George Floyd - America so f**ked up

It gets to a point when you guys just complain about media coverage rather than address any of the points raised, by BLM, by the State Senator from Tennessee, by White Supremacists, basically nothing about anything.
All you seem to do is moan about media coverage of events. Events you have no truly commented on, or brought evidence to your opinion, if indeed you have one, other than blathering on about media coverage.

Yeah, and look what happened to those two brave f**kers.

Whilst I understand your sentiments I can say that during my adult life I have witnessed many acts of selflessness and charitable acts that have been inspiring and leaves me to think we are not beyond redemption.

I believe I referred to the comments made in the video in a previous post? Don’t do a nobby on me and get all obtuse 😂

Also, are you trying to say that it isn’t fair comment to point out the differences in how news stories are received? It was only a few weeks ago that instances of high profile black people in London being stopped broke the internet with all the people who wanted to claim that the Met are racist. Those two clowns who took the selfie at the crime scene were also co-opted as evidence that the Met is completely racist. A white Met officer saves a BAME life and it barely creates a murmur. We can all draw our own conclusions as to why that might be.

I should have known really; anybody who has fond memories of a murdering, bombing, kidnapping terrorist group from the 60s/70s, is unlikely to be too impressed by the conciliatory speeches of an elderly black gentleman.  But consider this, Les.  There was an article in the Sunday Times, which said that the BLM "protestors" who are turning American cities into a version of Syria, are giving Donald Trump his best chance of being president for four more years.  Think about that, when you post your sympathies for those "protestors".

Well, Senator DeBerry and his generation certainly didn`t submit to or acquiesce with the apartheid laws that they grew up with. 
He made that abundantly and passionately clear in the first part of his speech, before directing his ire at the BLM "protestors" burning down their own neighbourhoods.

On the contrary
He said this

“I am one of those individuals who walked in back doors because the law said I had to. I’m one of those individuals who rode on the back of the bus on the back seats that were not cushioned because the law said I had to,” he said."

He did, submit and acquiesce. In his own words.
Rosa Parks didn't.

Would you?
Come on, front up.

Is that as far into the video as you got?  You didn`t stay to hear what Senator DeBerry and his father, and millions like them did to change that law?

They marched, and they protested ( peacefully, and with dignity ) they shone a light on what was going on, and when enough people joined them, and when enough people could see how wrong the law that oppressed them was, the law was changed. By their actions, the law that said they had to walk in back doors, and ride on the back of the bus, was done away with.

And when the protests changed to burning down city blocks, ( their own city blocks ) he and his father walked away.  Because, apart from anything else, it`s not going to do anything to further the cause of race relations in the country.  Au contraire, it`s just polarising opinion even more.
What would I do/have done?    I like think that I`d have joined Mr DeBerry and his father on those marches.

Like I said it's the decades old argument amongst the Afro American Community, do you follow the MLK method of protest and resistance or the more "direct action" methods of Malcolm X.
To be fair the vast majority followed MLK, for a couple of reasons.
A) He was right to call out the Apartheid.
B) He had the Christian Church (mainstream if not the loonies) behind him
C) The liberal Jewish community supported him (a big deal in New York, politically)
D) He preached passive, non violent resistance.

I think all of us who were around in the UK in the mid to late 60s supported him, if you were inclined to believe that the State was oppressing minority groups, or indeed anyone who dared challenge the establishment.

The sad thing is that here we are 50 years later and still the same debate is being had.
Afro Americans are evidentially treated differently by the authorities.
So can anyone claim that passive resistance worked?
Before anyone jumps down my throat I am not arguing for violence, but I am suggesting that you can understand the anger and frustration felt by the Afro American community. Once you get that then perhaps the knee jerk reactions can be tempered.
Let's not forget also that three people were shot dead as soon as there became evidence that their views were gaining traction, or sympathy, in "mainstream" America.
Martin Luther King
Bobby Kennedy
And to a lesser extent Malcolm X who converted to Islam. AKA Malcolm Little.

Trump is now applying the same tactic, describing protesters as "Domestic Terrorists" and defending the white vigilante supremacists who shoot them.

Some things never change do they.

As for you joining the marches William if you had been around, admirable but not enough.
Would you have walked into the Blacks Only Bathroom? Used the Blacks Only Entrances? Would you have joined the Congress of Racial Equality, an act along with their own selfless activism got Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner, three Jewish young men, murdered in Mississippi in 1964?

Against that backdrop and the continued killings, the ridiculous disproportionate representation of minority groups in disadvantaged lower income group, is anyone really surprised that people protest?