heaven05
heaven05's Journalamerikan justice
the best in the world, for incarcerating innocent minorities and shooting them down unarmed or choking them to death for selling untaxed cigarettes on the street or having skittles and tea in your hands and looking thuggish in your own neighborhood to a wannabe policeman. The list goes on and on. Yep, the best in the world.
sarcasm smilie just in case
no argument from me
none are without 'sin'. Just a fact that this system has been killing people the same as others on the planet. It's just that 'totalitarians make no pretensions about freedom, justice. No argument. This country just has to live up to it's ideals for just once in 250+ years. Never happen, no precedent.
oversight? neutral authority?
in theory, yes. PRACTICE, hell no!!!! "peacefully address abuses"??? Where the courts usually side with the corporation(s) perpetrating the abuses? BP only got fined because it affected so many people and such a large geographical area. That is still a rare occurrence. Your reality is not everyone's reality. And you have nothing to be proud of, in my opinion.
oh please!!!!
geez.
Your type of excusing/justifying of police and prosecutor misconduct is getting old and stale. We do not know what was done to these two individuals to get them to "confess". The courts usually side with law enforcement in cases such as these where the challenged individual doesn't really understand their rights or the alleged perp is a minority. And these two were mentally challenged I've read.....so they didn't stand a chance with the amerikkkan justice system......and you're right, if the original perp was African-american, all were open to charges and these two 'won' the prize...what about Brown and Martin.....they were African-american. Did they deserve their 'punishment'? Just a question as to your mindset.
truly
I was trying to remember this the other day while driving around. Got busy and slipped my mind before I could 'net it' to find out. thanks. Grew up with this song.
no
they prove my point every time they might get offended at someone pointing out their 'white privilege(s) that are CLEARLY denied others on the basis of race. I don't offend, I point to the truth as the situation warrants and let the majority rule. What can I point to as 'white privilege vs none for a minority/black/brown person? DWB. WWB. Guilty until proven innocent. Black, these days(always really) with nice, new, shiny car, stopped for suspected drug dealing. Longer sentencing for blacks with very same record for the very same crime than a white person. I could go on and on, ending on an unarmed young man laying in the street, DEAD, because he was 'jaywalking' and some racist, pigshit with a badge and a gun shot him 10 times for mouthing off. Did I mention he had his hands up in surrender. Did I mention skittles and tea? Did I mention being choked to death on the streets for selling loose cigarettes to get some money to try to eat. Did I mention that it is still happening all over america to blacks many more times than anyone white only because of RACE?
Nine out of ten stops for 'probable cause', both walking and driving and executions like Ferguson, Mo and Sanford Fla. DO NOT happen to even the poorest white. White privilege is a fact and white people avail themselves to that privilege every second of every day of their life because it is offered, to them, as a cultural, societal benefit in this racist cesspool called america.
Offensive? I hope so. I'm not trying to soften my statement on white privilege for anyone one this board. I will not worry about "offending" someone's feeling when by and large those offended by my statement on white privilege care nothing about my feelings or life even. The zimmerman trial showed me that. I can't wait for wilson's trial IF it happens.
No, I'm proving my point..equality is not here yet. When all are just as Dr. King envisioned, then white privilege will be privilege enjoyed by all americans regardless of race or socio-economic standing.
Man!
that brown man in the white house surely scared a bunch of people who are afraid of losing their self perceived supremacy and privilege, didn't he? This culture let their crazy out from under the rocks and loosed it from the swamps cause of President Barack Hussein Obama. Hate radio and fux news has created a monster and the genie cannot be put back into the bottle until these gun nutters know all people ARE NOT intimidated by their lunacy and don't have to put up with this BS!
BINGO!
Yep, huge pickup guy was............part of the network of people who enjoy white privilege. You won't, ever. Glad you handled yourself well, got no ticket and are not shot dead in the street as a black scary threat to society because of your 2014 Nissan Altima. It's getting worse. Whereas in my area I have not been getting second glances from our local gendarmes. Since the Ferguson execution of Michael Brown, they are starting to look intently at me if I'm driving by. I've got a 95 Honda, they really can't use that suspected drug dealer because of nice new car lie routine for stopping an individual.
I think these type(s) of people in their hearts know that they are racist and still they think they have power to indiscriminately kill, detain, torture people of color and with guns and the sanction of the state, they do. And that sanction is allowed to the citizen(s) like "huge pick up-guy". Spell that zimmerman-pig. Morally they rank with the beast(s) of the fields and they also know that.
Glad you made it big guy.
on edit: interactions in public places seem more restrained/tense. People are feeling this..........racial discord in public.
no waste of time
totally disagree. Why have things changed so little in 50 years? Because the same institutional and systemic racism is still here. It is perpetuated by people who enjoy certain cultural and societal privileges that are denied to other precisely because of the color of their skin. Nothing pure or naive about believing in equality for all. It's a goddamn right. Forty years ago there was a glimmer of hope on the horizon that change was on the way. NOPE!!!! 2014 and BECAUSE of a brown skin man in the white house threatening the perceived supremacy and privilege of a certain segment of the population, the racist swamps of AMERICAN CULTURE HAS DISGORGED LEGIONS OF IGNORANT AND WILLFULLY RACIST PEOPLE INTO OPEN SOCIETY. Yeah we keep voting for politicians we hope will make systemic changes to the privileged system some enjoy because of the color of their skin but nope............no change yet. Cosmetic, but no real change.
It's all figured out. Some on both sides of the political spectrum don't want change 50 years after "I Have a Dream". Still dreaming.
willful ignorance
and distraction takes the sting out of truth for some people. They really are clueless. Racism, white privilege, bigotry, prejudice, civil/human rights rolled back punctuated by bullets into unarmed people, voting right rolled back. All ignored because........???? Many reasons. The truth hurts.
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