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[quote=Anonymous][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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Well, not exactly.  The implicit premise of this kind of protest is that it is ethical to inflict costs on uninvolved people, such as random shoppers, so that they will pressure politicians to appease the protestors.  I take issue with that premise, but BLM is making a tactical error.  Attempting to hold whites as a whole collectively accountable for criminal conduct by the police will merely prompt a response where whites are incentivized to hold blacks collectively accountable for black crime as a whole, which is orders of magnitude more prevalent.  And whites remain the majority and are well armed.  I just don't see how that endgame looks good for BLM.  [/quote]

The problem with your hypothesis is that it assumes that support/or non of BLM is by race. As a white woman, and I take offense to that. I support any American who exercises their rights to protest an injustice in America. In fact it is our responsibility to do so. Just like 55 years ago when some shoppers were also inconvenienced at a Woolworth department store soda counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.

The Blue Wall of Silence that permeates our police force aids it in becoming a criminal entity. Shooting unarmed citizens they are charged to protect and serve is horrendous. The facts that more black men are being shot by police when they are a minority only strengths the argument that racial bias exists.[/quote]

You make me laugh.

As a white woman, are you working directly with kids like Laquan?

I do - every single day.

So this white woman puts her money where her mouth is.  Standing around, protesting does nothing.

all hot air, no action - So people inconvenienced shoppers for a day.  Amazon is the solution to that problem.[/quote]

You work with kids like Laquan?  Then why did you assume that the shoppers are white, and why on earth would you suggest that BLM "inflicted costs" merely by protesting in the shopping area?  Since when is a protest "inflicting costs"???  I find it hard to believe that someone who "works with kids like Laquan" would have any problem shopping there.[/quote]

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