George Floyd Riots

Lol. They have some basic faith in trusting the legal system to provide justice before resorting to rioting, or taking the law into their own hands.

In that particular case the perp, was found dead either by his own hand, or by gunfire from the police.

Agree or disagree it doesn’t change anything. Try something in the real world next time you make or get the opportunity.

Worked with a black family off and on for the last three hours. Happens quite often in my job. Probably a bit more effective than being on the other side of the world telling Americans they should move back to Africa.

Going to guess we have different goals though.

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I don’t think I ever said white people don’t take the law into their own hands. On an individual level some do. As a group they just don’t tend to do it without trying to exhausting other more reasonable options.

If you have been paying any attention to what’s going on in the rest of the world(we already know you don’t think anything outside of America has any relevance to you), most of the European countries are as equally multicultural as the USA. They have race trouble, despite not having the same type of history of black slavery like the USA does.

Wrong again. I never told black Americans to move back to Africa. I said why don’t they. Because they know that despite the issues in America, its still a much better, fairer, and safer place to live than anywhere in Africa.

Good to know that you are trying to help people of any sort with your job though.

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This is simply isn’t true. I think things outside America have plenty of relevance. They just don’t have relevance in this thread. The courts in China or the Middle East simply aren’t necessary to talk about in a 2020 thread about George Floyd. Doesn’t mean I think the rest of the world isn’t important or that I don’t care. But in a US topic about an issue that happened in the US it’s pretty well expected that the conversation would be centered around it right?

Well we’ve come full circle then. You acknowledge that America has issues. So do I. So instead of everyone here sitting on their easy chair and smiling and saying damn it’s so much better here than elsewhere we should work on fixing them. Because you don’t fix anything if you don’t acknowledge it’s a problem. And if you acknowledge something’s a problem but would like to stop and think about how big the problem is elsewhere you don’t fix anything either.

This is a bodybuilding and strength website. The articles are almost solely focused on being better than you were. They aren’t really focused on being satisfied with the status quo. I feel the same way with our country. Doesn’t seem anti-American to me. Actually the opposite seems anti-American.

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At football games it seems whites have a habit of making monkey noises. Must be all of the raping going on.

Because they aren’t from Africa?

That’s the first time you acknowledge what happens outside of America has relevance. Then you straight away refuse to see any relevance when it doesn’t suit you.
Also you’ve harped on about the courts in other countries many more times
than I mentioned it. Its still relevant cause I bet you wouldn’t move there either. That’s why so many people from those countries want to move to western countries like America.

I agree about acknowledging problems before you can solve them, I just think the problems a lot wider and more complicated than you seem to acknowledge at the moment.
Once again I’m not saying don’t try and fix something you see as an issue. That’s your right to try, it doesn’t guarantee success, no matter how noble you believe your actions are.
I’m saying put things into perspective, and that you aren’t going to solve anything by rioting or looting. All those things do is confirm potential stereotypes, and they will quickly lose any support they might have had in the beginning. There are plenty of black people around, trying to calm the situation down, and are disavowing the rioting and looting. Unfortunately there apparently still are plenty of black people around that think they have the right to loot from stores(that are sometimes owned by other blacks), because white man bad.

I don’t think he is rioting or looting.

How dare they! Only the whites should be looting.

I don’t condone people making monkey noises as racial insults, its poor form no matter who does it. Apparently it also happens to cricketers of African heritage on tour playing matches in India, by Indians. Doesn’t excuse raping anyone though. Are you saying these white women provoked their rapes because the black men were racially insulted?

No. I’m saying their husbands did because white man bad.

From what I have seen its about 99% black looting, maybe one or two %white people. Do you see it differently?

That’s a very racist thing to say, even as a joke.

According to my calculations, it’s more like 97.34% black and 67.68% white and 36.92% undecided.

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I’m not joking. They shouldn’t have married racists.

No I’ve already said America isn’t the center of the world and I’ve already said I don’t know where you got the idea that I don’t care about any place else. It’s just up the thread. Are you having memory loss? I’ve said nothing in this thread that would make you jump to the conclusion. The only thing I’ve said is that if the thread is about a racial incident in Minnesota let’s talk about that. Everything else is just a distraction.

Not 100% sure you know what relevant means at this point. So the OP said let’s talk about George Floyd in Minnesota. Did he also say let’s list the places most people wouldn’t want to go. Is something automatically relevant if it has to do with moving? I think you’re just really stuck on this moving thing being important. Let’s just agree that people can not move to a place and still face injustice? Does that work?

Of course not. But positive change in America has came from people trying. Not from people resting on their laurels. Not from feeling satisfied about being better than other places.

Nothing is better than “go back where you came from!”


You want me to go back to Seattle?

This doesn’t mean that people can’t be upset about the cops killing them.

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Ok, apology accepted.

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I don’t know about that, this isn’t like some other riots or BLM protests where it’s all black people. There are plenty of white people and other races too, in some pictures and videos it looks to be mostly non-black people. Did you forget about the white nerd stealing Lego?