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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who cares about Chicago? Nobody.[/quote]

Except when a white cop shoots a black guy ........... and then Chicago matters and BLM decides that it warrants protesting and inconveniencing shoppers.[/quote]

Ah, so inconvenienced rich white shoppers is more of a big deal than a cop gunning down a teenager with 15 bullets and then lying about it.

A teenage black life is worth less than a white consumer being delayed 30 minutes while shopping.

That's basically what's being said here...  And sadly it proves BLM's point.
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Yes.   My family is Egyptian and the protests that started about police bruality, by the way, on National Police Day, shut down the city near Tahrir Square.  For YEARS.   And yet, as far as I could tell, most Americans were cheering them on.   But let BLACK Americans protest police brutality? Unacceptable.   :roll: [/quote]

You are missing the point: it is not that police brutality should be condoned. It is that thousands of blacks being killed by other blacks should matter a lot more. If there were no killings by the police, you would still have a horrendous number of blacks being killed by other blacks. It has been going on for years and merely getting worse.[/quote]

I don't get how you're not getting it.  As has been pointed out, black people have been protesting violence for years, to no attention and no avail.  Does it really not occur to you that [i]trust[/i] in law enforcement is essential to crime abatement?  Having a fear of police that's equal to or greater than the fear of criminals not only exacerbates the problem for people in these communities, it exacerbates the crime.

And yes, that's been going on forever.  In fact, that's pretty much the way it's always been.  All of it driven by public policy that has corralled black Americans into ghettos, cutting them off from every conceivable path out of them, concentrating poverty and every other social ill in these communities, and then criminalizing everything about their impoverished state.  The police are not here to help you; they're here to apply your government's boot to your neck.  Figuratively and quite literally.

But YOU are the one who's not noticed or cared, hence BLM protest.[/quote]

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