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19. Stop it already. It's not a game to joke about to black people

Reply to Algernon Moncrieff (Reply #13)

Sun Jul 26, 2015, 03:20 PM

Jul 2015

Tell me how many white Sandra Blands, Michael Browns, Tamir Rices, Eric Garners, Oscar Grants, Walter Scotts and on and on and on and on have there been recently?

Black people are being gunned down so please stop with actions that take the focus off the immediate, critical issue.

Please help with the black lives matter movement.

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Spiders shenmue Jul 2015 #1

They're fine to play "The Spider Symphony" with . . . Journeyman Jul 2015 #2

I do. They eat all the bad stuff Warpy Jul 2015 #4

Fleas... I can't think of a single purpose for those blood sucking, monsterous 1monster Jul 2015 #42

Fire ants. Igel Jul 2015 #8

Ticks, Japanese Beetles, Fleas, Bedbugs Algernon Moncrieff Jul 2015 #12

I don't think that is the point. It seems as if black lives can be ended with impunity and on djean111 Jul 2015 #3

I get that, although I think other groups might make that claim as well Algernon Moncrieff Jul 2015 #5

It seems to me that black lives have been casually dismissed, for the most part, in the US, djean111 Jul 2015 #22

Call me back when whites fear going to the corner store nadinbrzezinski Jul 2015 #6

I know whites that fear going outside their gated community Algernon Moncrieff Jul 2015 #13

I am sure this is not as common as you think. nadinbrzezinski Jul 2015 #14

Stop it already. It's not a game to joke about to black people brush Jul 2015 #19

Obviously not equivalent, but it is indicative... beevul Jul 2015 #35

Terrorists? NutmegYankee Jul 2015 #7

Apparently, when it comes to many in law enforcement... ljm2002 Jul 2015 #9

you do miss the point about BLM edhopper Jul 2015 #10

Yes. We just don't hear about it. historylovr Jul 2015 #15

And if this were raised in the context of BLM ... 1StrongBlackMan Jul 2015 #28

This group ... GeorgeGist Jul 2015 #11

Those are the usual suspects at large. Rex Jul 2015 #37

Sure--the 99%, for all intents and purposes Orrex Jul 2015 #16

Mimes. So annoying. ;-) One of the 99 Jul 2015 #17

This thread is in poor taste. murielm99 Jul 2015 #18

+1 pinboy3niner Jul 2015 #20

I agree. nt City Lights Jul 2015 #21

- 1,000 lunatica Jul 2015 #23

Republicans... ileus Jul 2015 #24

In the United States, yes BillZBubb Jul 2015 #25

ISIS NobodyHere Jul 2015 #26

Trashed. DinahMoeHum Jul 2015 #27

The Cooking and Baking Group Kaleva Jul 2015 #29

Chicken - for cryin out loud Algernon Moncrieff Jul 2015 #45

So, it's not just the Bernie supporters who don't azmom Jul 2015 #30

Of course not. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jul 2015 #33

So true. azmom Jul 2015 #34

Well judging by what we see in real life, I would say with respects to our nation Rex Jul 2015 #31

Then, there's the brown people living overseas. Octafish Jul 2015 #32

Yes they even have a bullshit corporate term for it Rex Jul 2015 #36

That's mine! Octafish Jul 2015 #40

I was going to add older women. femmocrat Jul 2015 #44

Based on posts, to most DU posters cops lives don't matter Lee-Lee Jul 2015 #38

Well every cop story on DU is 50 police brutality, 1 police do a good thing. Rex Jul 2015 #41

No man is an island, Tierra_y_Libertad Jul 2015 #39

If ALL LIVES MATTERED MerryBlooms Jul 2015 #43