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According to several sources. BLM riots and looting cost over 1 billion dollars. The most expensive violence protest cost in US history

Sapp.....you saw the unheard react today

I’m looking at facts and statistics too. BLM protests destroyed no city. It never threatened to destroy a city.

Some of the looting that became part of protests again George Floyd killing and other protests was very small potatoes to costs of damage done in the Boston Tea party riot that is a reverenced part of American history.

I lived in LA during the 1992 Uprising against the verdict in Rodney King trial. That uprising had much good justification given the abuses of the LAPD. It got Daryl Gates removed from office. It led to important reforms in the LAPD.

Martin Luther King Jr. says a “riot is the voice of the unheard.”

Some people who post here are deaf to the voice of the unheard.

Wake up. Listen to something other than your own voice and your own prejudices.

Sn1987......some congressman making a race baiting statement. Yahaya. Police in cities told to stand down when BLM was destroying cities. Take that bullshit and shove it

Sapp......look at more factual statistics and read less left wing theory.

More white privilege... Some congressperson said that if the mob attacking the Capitol were black, they would have been shot by the Capitol police. I guess we can't prove this for sure, but I have to think that there's something there...

When us Bolsheviks take over I am going to enjoy marching you do good people into Chinese ovens. NUDE!

JC555,

BLM is no joke to me. I take it very seriously.

Please study the history of racial injustice in this county in some depth, and then look me in the eye and tell me that we don’t have a history and legacy of making Black lives matter less than white lives.

Medical researchers have made compelling cases that Black people have much less chance of pursuing the average life span of a white person in part because of the stress faced by Black people because of racism and the effects of stress on our health.

We can all cite different statistics to make different points.

Nothing you say or cite will make me any less committed in my professional and personal life for supporting BLM.

I love studying history. I try to learn from it.

Join the effort, I urge you, if you are not committed to learning from history.

Thanks for asking.

I didn't ask.

I don't know what BLM has anything to do with this. Two wrongs don't make a right. Any individuals that resort to violence are wrong. And those who incite violence are just as guilty. This applies even to individuals in high leadership positions, perhaps even more strongly. Period.

Tbrmskss..... you won't present anything because your dumbass can't. Get back to flipping burgers.

2Outdoors,

When I have time, I will make a long list of the advantages I feel I have had personally as a white person.

Just one example. I’m married to a darker colored Mexican American woman. On a vacation, where I traveled with her and her daughter, to Washington DC and we also went to Monticello. On my way home to NJ, we traveled through West Virginia and stopped at a 7-Eleven for gas.

My wife went alone with her daughter into the store and asked for restroom and also picked up and bought sone food. When she returned to the car, she looked shaken, afraid. She was shaken by the way some people looked at her. She told me not to stop again at a gas station no matter how much she had to pee until she got back to Pennsylvania where we had a motel booked.

I know for certain that If I had walked into the store first, I would not have received any looks that made me afraid or one bit uncomfortable.

I also know that whenever I walk into my job and do presentations before largely white audiences, my qualifications for doing the job will not be questioned at first sight of me when I walk into the room and begin speaking. People will not think that I have my job because of affirmative action.

These are not among my top 5 list of the privileges I’ve felt from being white rather than Black or Mexican-American in this country. It’s a small start.

I will add that I joke with my wife about her privilege when we travel back East. When she starts speaking Spanish to workers in a restaurant or hotel, I feel certain that we get better service than I would get by myself.

Also, when we are hiring eople to do sone gig work around the house who are Latino, my wife tells me to hide because if they see me, they will charge more money
Call that sone higher cost to being white in this instance.

You can tell so much about how people look at you when first meeting. I have never felt a white person look down at me, and my wife has felt that.

When I traveled in the South on vacations in the early 1960s, I did not have to go to the “colored” bathroom., which was always in worst shape than the bathrooms for white people.

No one when I post in SLS makes comments about how I probably have illegitimate kids.

I’ve always been treated with respect by police when I’ve been arrested. I’ve even been forgiven for committing traffic violations by two police men. Maybe if I was Black, I would have been forgiven for same violations and treated the same way, but maybe not. I do know that I’ve never been disrespected because of my skin by any white person in power above me.

Psychologists have done studies that show we all have some implicit racism. I’ve never in my life felt at any significant disadvantage by that implicit racism nor have I faced any word or look of evomucyt racism towards me.

I also knew when I was in college in the 1979s, in history and literature courses, I would read and study a lot about people with my skin color. Too often people of color have too little chance to read about the history and literature of people of their own ethnicity.

How much in your own education did you read about the history of white men? How often did you read the words or about the history of African American men and women?

More later. Thanks for asking.

Take a look at the Bureau of Justice statistics and look at interracial violence crimes.....then tell me the BLM is not a freaking joke. All lives matter all the time, not just when its election time

Did you see the video of the girl that got shot . Looks like Owen Shroyer beside her . She is dressed in black with an American flag wrapped around her . The guns look like ARs, but if she was shot with an AR it would have took her head off. After 9/ 11 we spent billions of dollars securing the capital then a bunch of people walk up and walk in .....

They are wrong.

I could give you evidence, but you wouldn't listen.

So why bother.

You are a racist.

Btw. Watched a few vids tonight on the bullshit at the capitol.

Yep... Tannerite!

Moecathy......go to you.tube and type in BLM violence. Get back with us on what you see. Doubt you will

If you make up 13% of the population yet commit 58% of the violent crimes you may want to address that.
If 70% of your children grow up without a father active in your life you may want to check that.
A police officer is 18 times more likely to be killed by a black Male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer you may want to rethink your BLM narrative. When you turn a blind eye to their violent ways, you are a coward. I expect to hear nothing from this but you are a racist bullshit. Anyone want to challenge these FACTS?

Hey! Call me naive, but I was reading through the posts here because I wanted to know how people who supported Trump would react to today's events, and I just realized I must have been blocked by several people of the conservative variety! There were references to posts that I couldn't see. Seriously, blocking little ol' inconsequential me? Gee, and you guys call the liberals snowflakes...

Sapp.... last I checked we all have legal rights. Not sure what world you live in

I can't think of a single advantage or privilege that a white person has over any other legal united states citizen regardless of race.

I think you'd think differently if you had to live a day as a minority. How about trying to apply for a job and not being able to get it, even if you're qualified? Trying to buy or rent a house in the better school district and not getting it, just because that area doesn't want your kind? Or just driving down the road to go to a business meeting, maybe in a nice car because you worked hard to earn it, and always being pulled over by the police because they can't believe a person with the color of your skin could own that car? I think you have to admit that all these things definitely happen. And that is what is meant by white privilege.... That you can just go on freely with your life. Not everyone has that in this country.

2 wrote:
"I can't think of a single advantage or privilege that a white person has over any other legal united states citizen regardless of race."

What planet have you been living on?

Go to you tube, and paste the sentence below in the search bar:

"step forward if you have ever"

Watch the first video!

Come back here and repeat that statement you made above!

Erotic... you are pathetic. Really nothing else to say to your pompous, arrogant ass.

@2

They exist, they are just not obvious, ala back in the 1950s. There are no signs that say, "Whites only."

You see it in business if you look for it.

You see it in government if you look for it.

Here is the simple one to see:

Do you remember the sentencing laws put in place for crack?

Now, what were the sentencing laws put in place for cocaine?

What is crack? Crack is cocaine with baking soda and water.

What was the white person's drug? Cocaine.

What was the black person's drug? Crack.

There was a simple systemic targetting.

Hell, the marijuana laws we have are based upon trying to put blacks in jail.

brookings. edu/blog/how-we-rise/2020/06/23/marijuanas-racist-history-shows-the-need-for-comprehensive-drug-reform/

You know it's bad when a very right-wing think tank even admits it!

But this all goes back to perspective. As a person who has stated that they were born where they live and intend on dying where they live and have no desire to leave where they live, your perspective is that 30 square miles. I have lived in three different 'regions' in my life. I have lived in South Florida, Alabama and where I live now (It is either SoCal or CentralCoast, depends if you hate LA.) All the regions were different. Where I live now is the least racist towards blacks. Why? Honestly, I think it is because of this area of ~200k people, honestly, if there are 100 blacks, it would be a miracle. So there is nothing against them because they are not seen, you know, like the NIMBY concept. South Florida was the oddest. There were racism and acceptance. Alabama . . . there was acceptance with a condition, you are not the same as a white.

JC555,

I have a love-hate relationship with Jefferson. I love his learning , his intelligence, his style of writing, his writing of the draft of the Declaration, his founding of the University of Virginia, his authorship of the Virginia statute of Religious freedom, and for other readings.

One of my 5 favorite books is the correspondence between Jefferson and John Adams.

But Jefferson was also a major slaveholder, one of the largest slave owners of his time. He had some type of sexual relationship with a slave woman he owned: Sally Hemings, and had most likely 1-6 children with her. What was that relationship? It was concubinage. It could be called rape or toxic masculinity and sexual harassment.

Jefferson is a paradox, contradiction: he was committed to both liberty and slavery.

He knew that was on the wrong side of God’s justice, but he remained a slaveholder for his entire life, and he only freed a few, connected to Sally, in his will.

He also wrote, “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”

I like those dreams too. Are you willing to follow Jefferson in making dreams of the future better than the history of the past, particularly in the pursuit of equal rights for all?