That is true of all people.Black Orchid wrote: ↑Fri Jun 12, 2020 1:26 pmAussies can be volatile and quick to react without thinking. TOO quick!

That is true of all people.Black Orchid wrote: ↑Fri Jun 12, 2020 1:26 pmAussies can be volatile and quick to react without thinking. TOO quick!
For my part, Tex, I very much enjoy reading your offerings. You express yourself very well, You read as a kind and considerate person. I don't agree with your views, but I get the feeling that you live your views... making your opinion very personal. So, I never challenge you. Instead, I ask questions so I might better understand.Texan wrote: ↑Fri Jun 12, 2020 7:41 amI think a lot of my arguments here are because we speak different dialects of the same language. We place different emphasis on phrases with completely different meanings or context. Aussies are pretty open with their views and feelings and don't hold much back. I have trouble with this because my intentions can easily be misconstrued. I try to be honest about problems in America, but ya'll have a hard time discerning my intentions and can't always tell what I mean when I talk about race issues or when I talk about behaviors of an individual of another race. I like to call a spade a spade. See how that last sentence could be misconstrued when it's a common phrase with no racial connotations in America. I have trouble sometimes telling when you are joking and I'm sure the same goes when try to say something funny. We'll muddle through it.Black Orchid wrote: ↑Thu Jun 11, 2020 8:58 pmThere's nothing wrong with saying "black culture". It is what it is. Red flew off the handle and kept accusing Tex of being racist for saying it.Nom De Plume wrote: ↑Thu Jun 11, 2020 8:05 pmWhat is wrong with saying 'black culture'?Black Orchid wrote: ↑Thu Jun 11, 2020 7:52 pmReplacing the police with mental health workers when you call 911 is one of the more bizarre demands. Although all of the demands are bizarre but if someone's breaking into your home or someone else has been shot or stabbed by a gang member and a mental health worker has to answer the call? What then?
Pretty sure no health worker would want to answer a call of violence in any "black culture" neighbourhood whether they are black or white.
Oooops I said a bad word.
Why is it wrong?
What is an acceptable alternative?
PS Thanks for the repost of the link![]()
The Roots of BLMFounded by Marxist revolutionaries in 2013, Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a movement that depicts the United States as a nation awash in racism, sexism, and homophobia. Demonstrators at BLM events have been known to: smear white police as trigger-happy bigots who are intent upon killing innocent, unarmed black males; taunt, and direct obscenities at, uniformed police officers who are on duty; throw rocks at police and threaten to kill them; and celebrate in the streets when a police officer is killed. Some examples of BLM’s racist and incendiary rhetoric:
At a December 2014 BLM rally in New York City, marchers chanted in unison: “What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want it? Now.”
At a BLM march in August 2015, protesters chanted : “Pigs in a blanket, fry ’em like bacon.” (“Pigs” was a reference to police officers, and “blanket” was a reference to body bags.)
On a BLM-affiliated radio program the following month, the hosts laughed at the recent assassination of a white Texas deputy; boasted that blacks were like lions who could prevail in a “race war” against whites; happily predicted that “we will witness more executions and killing of white people and cops than we ever have before”; and declared that “It’s open season on killing white people and crackas.”
In November 2015, a group of approximately 150 BLM protesters shouting “Black Lives Matter,” stormed Dartmouth University’s library, screaming, “Fu** you, you filthy white fu**s!,” “Fu** you and your comfort!,” and “Fu** you, you racist sh**!”
In July 2016, a BLM activist speaking to a CNN reporter shouted: “The less white babies on this planet, the less of you [white adults] we got! I hope they kill all the white babies! Kill ’em all right now! Kill ’em! Kill your grandkids! Kill yourself! Coffin, bitch! Go lay in a coffin! Kill yourself!”
At all BLM events, demonstrators invoke the words that the Marxist revolutionary, former Black Panther, convicted cop-killer, and longtime fugitive Assata Shakur once wrote in a letter titled “To My People”: “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.” (The fourth line was drawn from the Communist Manifesto of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.) In Shakur’s original letter, she described herself as a “Black revolutionary” who had “declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heart-less robots [police] who protect them and their property.”
Another figure greatly admired by BLM is Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown, who in the 1960s was renowned for threatening that blacks would “burn America down,” and for urging blacks to murder “honkies.” In the spring of 2000, Al-Amin shot two black law-enforcement officers in downtown Atlanta, killing one of them.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020 ... ake-shack/An investigation is underway after three New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers were allegedly poisoned with bleach at a Lower Manhattan Shake Shack on Monday evening.
While policing a protest in Lower Manhattan, the Police Benevolent Association (PBA) and the Detectives Endowment Association said three NYPD officers were poisoned with bleach after ordering food and beverages at a nearby Shake Shack.
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