destroying property/looting/physically harming others is NOT the answer!...

[Kuwka_Atcha_Ratcha]

Why are you bringing up the robbery? Why is it relevant?

the dude who owns the store was targeted because the robbery happened in the store, to me this is ridiculous and the relevance is the thread is about looting dude got looted

 

[Pifferry]

the dude who owns the store was targeted because the robbery happened in the store, to me this is ridiculous and the relevance is the thread is about looting dude got looted

Oh okay, I was just used to arguing with people who brought it up to defend Darren Wilson and justify Michael Brown being murdered.

 

[Kuwka_Atcha_Ratcha]

Oh okay, I was just used to arguing with people who brought it up to defend Darren Wilson and justify Michael Brown being murdered.

nah I think the police guy should be in prison for what he did,

but at the same time as black people we have to figure out why the youth think its okay to rob. but in no way did he deserve death at the verrrry most a night in jail if that,

 

[151_Pr00f]

Heard a laundromat and family dollar was burned down. If yall gone burn and loot (which ultimately accomplishes nothing in my opinion) don't go burning the stores black folk actually frequent somewhat regularly. If most of these 2 dozen franchises damaged decide not to rebuild or relocate they gone be hurt.

 

[Higher Tech]

Violence in Ferguson

I was around in 1964 when the first so-called "long-hot-summer" riot flared up in Harlem, N.Y. It too was sparked by the killing of an unarmed young black man (James Powell) by a white cop (Thomas Gilligan). I remember all of the tsk, tsks from older, more established leadership about "tearing up your own community," acting like savages and making things worse for black people in general. I bought none of it, and neither did most of my peers. The riots were invigorating to us, therapeutic. They were direct refutations of the horrifying and infuriating television images that blanketed us during those days; images of helpless civil rights workers being assaulted by frothing white mobs or snarling police dogs.

The riots, or rebellions as we later called them, were our way of saying; we aint' with that. So, when younger black leaders began talking about "revolution," the smell of burning buildings gave their words some resonance. Those buildings kept burning until this country had experienced urban unrest in almost 300 cities by 1969 when the pace eased a bit. By then, many affirmative action programs had been initiated and other changes had occurred. Companies were so desperate to hire black folks, I was hired at the Associated Press (considered a journalistic jewell) while still a student at Rutgers.

I'm just saying ... remember these things when we tell the Ferguson folks to be cool. And, of course, I'm not implying that violence works. How absurd would that be?

Written by an elder.

 

[↓R↑LYB]

well friend this is what happens when you live with your oppressor and your oppressors offspring. it is...what it is. there is no way around it. unless we leave. and then where are we going to go where the white man in general has not perverted said place?

I'm leaving breh. And after the bullshyt grand jury decision my girl called me and said she's ready to leave whenever I am. I'm a super pessimist and I honestly don't see my people waking up in my lifetime. Too many of us simply love white people too much. We don't want to move away from them and do for ourselves within America, and we damn sure don't want to leave.

5 years max I'll be somewhere in Africa most likely (Accra Ghana is top of my list right now). Y'all can stay in in this hell if y'all want and keep fighting to be accepted by the wickedest group of people on planet earth. Once I leave, I doubt my black ass will ever step foot inside of this country again. I have a deep hatred in my heart for this country and the terrorists who stole it from the true Americans.

 

[Dzali OG]

talk for yourself, I own. and live in an amazing community where we don't burn down whats around us.

Ok...I'm not about to debate you.

When you're ready, it'll hit you.

 

[GetInTheTruck]

Darren Wilson is out there giving live interviews bare-face and all that yet people here support tearing down the businesses of people in their own neighborhoods. Tell me how that makes sense.

 

[GetInTheTruck]

@BelowTheMasonDixon sorry man, but you got to go on ignore.

You don't get it and never will...hopefully you do. And I don't feel like explaining it to you.

Like I said it's real easy to support the senseless destruction of a neighborhood you don't live in, from the comforts of your own home. Damn breh. you're such a revolutionary.

 

[meth68]

Like I said it's real easy to support the senseless destruction of a neighborhood you don't live in, from the comforts of your own home. Damn breh. you're such a revolutionary.

Agreed,

Lastnight someone burnt down Mike Brown Sr.'s Church

 

[BrothaZay]

Why are you bringing up the robbery? Why is it relevant?

nikka stfu wat they doin to this dude is wrong af

 

[Xerces]

So why not get at the cops.... what do the businesses being looted have to do with anything

Being angry doesn't justify doing stupid, counterproductive things.

Exactly go get at the police officers, the police station go get at some politicians ,the judge, the lawyers, nope screw all that, we're going after the snicker bars that will show em

 

[Bone$]

http://gawker.com/actually-riots-are-good-the-economic-case-for-riots-i-1663629918

Economic response...


And this goes deeper..

http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/in-defense-of-looting/


Let that marinate in ur media driven brains for a bit.

 

[Pifferry]

nikka stfu wat they doin to this dude is wrong af

I agree.

 

[Blankthawtz]

ok...apparently some of the slow folk couldn't get past the thread title to actually read my post (Thread title was just the politically correct response the media has been saying ever since the decision was made)....i wasn't sayin rioting/violence won't happen or shouldn't happen...my complaint was with the rioting takin place in your own community instead of at the person(s) you are actually mad at....don't burn down your own shyt...burn down THEIR shyt....don't loot and destroy your things in your community...loot and destroy THEIR things in THEIR community....go to the courthouse and express your anger...find out where police officer Wilson's community is and raise hell....i thought i was clear....from the outcome of the thread plenty of people got it....

thats all....proceed....