Discussion for article #230556
Glad to see the Hunan Chop Suey is still standing.
While I’m not endorsing this behavior, and and it seems like some of these “protesters” are just opportunistic looters, I as a white dude cannot comment on the black experience in America. I figure 200+ years of oppression can wear a person down.
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And that comment puts you into the “most rational” category for this topic over the last 24 hours. And it was even snark.
Maybe those businesses were just hit at random as rioters lashed out in raw anger, but in some riots in black neighborhoods in the past, some businesses had reputations for treating black customers badly. There might be a context here those of us outside the town know nothing about.
Did anyone else get a feeling from the prosecutor’s press conference that he was a candidate? He felt like someone trying to use this to run for higher office. Given the job he has now, I found myself thinking he’s planning to run for state AG.
morons. these jackasses who committed these crimes have just provided that nail in the coffin for that community. ask the people of watts how well they recovered those looted and businesses.
i also don’t discount the likelihood that provocation was provided by stooges of the fbi/missouri state police.
And so they will end up with a dead kid and nothing else. If you wish to be perceived as a savage, deserving the kind of treatment Brown got, you need do more than this.
These people are shitting on themselves. So just let it go. Forget Ferguson…it’s not worth anyone’s attention. Fuck em.
Right. Because anyone who lashes out angrily in a moment of anger and despair deserves to be mocked and stomped on by more privileged people.
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No, fuck you. Justice denied is oppression realized. Let’s see how you react to living your entire life feeling powerless, denied opportunity and abused by the system and its authorities, and then having it brought to a head in this manner, shoving the institutionalization of your plight mercilessly in your face as if to taunt you with your helplessness, your enforced inability to do anything to change the world you live in. What you’re watching is the natural result of our society’s refusal to address these issues and what happens when communities plagued by decades of systematic mistreatment and systemic failure exercise the only power we’ve left to them. So be it.
Burn, Ferguson, burn.
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Bricks thrown at police, 2 police cars burned, gun seized by police. Tonight was disappointing. #FergusonDecision
Disappointed that they the police weren’t greeted as liberators?
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I don’t see their children frequently lying face down on a hot street for 4 hours with 6 bullet wounds, 3 in the head, as a result of an unnecessary confrontation with white police officer who couldn’t leave well enough alone, escalated the needless confrontation he initiated and then fired 12 bullets at him.
Your examples are bullshit. None of them suffer the continuing oppression and authoritarian targeting by the police that the black community does nor suffered the history of widespread slavery…and with the exception of the Native American community…segregation and treatment as something less than human that it has, WHICH CONTINUES UNABATED TODAY. None of them. Your petty reference to shit my own ancestors faced, like “No Irish Need Apply”, is nothing compared to the ongoing mistreatment of the black and minority communities in this country.
You’re clearly nothing but an agitator troll who has shown up here suddenly to comment on the Ferguson stories and make irrational arguments just to annoy people. Fap yourself silly over it or go back to Red State…nobody gives a fuck.
But hey, just for your education, when the oppression was still ongoing, the Irish still hold the gold medal:
Of course…guess who they paid special “attention” to while rioting (that’s right, black people).
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Ah, the old “treat them like animals, they’ll act like animals” defense. Nicely condescending.
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That’s not at all what I said. Go fuck your strawman.
In fact, I’m pretty sure that any intelligent person with reading comprehension beyond a third grade level would be able to understand that central to what I said was that their response is, in fact, the epitome of human. History teaches us as much. Ignore it all you want. We’ll just keep getting this same result.
Because anyone who lashes out angrily in a moment of anger and despair deserves to be mocked and stomped on by more privileged people.
I certainly don’t blame them for smashing police cars. But when they lash out at the structure of their own community rather than their oppressors? Yes.
That’s nice. But, you should know, that black people don’t have the luxury of leaving the discussion on race, police brutality, etc. But maybe you will understand when the consequences of your blinkered ignorance and privilege when someone crushes your world and takes all that you hold dear without the slightest measure of accountability.
Perhaps we should start a revenge riot fund to charter busses to the neighborhoods of the prosecutor and police officer? In all seriousness, people tend to rage in the environment they have, not the environment they wish the had. Plus, the police seemed content to secure the police station and little else downtown.
I’d pay to see just how “militaristic” the St. Louis police get if this community decided they were going to march their asses straight into town to the nicest, closest white people neighborhood they could find and THEN riot like it’s 1964. You’d see a whole new level of fucked up because THAT would finally get peoples’ attention. THAT wouldn’t just have the MSM chiding the black community in a parental monotone…oh no…THAT would have outraged white bobbleheads flinging spittle at the cameras. I’d love it.
Ha, ha, ha, ha. Did you honestly just equate the experience of being black in America, a black male in America, with the experience of being Irish and Italian in America?
My grandmother went to work in a mill, under fairly brutal conditions, when she was 12. Her husband came home from WWI and spent the next 40 years in a mill. My other grandfather was a tanner for 40 years. Both of my parents dropped out of high school to help support their families. My “experience” in America is fairly typical for working-class Irish Americans. But I’d have to be completely delusional to think that my experience even remotely resembled the experience of being black in the U.S., especially of that of being poor and black.
There is no white analog to being black in the U.S. Period.
Because southern/central Europeans were eventually allowed to “become white” and receive the full benefits of American society.
Doesn’t take hard work to be co-opted in a divide an conquer strategy. It does take hard work and a lot of excuses to justify it.
Edited to remove insult