All Lives Matter.. Let's Do Something About it!

[Anonymous]

With the recent Black Lives Matter movement, I feel like I have to say something. I have many black friends, and I love them dearly and this is why I am making this take.

Is there still racism? Yes. Are some cops corrupt? Yes. But let us not be naive here.

I went to college for Journalism and I must tell you, we were ALL taught "if it bleeds, it leads." In another words, share the deaths, the riots, the crazy stuff. That's what gets the ratings. (This is why I switched my career).

We see on the news white cops killing black boys, we see riots in the streets, we see fights in schools. Is there evil out there? Why yes there is. However, there is so much good that is over looked!

If we chose to focus on the bad, we will just get more of the same. More anger, more hatred, more fighting.

Yes, blacks do have it more rough right now, but it is the lack of male leadership and a faulty education system that is causing them to suffer. Look at Obama (who is mixed) or Dr. Ben Carson. They are respected black men who defied poverty and are an inspiration to many people.

And look at these education statistics, blacks do not have the same education opportunities unfairly.

Lack of money due to lack of education is also holding them back.

This to me is unfair and is the very thing that is causing the cycle to continue. So what are we to do about it? Are we to cause riots? No. Are we to rob banks, sell drugs, commit murder? No. Are we to diss cops, or go looting through the streets? No.

Let's stand up to the education system, let's put in place male mentors who can help, let's give them an equal advantage. You want to protest? Good! Go to your local representatives and demand a fair and balanced curriculum, enroll your kids in programs like Big Brother/Big Sister, show your kids how being leaders in their communities can help change the cycle and victim mentality that is keeping a lot of blacks trapped. STOP racism in it's tracks. We are not a color, nor a race, but human beings. No one makes it out of here alive, let us help our brothers and sisters. Do you have extra money? Good, donate it to inner city missions. Do you have extra time? Good! Volunteer in your inner city and help your community thrive. Riots and fights will do nothing but stir up more racism and violence. Fight unfairness by making new laws just like Martian Luther King Jr.

I will end my rant with a quote from his famous "I Have a Dream" speech:

"...if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.

And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.

Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.
But not only that:

Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:

Free at last! Free at last!

Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

[ManOnFire]

The issue has never been that all lives don't matter, it's that our culture doesn't really care about black lives, just the truth of it. You point out all these race stats which almost seems to be your underlying way of saying this is why black lives don't matter. And what would any of them really have to do with police violence against blacks? All this "All lives matter" stuff is just a way for whites to take the situation better: they only want to say all lives matter before they can humble themselves and acknowledge black lives.

[myTake Owner]

Um no it's not, I'm sorry you're very misled.

[Anonymous]

This take will just go over most folks heads I been preaching this same message over and over I still will stand by #alllivesmatter we all need to come together as a human race to make the world a better place & stop letting history repeat itself... instead of playing victims lets be leaders lets make a change #spreadthemessage.

[myTake Owner]

Great answer! :)

[ArtDent]

#alllivesmatter is #bluelivesmatter

[BangBadBxtches]

#Coonlivesmatter

[RationalMale]

what is really outrageous is--whenever a white person harasses or does in fact kill a black person, or a hispanic person that can be labeled white, the media runs wild with it. A black career heroin dealer dies in Baltimore? RACISM!

A black marine murders a white girl after a college party?

crimeblog.dallasnews.com/.../

who the hell cares? doesn't fit the narrative of innocent little black boys being hunted down in the streets like dogs.

[QuestionMan]

I don't believe that just being born black makes you inherently disadvantaged. It has to do with the way the individual is raised and the determination to make something of oneself.
Watch this episode of Everybody hates Chris to get the idea

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2bntro_everybody-hates-chris-season-2-episode-14-substitute_fun

[myTake Owner]

Well I agree. My best friend is black and she was raised by white parents. She is super successful and has two beautiful kids.

[QuestionMan]

It wouldn't have mattered what race her parents were as long as they raised her right. I know two white guys that had totally different environments, one was raised by university professors and the other by a single mom who kept trying to find her place in life. The former is now in one of the best universities in Canada, is very humble and always helps people who need it. The latter is a druggie who doesn't care about his mom and had very low grades. I don't know where he is right now to be honest probably in some shitty college.

[Anonymous]

How can we come together as a human race? Well for one stripe referring to people as a race, race is not real it isn't biological , it's a social structure created to support slavery. Second, the one drop rule is racist as hell, yet we still use it. Two, people need to stop thinking that it's okay to give one group less opportunities than other last but importantly white people need to learn to be comfortable with not being in power. Its happening mixed ethnicity people including (Hispanics in this) are the fastest growing group they will not only be America but moat of Europe will look like, whites need to for the first time in tens of thousands of years be comfortable with not being in control.

[myTake Owner]

I'm what and IDGAF about being in control. I think your comments were actually racist.

[myTake Owner]

*white

[Opinion Owner]

Well, it's unfortunate you feel that way , but in order to be racist I would have to make whites feel less than another group which I did not but ok

[myTake Owner]

you are straight across labeling white people, that is actually racist and false

[Watermelonoma]

The issue is not simply the fact that black people get disproportionally targeted and shot at unfairly. It's also the fact that the cops often get away with it. No offense, but I won't get lectured about how I should react to all of this by some anon person with MLK quotes randomly sprinkled in. I can't take conversations like this seriously if the person on the other end doesn't have enough conviction in what they say to show who they are

[BangBadBxtches]

You went to college for journalism and your prose is that shit? OP is a clown, the question was never all lives matter, we already knew the lives of non-blacks in America mattered, the fact of you saying all lives matter is even more divisive and defeats the whole purpose of the movement. You're trying to act like it all falls on the hands of the black community. You remember when a couple decades ago, black business were being bombed, blacks were being denied education, blacks were being denied housing in nice neighborhoods so they all are now confined to certain areas. When you deny people opportunity for centuries up until just a few decades ago, you think everything is going to peachy keen overnight? Fuck you condescending OP.

And you know those cops shot one of them after getting their ass whipped in BBall.

[BangBadBxtches]

All you're trying to do is dismiss BLM by using All.

[Anonymous]

Just to be clear, Obama was never poor and he never beat poverty. Quite the contrary he has always been part of the financially privileged.

I kind of cringed too much to finish it but I can value the work you put into this.

[myTake Owner]

Well Dr. Ben Carson was

[Mrscurious005]

"We see on the news white cops killing black boys, we see riots in the streets, we see fights in schools. Is there evil out there? Why yes there is. However, there is so much good that is over looked! "

But my question is do we see justice? No👎
& that's why there is a black lives matter movement! #Nojusticenopeace

[myTake Owner]

Justice is where justice is needed. Some of the things people are rioting over are not good battles to chose. Some of them were indeed in the wrong and the cops did their job. If one is going to riot, then riot over an actual injustice. Just my two sense from knowing the inside scoop of things :p

[ArtDent]

You don't 'know the inside scoop', you are parroting a narrative.

[myTake Owner]

@ArtDent shows what you know.

[BangBadBxtches]

All you know the "inside scoop' on is a gallon of ice cream.

[myTake Owner]

@BangBadBxtches shows what you know.

[Toad-1]

@BangBadBxtches Lol nice one

[Anonymous]

Yes we know all lives matter, but some people's lives matter to some people more than others due to race. That's the freaking point. You stated some stats and even admitted that the black race struggles.

Everybody wants to point at MLK Jr., but he gave up close to his death. FYI.

[myTake Owner]

Yeah they do struggle, but I'm stating instead of rioting and breaking the law (which causes more issues and more racism), they should become leaders in their community and speak out.

[Opinion Owner]

Some do that too. It's just the media sees it as people being rowdy.

[angelling]

It's more than just rioting and breaking the law, that's just what the media likes to show you. There's been (and still are) tons of peaceful protests with nothing more than people chanting with signs but unless you see or hear about it yourself it's easy to assume all people are doing for the movement is rioting and looting like we see on TV.

[Opinion Owner]

@angelling Exactly. The media shows a bunch of looting and rioting because they know people like drama and they want high ratings. They don't care to show all of it. They don't care to show the truth. They'd rather just show the stuff that gets people hyped up.

[myTake Owner]

well like I said, if it bleeds, it leads.

[ZionOrtov]

You aren't free, that's a delusion, our government is corrupt, and our economic system doesn't serve our needs or desires only feeds off of them.

[myTake Owner]

well of course

[ZionOrtov]

to benefit an elite.

[ZionOrtov]

Yeah, glad you know that, acknowledgement is the first step in solving the problem.

[ZionOrtov]

In-fact if you know that, you are practically free.

[chrisbigman]

I agree that all good lives matter, regardless of race. We need to treat our fellow humans with respect and kindness. But for whatever reason, certain people don't want to do that. They are causing the problems out there.

[myTake Owner]

Yeah, but let's start one person at a time!

[chrisbigman]

I'm good with that.

[thewanderingme]

Obama grew up middle class. he didn't have to defy poverty.

[myTake Owner]

okay, then Ben Carson

[thewanderingme]

I thought you went to school for journalism?

[KevinFart]

OMG STFU SJW.

It's not to hard to not get murked by da po po. Just don't don't a criminal.

[myTake Owner]

Well yeah, don't break the law and you won't have to deal with the police. It's pretty simple :p

[ArtDent]

Crawford wasn't breaking the law.

Bland wasn't breaking the law.

[myTake Owner]

@ArtDent congrats, there are corrupt people in every religion, race, and creed.

[Azara]

#alllivesmatter as a responde to #blacklivesmatter, is incoherent.

[dudeman]

its something they are going to have to figure out themselves.

[cjmtherfcker]

How can you expect poor uneducated disenfranchised people to act like they are not all of these things? They don't know how to change the legal system, or the political things necessary to make the changes. Of course if Obama does anything for black people he will be called a reverse racist etc

[dudeman]

@cjmtherfcker well step one is to stop creating baby mamas. thats a personal choice. their behavior is just sub par.

[cjmtherfcker]

If it was easy to make it out of those situations every one would do it. No matter what you say. These ppls plight has far more to do with the systemic racism of the last three centuries have created most of these problems. I will never blame a poor person for doing what they have to, to eat.

[dudeman]

@cjmtherfcker abandoning your children has nothing to do with racism and everything to do with a low quality people.

[cjmtherfcker]

Going to jail is not abandonment, nor is two adults seperating. Two parents don't have to be together to raise children. I don't see what abandoned kids have to do with the topic. Lack of education and economic opportunity is what creates crime. No matter your family situation

[dudeman]

@cjmtherfcker well the latinos are in the same boat but they are sending more kids to college as well keeping the family together. all i hear from you is excuses.

[cjmtherfcker]

What exactly is an excuse?

[dudeman]

@cjmtherfcker the stuff coming out of your mouth

[cjmtherfcker]

So your saying economic opportunity and education don't effect the crime rate?

[dudeman]

@cjmtherfcker im saying leaving your children to fend for themselves is a choice.

[cjmtherfcker]

What are you talking about? I don't understand the correlation to the post. These kids are not orphans. They have homes. Just not good ones. If you're parents grew up with a shitty education how are they supposed to make you any better? Plenty of people grow up with one parent or no parents and are fine so I don't see why you keep hammering this family thing?

[dudeman]

@cjmtherfcker the father leaves the mom. the kids have no solid footing in life. i you as a man have children its your responsibility to work two shitty jobs if you have to to provide for your children not to ditch them so they continue the cycle. why i keep hammering the family thing? family is everything. its the main predictor if a kid is going to do well in life. so these black women need to keep their legs closed and the black men need to raise their children.

[cjmtherfcker]

Don't matter if the father is there if the kids go to a shitty school system, and don't have any way to make money after the fact. They will turn to crime. You know there is more economic opportunity in Nigeria than Baltimore? The most educated person will turn to crime when given no choice

[dudeman]

@cjmtherfcker does matter if the father is there. if he is then by the time they are 5 they will be in a school not so shitty. sure they are going to have to move out of the city but hey got to do what you got to do. all i hear from you is excuses. black people just love to play the victim.

[cjmtherfcker]

All I hear from whites is your people had a fair shot now all your problems are because of you and have absolutely nothing to do with centuries of economic, social, and political oppression. Somehow with no resources black people ate supposed to fix these communities in maybe the 40 years they have had somewhat of a fair chance. Its unrealistic and makes you sound racist because the racist policies of your ancestors created these very communities

[dudeman]

@cjmtherfcker yeah nobody said blacks dont have it hard. everybody has it hard we all live our own life. you can either make proper decisions or bad decisions. are you telling me that blacks are incapable of thinking correctly because they are poor? i refuse to believe that, i dont think that low of people. also im not white.

[dudeman]

@cjmtherfcker im native america, you know the most persecuted and mistreated people in united states history.

[cjmtherfcker]

I feel you. At least, they gave you all land, and tax haven. My people had slavery, then Jim crow, which forced people to move to certain areas ie ghettos, disenfranchised voting rights to perpetuate political ignorance etc. Then we went to segregation era which was essentially robbery because we paid taxes to a country for services only white people could get. Social security, Go bill, education system etc. Meanwhile having to fund all these things for our own communities. Which we had no money for. The few economic strongholds in the African Americans communities whites destroyed. See black wall street. This brings us to late sixties and integration. You can't dig out of over two and a half centuries of economic oppression that quick, especially without money

[dudeman]

@cjmtherfcker i know all about black wall street. could have made it again.

[NightmareNeal]

Everytime they tried to build a town it was destroyed by whites. So no, they couldn't just rebuild. That was ignorant.

[dudeman]

@NightmareNeal lol you really giving night bogs an ecusr

[BangBadBxtches]

@cjmtherfcker Why were you wasting your time arguing with a racist?

[dudeman]

@BangBadBxtches how am I racist. What did I say that was even remotely racist. You must be one of those blacks that thinks honest criticism is racism

[BangBadBxtches]

"with a low quality people". I literally don't even have to say more, I didn't even have to say anything in the first place. Anyone could read through what you posted and see you're racist. Bye

[dudeman]

@BangBadBxtches so you disagree that there is something fun dement ally wrong with the black communities in this country.

[Anonymous]

All lives matter including Asian lives, Hispanic lives, White lives, etc...

[cjmtherfcker]

How can you expect poor uneducated disenfranchised people from acting that way?

[abundantlyrich]

I feel glad i don't live in America..

[myTake Owner]

that's really sad

[ArtDent]

No justice, no peace

[ArtDent]

When #blacklivesmatter first entered our conciousness, the police and their apologists started wearing #bluelivesmatter gear. They were openly mocking victims of police brutality and their loved ones. They were saying things which amounted to 'comply or die'.

#bluelivesmatter generated a backlash immediately and was a PR nightmare.

Those folks who were trying to get #bluelivesmatter trending adjusted their attempt to something more innocuous #bluelivesmatter morphed into #alllivesmatter

[ArtDent]

Harvard researchers have called on US public health agencies to consider police killings a public health epidemic, police unions snivelled.

www.popularresistance.org/.../

[ArtDent]

117 Countries Slam American Police Brutality At UN Human Rights Council

www.mintpressnews.com/.../

[ArtDent]

We can be healed, all that's required is imprisoning cops who kill and cops who suppress evidence and cops who lie on their reports and on the stand.

Jail bad cops and people will once again believe there is such a thing as a good cop.

[ArtDent]

Good cops who try to clean up police forces all too often have their lives ruined

[redeyemindtricks]

You are correct, of course, about the whole thin-blue-line thing. Too often it's an us and a them.

The other problem, though, is that people fundamentally do not understand what police departments (and other govt agencies) are there to do in the first place. Don't understand the charter. I wrote a whole bunch about this in my comment here, in a conversation with a gentleman who's thinking about becoming a Chicago cop: www.girlsaskguys.com/.../q1852365-gag-community-what-s-your-thought-on-police

[ArtDent]

@redeyemindtricks here is an interesting video on the origin of policing in America.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9WHPGL_wBaM

[redeyemindtricks]

Cpl days til I'll be back somewhere with fast enough internet for video. Plus, holy shit that's 11 minutes dude!

If you give me ur word that it's really really really REALLY game-changingly good, then i'll watch it, but that's 11 minutes of my multitasking-freelancer-who-reads-1500wpm life, and video is the one thing i can't multitask.

If not, can you summarize it in a sentence or two?
<3

[ArtDent]

@redeyemindtricks in three words

Divide and conquer.

Watch it when you get a chance

[redeyemindtricks]

Ok, I'll take yr word for it. For me to mono-task anything, that's a big deal, yo.

I just discovered that I can use youtube's dev tools (document. getElementsByTagName ("video")[0]. playbackRate = 2 or 1.8 or 1.5 or whatever) to accelerate the playback. Yay for efficiency #freelancelife

[ArtDent]

@redeyemindtricks that's all gobbledygook to me:)

[redeyemindtricks]

It means I can watch the video at chipmunk speed, so that it takes 5-6 minutes instead of 11.

[redeyemindtricks]

But yah i'll watch it.

[IceEverest]

I am with you..