Stephen A. Smith goes IN on Colin Keapernick for not voiting

[Ronnie Lott]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/17/n...1973-police-shot-still-reverberates.html?_r=0

The year after Clifford Glover died, the number of shots fired by officers declined by nearly half.
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Like I said....it was WORSE in the 1970s.

Folks like you are more interested in winning online debates than researching your own people.

nikkaz is still gettin their brains blown out by the police, yet you're saying its "better now"

fukk outta here man. Now you're on some goofy shyt

 

[NYC Rebel]

nikkaz is still gettin their brains blown out by the police, yet you're saying its "better now"

fukk outta here man. Now you're on some goofy shyt

I said it's worse back then, not that "niqqas stopped getting shot."

You've been an idiot from jump.

Done with you

 

[NYC Rebel]

That's the thing. It could POTENTIALLY be a revolving door but the only consequence they get for screwing up is they get fired when people lose their life. That's why I feel how I do. The system is a bunch of bullshyt in regards to this cop thing. (I'm not saying don't vote locally) but the cop thing will always be a joke to me. I'm not trying to be right. I'd love to see a cop actually go to prison for a shooting. You really think I'd rather cops keep getting off so I can be right?

And it could POTENTIALLY provide change.

So what's better....not voting where it CERTAINLY won't change?

 

[Ronnie Lott]

I said it's worse back then, not that "niqqas stopped getting shot."

You've been an idiot from jump.

Done with you

nikka you probably sucked your teeth, rolled your neck and rolled your eyes when you typed that

nikka said "I'm done with you"

It ain't "better" now. The same shyt is happening to us

 

[NYC Rebel]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/17/n...1973-police-shot-still-reverberates.html?_r=0

This part in the article has me in TEARS

"That same day, word of the verdict reached a baseball field on the grounds of the South Jamaica Houses, known locally as the 40 Projects. Eric Adams, who was then a 13-year-old from the neighborhood, was waiting to bat.

“We were playing a Long Island team that happened to be all white,” said Mr. Adams, who became a police officer and is now the Brooklyn borough president. “When the news came out, about 200 people emerged on the field. They just took the baseball bats and started beating the white players, chanting, ‘Shea got away.’ ”

 

[Thegospel]

And it could POTENTIALLY provide change.

So what's better....not voting where it CERTAINLY won't change?

Well we kinda moved from Trump/Gulliani to district attorneys. I stilll don't gaf about voting for Trump and him appointing Rudy but I do believe local elections matter and that includes the DA even though I'm skeptical of them actually doing the right thing when shyt gets real.

 

[Rocket Scientist]

This is the mindset of a defeated person. You have much more power than just a vote my friend. That's what they want you to believe. That you have no choice but to go along with and have faith in the system of white supremacy.

Our ancestors didn't march for you just to be able to vote. They also marched so you wouldn't get shot like a dog by police in the street or have to beg white people to acknowledge you matter.

Bruh we still out here getting shot by police.They marched but here we are in 2016 going into 2017 and this is still a backward society.Funny thing is a local congressman and governor can hurt us more then a President,thats where our VOTE truly matters.States are cutting funding,raising taxes.

 

[ahdsend]

 

[Thegospel]

Another tough talker

 

[ahdsend]

Another tough talker

how bout dr. john henrik clarke.. he was a grown man before world war 2...

he saw all the changes n how the civil rights movement got co-opted..




"I must make a deeper assessment of the civil rights movement, when we began to dismantle the institutions in the black community and run toward everything white. When we got into the the NAACP syndrome, in that bag of worms called integration, that we should have never asked for. Had we asked for desegregation and justice we could integrate on our own terms or not integrate at all. You do not integrate institutions that hold you together culturally and spiritually. You can welcome them into your institutions but you do not change the rules to suit them."


"...in the Civil Rights Movement we reached for the wrong things. We thought the thing to be is to be like them, when we had a higher standard of morality than them. Why be like them? Why not set an example and let them be like you? We wanted to be close to them. We wanted our children to sit next to them and soak up education through osmosis and our children got cut to pieces. Many of our children could run rings around them educationally. Then why did they go to these white schools and got dumbed up and confused? We should have given our children strength and confidence when they went to school..."


"Let's go back and look at that period when the civil rights movement began to lose it's steam. When those who intended to control it began to get their acts together and systematically buy it off or destroy it. The high ceremonial point was the march on Washington. A picnic on the grass, a publicity, media miracle that achieved absolutely nothing...You got the illusion that we were moving forward but we were conceding something...when Kennedy could not control the march, he integrated it"


"...We kept asking for change but all some people wanted was entry in their master's house"


"We have to stop crying for other people's acceptance and...accept our selves and build ourselves and strengthen ourselves, the question is not whether they will accept us but whether we will accept them and on what terms."


"No one should call for black power unless someone has made up their minds on what you are going to do with it once you get it, beyond the slogan...We became a sloganizing people that subsituted slogans for action. We shouted "black is beautiful"...the world is not ruled by beauty or blackness. The world is ruled by power."


"the passive resistance of the civil rights movement was sold as a way of life. A strategy is never a way of life. A strategy is something you use, the same as you use an orange, when the juice is gone you through it in the garbge can."

 

[Jaylen Tatum]

 

[G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman]

Stephen A. should be ashamed of the c00ning. He was more mad at Kap than he was at Donald Sterling and Riley Cooper.

 

[joeychizzle]

In the United States this stuff is taught before you enter high school.

if that stuff is taught before high school shouldn't people be following this shyt to the letter

Yes exactly, the delegates that vote in the Electoral College are selected by your state representatives.

And no the media never talks about things like this. They are too busy either fear mongering or click baiting unfortunately

All of it is available to anyone who goes and actively looks it up of course.

American media has to be the dumbest media in the world I don't think there's any network (as far as i know) similar to fox news

lowkey? theres constant commercials in each city/state about voting yes/no on question 14, or yes/no on proposition 45, or vote so and so for assemblyman. if you simply register to vote, they are obligated to send you a full packet of ballot information, a sample ballot or whatever they call it, where theres pages of information about each question pertaining to you at the local and state levels. who is endorsing it, who is opposing it, their corresponding arguments, what happens if it passes or not etc. every voter gets one. its as simple as registering to vote. the one in clark county was pretty short this year, was only 5 questions. couple pages on each. friends in the bay area the shyt was a full on magazine. crack a beer, and read the shyt, and vote. takes a few hours max, and some of those questions and propositions pass by a couple dozen votes here or there over the threshold. at local levels, every vote matters. dont ever let someone tell you it doesnt. the people who tell folks their votes dont matter generally dont want you voting

were the local vote numbers as abysmal as the national vote numbers?? thanks for the info breh

oh, ok thought you were american....it's ok, i understand the frustration....to answer your questions:

yes, voting does make a difference...it's a reason why you see the powers that be fight so much over voting districts, rezoning/resizing of districts, etc....they trying to control the vote and dictate who will get picked from that area....

what you talking about is 2 different things...voting for the president is different from voting for local (city, state) reps....there are 2 elections: local and national, which affect each other....but people tend to think the national (president) vote is the only one that matters, ignoring the local (city, state) one...when in fact, people need to look at and participate in both....dont wanna take this thread off track, so i started a thread in TLC called 'Let's talk about how voting really works'....i want to use that, with the help of others, to help educate people on how the shyt really works...so they can stop going off myths, what ifs, well i thoughts, etc....you can check it, ask questions there, and hopefully it helps you understand our system more...

Thanks breh, I get it now. Now I know why some folks on my fb feed were blowing up about vote local. I was like who gives a fukk about some dusty reps, they're just puppets that fill a void:fohmayne:

but now i know they're the major key

 

[mr. smoke weed]

if that stuff is taught before high school shouldn't people be following this shyt to the letter

Breh one of the guys who works in the factory was telling me how his kid who's 11 was having a mock election in class. And there is flyers everywhere and commercials on tv all the time. Hows it where you live around election time?

 

[Suleiman Bey]

Saban took a political stance?