Official Protest Thread

[jason1637]

NightlyPoe said:

Ka-pi96 said:

Yeah, sure you can argue that the cop murdered George Floyd for reasons other than race. Although race probably was a pretty significant factor. Even if it can't be proven how events would have unfolded had he been white it's certainly fair to assume it would have went differently.

Although at the end of the day, does it even really matter? Police shouldn't be killing people like that full stop.

Didn't say otherwise.  But the protests are specific to the black population, not in general.  It's a specific grievance and there's an assumption that it applies here.

Though, again, why do you assume that it was probably a significant factor?  Where does that assumption come from outside of your own prejudices?

The protest are specific to the black population because of systemic racism. Black people make up a larger portion of the prison population and death by police percentage than they do as a total population and this is because they comitt more crimes. They committ more crimes because of systemic racism. BLMis like other groups that advocate for their kind. We have jewish groups that advocate for the jewish population, women groups that advocate for women's, catholic groups etc. But none ever goes after them for only advocating for their causes and people always attack BLM for advocating for black causes.