Maryland has declared a State-of-Emergency in Baltimore. 1,500 National Guard Troops deployed (PICS)

[Big Boda]

They may not own it, but they are the only ones truly affected by the destruction

stopped reading there. The whites whos businesses got destroyed arent so covered by insurance that their money flow wont be hurt by the destruction. Most of the few black owned businesses in the areas were protected.

 

[Tommy Knocks]

So you don't think those "wealthy aristocrats" had ties to the monarchy? All the semantics aside my point stands. They had a problem with the tea tax so they attacked the source. If the tea was destroyed then neither the company nor England could benefit. It's not like they had an issue with the tea tax then went and destroyed a French Coffee ship.

well, they are attacking the police and destroying their property....
https://scontent-lax.xx.fbcdn.net/hvideo-xfp1/v/t42.1790-2/11158438_857653264294461_621528811_n.mp4?efg=eyJxZSI6ImZiY2RuX3ZpZGVvX3JhdGVsaW1pdF9yb2xsb3V0Mix2X3JvbGxvdXQifQ==&oh=dd04937a279405014707344ffc3df8a0&oe=5540774D

you've got white folks in gentrified areas looting and kids looking for kicks but they've reported about 100 of those guys compared to the 10,000 rallying peacefully or going head up with the police. yet you choose to focus on the 1% HMMMM.

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

well, they are attacking the police and destroying their property....
https://scontent-lax.xx.fbcdn.net/hvideo-xfp1/v/t42.1790-2/11158438_857653264294461_621528811_n.mp4?efg=eyJxZSI6ImZiY2RuX3ZpZGVvX3JhdGVsaW1pdF9yb2xsb3V0Mix2X3JvbGxvdXQifQ==&oh=dd04937a279405014707344ffc3df8a0&oe=5540774D

you've got white folks in gentrified areas looting and kids looking for kicks but they've reported about 100 of those guys compared to the 10,000 rallying peacefully or going head up with the police. yet you choose to focus on the 1% HMMMM.

Breh, I don't care about the act of looting or rioting. That's fine with me. I'm not trying to turn these people into villains. All I'm saying is they need to join those white kids looting in suburbia.

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

It's crazy how CNN got all these black news anchors on the scene when the sun goes down. Anderson Cooper bytch ass wasn't afraid to report live from overseas but afraid to report news in Baltimore?

 

[Tommy Knocks]

Breh, I don't care about the act of looting or rioting. That's fine with me. I'm not trying to turn these people into villains. All I'm saying is they need to join those white kids looting in suburbia.

They got barricaded in very very early on (they did the same in ferg). the police werent allowing the kids to get on the bus to go back home, or use it as transportation, they blocked them off.

and downtown is being hit. I think some protesters native to the area were being agitated by the cops so they just started bussin' heads.

 

[cole phelps]

New York City draft riots of 1863

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_draft_riots

The New York City draft riots (July 13–16, 1863), known at the time as Draft Week,[2] were violent disturbances in New York City that were the culmination of working-class discontent with new laws passed by Congress that year to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War. The riots remain the largest civil and racial insurrection in American history, aside from the Civil War itself.[3]

this shyt made me mad

 

[Gizza]

Oh to let y'all cacs & c00ns know. I was at work n of course this dumb bytch says "I guess the blaccs are riotin it's stupid" & another said "I know racism" meanwhile ya boy had to exit towards the break room.

Keep in mind one bytch 25 & the other mid 30's but "post racial america"

 

[3rdWorld]

Certain aspects of separation I agree with , primarily on an economic level. Still, after seeing the way these fools were rioting, and lets be honest here as some were acting a damn fool, word to King T. Considering that, do you think we'll ever be ready to have a discussion on weeding out the other elements that need to go? Ya know, the same fools that some of these jackazzes on here are celebrating and cheering for?

Can only happen as a collective effort.

Critical question: If all the enlightened intelligent Blacks somehow got together and decided to concentrate themselves in one area and do business and life with no c00ns and street dudes around would the c00ns follow them or choose to remain under the boot of white america?

 

[KeysT]

Ain't no statement to be made. Statements are for community representatives and leaders. sSatements are for organizations dedicated to a cause.

Those people in Baltimore are not an organization nor do they officially represent that community. They're just pissed off. That's what a riot is, anger. It's cac rhetoric to reframe the violence as a mistaken attempt to get a point across. They say that to justify their feeling that blacks are simply uncivilized, that we don't deserve justice because we are childish and ignorant. To them, saying "rioting isn't helping, black people are ignorant", justifies the wrong doing of the police forces across America. It rids them of guilt.

The goal of a riot is to destroy shyt. The reason for the riot is anger. The cause of the anger is injustice. Dislike the riots? Quit killing black people. I suppose that's the inadvertent statement, actually.

Seriously underrated post.

 

[Red Shield]

Oh to let y'all cacs & c00ns know. I was at work n of course this dumb bytch says "I guess the blaccs are riotin it's stupid" & another said "I know racism" meanwhile ya boy had to exit towards the break room.

Keep in mind one bytch 25 & the other mid 30's but "post racial america"

shyt was never going to go away. They will just instill their babies with it and reinforce it as they age.

Really I think the past decade was as good, as race relations were ever going to get.

 

[Scientific Playa]

this shyt made me mad

glad you took a few minutes out to check it out.

it negates the ....but but, they (animals/savages) are destroying their own chit/neighborhood posts that proliferated these threads on the topic.

 

[3rdWorld]

Baltimore on the news looks better than when I was last there a decade ago..

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

 

[NobodyReally]

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/act...-broken-windows-are-worse-than-broken-spines/



"And you are making a comparison. You are suggesting this idea that broken windows are worse than broken spines, right?"

 

[newworldafro]

I want to reiterate that the mayor not "jumpin the gun" literally with "extra resources", and letting the local police and protestors try and work it out was the right maneuver. The overzealous a$$holes, in the media and commenters in social media, asking her why she ain't send in platoons of soldiers to fight 50% teenagers need to be dismissed. She did the right thing...if she had sent in troops up against kids and hot tempered adults right away, people in Bmore would be going at her for being a stooge. Like she said, she took a measured approach, and when it clearly looked like it was unstable to handle, she went to the next step.

Get off the mayor's back