What are your thoughts on Black Lives Matter?

@Asm0deus That’s a good point how ever there seems to be a growing number of POC who disagree to being victimized in society and oppressed. And sadly members of their own communities oust them for their positivity and forward thinking. They get deemed names such as “Uncle Tom” and “Race Traitor”

How do you feel about POC who don’t believe they’re being systemically oppressed?

@TakingBackMidgard [center]Oh yeah I’ve seen and heard that. The thing is yes some do but when one gets victimized they want to include the whole race and they come together.

I mean they have the right to feel and believe what they want, it’s their right. Unfortunately, I think this is something that’ll be a forever thing cause times have not changed and it seems it has gotten worse.[/center]

@Asm0deus This isn’t a dig or an attack but do you think times have gotten worse than the Jim Crow days? The riots from the 60s? And or the slavery days?

I try to keep up on what’s going on in the world especially in the nation.

Most of the time the people I find who make this same claim are from a college or city and I’m trying to see if those places have an issue with racism as a whole.

My home town of South Bend Indiana does fairly well minus some of the highest crime in the nation.

However in 2011 a couple of high ranking city officials were caught making extreme racist remarks on a recorded phone line in the police department.

When the Communications Director (white female) and Chief (black male)(SBs first ever black chief) over heard this the members making the comments sued saying the line was wire tapped.

This case is still in the works as they’re (the racist remark makers) doing their best to make sure the public doesn’t hear this.

In the mean time the Mayor (also 2020 presidential runner, Pete Buttigieg fired the Communications Director and Chief.

So I whole heartedly stand by standing against levels of corruption such as this and can see it clearly.

However the sad part is people who are against racism and oppression will blow extreme cases like this because they know Pete is trying to become the Democratic nominee and will let racism slide if he (a Gay White Male) can possibly become president even though he is guilty of spending millions of tax payer dollars covering up racism

Do you think one area is guilty or that it exists all around?

I feel sometimes that we’re going back to the times of the riots back in the 60’s. Unlike then we’re able to record and show others just how low someone can be.

Like the case of the white woman in New York that was claiming that a little black child touched her ass but it was his backpack. They showed the surveillance tapes. The kid was innocent the whole time and apologized on tv and to the kid on camera.

I’m from Texas and there is areas that if you’re not white you’re not welcomed and they’ll harm you so it’s best that you turn around.

I’m older now but I’ll never forget about hearing the James Byrd Jr. case. I was a kid back in that time of 1998 but I remember the news always on and hearing what happened to that man. It was a lynching by dragging. The three men took Byrd to a remote county road out of town, beat him severely, spray-painted his face, urinated and defecated on him, and chained him by his ankles to their pickup truck before dragging him for about 3 miles. They dragged him and his arm and head got decapitated when they hit a bump in the road and they found his body and remains by a cemetery.

Cops, I don’t get into that cause growing up as a kid I’ve never liked them. In my whole life I’ve only liked about two. Some I feel they put on a mask to make it seem like they’re you’re “friend” and not your enemy when they show videos of them visiting little black and Hispanic kids to kind of soften some blow and make it seem they’re not bad as a whole.

Their is evil, ugliness and crookedness everywhere. In every shape and form.

@TakingBackMidgard