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They sold out of both? Wow.
Okinawa mate,went in to a bar and was stopped at the door by the owner and asked if i was from the US,I said no , UK,he asked again,so i pointed to my everton top (white keigen??) and said liverpool, he goes "oh liverpool the beatles and let me in. Never put my hand in my pocket all night. Great people
 

So the important issue for you isn't that African Americans experience a vastly different law experience than whites.

Or even than lots of people of all races get shot and that there is little data either tracking it, processes to learn from the deaths, any consistent punishment of officers that overstep the rules or a focus on how we can help both the police and general public be safer.

The important issue to you is that when protesting BLM should get the optics right by making sure that they mention every single incident of police shootings and pretend that there isn't any racial aspect at all? Can you honestly put your hand on heart and say you believe that there is no difference between how police treat a black man vs a white man in exactly the same circumstances?


Week 1 -- Black person shot. Massive uproar...BLM...beyonce pauses a concert etc etc

Week 2 -- Black cop shot. Nothing.

Week 3 -- White man shot. Nothing.
 
Week 1 -- Black person shot. Massive uproar...BLM...beyonce pauses a concert etc etc

Week 2 -- Black cop shot. Nothing.

Week 3 -- White man shot. Nothing.


One of the many obscene and utterly horrible things wrong with our world is things like this:



The policeman who shot said he didn't even know himself why he shot.


It's also things like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Police_Department#Homan_Square

and this:




and many more.

Sure, white people are also sometimes victims of such unfair police brutality, but disproportionately it's black folk. There are many complex societal reasons for this, and a ton of hellish hate. For the most part, I support the struggle of the black American.

Tho' I really thought that by now, 2016, we in the West would be largely colour-blind, mixing races in the family bloodlines more often...but sadly this isn't the case.

Genuine racism such as those linked has given birth to some decent, but also some questionable movements: the regressive identity politics movement of liberal media (of which BLM is a part) is unhelpful and largely causing further separation of people, resulting in such retorts from critics like "so white lives don't matter or what?", while black people culturally are made to feel ever more black (black people in 80's/90's films/tv/music were mostly just people, nowadays they are all about their blackness).


In all this black & white drama, you've got millions of people who identify themselves as brown, asian/oriental, indian/pakistani, arab and the rest who probably feel quite bemused about never being talked about. Except the Mexicans, they get a lot of airtime.


So a lot of bollocks, but at the end of the day there are tons of real victims and there will be tons more...nothing we seem to be doing is helping, so people feel helpless and thus rather easily fall into groups defined by their opposition to other groups, furthering only the cause of divisive identity politics while not really helping real victims.
 

Bernie bottled it

Bernie lost. There is no denying that. Even if the DNC didn't pull any crap Bernie still would have lost. However Bernie also got a hell of lot of votes. So you know Hillary campaign you might want a look at some of the issues they support and/or brought up to bring them into the fold instead of treating them with distain all the while focusing on courting these magical neocons who hate Trump so much that they won't vote for him, you know all 12 of them.

Running a "I suck but that guy is a Nazi" campaign isn't going to work. Besides when many members of your own party think that in your 1st day of office you'll point at a country that's full of brown people and immediately send in the B-2s, that attack of Trump seems a little like pot meeting kettle.
 

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