George Floyd - America so f**ked up

I’ll be honest as someone with a close relative who is battling cancer during a pandemic I’m focussed most on the fact that these protests shouldn’t be happening at all and should have been organised for when we have coronavirus under control. A second wave that will put focus on these protests and potentially kill some of those who attended will be bad for everyone concerned.

The problem with looting is that it hurts innocent people just as being fired at by rubber bullets does. By all means fight with the police if you view them as your symbol of oppression but what does setting stuff on fire achieve?. I heard from a native of one of the American cities in the south that got hit by rioting that Antifa vandalised a petrol station and covered it with anti-fascist slogans only for it to turn out that the owners of the petrol station were black. Thankfully the local community took it upon themselves to clean up. I’m sure that story isn’t unique so for every Nike that gets burned out you’ll have people just trying to get by who have potentially lost their livelihoods.

With regards to violence against peaceful protesters we have a totally different situation to America thankfully. I am of the opinion that if you want to go around rioting and looting for days on end then at some point martial law is needed to restore order but this is where it gets into grey areas because quite often the peaceful protesters are getting lumped in with the trouble makers and they are not actually fighting for the same cause. As much as I disagree with the protests taking place right now I said earlier how I felt so bad for the lad yesterday who was interviewed and was really sad and worried that the wankers who threw stuff at the police had tarnished the spirit of what was until then a peaceful protest. He practically disowned them and said that from what he could see they probably didn’t even know what the protest was even about. I wonder that about Colston’s statue to be honest. Quite often with protests the people who perform the most provocative actions are the ones furtherest removed from what the protest is meant to be trying to achieve.

For the record- you said white, not me!

The finger pointing will be potentially very detrimental to BLM’s cause if there is a second wave in exactly three weeks from now and people start losing loved ones en mass again.

Conversely if there is no second wave we might as well open up football stadiums because 15,000 crammed into the centre of Manchester can’t be so bad!

Spot on

From before the romans arrived, in anglo saxon times many men women and children were captured by Norse-Irish traders and sold on mainly in ireland and other countries, after it was stopped the norse/irish traders invited many aboard ship only to set sail back to the irish slave markets, don't forget people who were press ganged later.
Also many children rounded up in london and sent to australia along with many young prostitutes, many press-ganged into service, george washinton had a few white slaves Look it up as there's a lot about it but why is this never taught.

Btw, us UK tax payers paid £308 BILLION to the slavers to compensate them... We're still paying until recently.

www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/taxpayers-bristol-were-still-paying-1205049.amp?__twitter_impression=true

Still catching up with this thread, for what it's worth I didn't want it taken down (especially in the way it was) for the reasons others have stated.

However now that it has, put it in a museum with a suitable display explaining the history behind it.

The £308bn figure is because of the equivalent government expenditure (40%) not actual £s. The equivalent is closer to £2bn although the interest would increase that.

Cc: Tristan cork @ Bristol post . Com