Protest in Eureka Blocks 101/5th Street in Eureka
Just after noon today, protesters against the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis Police began gathering at the Humboldt County Courthouse in Eureka. As they reached about 100 strong, they began marching along 5th Street.
At 5 p.m., Eureka Police posted on Facebook, “5th Street (Northbound 101) is currently closed at I Street near the Courthouse for an ongoing mobile march. Motorists are asked to use caution in the area or take alternate routes.”
Protesters sat in the middle of 5th Street raising their signs, changing, and ringing smalls bells.
Below are some scenes as peaceful protesters moved through the streets of Eureka.
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- Vehicles of supporters help block the intersection at 5th and I Streets.
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- A woman yells all lives matter at the protestors.
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- Protestors chant black lives matter as a woman yells all lives matter from an apartment.
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- Protestors block the intersection of 5th and I streets in Eureka on Saturday.
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- A supporter in a truck chants and beeps his horn as the group marches past.
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- Protestors block the intersection of 5th and I streets in Eureka on Saturday.
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- The demonstrators begin marching west on 5th Street.
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- Demonstrators block the intersection of 5th and G streets.
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- Demonstrators chant Black Live Matter at a man who yelled all lives matter at the corner of 5th and G Streets.
As of 7 p.m., a peaceful protest continues in the downtown.
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maybe that A’s cap is code for Antifa. and the way he is standing with old school adidas, mostly black attire, definitely Antifa.
Nope probably an undercover cop they usually start the violence. Or an aryan, they’ve been claiming to be antifa while doing horrible acts.
How many protests have you been at? Ive been at a lot.
Plus if you think antifa is bad then you must be a fascist. Antifa is anti fascism. There are literally thousands of articles online about that movement over time.
Maybe you ought to take some time to read about it. Start with the definition of agent provocateur.
Except you don’t know who they were. Could have been Antifa, could have been a cop and sure could have been “an aryan”? Genetically speaking if they are Indo-European they must be Aryan, right?
Antifa was established as anti-fascist but movements obviously change over time and just because it says anti-fascist in their name doesn’t mean that’s what they really are. 1984 is a powerful book partly because Orwell predicted our dystopian double-speak. The patiot act is a good example of double-speak, antifa is very possibly another. Not to say they are strictly fascist, but that they are far from “anti-fascist”.
And that brings me to fascism which is a word which has been recently edited by certain interest groups. For example on this mac the definition of fascism is: an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.
• (in general use) extreme right-wing, authoritarian, or intolerant views or practice.
But this is the Merriam-webster definition of fascism which is more accurate historically speaking:
often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
2 : a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control
early instances of army fascism and brutality
Big difference between those two definitions! Pretty profound implications when you really think about manipulating such important words like that.
^^^
Commonly held discussions put Stalin as a communist, however if you google and learn about “Red Fascism”, you’ll see there was not much “communism” at all in Stalinism.
That may have been a left wing fascist, indeed.
We know Hitler was a right-wing fascist.
So it seems fascism can be right or left, as the 2nd definition implies.
Wait a sec, you’re saying you believe in false flags now?!
Nope, I don’t know where you get your information, but antifa is definitely trouble makers. Who do you think started all the mayhem at these protest,(riots)? I have been informed that my name has now been added to the antifa hit list. So this is fake, too?
A for Alfalfa! Oh Tay!
Hmm.. by that reasoning.. I guess Jonny Cash must have been part of Antifa too…
Johnny Cash – Man in black with lyrics
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjDw_6SjPDpAhUZH80KHWJ8CosQyCkwAHoECCQQBA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DdY8_vZXo8oY&usg=AOvVaw0OxYecnjgybMFDiWvmKJmt
I was joking. I think johnny was part of his meds and the drama(lyrics) it creates, which can be said about most very successful musicians.
I wonder if the newly freed slaves of the 1860’s would consider all the 350,000 white people who DIED fighting for their freedom were the problem. Or all the white people who secretly formed the underground railroad, and freed thousands of slaves, were they the problem. I wonder why so many blacks vote democrat, when it was the democrat south who enslaved them, and the republican north freed them? And the democrat states and cities still pound on the minorities of those places? I wonder why people do not see the slave systems in place now, be they Muslim, Chinese, or African, slaving people all over the world, but no slaves here? Didn’t Obama, when visiting slave depots in Africa, didn’t he realise the majority of slaves went to south America and the Bahama’s. And that slave people were rounded up in Africa, by Africans? Perhaps some of these wonderful children should go to Gettysburg, take a history lesson. Our freedom school kids know this.
BOAT MAAAAAAAANNNN!!!!! Power to the people. Power to the guy with the boat, too. We’re all being clusterfucked right now in too many ways.
I laughed at that burly woman trying to push against the truck to stop it. Because PHYSICS!!!
I can’t help but believe that a lot of this protesting crap where they are blocking traffic and sitting in the middle of the street is just to DEFY and HARRASS the police….it’s like they are TRYING TO INSTIGATE AND INCITE LEO into doing something to MAKE them move so they can YELL POLICE BRUTALITY….IT’S RIDICULOUS…..IT’S TIME TO STOP…..TO MOVE ON….THEIR VOICES HAVE BEEN HEARD….MORE THAN ONCE…..NOW it’s time to see if any of it has made a difference….
Excuse me Sandra, your whiteness and your privilege is showing.
You have probably never experienced police brutality. Im white and Ive seen more police brutality than i care to mention, we were punk rock teens which cops hated too.
But that was our choice to express ourselves that way.
The things I saw done to black people was worse. They couldn’t stop looking the way they did.
Im thrilled to see these protests and hope others not of color can take a back seat supportive role so we do not find ourselves speaking for them but instead truly hearing them.
I’m pro protests and anti anyone who says “your privelage is showing”. If change is the goal alienating people is not the way to accomplish it. It’s just like the right calling you a snowflake, it’s counterproductive.
Thank you Mike for having some sense. When White people throw around the word whiteness and white privilege it is a racist micro aggression and the ultimate form of white privilege. Apparently they don’t interact with any black people, because being a black man and the black people I know hate those sayings. Hopefully no one of color ever hears some privledged white woman throwing those labels around they heard on CNN.
Thanks for being a voice of reason.
Whenever some white person (I am white) tries to lecture me about my privilege, it’s pretty fucking embarrassing. They are invariably much more well off than me and grew up that way. What else to say?
“Privilege” is a buzzword used to cover lack of a valid argument.
It’s snarky attitudes like yours that piss me off Uuuhhhhn. Al of a sudden all these young folks who never gave a crap about anything but themselves are all “woke” and telling everyone they suffer from white privilege. I have found the ones calling out everyone else for white privilege are, you guessed it, white privileged themselves. Be passionate, protest, do what you feel is necessary to help stop police brutality and the killing of black people. But don’t sit on your fricken high horse telling everyone else who and what they are when you don’t know their story and you don’t know shit. [edit]
If it had been heard then why is there still police brutality. You must be blind. If you said that it had been heard then why is there still more killings and death? You are in your little bubble of ignorance and is offend and inconvenience because you think it’s been heard. Are you black? Are you harassed every day because of your color? You get your opinion but damn go educate yourself please.
Everyday?
That’s just an exaggeration.
I have more to say…. like how the “so woke” dismiss any opposing opinion by immediately telling them they are ignorant and should educate (brainwash) themselves but it’s a tedious fruitless waste of time.
They say we need to have a “conversation”…they want nothing of the sort.
“ abolish the police”
Dumbest fu**ing idea ever. Let’s see how that works out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRRYoA25bGQ
Naa I disagree. Get rid of the police then when things go to shit the liberals will be screwed. I have firearms so I will be fine. Since there are no cops if I have to kill a few people trying to steal my shit no prosecution. The anti gun leberals will be victmized but what the hell they got what they asked for, no police. I have no problem with peaceful protesting and will back anyone right to do it even if I disagree with their cause, but blocking traffic is not protected and unnecessary to protest. Many are using this poor mans death as an excuse to loot and victmize other people.
Interesting short doc about history of lynching in the early US. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGsEt1k4H_Q&t=0s
You people are brainwashed to believe that democrats don’t own weapons. Keep listening to your right wing talking points.
I’m a proud gun owning democrat just like all my friends & family. Do you honestly believe that Democrats would actually be stupid enough to let you Republicans buy all the guns & ammo.
You really need to rethink your view of the world.
You know there’s this stereotype that conservatives are more rural, have more military experience and own more guns. It’s a stereotype for a reason. This obviously doesn’t mean no liberals own weapons, live rurally or have military experience.
Hmmm, you sound a tad over washed by the media. I suggest you listen to some #youngpharaoh and WAKE UP from the false right/left paradigm.
That is all.
Just for clarification a peaceful protest does not obstruct traffic without a planned permitted march, the minute they start blocking traffic it becomes a public safety issue and it is an unlawful assembly
Agreed
Thank you Mike for having some sense. When White people throw around the word whiteness and white privilege it is a racist micro aggression and the ultimate form of white privilege. Apparently they don’t interact with any black people, because being a black man and the black people I know hate those sayings. Hopefully no one of color ever hears some privledged white woman throwing those labels around they heard on CNN.
White Lives Matter
Apparently some folks think white lives matter more…
That’s fine, everybody has a voice, but White Lives Matter too
Every single human life should matter but when someone is hollering that their community is being brutalized (Black Lives Matter is a direct attempt to communicate that the black community is disproportionately the victim of police brutality and systematic racism) and you start screaming that you too need attention, don’t be surprised if folks think you are unempathetic and self centered.
Imagine if a friend started to tell you that she is being kidnapped and assaulted and you insist on pointing out that you’ve got to get gall bladder surgery. Yes, your suffering matters but maybe this might not be the time to point it out.
This is an economic financial redistribution and power consolidation prologue.
If we become over consumed by the very visible show we may miss the opportunity to call out tax exempt foundations.
You want this experiment burned to the ground?
Have you really considered what the new vision will look like to you?
A very white person who might be asked to give up more than words and lip services to pay for this apocalypse destructive nature that has been brewing below the surface.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/04/cramer-the-pandemic-led-to-a-great-wealth-transfer.html
I don’t think this can be overlooked by those who are struggling to put food on the table, and keep a roof over ones head, no matter how much virtue signaling and self hate is projected into the conversation,
Class warfare is winning.
Many of us will lose.
The victims of this year’s Trojan Horse, will see violence and destruction and theft as the means to their end.
Am I interpreting you correctly? Are you saying ignore your friend who is being kidnapped and screaming for help because if you get involved, you might lose monetarily?
🕯🌳He won’t answer you because you’ve asked a question that he feels directly attacks his beliefs. 🐸🖖🌍🕊
That’s a ridiculous analogy, kym. I won’t speak for anybody, but I interpret as…
While you’re investing all your time and effort into simply addressing the social divide, you’re totally ignoring the mechanisms being put in place right around you at that very moment that will increase the divide you so very much despise. It’s as if a conversation can’t be had that addresses the two, and recognizes them as integral. That’s how everybody’s losing, right now. I can’t blame people, we’re conditioned to be reactionary and dramatic.
Too many holes in your analogy.
One can play “what-if” all day.
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
Blocking traffic is, curiously enough, not a right, and is not a “peaceable assembly.”
🕯🌳I’ll second that. That’s why no body came and covered the one in Fortuna, no dirty laundry. 🕊🌍🖖🐸
Lost Coast Outpost covered it. I’m small. I had to choose between the one in Fortuna I believed was likely to be covered by other organizations and the protest in Klamath that we should have up by tomorrow.
Not much on Channel three or Channel twenty-three at 6 pm. They call themselves local newa, but their format has changed to piulling news off the networks. I wonder if this is because of Sinclair news. They are the Christian conservative owners. And I heard Manny from channel is gone. Where did he go?
Do you also resent someone taking a knee during the National Anthem? What sort of protest meets your approval? One that doesn’t in any way inconvenience you or make you think?
Defunding the political process would be a much better START.
Stop paying taxes to these institutions that subjugate all freedom in the name of central command.
But, that’d be too much protest. ..
Wouldn’t it?
There is a massive amount of institutional class warfare, that we have no choice but to fund.
PHUK Voting, stop feeding the beast.
Where was your voice when our community was being brutalized by the Nat’l Guard and warrantless searches all summer long last year Kym? Oddly silent because it did not serve your interests. Our community was disproportionately victimized by the military last year, but you said nothing. Or is it because growing pot is neither a “white” nor “black” issue so you were unable to condemn the Nat’l Guard along racial lines? Or maybe because your business profited from the violation of your neighbors’ rights and destruction of their property?
Here’s the ones I can quickly remember:
https://kymkemp.com/2019/08/06/met-national-guard-and-other-agencies-eradicated-over-7000-plants-on-unpermitted-grows-yesterday/
https://kymkemp.com/2019/07/20/letter-writer-asks-is-the-humboldt-county-sheriffs-use-of-the-national-guard-legal/
https://kymkemp.com/2019/07/09/were-targeting-those-that-are-outside-the-permit-process-says-sheriff-honsal-about-working-with-national-guard-this-summer/
https://kymkemp.com/2019/07/08/national-guard-to-work-with-humboldt-county-sheriffs-office-throughout-the-summer/
https://kymkemp.com/2019/07/03/national-guard-and-cdfw-nab-nearly-3000-plants-and-detain-8-suspects-during-raids-yesterday-in-hayfork-and-ruth-area/
https://kymkemp.com/2019/06/28/national-guard-joins-local-agencies-in-serving-15-warrants-near-hayfork-twenty-three-suspects-detained/
https://kymkemp.com/2019/02/27/huffman-and-wood-heard-from-humboldt-and-talked-about-governor-newsom-sending-the-national-guard-north-to-go-after-illegal-cannabis-farms/
Do you think any other news organizations covered this story? Barely at all.
Do you know how hard it was to get information on hidden incursions into remote hill areas unlike now when protests are advertised and I can send a reporter who lives within 15 minutes to cover it?
Have you sent any money earmarked for the coverage of this?
No? then maybe you are part of the problem.
Covering news stories is completely different than standing up for something that is morally wrong. Where was your voice? When were you outspoken against the military in our hills? When I discussed the abatement program and the guard with you, you are all for it. Its the same thing, our community was victimized by law enforcement last year and it was ok with you. Why? Because it served your interests, got rid of your competition. Your response is because I didn’t give you cash to cover something that I’m part of the problem? I didn’t realize morality was for sale. I thought one could speak out for free.
Wait, what did you do to stop the National Guard? Did you send me a letter to the editor? Did you speak to your congressman? Did you protest in the streets?
I was outspoken on the National Guard by spending my money and my time to bring neutral coverage of the issue. So we all could make up our minds about the best way to deal with this situation.
And we’ve covered multiple stories on the abatement process pointing out issues that are concerning. For instance: https://kymkemp.com/2020/05/22/penalties-fines-and-fees-a-deep-look-at-the-humboldt-county-cannabis-abatement-process/
What did you do?
In addition, don’t tell me what I think is good and what I don’t think is good. Am I for stopping growers who trash log hillsides, suck rivers dry, and spill diesel? You bet. Are you for it?
I have repeatedly stressed that I understand that each family has to choose what works for them as far as going legal and I understand choosing the traditional market. You on the other hand want to whine and kick your heels that other people choose differently than you did. Acting as if they were at fault for law enforcement that has been going on for decades.
As to cash for coverage, no one who can’t afford it is asked to give a cent to access this site. But if you want to complain about what is covered here but are not willing to help me pay for that coverage…well, yes, you are part of the problem. You think I can get reporters to cover a story for free? They have to feed their families and pay their rent just like you do.
It is very much about the money.
That’s why people have subjugated their own for centuries.
National Guard and LEO have families to feed as well.
Who’s family deserves to go hungry?
People have been hired to kill people over resources since the dawn of time.
This is simply an extension of tribal warfare, manipulated to divide people who want better lives for themselves.
I was at the community meetings regarding the abatements and the nat’l guard. I did stand up and speak my piece at a couple meetings in Redway. You did not. In addition the mom and pops being abated were not trashing hill sides, spilling diesel, or sucking rivers dry. Its funny how you wish to paint us all with broad strokes even though you advise against that. Bringing neutral coverage is not the same as speaking out at the meetings. Especially when you have a far greater public platform than any of us. The permitted growers are still sucking rivers and creeks dry and doing all the environmental damage you speak of, yet you are silent. You will allow your neighbors to be destroyed while out of towners continue to destroy our county and you say nothing. Now you want to speak out about rights? Especially when all of our rights are being violated by a satellite and warrantless searches. YOur own community. You say nothing. I am not whining, I am calling you out on your hypocrisy, the fact that you can stand up for the supposed social injustice of some man thousands of miles away yet you do and say nothing for your next door neighbors who are suffering the same injustices at the hands of the same powers that be. Oh, but I forgot, this instance serves your interest, and its legal. Legal does not equal just, you remember that from your civil rights marches right Kym? You see, I remember our conversations, I just want you to defend your hypocrisy, and if you can’t, at least admit it.
One by one, I’ll respond to your accusations:
I did not speak up at the meetings in Redway. But our news site covered multiple meetings: https://kymkemp.com/2018/09/17/abate-the-abatement-a-report-on-yesterdays-meeting/
As to the statement that Mom and Pops being abated were not trashing, Etc: Some of those abated were not causing egregious damage and some were. I’ve known personally of some places that our county is better off without and I’ve known personally of some places abated that it boggles my mind as to why anyone would go after them.
You say, “Its funny how you wish to paint us all with broad strokes even though you advise against that.” I’m not sure what you are meaning by that because I’ve repeatedly defended small farmers.
You say, “Bringing neutral coverage is not the same as speaking out at the meetings. Especially when you have a far greater public platform than any of us.” I agree. It isn’t the same. But I don’t think its less. I feel that I do more good covering the abatements neutrally. Beyond that, you have no idea who I’ve spoken to about County policy privately and what I’ve spoken about. I don’t expect you to know but I’m comfortable that I’m doing the right thing.
You say, “The permitted growers are still sucking rivers and creeks dry and doing all the environmental damage you speak of, yet you are silent. You will allow your neighbors to be destroyed while out of towners continue to destroy our county and you say nothing.” Again we are doing our best to cover these stories and again you don’t know who I speak to about what.
And speaking to the out-of-towners part, our own homegrown growers can be just as ugly as “out-of-towners.”
As to George Floyd “supposed social injustice of some man thousands of miles away ” my god, he lost his life and I’m commenting in a comment section and covering protests. Can you explain how I’m covering racial injustice and police brutality so much more thoroughly than I’m covering grower issues? And why you are so offended by that? What kind of person says “supposed social injustice” when a police officer kneels on someone’s neck until they are dead? If you can see so clearly how law enforcement overreach is effecting the grower community, what is wrong with you that you can’t extrapolate and see how it is injuring the communities of people of color?
Do we know how many Black people have been ” brutalized” in Humboldt County in the last 5 years?
Just wondering because I didn’t see black people in the protest, did you?
Seems mostly under 30ish whites maybe college trained?
I mostly only hear about Blacks locally when they come up from Oakland and a drug deal goes bad or there is a home invasion. But maybe I just haven’t been keeping up with the news.
So who are you going to call for help the next time you’re in trouble if not the police? You know, if a loved one goes missing, another home invasion, or a potential serial killer is on the loose, as was recently caught?
You didn’t see any black people at the protests? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lRyivcULrM
Not in the above pics. I didn’t go to youtube.
There were multiple protests. I don’t know why the event yesterday wasn’t publicized. But the ones last weekend were and there were a number of people of color. On Sunday the two here were leading the events. I don’t know the woman but the man is a local business owner.
There are plenty of photos of people of color in our coverage from last weekend.
The 2 women with the flag t shirts and rainbow scarfs have well thought out solidarity messages. That’s a truly awesome statement for Humboldt county.
Except the blue on the flag shirts represent cops! So if they’re fighting police brutality maybe a different flag shirt? Idk seems kinda hypocritical to me and rainbow I guess they’re lesbians too or they just want to represent everything while chanting black lives matter? Lol I give up!
When a gun gets pulled no one cares who is on whos side… Its about surviving and is way beyond politics at that point…oh and if your place gets broke into well your gone who do people call the law….
What story did you mean to comment on? Who mentioned a gun?
Keep the peace…
I get the protestimg but why blocl traffic?
The problem with progressives is that they want “their” progressive and don’t respect the progression of others. In the event protested, liberals and conservatives alike have agreed the killing was wrong and the perpetrators have been arrested. But those with a “protest” bug up their behind, even after the Chief of Police and the Sheriff have listened, can’t let the rest of us get on peacefully with our lives. They must still hold up “Abolish the Police” signs, when the police are the only reason they are still being allowed to commit their mayhem without being harmed by those who want them to leave. Yet, they are still causing road closures and holding up signs of hating the police who keep protecting them. I believe Black lives do matter as much as Hispanic, Asian, Oriental, Native American, and yes, white. What no longer matters is these law breaking “protesters” being allowed to endanger decent community members by illegal actions during their “protests.” My ability to believe there is a real cause these people are protesting is over. They have now become just another group of common criminals throwing tantrums like toddlers.
The Sheriff and Chief of Police need to actually start doing their jobs and keep our streets open and safe from these law breakers.
Blocking traffic is not peaceful.
I’ll watch for cop lights and detour myself, but if someone is caught amongst hostile people on the roadway, it’s not wrong to continue to drive, trying one’s best to preserve life while exiting the threatening situation. Hope that is good enough for everyone!
(A sit-in on the road *might* be peaceful, banging on cars is definitely not.)
I truly think it is time to stop all the protesting over the death of Mr. Floyd. To continue serves no purpose other than to just cause trouble by blocking sidewalks, roads, etc. The only message they are getting out now is they are complete idiots, and have no respect for other people or our law enforcement. Go home people!!!
So police violence disappeared just like that? You been watching the videos from the protests? I’m guessing not.
People all around the world have protested . All POC and Whites agreed what happened to Floyd was murder. I have’nt heard one person disagree.
At what point do the protesters have to say we made our point and there are also others issues that matter to all people even POC.
Like,
People need to get to their jobs, including Drs, Nurses, cancer patients need to get to appointments, firefighters, ( we are already seeing fires in our hills and firefighters do not live at the stations they need to be able to get there).
People are already stressed from being locked in there homes for months
Worried about getting sick.
Politics
You get my point. Time to let the steam out of the pressure cooker.
Unless of course you want it to explode.
I’m not pro protest in the time of COVID. But I feel like pretending that all is hunky dory when there are multiple instances of police on protester violence–for heaven’s sake, you must have seen them—is ridiculous.
It’s like telling the fireman to go home because the shed has been extinguished because the hose is crossing your road and making it hard to get to your driveway but the house and hill behind it are still on fire and may spread to your house.
Sure looks like they are in the road to me Kym. These people protesting has lost sight of Mr. Floyd, and are just feeding their need to be jackasses!!!
I’m not denying they are in the road. I’m saying that balancing people walking in the road against a system of racism that repeatedly ends with dead people and seeing people walking in the road as the problem…might be indicative of perspective problem.
I think your perspective problem Kim, not mine.
Being in the road is meant to agitate people . you can protest and be seen by everyone passing though and those that agree can honk for support, without disrupting everyone else’s life.
How does aggravation help the cause?
A perspective problem it sees everything as a glorious cause. Opponents in every emotional battle claim that justification.
Stop inconveniencing me!
Stop pushing to the front of the line.
OK can we all just agree that vandalizing unrelated private property and stores is dumb and wrong though its totally OK to vocally and peacefully protest and that driving a vehicle into an angry mob(cuz who wouldn’t be pissed off at getting run over?) is also dumb and wrong (as we say in Texas during flash flood season, Turn around. Don’t drown). I always thought being American was about being able to have one’s beliefs and express them while respecting the right of others to believe what they will so long as they do the same….or something like that. Not arguing with or denieing any of the other things y’all may believe in regardless of my own opinion.Any of you with a lick of common sense regardless of your beliefs knows exactly what I’m saying, please inform the others best you can for all our sakes. Thank you. And mucho uber grande thank you Kym for all you do.
These “protesters” seem to have a problem with discerning the difference between peace and disturbing the peace. One is a crime, the other isn’t.
Individuals on both sides can do stupid things but they don’t represent everyone else. Expressing your opinion is your right, vehicular assault is a crime. Just saying no side has a monopoly on bad behavior by their more fanatical members and it doesn’t make it right. “We have met the enemy and them is us.”
Alf,
Concur.
I think the root of the issue for black people is the still active residue of slavery. Black people never reached economical equity because too many businesses still looked at blacks thru slavery glasses. Education and opportunity never reached the black community. Parts of this was due to black people having little reason to put education was put on the top of the list because survival took precedence over everything else. And even when civil rights were passed it didn’t address stressing education. Employee opportunities for blacks were low skilled and likewise low paying jobs. In the 1920’s, 30’s and 1940’s little changed. Black people lived in very poor parts of most cities with lesser than equal educations and therefore low paying low skilled jobs. Only recently has the concept of becoming educated been given a priority. Sadly too little too late. It lays the basis for a predominance of young blacks getting involved in crime. How does one pull themselves up by their boot straps when you are not wearing boots! Today there are more professionals that are black. Yet the real money earners are professional sports. It is the very few ultra few that make it to the big money. This is true of entertainment also. Media stars are few. Education is still not the first priority. The yoke of slavery has not been easy to shed. When you are at the bottom of the good middle American life you become the target and the scapegoat of society. There are many bully levels in this country. Police brutality is only one level. And in some poorer parts in America the ones will mega resources are not willing to share. And that is even apparent when Trump keeps putting money into the 1% rich’s pocket and intimidation to everyone else. Trump has taken on more of a Benito Mussolini following. He even patterns his look after the egotistical Mussolini. The impending oligarchy will make it even much more difficult for people of color to attain upward mobility. When 1% of the country own 99% of the wealth only the rich hold all of the financial playing cards. And many white people say, “I’ve got no complaints”. Of course, that’s because you are not black.
Look, I get you were trying to make a point but that’s an extraordinary amount of copy and paste text to scroll through. Perhaps give a sample and link in the future.
It was for a point ..sorry next time I will but it’s an important point.
It is a long period of time that shows many POC did not consider Republicans racist.
it also shows a history of inclusion.
And if you really look at it it is quite educational.
A point sadly ignored in the current situation.
It’s always a pleasure to see Christopher Columbus’s minions out on the town.
Its reassuring to see that whites know better now, and have decided to drop out of school, stop saving their money, and have unanimously decided to forgo their dreams of Costa Rican vacations or a bungalow in Hawaii.
It’s best if white people dedicate their lives to improving the situation for people they hardly understand..
Then maybe, some century in the future, we won’t have to project such a overcooked past onto every event of the modern day.
When do we start fresh, one may ask,..
can any group even agree internally, let alone cross cultural?
Some may say, “ what came first, the turkey vulture or the robin?”
Well, since you asked, I think the robins come out earlier..
stellar jays, thrushes, flickers, robins, then I start seeing the vultures floating high on the currents again..
It’s just an idea..
They know what’s going on, that’s for sure..
Maybe we should ask them what going on
Once upon a time in April 28, 2015 ….
Look how opinions change….. hmm…
President Obama Condemns Both the Baltimore Riots and the Nation’s ‘Slow-Rolling Crisis’
transcript
‘No Excuse’ for Riots, Obama Says
The president said Tuesday that there was “no excuse” for the riots that took place in Baltimore on Monday night after protests against the death of a man in police custody turned violent.
SOUNDBITE (English) President Barack Obama: “Obviously our thoughts continue to be with the family of Freddie Gray, understandably they want answers and DOJ (Department of Justice) has opened an investigation, it is working with local law enforcement to find out exactly what happened and I think there should be full transparency and accountability. … There’s no excuse for the kind of violence we saw yesterday. It is counterproductive when individuals get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they’re not protesting, they’re not making a statement, they’re stealing. When they burn down a building they’re committing arson and they’re destorying and undermining businesses and opportunities in their own communities that rob jobs and opportunity from people in that area.” SOUNDBITE (English) President Barack Obama: “That is not a protest, that is not a statement, it’s a handful of people taking advantage of a situation for their own purposes and they need to be treated as criminals.”
0:59‘No Excuse’ for Riots, Obama Says
The president said Tuesday that there was “no excuse” for the riots that took place in Baltimore on Monday night after protests against the death of a man in police custody turned violent.
Credit…Doug Mills/The New York Times
did anyone watch “LA 92” last night on the NG channel? I was horrified and enlightened all at the same time. I didn’t live in CA, have TV or really care about current events in the early 90s so it was all kinda new to me. I recommend it to everyone. 30 years cycles that effect almost everything that we do are because we forget. its kinda like doing inventory.
List of African-American Republicans
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Very educational if you really look at the people and their occupations.!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African-American_Republicans
I won’t object if you delete the long one Kym.
Nope, I don’t know where you get your information, but antifa is definitely trouble makers. Who do you think started all the mayhem at these protest,(riots)? I have been informed that my name has now been added to the antifa hit list. So this is fake, too?
The antifa has a hit list? …
Even back in 2017….I doubt they just stopped.
Antifa has a rapid response team that targets alt-right organizers
snip
Deep inside the bloc were the most militant members of the opaque group, who had been busy for weeks with a different plan. They had tracked conservative activists across the Bay Area — and beyond. They held meetings and created a database of known targets, invariably labeling them “Nazis.”
Link with pics.
https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-09-06/antifa-has-rapid-response-team-targets-alt-right-organizers
Antifa expands its hit list as political violence escalates
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/8/antifa-targets-tucker-carlson-hit-list-expands-con/
Wouldn’t it be useful if in general people would not be determined only to investigate their opponents while ignoring their own defects? Why it might- against all expectations- gain more respect for their opinions if they were willing to admit that it is not all black and white.
Ask who benefits. Ask who pays.
All terrorists , Antifa, KKK, or any other, are opponents of everyone that has a brain.
First the ones they hate then those they choose to associate.
First they come for thee
Then they come for me.
I highly suggest reading….
Shelby Steele
https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/national-humanities-medals/shelby-steele
and his book White Guilt
White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era (P.S.) Paperback – May 29, 2007
by Shelby Steele (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/White-Guilt-Together-Destroyed-Promise/dp/0060578637
If you don’t want to buy the book just read the reviews.
They are insightful on there own. And …very relevant to whats happening now.
Knowledge matters!
Was this last Saturday?
This is an attempt to get rid of police in order to bring in national or even global police as opposed to having local police.
Local is better for the people.
Rest In Peace Mr. Floyd.