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Originally Posted by transplant99
So you are condoning violence? The wilful injuring of innocent people and destruction of local business, schools and homes?
Is this what you are saying?
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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
If I'm a black guy in the States, I think I'd probably believe violence against me was sponsored by the state, condoned and accepted, so yeah, I get why they'd want to resort to rioting. I don't know about targeting homes, schools and people (has that actually happened?) but if the only way you are going to get attention to this serious problem is going wild in the streets, then yeah, go for it.
Like it was pointed out, they were peacefully demonstrating for days and nobody paid attention. I'd never even heard of this case before yesterday and that says a couple things: 1) it's so commonplace now that a story of an unarmed black guy dying in police custody under mysterious circumstances goes un-noticed and 2) nobody cares.
If I think nobody cares about me, why do I care about them?
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I guess I am condoning the violence.
Violence is almost always a last resort, so, if there is such a massive group of people that feel that powerless then who am I to judge their efforts to gain power over their own lives, even if it is just momentarily?
Edit: Condone is the wrong word anyway. I
understand the violence, but I'm some white jabroni Canadian, I'm not in a position to really 'condone' anything that's going on there.
I try to understand what it must be like to have the system of local and federal governments aligned against you, but of course I can't.