Not enough to scare anyone.
Maryland has declared a State-of-Emergency in Baltimore. 1,500 National Guard Troops deployed (PICS)
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Not enough to scare anyone.
I don't agree with that one, if we pull our money away from the non black businesses we patronize, we can make a HUGE dent.
The police have paid out millions of dollars in brutality settlements, that is taxpayers money
Awesome point my breh
It doesn't get press but the NYPD is giving out cash settlements on the regular for the conduct of their officers. Once the huge ones get press, but best believe the CCRB (civilian complaint review board) has been severely understaffed and they've been hiring more workers to handle the workload.
RIGHT!! they acting like the shyt wasn't raggedy before they started. Blocks upon blocks of abandoned property.That's what I don't get. Got reporters talking about "Baltimore has never looked this bad"You have parts of the West side that have been in great need for improvement and now people want to talk about uplifting the community now that everything has popped off.
but those leaders were never in govt. you need people outside govt because those in govt move slowly and have to answer to those that keep them there. if the black mayor you elect can't do shyt for you then elect someone else. let him know why he doesn't have your vote. people just want big names to cry to. EVERYTHING IS ABOUT YOUR LOCAL GOVT. fukk national politics, i don't care what obama has to say about my city, honestly what can he do for me at that level (i know what he can do at other levels and he has my support there)?
i have my city commissioner (and local state rep and state senator) in my phone contacts. i donate to them. when i call my city commissioner about shyt he needs to deal with, it gets done. let me tell you the secret about local politics and black politicians. they don't give a shyt about us young blacks for the most part because we don't vote. they sure give a shyt what the elderly and church going set feel though. i remember when my black state senator was championing a saggy pants bill that some repub cac introduced a few years ago. i called that mothefukker likeyou're trying to create more laws that force police to interact negatively with young black people? he was like man my base (church going blacks and elderly blacks) are tired of these young cats walking around with their pants around their knees. i was like, but you gotta tell them that nothing good is going to come from police harassing their sons and grandsons like that. the stiffer sentencing for crack that everyone was so up in arms about until obama and the dem congress got rid of. well it was the congressional black caucus in the 80's that championed the stiffer sentence because crack was destroying the black community and this was their response. the black voter class is responsible for a lot of fukked up laws when they team up with the other side. best thing i can say is help change the makeup of the black vote class.
It's not just the mayor though, he has no power....need a lot more black representation in all levels of govt. There also needs to be dialogue with community leaders as well.... Policies are created by white males. We need to work just like how they work. Corruption. Need money for that.
Obama is a figurehead. Only delsuional nikkaz thought there'd be any change when he got elected. We're pretty much agreeing on the same shyt.
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Obama is the leader of a nation, not the black community.aqualung said:
I'm not talking about that. I'm talking on a grand scale. If blacks boycotted Audi....you think they'd care much?
A few clowns? There is nothing but rioting, where is this peaceful protesting taking place?
And even if there was any legitimate protesting going that is moot now because looting will gain no sympathy, this is beyond embarrassing.
Rioting when you tear up your own shyt isn't the answer........Tear up THEIR shyt.
Then you hurt em in the wallet and most importantly, vote for people and get them in office at ALL LEVELS
I don't know. Blacks have always fought their battles (in America at least).
They sitting back like
Their money.
You seem more concerned about the rhetoric the media is shoving down your throat than the question how does a cuffed suspect end up with a cracked spine and a crushed voice box.
Ask questions about the injustice, not about the response of a frustrated and ignored people.
Target the areas where we ARE huge consumers.