Not necessarily. A hothead can be a hothead without it being an issue of race being involved. An angry man doesn’t care who his target is, just that he gets to blow steam.
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I’m Scottish. As in my entire family is all from Scotland. But I was born and raised in the states. I have never called myself Scottish unless we’re directly discussing lineage (which is very rare). I’m American. Done.
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Praise the lord and pass the ammunition…
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It’s pretty cut and dry. The media and i am SURE others outside the media cried racism BECAUSE of the police brutality. The fact is even though he was a criminal he didn’t need to be detained in the fashion he was, there was NO REASON for being treated the way he was. He wasn’t resisting, he wasn’t being a problem and he said multiple times he was having a problem in the position he was in.
This is a possibility but it isn’t necessarily true either. All it is, is conjecture. Either way, it was police brutality. NO ONE can truly know, the cop could lie to his grave and we would never know. But we DO KNOW that there was police brutality, and that does need to be addressed.
And of course the media is all about sensationalism and it is sensational to say things in a stupid manner before the facts are clear. Along with a clear portion of the population that have “white guilt” even though they have never owned slaves or been racist they will just “feel” the guilt for things they have had no part in and then try to bring others along for the ride with things like “white privilege”.
Selling popcorn. 1 gold per 10 pound bag.
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Have you ever heard of the small pox blankets?
https://www.history.com/news/colonists-native-americans-smallpox-blankets
It was a common biowarfare that was used by colonists even before coming to the Americas. The more you try to defend the atrocities done because of hatred and racism, the more you are making the tensions worse. Instead of being the ignorant apologist, how about you accept that this has been a problem for a very long time and stop trying to blame the cornered dog for biting back.
It is interesting to see anyone quote Asimov in reference to morality. While a fantastic writer he was a terrible human being. He horribly neglected his family and was a known predator during scifi conventions. It took two or three handlers to try and keep his hands off the young girls. He was well known for inappropriate touching.
Telling people to flag as trolling is a possible Code of Conduct violation.
Raised the greatest number of people out of poverty, in all of history.
Yeah, one angry man, but that doesn’t explain why the three other cops went along with him. You’d think someone there would have had enough training to realize that sitting on a person’s neck for nearly 9 minutes was a tad excessive.
Well you really need to fix that. The Spanish where the colonizers. With Latinos being the oppressors in many parts of Mexico, central America and south America. Where the indigenous peoples are still be marginalized.
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Junior cops, who didn’t know procedure. Scared of doing the wrong thing.
It’s a big messy situation. I’m not excusing him. The cop was wrong. But … racism? No. Not enough evidence for that. And that’s the biggest issue. If this was just a bad cop being bad … that’s one thing. But now that the media has played the race card there’s no going back.
We’ll never truly know WHY he did it, save that its likely he was a hothead and Floyd pushed all the wrong buttons.
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So … just because a cop does bad things it is automatically about racism? That is being judgmental. That’s saying that he’s guilty of something, without evidence.
We have a justice system. Yes, he at the very least contributed to Floyd’s death and he deserves to pay for it. But, if we judge him based off mob mentality and issue a sentence based on false facts … are we really any better than the unthinking mob hungry for blood?
Wait for the trial and see what the defense presents. I suspect this case has been so screwed up from the start.
LOL, and that is all i will say about that. I will however say i am NO APOLOGIST at all. There is no cornered dog, that is all in their minds and a need to be victims.
Did you actually even read your article? Are you so needing to be a victim and that you just look at a headline and don’t understand the content you are trying to quote. Let’s pull DIRECTLY FROM YOUR SOURCE shall we?
“The tactic constitutes a crude form of biological warfare—but accounts of the colonists using it are actually scant.”
“Colonial weaponizing of smallpox against Native Americans was first reported by 19th-century historian Francis Parkman, who came across correspondence in which Sir Jeffery Amherst, commander in chief of the British forces in North America in the early 1760s”
“But Kelton cautions against focusing too much on the smallpox blanket incident as a documented method of attack against Native Americans. He says the tactic, however callous and brutal, is only a small part of a larger story of brutality in the 1600s and 1700s.”
Now let’s tie that all together because clearly you are not only missing the big picture but you are lost in the weeds needing to be “the cornered dog biting back”…as some are busy destroying minority properties and looting minority businesses while protesting for minorities and as minorities.
I said
The pilgrims arrived in America in 1620…some 140 YEARS before this ONE incident you are bringing up. So now let’s get a grip on reality and not pretend that these two things are equivalent. Also, life was MUCH different in both time periods and can’t be viewed in the same lens even if you want to try too and the circumstances of the pilgrims and the British Military are totally different. Yet NEITHER OF THEM UNDERSTOOD THE PLAGUE or how it worked…that’s why they kept having it happen for millenia. The opportunistic British Military used a weapon they had little understanding of and made a crude weapon…ONCE or maybe even several times. That in no way equates to arriving pilgrims intentionally wiping out Native Americans…it also in no way equates to the British Military using the crude weapon since they had NO IDEA how the plague worked.
Kind of funny that the article mentions the first use of these blankets in the 19th Century (1800’s) but the article is mostly about one use in the 1760’s. So, what have we learned after actually reading the article…
This is a HARD NO, but it’s very sensational and a good read…if you actually read it and understand it without being stuck in the victim mentality. What else did we learn…
If your tension is worse because i live in reality and you are a “cornered dog”, that is a you problem. Good luck with that. If you want to be a victim all your life, you go right ahead. Doesn’t change history and it won’t change facts. It certainly won’t make me apologize for anything as well.
No, but you can’t hide from how it looks either. It is part of the world we live in, just read my statements to the above individual who posted an article he/she clearly didn’t read or fully understand and tried to look at it through today’s knowledge level (about biowarfare) and societal lens to make a false point of victimhood. That doesn’t diminish what happened to Native American’s or what has happened with police brutality, it just means everyone has to start from an actual understanding of events before slinging mud and getting all worked up.
Everyone is judgmental all the time, that is just reality. It is nice and warm and fuzzy to say your not judgmental but everyone has an opinion on things whether it’s a strong opinion or a weak one.
Not true, he is guilty of police brutality and there is plenty of evidence and that act caused the bad look of racism real or imagined.
I don’t think anyone can reasonably argue otherwise about this.
This is nothing but conjecture, he committed a crime and is not being tried for being prejudiced or racist, he is being tried for the death of a man in his custody.
He will get his time in court and the law will judge him accordingly. Not sure he will see prison time as the laws of police custody are pretty broad…but we will see. If it can be proved it was a hate crime of some type that might be a better route, but we don’t know yet.
imagine an undead holding up that sign.
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Yes, but it devolved as these threads so often do.
And Skinwalker is most likely sitting back and laughing hysterically because he achieved his goal with the thread.
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Well, at least you’re honest.
You refuted nothing. I was merely pointing out the fact that they DID know of the dangers of spreading small pox as you clearly tried to deny. There are other sources, but I’m glad your ignorance lead you to read something.