I don’t really know the specifics of the thing going on in Milwaukee but here are some things to consider:

When we had the riots in LA after Rodney King, the comments along the lines of “they’re destroying their own neighborhood! What animals” ect were thrown about. But the thing is, most of the people rioting were just fed up and angry at feeling powerless.  Sometimes all you can do is say fuck this shit. 

The second amendment was written, apparently, only for white people.

These people are not perceived as a threat, yet when John Crawford picked up a pellet gun that was on sale, he was shot and killed for being armed.

All three of these guys were armed, active shooters when they were arrested. The guy in the center even had bombs set up in his apartment to kill police who searched for evidence against him. Why was their life protected? why were police able to find a way to arrest them? 

What’s going on in Milwaukee is really interesting because only two  or three weeks ago I was reading an article about how Wisconsin is the worst state to live in if you are black. The amount of income inequality between races, the number of laws that disproportionately target people of color, the amount of heavy policing in black communities. 

This article was written almost a year and a half ago

This is from 6 years ago

An historical look at race in Milwaukee (as of 2011)

Another from late last year

I dont want to talk about race on here any more. Ill rather you be my friend no matter if you hate me for something stupid or or got me in some stupid category all summed up in your head or see me as a diffren breed of human that needs to be studied and feared or what fucken ever. 

Use your heart and just make sure when it come to you, you treat people right. What else can you do? 

Protest on Washington?

None of the racial issues are new in this country, it’s that we are finally getting to look it in the face. And there isn’t some huge divide going on. Try understanding the perspectives of the people in the movement by doing more listening rather than judging.

The whole push back against BLM is hypocritical. White people that love guns claim that if somebody tries to take their guns they will shoot them because it’s a constitutionally protected right to defend yourself against tyranny and corruption yet wants to declare an innocent peaceful and legally armed black man a criminal when he gets held down and executed. How does that murder not prove tyranny and corruption? How is that justified when these same people are saying they’d shoot the cops if they were in that situation?

When black people are getting executed by cops like that the push back says they are overreacting and denies that there is a problem. When one member of the movement shoots a few cops then those same people irrationally declare that there is a race war going on.

When somebody says black lives matter they push back by declaring all lives matter as if black lives matter declares other lives don’t matter, yet when somebody says police lives matter nobody ever thinks they are saying non police lives don’t matter. How is black lives matter anti white but police lives matter not anti citizen? The fucked up part is that if I kill a cop I’m either dying or never seeing the light of day, but if a black person gets killed by a cop the cop gets a slap on the wrist while half of the public tries to justify it. So we don’t need to be reminded that police lives matter when police lives are put up on pedestal as is, we need to be reminded that black lives matter when people can get away with taking them. That sort of anger building up in people is whats leading up to these riots. It’s not rational, there is no thought put into it, it’s an expected result of emotional build up.

The lines if morality are not always clear. They never were. Life is way to complex for that.

Me personally, I want to see more riots and chaos and rage consume the streets. I want to see America consume it’s self in destruction. I want to see America start to drown in the same blood that founded it. I feel that’s only morally right. America’s self destruction as it’s sins that we’ve tried to hide from rot us from the inside. My worst fear is guilt and I feel as though it’s time this country is consumed by it.

It’s also worth pointing out that the black lives matter organization and movement has rejected the violence, even violence against property, time and time again. They are a peaceful movement. 

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What they say and what they do are two different worlds entirely.

https://youtu.be/FCo5_TJnxdY  

The thing is, there’s an organization called black lives matter, which is centered around a movement for positive change, and then there are people who are angry and who react. Black Lives Matter as an organization and a movement does not include all black people upset about police violence.

So you are telling me that people who are arrested for a crime and serve their time are unable to grow and reform and want to see legitimate changes made to the way people are policed?

Shaggy has a criminal record. Should we stop listening to his music? I mean, c’mon, we can’t ignore the past.

Also, I’m finding no confirmation of any of the founders being convicted felons. I’m not sure where you got the information, but it just isn’t anything I’m finding. Which of the three women do you claim is a convicted felon? That might help my search. 

Anyway, no one was “appointed” to lead the movement. They created a non profit and sparked a movement. They chose to challenge police corruption and racial bias. Any criminal past they may have is irrelevant because they have a right to protest and organize just like anybody else.

It’s also true that the judicial system and policing are extremely biased against people of color, so any criminal record the women posses is suspect.