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Isn't what the other way around and how are black men not leading?
Protest in Japan for Mike Brown and Eric Garner
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Isn't what the other way around and how are black men not leading?
I wish I was there with them
Mackin on all those sexy foreign birds
Mackin on all those sexy foreign birds
Paags
Regardless of the topic, y'all don't take a day off with your gender war do you?
Jesus fukking Christ.
QuintessentialBM
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I too respect the Japanese and their culture, but let's not get carry away with the kumbayas. Paraphrasing what another poster wrote, it's de moda to shyt on the uber-corrupt, supremely hypocritical US government.
Appreciate the gesture.... I'm still uneasy about relations between African-Americans and most diasporans from Asian cultures.
Appreciate the gesture.... I'm still uneasy about relations between African-Americans and most diasporans from Asian cultures.
Apparently hundreds of millions of Asians, all diverse, individual people who have different attitudes and views than the next person, are a monolithic group. Way to generalise militantsThere are good people all around the world, but some Coli "militants" () would rather write off entire groups of people as enemies.
Black_Jesus
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Thats China breh
I don't know about other countries but Japan *LOVES* black culture...
*fixed
Ms.CuriousCat
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Yo why haven't we protested in London 
Coli militants should travel first before generalizing a whole group...
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Yo why haven't we protested in London
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/27/world/europe/london-to-ferguson-protest/
Ferguson: Hundreds take to London's streets in sympathy
London (CNN) -- Shouts of "Hands up, don't shoot!" and "No justice, no peace. Stop the racist police," fill the chilly November air as the crowd jostles for position in a fenced-off pen on the sidewalk.
Hundreds have gathered to voice their anger and frustration at events in Ferguson, Missouri, and to offer their support for the family of Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager shot dead by a white police officer in August.
Many of those taking part in the protest also demonstrated here during the summer; months later, following the decision of a Grand Jury not to indict Darren Wilson for killing Brown, they have returned.
Some wave placards reading "Justice for Michael Brown," "Solidarity with Ferguson" and "Black Lives Matter," while others cup candles in their hands, protecting them from the autumn drizzle as their chants of "killer police off our streets" echo around the square.
But this isn't St Louis or New York or Chicago. It is London, England -- more than 4,000 miles from Ferguson and a sign of how fury at the controversial case has resonated across the Atlantic.
The protesters have gathered outside the U.S. Embassy in Grosvenor Square, an imposing fortress-like structure amid the 18th-century terraces of one of London's most exclusive addresses.
Carole Duggan is among those to address the crowd, which organizers say numbered up to 1,500 people. Her nephew Mark, 29, was shot by police in north London in 2011. His death sparked protests that led to days of rioting across London and other English cities.
His family say he was unarmed, a victim both of the police and of a smear campaign by the media which portrayed him as a "gangster." An inquest into his death found that he was lawfully killed, and that it was more likely than not that he had thrown a gun away shortly before police fired at him.
Duggan's aunt said the people of Ferguson had been "pushed to the edge" and felt they had no other choice but to take to the streets. She insisted they were "very, very brave" to do so despite the threat posed by "trigger happy" U.S. police.
Offering her condolences to the Brown family, she told the crowd: "We feel the pain, we know the pain of losing somebody at the hands of the police. We stand in solidarity with the people of Ferguson."
It was this feeling of solidarity which had brought most people -- black, white, young and old -- onto the streets of Mayfair. Duggan warned the crowd: "What happens there will eventually happen here: If they can murder Michael the way they did, they can murder anyone's mother, father, brother, sister, daughter or son."
Marcia Rigg sees painful parallels between the case of Brown and that of her brother Sean. The 40-year old died in police custody in London in 2008. An inquest ruled police officers used an unsuitable degree of force to restrain him.
She says "institutional racism" is a global problem. "We need change" she insists. "There needs to be a political will to change, a political will for justice."
Rigg refuses to condone the looting and arson attacks in Ferguson and elsewhere but says she understands the frustration people feel when loved ones are killed. "What else are they supposed to do? People are dying unnecessarily on the streets. How can there be peace if there is no justice?"
Several hours after the rally began, dozens of protesters marched from the embassy along New Bond Street -- home to some of London's most upscale designer stores -- and into Oxford Street, one of the capital's biggest shopping centers, their windows filled with Christmas displays and twinkling fairy lights.
Others marched along Whitehall, past Downing Street -- home of the Prime Minister -- to Parliament Square and New Scotland Yard, headquarters of the Metropolitan Police, which covers London.
Protester Diane Neville says she is an "ordinary mother" just like Lesley McSpadden, the mother of Michael Brown, and that like her she has brought her son up to respect the police. But she is still anxious whenever her son goes out that something will happen to him.
"I saw [Brown's] mother crying this morning -- I'm a mother just like her; I've raised my son, I love my son, as much as she loves -- or loved -- hers," Neville told CNN. "The very thought of someone taking my son's life, I don't know what would happen to me, I don't know if I'd survive... I would die of a broken heart."
Alejandro Hernandez, from Mexico City, says it is important for communities outside the U.S. to come together in support of the people of Ferguson.
"We can pressure the U.S. government... [show them] that there are people in solidarity, from different movements in different countries who speak different languages, and who are going to be promoting these calls for accountability against Darren Wilson."
Glenroy Watson took part in the protest "in solidarity with another murder of African people, whether it is here or in the U.S." adding that while Brown's death had hit the headlines, he was just one black American to die in such a situation: "we know that there are many, many more going on... the situation of enslavement is continuing."
Watson says hopes had once been high that the election of Barack Obama -- the first black U.S. President -- could mend the U.S.'s troubled civil rights history, but that in practice it had done little to improve the situation.
"He was given the Nobel Peace Prize almost before he went into office, but where's the peace?"
Cabbage Patch
The Media scene in V is for Vendetta is the clue
Regardless of the topic, y'all don't take a day off with your gender war do you?
Jesus fukking Christ.
What gender war? This was an honest question, because of the thrust of bdizzle's comment:
made it appear like black men were at the front lines of everything, and black women were not only belatedly joining in but were invisible before. 'Wonderful to see them fighting with us' reads like 'hey, thanks for finally joining us' instead of an acknowledgement that black women had always been there. If that wasn't bdizzle's intent, I apologize for misreading him.
Cabbage Patch
The Media scene in V is for Vendetta is the clue
Can't find the article talking about Ferguson (and Trayvon) leadership being mostly female, and some black men bemoaning it because women leading says something negative about the state of the men in their lives. Do you remember that thread?
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Man shut your goofy ass up bytch. I already know black women have been down for us, they've been involved in every fukking movement we've had. So fukk outta here with that gender wars bullshyt skettle
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Man you're full of shyt. When I went down to Ferguson it was both men and women out there in the middle of the streets protesting screaming for justice.