The FACE of our mess. I mean what his daughter said was cute, but ....
I mean ... I always point ppl back to Trayvon, that was the case that HURT me to my core. Along with Sandra.
It's just ... to the star studded multiple funerals, to the white media turning it into a George Floyd movement.
I guess my question is .... yea he was a death .... but I'm gonna need them to show Emmitt Till's face and George Stinney! I mean ....
Guys I just .... I don't do media sensationalism well, especially when we are trying to get a whole POINT across.
This is not about kneeling on a man's neck, this is not just about police brutality.
This is about the social, ecomonic, and cultural effects of systematic racism imposed on an entire ppl who were BROUGHT here illegally and forcefully.
I feel like the media is pushing GEORGE FLOYD! Because once they sacrifice this one white officer. They are gonna think it's over.
NO MA'AM! It's a tipping point but gotdammit we should've BEEN tired. All these protests actually could've started on a random Tuesday because that's how much injustice every black faces collectively.
I'm just SICK of the media's mess and mishandling of this shit
Quote from: Bentley. THE Moderator. on June 10, 2020, 02:07:08 PM
This is not about kneeling on a man's neck, this is not just about police brutality.
For me it is
I shouldn't have to have a plan set in place on how to deal with a cop if I get pulled over so I don't accidentally get my head blown off :uhh:
I feel like Trayvon is the face
but when u really think about it..
we are all the faces (blacks)
there's a bit of all of us in them ..which only
means it could've been any of us
I was a bit......torn....on the handling of his funeral and how he is becoming the "face" of this movement. But I will just leave it at that because I know this is a sensitive subject.
He's not the face of anything
we still have a lot of coverage about Breonna and Ahmaud
not that it matters a Black man being murdered by cops is a black man murdered by cops
the man was close friends with a rich, popular basketball player
and was in porn though so its kind of expected that he is getting all the fanfare
no i don't want there to be a face. that enables people to diminish it to a circumstance instead of addressing it as the more broad, general, and indoctrinates issue that it is.
the white racists cops that kill need to be the face so that we are always reminded who the issue is.
Quote from: coffelia on June 10, 2020, 02:55:12 PM
no i don't want there to be a face. that enables people to diminish it to a circumstance instead of addressing it as the more broad, general, and indoctrinates issue that it is.
the white racists cops that kill need to be the face so that we are always reminded who the issue is.
Quote from: coffelia on June 10, 2020, 02:55:12 PM
no i don't want there to be a face. that enables people to diminish it to a circumstance instead of addressing it as the more broad, general, and indoctrinates issue that it is.
the white racists cops that kill need to be the face so that we are always reminded who the issue is.
Pretty much.
Quote from: 89 on June 10, 2020, 02:47:54 PM
He's not the face of anything
we still have a lot of coverage about Breonna and Ahmaud
not that it matters a Black man being murdered by cops is a black man murdered by cops
no we don't Ray.
they barely cover Breonna on the years!
And the media is definitely sensationalizing this and making George the face.
You don't see it? They aren't grasping the entire issue when that happens. And that's a problem for me