Another man dies in police custody after disturbing video

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That isn’t unique to racism though. By that definition, anyone doing nothing to help anyone being affected by sin is guilty of being bystanders. All I can do is live my life the way I believe it should be lived, in accordance with Catholic teachings, and when I fall short, self-examine, ask for forgiveness, and do better.

How many times with a host of sins brought on this board do we hear "the best thing you can do to affect positive change is to simply mind your own business and model the life and behavior you want others to emulate? But suddenly, that isn’t enough?
 
We haven’t progressed in a host of areas. We have regressed in our sexual morality and are a perverse nation that celebrates hedonistic tendencies. I’d say “not progressing enough” is better than “regressed to the point of Sodom and Gomorrah.” Though that is not excuse to try and NOT do better, of course.
 
So masks are essential to keep each other safe, but if you feel it makes you uncomfortable, its is okay to not wear them. Got it.

At least admit from a COVID standpoint, what they did was as reckless as any beach goer, for consistency. And the beach goers didn’t loot and vandalize, either.
 
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So masks are essential to keep each other safe, but if you feel it makes you uncomfortable, its is okay to not wear them
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Whatever it is, on earth, that you are talking about, it is unrelated to anything that I have posted.
 
That’s the best response I have ever gotten from you; for that, I thank you.
 
Do you believe that most African Americans obey the law or disobey the law? I am sure it is the former. Why? Because they realize, despite all of the racial inequities, discrimination, oppression, that is all we’ve got. Without the law, there is a breakdown in society and anarchy results. No one is above the law: not the President, not Congress, not the Supreme Court justices, not the police officers. The law must be better enforced for the benefit of all. Bad laws must be changed through legal means. But if we do not obey the laws of the land, even when they are unequally applied, we cannot ever achieve personal freedom for we become enslaved to our non-rational emotions of revenge and retribution.
 
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Not sit back quietly but actively protest without the violence and elect leaders who are open to non-stop negotiation. This is not a matter of privilege; it is a matter of living in a society according to a legal and moral system that does not depend on violence and death. Otherwise, without the Law (today happens to be the Jewish Holy Day of “Shavuot,” which celebrates the giving of the Law at Mount Sinai), there is no freedom and no peace.
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So you think the reason Israel keeps taking Palestinian land is because Palestinians elect bad leaders? If only they would elect nice people, they could stop foreigners with better weapons determined to take their homes from them. Like I said: P.R.I.V.I.L.E.D.G.E.
 
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Heartbreaking to wake up to the news that Migizi Communication, a 40 year old Native youth organization, was burned in #MinneapolisRiot reports from the org state that everything was lost archives, historic material, photos. Prayers out to our relatives.
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Oh, sure, this is great, torching a Native American organization, I also saw some bar gutted, it could have been basically a black bar. Those thinking, well, these agitators are just reacting should think again.

I think they are exploiting this situation.

So, don’t tell me, they are just acting against big business.
 
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That isn’t unique to racism though.
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I don’t think it is.
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All I can do is live my life the way I believe it should be lived, in accordance with Catholic teachings, and when I fall short, self-examine, ask for forgiveness, and do better.
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Catholic teaching requires us to act in opposition to racism.
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How many times with a host of sins brought on this board do we hear "the best thing you can do to affect positive change is to simply mind your own business and model the life and behavior you want others to emulate? But suddenly, that isn’t enough?
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Have I made that claim before?
 
Look at that video. Actually watch a man’s life being snuffed out. Now stack that with all the others, and the hard reality that another, far more lenient kind of law applies to the police when they break the law.

So if you want African Americans to respect the law then it needs to be changed so that the police get exactly the same kind of justice that anyone who leaned on a man’s throat as he begged for his life would get.

Then we can tell me about how valuable the law is. Until then it appears cops can brutalize and kill with impunity, and the entire judicial system is rigged to get them off.
 
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Good leaders on both sides of the conflict are open to tireless negotiation, which is the only means of achieving a lasting peace. The history in the Middle East is extremely complex, and neither side is completely right or wrong. This is where leaders who can negotiate a lasting peace treaty come in. However, such leaders must be put into power by the will of the people on both sides.
 
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Good leaders on both sides of the conflict are open to negotiation which is the only means of achieving a lasting peace. The history in the Middle East is extremely complex, and neither side is completely right or wrong. This is where leaders who negotiate a peace treaty come in. However, such leaders must be put into power by the will of the people on both sides.
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Israel is taking Palestinian land as we speak, against all international norms since the end of WWII. These “both sides” arguments are just another way to mask support for an aggressor who can afford to enact his violence more effectively because he’s better organized and backed by more powerful forces, even if not most nations.
 
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You chose not to answer my question: do you believe that most African Americans obey the law? If so, why do they obey the law?

Another question now: Do you believe most police officers obey the law, and if so, why do you suppose they do?
 
What defines acting in opposition to racism? If living my life justly in accordance with Catholic teachings is not enough, and taking a stand when faced with racist attitudes is not enough, I don’t know what to tell you.

There is not enough time in the day to actively promote actions or causes that oppose every form of sin, of which racism is one.
 
Yes most African Americans and police obey the law. But the differences appear when the law gets broken.

So tell me, how do you fix a judicial system weighted to letting police off the hook, putting more African Americans per capita in prison, and when African Americans are killed by cops, it takes burning a city down to get charges pressed? What’s your big solution, other than to cry over some burnt buildings as if they meant anything compared to a man killed by a cop.
 
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What defines acting in opposition to racism? If living my life justly in accordance with Catholic teachings is not enough, and taking a stand when faced with racist attitudes is not enough, I don’t know what to tell you.

There is not enough time in the day to actively promote actions or causes that oppose every form of sin, of which racism is one.
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Thankfully I know what to tell you. 🙂

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I think they are exploiting this situation.
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Criminals of every color get roughed up by cops every day all day.
Racism is not the issue.
The greater issue is the fact that our current law enforcement is overwhelmed by a great number of criminals.
 
As an American Jew and a person who is quite familiar with the oppression of the Jewish people for millennia by other nations, including Arab nations, I am still willing to understand that the Palestinian people should have their freedom without, however, compromising the very existence of the only Jewish State in the world. I am willing to negotiate with the Palestinians. We need leaders, both Israeli and Palestinian, who are willing to continue peace negotiations, because, as I have said numerous times, there is no other way toward a lasting peace. Violence is not the way toward real peace, and you, as a Catholic, should understand this.
 
Ah good, I was waiting for the victim blaming to begin. The unspoken implication this post is that African Americans are lawbreakers, and they’re making cops lives tough.

I’m learning so much about Christian social justice here
 
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