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

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Today, April 30, Operation Help or Hush is focusing on babies. They will be working to provide things like baby food, formula, snacks for toddlers, diapers and wipes.

You can donate to OHOH here!

You can also drop off items in person from 3-6pm at 655 N Bentalou (St Marks Church)!

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

 

[loyola llothta]

“That’s an idea and that could be legislation,” McDonough responded. “I think that you could make the case that there is a failure to do proper parenting and allowing this stuff to happen, is there an opportunity for a month to take away your food stamps?”

He also suggested we scientifically study the root cause of our “thug nation”

 

[loyola llothta]

If you happen to be a person who has felt it necessary this week to enter conversations about police brutality or pervasive racial inequality or riots in order to insert your concern for Baltimore residents and business owners affected by the small faction of otherwise peaceful, nonviolent protesters rallying after the recent death of Freddie Gray, stand down. Can it be a given that empathy is not zero sum? We can acknowledge that the system is fukked up and broken, or that we’re in dire need of an infrastructural overhaul, or that people who are routinely terrorized and fear for their lives are perhaps logically justified in feeling angry or even daring to express that anger publicly — none of this also implies an automatic condoning of burning Baltimore to the ground.



You don’t have to condone violence to understand the overwhelming anger and frustration from which it is born

 

[loyola llothta]

There is a ritual that accompanies these moments of protest by black Americans, and the wholly predictable urban unrest that follows the repeated killings of unarmed black people by police. The high priests of public opinion take to the TV, radio and Internet and summon the memory of Brother Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to condemn black folks who are “rioting,” for the latter are violating the sacred covenant of “nonviolence” that King, as one of America’s greatest leaders and martyrs, supposedly died for.

How Dr. King’s legacy is being diluted by white liberals, Fox News and everyone in between

 

[The D-List Vet]

hope they never find out who did this to him tho...

 

[The D-List Vet]

I don't choose sides anymore because history repeats itself.
If you choose peace you are violently killed
If you choose violence you are peacefully moved into a jail cell
Opposites attract

You're sounding like one of these ppl

 

[Greenhornet]

You're sounding like one of these ppl

yeah if you're into assumptions
and labeling people while you're fighting to not be labeled yourself

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

Not surprising at all. People outside of Bmore have NO IDEA how racist it actually is. I was talking to someone about that today. They don't understand it. Its like a different world in some places with the attitudes people have and the way they openly treat you. They don't try to hide it.

My buddy lives there...apparently 45 minutes away from Bmore on 695 is the town of Rising Sun. The birthplace of the KKK.

Everytime I drive through 695 with friends...I hope I honestly never break down or run out of gas anywhere near there.

IMO...it should be that town in flames and not Baltimore.

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

Amerikkka.

 

[humble forever]

that crowd looks a little white. is this a pumpkin riot


also what the fukk is up with blasting someone in the face from that close. is that legal? that girl is probably blind now. i bet that fractured her eye socket

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

You're sounding like one of these ppl

He's white, breh.

 

[PhonZhi]

this shyt made me mad

Good.This is how learning more and more about our history SHOULD make us feel. I recently learned about the Black Wallstreet incident and everytime i think about what whites did to us there i get heated. Thats why its soooo important to know our history and past struggles. White people are hiding and suppressing the past for a reason