Being passionate doesn't justify her pretending her opinion is the only valid one and that anyone that doesn't quite agree deserves to be labeled an ignorant racist.

i'm just trying to answer the thread's question. she's passionate about black issues, she's black. we're not black, we're not passionate about black issues. seems perfectly logical to me.

Her arguments often come off sounding like police brutality is worse when it targets black people than other races. I don't think she actually feels that way but the way she presents her arguments make it sound like that. I understand it's a problem rooted in racism(for black people) but the issue in it's entirety goes beyond targeting black people.

I think the main reason people get annoyed about social issues, at least when discussed on the internet, is because more often than not advocates on both sides turn to generalizations and demagoguery to get their point across. Instead of a discussion they inevitably become mad libs in the form of "all ______ are _______" where you just fill in the blanks with whatever you want. "All Republicans are out of touch, bible bashing anti-intellectuals" "All Democrats are heartbleeding, latte sipping, European envying anti-Americans" or indeed "All cops are authority abusing racists". All you do with that is completely shutdown any kind of discussion and leave a line in the sand that keeps two sides from ever seeing anything eye-to-eye.

I feel like I should mention that I am using the general version of the word "you", not naming anybody specifically.

no, her argument is that police brutality happens more often to black people than white.

No what? I didn't comment about what her argument is. Not sure what you're trying to contradict.

well no I didn't get what you got from her posts here I guess. she didn't post about white people getting beaten or killed by police because that's not the issue shes talking about, not because they aren't equally as terrible.

Thanks I thought so too, which is why I felt the need to ask.

This part kind of sounds like people bringing up the issue of solution is a bad thing.

Then you're saying here that we need that discussion that you just called a bad thing.

And here you say we have to talk about it. So which is it? Or are you just rambling at this point?

All Petes are loathsome.

Excellent point!!!

I will come back and discuss the black on black crime and police brutality but I want to respond to this one

You are right, this is the problem.

I think the mentality of this generation "black youth" is very different from the past. We still experience similiar racial issues as our past ancestors did but I don't think this generation fights as hard as in the past. Also, I don't think we really have any current black leaders and I personally think that makes a difference. No I am not talking about no Al Sharpton or Jesse J.

We need someone with an influential platform that wants to invest in making changes and risk their life to do it like MLK did but ya know we don't have that. The current influential blacks just care about money and image thats the only difference I see now compared to the past.

In the past, everybody was on the same page ( black celebrities, politicians, regular folk, activists etc) which is what made us strong. Muhammid Ali, Stevie Wonder, James Brown, etc were all down there marching with Martin Luther King Jr in the streets but the current black pop stars of today wouldn't spit on you if you were on fire, its sad how far things have changed.


That's why I always ask why cant social issues be discussed in music anymore because thats all especially African American singers did all through the 60's during the civil rights movement. The whole purpose of it was to bring awareness to a problem that got people thinking (whether people want to admit it or not that does help in making a difference).


Black people, when we are united are strong. No one can't stop us but there is currently a lot of division within our community.

The black youth today need some direction in how they channel their energy when someone does wrong by them. We rioted in the 60's too but we also had someone like MLK who said "No that is not cool, lets do it a different way" we don't have that now.