Conservatives programed to trigger at words "Black Lives Matter" by Russian trolls.

mooray said:

That first guy sums up republican's CRT concerns in a nutshell, "I have no fucking idea what I'm talking about and can't point to anything, but I'm deeply driven to create conflict with liberals because my life is empty without their tears".

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Detroit Riot of 1967, series of violent confrontations between residents of predominantly African Americanneighbourhoods of Detroit and the city’s police department that began on July 23, 1967, and lasted five days. The riot resulted in the deaths of 43 people, including 33 African Americans and 10 whites. Many other people were injured, more than 7,000 people were arrested, and more than 1,000 buildings were burned in the uprising. The riot is considered one of the catalysts of the militant Black Power movement.

The immediate cause of the riot was a police raid at an illegal after-hours drinking club, the site of a welcome-home party for two returning Vietnam War veterans. The police arrested all patrons in attendance, including 82 African Americans. Local residents who witnessed the raid protested, and several of them vandalized property, looted businesses, and started fires. Police responded by blockading the surrounding neighbourhood, but outraged local residents drove through the blockade. The protests and violence spread to other areas of the city as police lost control of the situation. During the next several days, more than 9,000 members of the U.S. National Guard were deployed by Michigan Gov. George Romney, along with 800 Michigan state police. On the second day of the riot, Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson sent U.S. Armytroops to the city to help quell the violence.

The deeper causes of the riot were high levels of frustration, resentment, and anger that had been created among African Americans by unemployment and underemployment, persistent and extreme poverty, racism and racial segregation, police brutality, and lack of economic and educational opportunities. Deindustrialization in the city had resulted in the loss of industrial jobs and their replacement with low-paying service jobs. “White flight” and a shift in the tax base to the suburbs also contributed to deindustrialization. Housing discrimination forced African Americans to live in certain neighbourhoods of the city, where housing was frequently poor or substandard, while urban renewal programs and freeway construction eradicated areas in which African Americans once thrived.

Police brutality and racial profiling were ordinary occurrences in Detroit’s African American neighbourhoods. Residents were regularly subjected to unwarranted searches, harassment, and excessive use of force by police, and a few well-publicized shootings and beatings of African Americans by police occurred in the years preceding the riot. All of those factors encouraged African Americans in Detroit to view the police as merely the occupying army of an oppressive white “establishment.” In such a volatile atmosphere, it required only one provocative act by police to produce open revolt.

The riot accelerated deindustrialization and the exodus of whites from the city. Many buildings that were damaged or destroyed were never rebuilt. In July 1967, while the riot was still taking place, President Johnson appointed a National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (the Kerner Commission) to investigate the violent disorders that had erupted in several U.S. cities, including Detroit, since 1965. The commission’s 1968 report cited white racism, discrimination, and poverty as among the causative factors and famously warned that “our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal.”

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Turns out that the black people and the white people were being lied to to get them filled with righteous anger (just like shit is done today using a far more efficient method of spreading the lies).



This 'man' looks all of 14 to me.



The look on her face makes me think of these idiot Karens videos.

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mooray said:

Typical for republicans, to become hyperoffended at questions you don't have to answer, or even open your door for.

Because...you know...we've had religious people knock on our doors every now and again ever since we've had doors.

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Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) addressed the Senate floor after Republicans attempted to pass an amendment they thought would put Democrats on the spot and pigeonhole them as anti-police.

The amendment came from Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), and it was a non-binding amendment to punish localities that defund the police. A non-binding bill means that it is essentially toothless and carry no actual penalties.

Booker mocked the amendment as "a gift."

"I am so excited!" he exclaimed. "This is the highlight of this long and painful night. This is a gift. If it wasn't a complete abdication of Senate procedures and esteem I would walk over there and hug my colleague from Alabama."

Applause could be heard from senators of the chamber.

"And I will tell you right now, thank God!" Booker continued. "Because there are some people that said that there are members of this political body that want to defund the police. My horror! And now, this senator is giving us the gift of finally, once and for all, to put to bed this scurrilous accusation that somebody in this esteemed body would want to defund the police. So, let's all of us, 100 people, not walk, but sashay down there and vote for this amendment and put to rest the lies."

He closed by saying: "I am sure I will see no political ads attacking anybody here over defund the police."

The amendment passed 99-0.

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hanimmal said:

Mr. Rockey, I dedicate this thread to you man. Best of luck figuring it out.

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The federal government deliberately targeted Black Lives Matter protesters via heavy-handed criminal prosecutions in an attempt to disrupt and discourage the global movement that swept the nation last summer in the wake of the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd, according to a new report released Wednesday by The Movement for Black Lives.

Movement leaders and experts said the prosecution of protesters over the past year continues a century-long practice by the federal government, rooted in structural racism, to suppress Black social movements via the use of surveillance tactics and other mechanisms.

“The empirical data and findings in this report largely corroborate what Black organizers have long known intellectually, intuitively, and from lived experience about the federal government’s disparate policing and prosecution of racial justice protests and related activity,” the report stated.

The report, which was first shared with The Associated Press, argues that as the uprisings in the summer of 2020 increased, so did police presence, the deployment of federal agents and prosecution of protesters.

Titled “Struggle For Power: The Ongoing Persecution of Black Movement By The U.S. Government,” the report details how policing has been used historically as a major tool to deter Black people from engaging in their right to protest and weaken efforts to draw attention to issues impacting Black Americans. It also drew a comparison to how the government used Counterintelligence Program techniques to “disrupt the work of the Black Panther Party and other organizations fighting for Black liberation.”

“We want to really show how the U.S. government has continued to persecute the Black movement by surveillance, by criminalizing protests, and by using the criminal legal system to prevent people from protesting and punishing them for being engaged in protests by attempting to curtail their First Amendment rights,” said Amara Enyia, The Movement for Black Lives’ policy research coordinator.

“It is undeniable that racism plays a role,” Enyia said. “It is structurally built into the fabric of this country and its institutions, which is why it’s been so difficult to eradicate. It’s based on institutions that were designed around racism and around the devaluing of Black people and the devaluing of Black lives.”

In the report, published in partnership with the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility clinic at City University of New York School of Law, The Movement for Black Lives is calling for amnesty for all protesters involved in the nationwide protests.

The group, also known as M4BL, is demanding reparations from the government that includes an acknowledgment and an apology for the long history of targeting movements “in support of Black life and Black liberation.” It also is pushing for passage of the BREATHE Act, proposed federal legislation that would radically transform the nation’s criminal justice system, and ending the use of Joint Terrorism Task Forces in local communities.

The report also points to the stark difference in how the government handled the COVID-19 protests against local government shutdowns and mask mandates amid the pandemic during the same period. It analyzes 326 criminal cases initiated by U.S. federal prosecutors over alleged conduct related to protests in the wake of Floyd’s murder and the police killings of other Black Americans, from May 31, 2020, to Oct. 25, 2020.

A key finding of the report was that the push to use federal charges against protesters came from top-down directives from former President Donald Trump and former Attorney General William Barr. M4BL and the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility clinic, also known as CLEAR, found that in 92.6% of the cases, there were equivalent state level charges that could have been brought against defendants.

Among those cases where comparable state level charges could have been brought, 88% of the federal criminal charges carried more severe potential sentences than the equivalent state criminal charges for the same or similar conduct.

“We saw U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr overnight go from expressing some level of sympathy for racial justice protesters to labeling them as radical and violent agitators with absolutely no basis for that sort of characterization,” said Ramzi Kassem, founding director of CLEAR and a law professor at the City University of New York, adding that Barr and Trump used the arrests and prosecutions to justify the “hostile rhetoric” aimed at protesters. “All of this was very transparently aimed at disrupting a Black-led movement for social justice that was happening both spontaneously and in an organized fashion nationwide.”

Race data was only available for 27%, or 89 of the defendants. And of that number, 52% were identified as Black. Of the Black defendants, 91% were identified as male.

“The known proportion of Black defendants compared to the proportion of Black people in the United States, per the latest census data, indicates that Black defendants were dramatically overrepresented,” the report stated.

Seventy-two cases, or 22.1%, involved charges with mandatory minimum sentences. And 67 cases, or 20.6%, involved offenses where defendants are alleged to “have attempted, conspired, or aided and abetted an underlying crime without having actually committed the underlying criminal conduct.”

Portland, Oregon, led in the number of charges brought for protest-related activity, making up 29% of federal charges. Chicago, Las Vegas, Washington, D.C., and Minneapolis followed.

Richard Wallace, founder of Equity and Transformation in Chicago, said over the past summer he witnessed overly aggressive policing by law enforcement officers who levied accusations of rioting and looting at protesters who were peacefully protesting. Wallace said he is deeply concerned for those who have been charged.

“Coming from Chicago, where (Black Panther Party leader) Fred Hampton was killed and where, Martin Luther King came and said this is one of the most segregated cities he ever saw, we have a very keen historic lens as it relates to state violence, and Black movement,” said Wallace, whose organization, also known as EAT, was founded by and for formerly incarcerated and marginalized Black people and focuses on individuals who operate within the informal economy.

“What we saw in Illinois and across the country was this reverberation of Black power. And so, at all costs, the state is about dismantling that right, dismantling that in every possible way,” he said.

The report also raises concerns about the involvement of Joint Terrorism Task Forces and found 20 cases that explicitly referenced task force involvement. The government “greatly exaggerated” the threat of violence from protesters, the report says.

Makia Green, a liberation organizer and co-conductor of the Washington D.C.-based group Harriet’s Wildest Dreams, fully supports the report’s findings and calls for action. Green believes President Joe Biden needs to fulfill his campaign pledges of supporting Black Americans and addressing the root causes of white supremacy, by pushing for amnesty for protesters. Green said Congress also needs to support legislation to overhaul the criminal justice system.

“Regardless of how we are often painted, activists are people who have the audacity to believe that we can live in a better world, where people are safe, where people are not afraid of being murdered by the police,” Green said. “There are attempts to stifle our movement but it is truly a reflection to our supporters, to our allies, and to the folks who showed up in the streets last year, of how beautiful and powerful this movement is.”

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