George Floyd - America so f**ked up

Explains what? What conclusions have you jumped to without knowing anything about me? 

Do you get paid if you refuse to work? I know I wouldn’t. 

On this subject I notice Lewis Hamilton is commending the American sportsmen and women for going on strike for the cause. However, he won’t be joking them, presumably because it would hurt him personally so too selfish to put the so called ‘bigger picture’ ahead of his own personal ambitions.

What's awful about this, is that blacks have been killing white cops, white cops killing blacks, whites killing whites, etc etc etc over there for years. Every day this happens. I'm not sure this is so much a race issue (although they have a real problem with this in the US) as it is a gun issue.

With respect the Afro American community have to take some of the blame for what is happening right now. After watching the video a few times I agree with William Wilson. In an era where it is taboo to appropriate someone else’s experience and claim it as our own it is not really surprising that everyone seems able to appropriate the experience of a cop with a live weapon and a suspect who won’t obey orders as he reaches into his vehicle for God knows what and judge them from the safety of their armchairs. It’s easy to say “he should have waited to see what the suspect did” but that scenario must be one of the toughest the human mind can endure and rational decision making Is beset by the panic that you could lose your life in a few seconds. All the training in the world won’t prepare you for when it happens for real with live bullets and an unpredictable target.

There is no empathy for that tortured decision making from the protesters though, they don’t care about any other detail apart from white cop, black victim, the rest is just noise and now the town is going to burn and more people are going to die just because the guy would not obey orders and reached into his car. That was the spark in the whole tinder box.

I presume you are implying Hamilton only gets disparaging remarks because he is mixed race? I don’t think he gets a fraction of the stick Wayne Rooney gets. Perhaps people don’t like being preached to by someone who pays no U.K. tax. Steve Lansdown gets criticised for the same reason on here and last time I looked his skin colour was red. 

For the record until recently I’ve been a massive fan of Hamilton. Not any more but still think he’s the greatest F1 driver in history, at the very least in the same conversation as Schumacher, Fangio and Senna. I don’t have sporting heroes based on skin colour, my favourite sportsman of all time is Tiger Woods despite some of his off course blunders. 

Yeah right 365.
So a white 17 year old murders two protesters. The 2nd one about 100 yards in front of a police line.
He then walks towards the police line with that same rifle swinging across his chest. The police do no confront him, do not challenge him, absolutely do not raise their weapons to confront him.
He gets away and is arrested latterly in another State.
Black guy, unarmed, is confronted by the police in an alleged domestic dispute situation. He turns away to his car containing three kids.
He gets shot 7 times in the back.

Now compare and contrast the two situations and tell me the afro American community have a case to answer.

For f**ks sake are you blind? Or just inherently racist.
Why, or how, can you excuse that?

Bags you forgot blacks killing black, etc

Oldie I'm not trying to argue with you but, Are you really as naïve as you sound at the moment, How are people in this country able to get hold of automatic weapons, If people in an unarmed country can get hold of weapons easily and cheaply, then how easy is it to get weapons in a country where they are everywhere, the weapon could be legal, could be a refurbed decommissioned weapon, could have been pinched from somewhere.

38 car attacks by right wing racists. Amongst 500 incidents since George Floyd.

That's where the violence bis coming from.

m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/white-vigilantes-kenosha_n_5f4822bcc5b6cf66b2b5103e?ri18n=true

I am questioning a society that allows a 17 yr old to be in possession of a rifle. I question the parents, that kid's upbringing and his education. I have three grandsons living in the States in North Carolina. To the best of my knowledge they have never handled a gun, I know for a fact there are no weapons of any sort in their house.