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LKJ86 · May 31, 2020

Meengla · May 31, 2020

This is what I just wrote to NY Times as a yet unpublished comment.
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Where to begin. Being of olive/brown complexion, I fall somewhere in between this ugly color-divide plaguing America. But been here for the majority part of my life, I think I do have a perspective on the current situation even if of a very personal and anecdotal nature.

America has been good to me. Cops or airport security / immigration professionals have never been discriminatory toward me. And neither have been most Americans. Maybe a few times in late night scene some drunk white men have said unsavory things but those are few and far in between. I feel safe around cops. Maybe it is because they are more relaxed in rural America where I choose to live. Maybe city cops get so much exposure to nastiness of life that they sometimes become a part of the nastiness? As Nietzsche said: "... when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you".

The world will have its nastiness. Maybe forever. But all the nastiness would be far less if America was a more equitable society! In the wealthiest nation on Earth, we have too much poverty, too much misery and too much wealth concentrated in too few hands. Unless that situation changes, there will continue to be cops who'd snap. There will be rioters who will burn and steal. And very unfortunately there will be George Floyds who would be killed in gruesome ways.

LKJ86 · May 31, 2020

925boy · May 31, 2020

KAL-EL said:
Once again, you’re stereotyping about what I think and feel And about where I’m from.

This is the third time, and I will now put you on ignore because you’re not acting rational.You should really reflect on what you say. Take care

thanks for putting me on your ignore list. its best for both of us. some of your opinions on sensitive things are so insensitive so that will reduce our hurt. no wonder so many people liked the post i called u out. cheers.

mike2000 is back said:
It has nothing to do with resisting arrest or not. No police officer has the right to put his knee on someone's neck especially when the guy in question has already been handcuffed and poses no real threat whatsoever. If "resisting " arrest meant police officers are justified to kill their victims then almost every suspected offender will be in the morgue in the US and prisons will be almost empty.
The fact is that this is fairly common in the US , police seem to target black people more and feel more 'threatened' by them, reason there is so much racial profiling there. The system needs urgent reform . So many times have police officers killed unarmed black people and claim they 'feared for their life/felt threatened or claim he didn't listen to instructions' etc etc and then go free like nothing happened. You can see this form is systematic racism in Ahmaud Arbery case where a former police officers and his son followed and killed a young unarmed black man who was doing his daily jogging exercise and claiming they killed him because he looked suspicious and the way he ran to them they feared for their life and shot him in self defence. The most astonishing thing is that they were not even arrested or anything. Police just took their version of events and let them go. No real investigation much less presocution. It wasn't until 3, months later that the video got leaked and people were outraged and came out protesting that the authorities were forced to open a real investigation in this case and prosecute the 2 murderers involved. As you can see, the system has a real problem. Something needs to be done. A total overhaul of the justice and security system is needed in the US.

Thanks for your comments. They are quite spot on.

LKJ86 · May 31, 2020

pkuser2k12 · May 31, 2020

One more serve and protect policeman rams car into the protesters

https://twitter.com/x/status/1267126019422654467

LKJ86 · May 31, 2020

W.11 · May 31, 2020

when USA gets weaker, its only natural that those countries which get stronger play the same meddling in other's affairs, USA intrnal affairs will remain its internal affairs no long.

what does european union say on this, is it behaving as a same lap dog or what?

regards

IceCold · May 31, 2020

US needs to respect human right specially that of Africans.

Aspen · May 31, 2020

I live in Tampa, Florida. I know there's a lot a lot of chaos being shown on TV, but I just wanted to take a minute to show that these riots are affecting real people.

These places are 30 minutes from my house and I visited them on a regular basis. I put before and after pictures of every place. I also threw in a a couple pictures from Orlando since I drive there frequently as well.

AT&T Fowler Avenue, Tampa

Champs Fowler Avenue, Tampa

KFC Fowler Avenue, Tampa