Another man dies in police custody after disturbing video

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Are the owners of this restaurant also spokespeople for the owners and workers of Target or any other store (or residence) that may be burned? Personal property is sacrosanct in my book, next to human life itself. What moral right does ANYONE have to destroy another’s property, including the government by the way? Remember Kristallnacht?
 
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Maybe the symbol of the flag can start to be rehabilitated when cops stop using a modified black/white/blue version of it to support police violence.
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There is no such thing, situations of abuse are rare. “Flag supporting police violence”, wow.
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It’s not only the persecuted who could take a lesson from MLK. If people condemning these riots aren’t equally condemning the police violence and demanding racial justice through a labor-controlled economy and economic reparations for black people then they’re equally culpable for any property damage or violence that results from these protests:
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That’s your view. You certainly do not speak for all African Americans.
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And the only way to motivate a structurally racist system to address its own racism is to threaten it, and in this country the only way to threaten government is to threaten capital. People burning your stuff down is a powerful motivator.
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America is one of the least racist countries in the world.
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Rioting gets results, it’s an incredibly efficient and effective method of generating social change.
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One must not live in LA.
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MLK dreamed of a multiracial coalition of poor people defeating capitalism.
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Again, pure opinion.
 
I just mean the lady is clearly an immigrant. I don’t know many, even after they become citizens, who call themselves African American/Black Americans. I made the distinction because I wasn’t born in the U.S. either and, like her, was shocked at the reactions to the shooting incidents by self-proclaimed Christians. Maybe an African/Black American would be less surprised.
 
I disagree with your point of view. Black people have been enslaved and/or legally oppressed for the majority of time they have been in America. The occaisional riot has no equivalence to the scale of that problem. Rioting in America is not a constant thematic problem that needs to be solved. Racism is.
 
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Are you familiar with Martin Luther King, Jr.? You should read one of his speeches.
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It shouldn’t be hard to provide an exact quote.

I’m sure I am familiar with him. He and Abraham Lincoln believed in equality, that’s all it is. Not trying to tie in Communism to it. Equality, equal opportunity.
 
If you put it that way, I agree. However, I was drawing an analogy to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, in which the violence by the Palestinians in reaction to the oppression and violence by the Israelis meets with counterviolence and renewed oppression every time, so that the cycle of mutual violence and hostility repeats itself.
 
MLK was a socialist, not a Communist. And you should read your link, King’s not exactly totally condemning Communism.
 
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I see now, video of an elderly black man in Minneapolis very much upset about his business being built up. I won’t post the video, one never knows all of the words said but be on the lookout for it.

So much for the good the agitators are doing, now that does not include I am sure many legitimate protesters who have free speech.
 
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Reparations to black people is the fastest way to jumpstart economic justice, but ultimately the economic justice MLK dreamed of would lift all out of poverty.
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Yup. Worked really well in Venezuela. Soviet Russia too,. China is well known for lifting it’s people out of poverty.

Those who think the way you do would do the same thing here.
 
This is actually a good point, the FBI uncovering MLK’s infidelity through illegal surveillance (and subsequently writing him a letter telling him he should kill himself because of it in case you’re wondering who the good guys here are) is the reason why we should overturn the Civil Rights Act and start segregating public spaces again.
 
Nope, I’m saying that if the rape allegation means MLK’s politics were wrong then we need to start segregating public spaces again.
 
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