Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not about you... Thats horribly narcissistic.

Guessing you're a troll.

But in case you're not, there are things. Like listen. Like check in with your friends of color. Like reading up on how to talk about it. Like attending protests to show support--some of the FB instructions say to be quiet and listen, but to go up front if there's a confrontation because you're in less danger.

-- White woman

No, I just believe taking up the "white (wo)man's burden" is a colonialist/imperialist philosophy that is patronizing and racist to its core.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man%27s_Burden#Interpretation

Leave it to a Con to try to make this about the White Man's Burden. You people really are sorry pieces of work.

Not a conservative, nor white. It's white privilege to think the world revolves around you.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not about you... Thats horribly narcissistic.

Guessing you're a troll.

But in case you're not, there are things. Like listen. Like check in with your friends of color. Like reading up on how to talk about it. Like attending protests to show support--some of the FB instructions say to be quiet and listen, but to go up front if there's a confrontation because you're in less danger.

-- White woman

No, I just believe taking up the "white (wo)man's burden" is a colonialist/imperialist philosophy that is patronizing and racist to its core.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man%27s_Burden#Interpretation

Leave it to a Con to try to make this about the White Man's Burden. You people really are sorry pieces of work.

Caring white people should support structural change which addresses racism, economic inequality, and housing inequality. The simple fact that so many white people can retreat to their personal bubbles in suburbs near and far, pull into a three car garage, lock the door and forget about it, without consequence, is just unacceptable. I blame capitalism for the horrid attitudes of so many, including those in the DMV suburbs.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not about you... Thats horribly narcissistic.

Guessing you're a troll.

But in case you're not, there are things. Like listen. Like check in with your friends of color. Like reading up on how to talk about it. Like attending protests to show support--some of the FB instructions say to be quiet and listen, but to go up front if there's a confrontation because you're in less danger.

-- White woman

No, I just believe taking up the "white (wo)man's burden" is a colonialist/imperialist philosophy that is patronizing and racist to its core.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man%27s_Burden#Interpretation

Anonymous wrote:It's not about you... Thats horribly narcissistic.

Guessing you're a troll.

But in case you're not, there are things. Like listen. Like check in with your friends of color. Like reading up on how to talk about it. Like attending protests to show support--some of the FB instructions say to be quiet and listen, but to go up front if there's a confrontation because you're in less danger.

-- White woman

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You could become a police officer in a major metropolitan area. You will be verbally abused on a daily basis by the people you are sworn to protect. They will also assault you. They will hate you because of the uniform you wear. And as a result, you probably won't care.

White people don’t actually want to work for social justice they just want to self-flagellate on Facebook about their privilege and read some books. Maybe donate a couple of grand.

I think most posters on here are beyond the age of typical law enforcement recruitment. My younger sister is one BTW and I’ve seen her become pretty hardened over the years. Hard to have a serious conversation with her about all this. It usually descends into her ranting about how police officers risk their lives every day and the media only focuses on the bad things, etc.

HAHAHA it's very true. Regardless, she sounds kind of bitter. Maybe she can get out of patrol. In a lot of major police departments, half of the jobs are outside patrol, though you usually have to do a good 5 years in patrol before you can apply.

It's not about you... Thats horribly narcissistic.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You could become a police officer in a major metropolitan area. You will be verbally abused on a daily basis by the people you are sworn to protect. They will also assault you. They will hate you because of the uniform you wear. And as a result, you probably won't care.

+1. I want to know what I can do to show police support.

Same. This is out of control. What can we do to support the police?

Vote for politicians that will hold them accountable so that one bad police officer doesn't make national news and makes the whole police force look bad.

The only way to support the police is to make sure that they know that they can no longer have qualified immunity for 17 counts. 3 strikes, you're out. The majority of the police force is good. But if you have a rotting bad apple, it means that other police officers will rot too.

So you need to vote to overhaul the system.

I'm wondering if the unions and the police force can be sued for failing to serve the people. I think businesses should have the right to sue because the police isn't serving or protecting: it's actually got rules that allow for murder. I'm not a lawyer, but I think it's feasible for businesses to sue the government for a failure to actually provide justice for all and domestic tranquility.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You could become a police officer in a major metropolitan area. You will be verbally abused on a daily basis by the people you are sworn to protect. They will also assault you. They will hate you because of the uniform you wear. And as a result, you probably won't care.

+1. I want to know what I can do to show police support.

Same. This is out of control. What can we do to support the police?

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Anonymous wrote:I watched live news report on tv last night until they turned off their camera. My heart was bleeding. OP, you should get out of your house, drive your children to CHevy Chade NM DC on Wisconsin Ave. and Georgetown to see the destructions and looting were done, and tell your children to go to the same places tonight. Or find the social media the protest organizers announce their next move, so they can join the peaceful protest.

Yeah, join the mayhem and keeping calling it peaceful protest

And when the media asks what concrete things you want, respond with some cliches.

Or bring back some designer sneakers, handbags, or scarfs.

Anonymous wrote:I watched live news report on tv last night until they turned off their camera. My heart was bleeding. OP, you should get out of your house, drive your children to CHevy Chade NM DC on Wisconsin Ave. and Georgetown to see the destructions and looting were done, and tell your children to go to the same places tonight. Or find the social media the protest organizers announce their next move, so they can join the peaceful protest.

Yeah, join the mayhem and keeping calling it peaceful protest

And when the media asks what concrete things you want, respond with some cliches.

I'm just bumping this because I'm tired of all the top threads being about how we can all protect property and not black lives.

I plan on putting a black liver matter sign out at my beach house

Send your children into the riots and help out!!

I think most posters on here are beyond the age of typical law enforcement recruitment. My younger sister is one BTW and I’ve seen her become pretty hardened over the years. Hard to have a serious conversation with her about all this. It usually descends into her ranting about how police officers risk their lives every day and the media only focuses on the bad things, etc.

Maybe, if you would listen to what she is saying you could have a "serious" conversation.

Yes, there is police brutality. But, it is hard to focus on that when you are beating your brains out trying to help people at risk to yourself.

Minneapolis police has had problems for many years. They have a Dem mayor, a Dem governor, a Dem city council, and an African American Chief of Police. They have had police shootings of African Americans and an African American policeman shot and killed a white woman. The latter is in jail--but, it took over a year to charge him. There were no riots over her death.

What happened to Floyd was awful, horrific, disturbing beyond words. But, you need to look to the people running the show in Minnesota--not riot all over the US. And, especially, this is the fault of Chauvin and, likely, his posse.