the internet on a 560x192 resolution monitor!"
Family and close friends do have memorials on the sides of the roads, all over the country.memorials on the sides of the roadsNot in the MIDDLE OF THE FUCKING STREET, aye?sides of the roads
The thing is a chain of events pre-dating Mike Brown's birth led to him robbing a store. A lot of crime in poor & minority communities is systemic of social, economical, political and cultural influences.
Which was in part what Malcolm X talked about; the institutional influences on African American behavior, outlook, self worth and social placement.
So like one would have to like not take history, politics, economics, etc in to account for the current American social make-up. Fairly unlikely anyone will do so on a national stage without appearing at best reductive, ignorant at worst.
Let's say tomorrow, a bunch of people in one part of the world are born with blue skin.Bullshit racism isn't the fault of the people that are being targeted nice try. Racist don't need an excuse but they like to have one handy incase.
Let's say, 20 years from now, these blue-skinned people are introduced to YOUR society. Let's say there are 10 of them who move in nearby.
You meet 6 of them and every single one of them are snooty, greedy, jerkish asshats.
Now you tell me that you aren't given a pretty good reason to have an ill attitude towards these people.