1964 racists complaining about the Civil Rights Act sound like 2021 racists complaining about #BLM

Well, at least they asked black people how they felt about if for balance.

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Its also been anti-gay bigots trying to enact Jim Crow 2.0 since Obergfell.
“Freedom of Association means I don’t have to serve those kind of people”
“My religion says those people are my inferiors, their rights do not matter”
“Their marriage is an abomination!”
“I don’t want their kids in the same school as mine!”

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Just like there were far more people saying they were part of the French Resistance in 1946 than there were in 1944.

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Ah, a '64… nutty flavor with bitter overtones and absolutely no notes of dark chocolate.

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Well, we keep finding the ones who are convinced that slavery wasn’t bad at all…

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But that’s because Black Lives Matter is not a new thing, but an extension of what happened 60 years ago.

The issue isn’t really.beatings and killings by cops, it’s that cops see “different” and then it’s acceptable to mistreat people. The beatings and killings are just the tip of the iceberg, it starts when people are stopped for no good reason.

I can’t blame racism on all the times I got stopoed while walking, stwrting in 1976. But it made me notice when there’d be stories about Black people having trouble with cops (and usually because those people made a point of going to the press).

I bought a copy of the criminal code after reading a book by Huey Newton where he mentions the Black Panthers did it. in 1986 when tge Quebec Human Rights Commission had hearings on racial profiling, I wrote about my experiences, outright saying “if it happens to me, of course it happens” and tried to convey what it felt like to be stopped for no reason, and to be sworn at, illegally searched, and threatened with a beating.

I saw the left not being concerned about these things. Sure, a hatred of cops, but an ideological issue, rather than personal.

Student kids stomping around in 2012 and then claiming police abuse, when it’s a whole lot different when it happens alone for no reason. And I remember some Black leader in a tiny story saying “we were going to have a demonstration, but not in this atmosphere”. I think it was about the killing of Treyvon Martin.

I’ve even seen recent stories where “police brutality” is used, as if that’s the issue. It’s easy to embrace being against bestings or being for hatred of cops, it’s harder to see the underlying racism, abd that it’s not something someone else needs to fix.

This isn’t about people who spew hate, it’s about all the things we do that seem fine, until we change and then are so embarrassed that we don’t mention it.

I remember about thirty years ago and started to avoid a seat next to a Black woman, under some guise that she wouldn’t want me there. And I realized that was me, not her. So I sat there, and it made all the difference in the world.

Racism isn’t about how it happens, it’s about how some people hurt, and are defined by others. That has to be primary, their voices, not ours always speaking.

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Well, one thing has changed since then: Racists on the street in 2020/21 have no hesitation to share their thoughts “on the air.”

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salute

Genius.

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Um…

YES, IT FUCKING IS.

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But also the beatings and the killings.

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“they have just as much opportunity as anybody… in that part of town…”

astounding

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“They have the same opportunity to work and build their part of the town up, just the same as we have.”

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and that is how I, personally, solved police brutality

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Thank you for posting a prime example of what happens when Black people stay to themselves and try to build up our own communities.

See also Rosewood, FL and the Red Summer of 1919.

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I was recently reading about Black anarchist dual power groups in Alabama and Mississippi. They can’t call themselves anarchist or socialist because if they did then they would end up with the cops (or worse) paying them a visit. It’s makes more sense to them to keep their heads down and claim to be charities and small businesses. Because they aren’t playing by the rules of capitalism they tend to not make enough money to be noticed.

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i couldn’t understand what the last woman was saying at the very end of the video. anyone know? anyway, i do find it interesting how many people preferred not to say what they thought, whereas nowadays, TRY to find a person who would refrain from speaking whatever racist shit they want when a microphone is put in front of their face.

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People might be missing the one bright ray of enlightenment in the tape.
One gentleman said “[We shouldn’t] let nine men tell us what we got to do.”
He was clearly addressing the gender disparity on the SCOTUS.

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Certainly very nutty, but I’m getting an overbearing soft fermented cheese odour seeping through.

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I think what he’s trying to say is that even if police were strictly restrained from using violence, there would still be excessive policing and ticketing. Beatings and murder are one symptom of an underlying problem.

Removing the symptom would save lives, but we really need to cut out the cancer. And when you cut out cancer, you need to make sure it doesn’t travel to other parts of the body.

That’s why I think we need to start with an offender registry for police.

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