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>of a murdered Black child whose body lie in the streets hours
>post-mortem. But, it's fine...we can disagree about what is
>proper & improper/harmful expressions of grief & rage + who
>are the proper targets (another time).
>
>
>>>Then, he proceeded to judge people that
>>>marched & destroyed property to express their rightful rage
>>&
>>>grief.<< Wrong af.
>>
>>
>>Destroying businesses in a majority black town is helping
>how?
>> Explain that to me...
>
>This narrative has been grossly exaggerated by the MSM. I'm
>not sure how many businesses were destroyed or by whom so I
>won't speculate. I will say that disruption is important &
>that I'm not mad at the people that said fuck this, no
>business as usual for anybody when you murder our children in
>the street w/ zero accountability. Further, the business of
>Ferguson wasn't in the shops/stores but in the systemic racism
>of Ferguson PD (& I'm sure not just them) which
>profiled/criminalized Black residents + turned a profit from
>it.
>
>
>>So what do you think of the people that stand in front of
>>those buildings and stop people from destroying property "to
>>express their rightful rage & grief"?
>
>I think they were doing what they thought was right &
>helpful.
>
>>Kendrick's not victim blaming... He never said Eric Garner
>>shouldn't have resisted police... He never said Mike Brown
>>deserved to be shot...
>
>When he says, "What happened, should've never happened. Never.
>But when we don't have respect for ourselves, how do we expect
>them to respect us? It starts from within. Don't start with
>just a rally, don't start from looting -- it starts from
>within." <<Victim-blaming 101 even lol. 'If you would just act
>the way I wanted you to act, I wouldn't harm/abuse or kill
>you!' 'If we would just respect ourselves then they would too
>or @ the very least, we'd have a leg to stand on when we tell
>them to stop killing our children!' <<Wrong af, unethical,
>ahistorical, & required for no group other than Blacks.
>And we will just ignore that he dismisses the grassroots
>movement in Ferguson/Blacklivesmatter, not to mention the
>centuries of resistance regarding state-sanctioned violence
>against Black people.
>
>
>He's saying he has an issue with the
>>people who are outraged over these killings, but will go out
>>and kill a black man over the color of their rag... He's
>being
>>very specific... It's the people he grew up around...
>
>It's hella fucked up & stupid & needs to calm down but
>intra-racial gang violence is NOT similar to state-sanctioned
>extrajudicial murders of Black folks just b/c both result in
>the death of Black people. For one, I'd wager that one group
>does not get tax dollars/vacations/100s of thousands of
>dollars from supporters & ZERO criminal accountability for
>murdering Black children. Like, if Black people in gangs
>stopped killing other Black people in gangs...the police still
>gonna kill us.
>Not convinced Black people in gangs are killing other Black
>people b/c they Black (vs proximity) the way cops do.
>
>
>>I really don't know how more clear Kendrick can be about
>>this...
>
>Oh, he is very clear w/ his position. It's just wrong, he
>fumbled the thought. Like, y'all capes got hella holes in it
>lol. It's ok that an awesome rapper was very wrong that one
>time lol.
So we should be critical of police killing black people because they're black, but not as critical of black people killing black people over the color of their rag? Because with the police, it's a race thing, but with this example of black on black crime, it's a gang thing?
But these black people who are gangbanging, killing other black people should be just as critical of the police as everyone else? Even though, they currently participate in destroying the community... Same as many police...
So the black person that gets killed by the cops, his/her life is more important than the life of a black person who gets killed by a gang member? ..and that includes the innocent bystanders that get killed in the process...
I just want to make sure that I'm understanding what you're sayin....
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