I think there is some truth to that black lives need to matter to black lives. But I think their communities are often lacking in certain people who they matter to...
Or at least, more often. So many children born out of wedlock. Lack of adult male supervision. A guy said this on a Youtube video, something about they lacked a father to rebel against (or other things) often.
I do not think their execution of any of this is at all... it's cumbersome.
And it provokes responses such as all lives matter, white lives matter, autistlivesmatter, slavlivesmatter, etc.
And they are radicals. And this was based off of an
assumption that this Floyd incident was racially motivated, as if because Rayshard was black - THAT'S why he died (unless being black means more likely to do things like punch cops and take their taser)...
If you factor in all the numbers, one can understand why they match up. Blacks are like 8 times more likely to resist arrest than whites. A cop is 18 times more likely to be killed by a black man, than for an unarmed black man to be killed by police. Cops actually fire faster at whites. Blacks (cops) are quicker to pull the trigger for blacks.
Even if we can kick that nest - and we'll see that 'racism' every time, the way bias works is not just one direction, or with one net-result. It's not just positive, or negative, but by trying to be nice, you can compromise yourself. California just nixed a part of their constitution:
"The State shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting."
I was thinking tonight, another way this race stuff is difficult: I don't really take to liking every single person I come across. However, with black people, I am extra polite. If I don't like them, I feel like, there is something based on that pattern, and I feel guilty for it, in a way (I don't feel this way with white people - and I don't react like that at). I am not saying it is, but I think we've become confused in the mix. We apply one-standard for one, another for others.
I am not trying to dismiss that the black community is a vulnerable one in many respects - that has been damaged, especially in the United States. I also want to be careful as to not be misconstrued as thinking they're helpless, unable to choose some path. But my dad told me a story of when he was 20, and became the manager at the park pool, and the mayor called him and told him some black kids/families would be in line, my dad asked what to do - the mayor hung up. The ticket-taking woman left when my dad told her to sell them tickets. He sat down and sold tickets. That was the first day black people were allowed in the pool. That drove the reality home a little further, how recent that has been. My dad, another my age, or younger, could have a dad that experienced that.
There was a form a systemic oppression.
However - I cannot advocate for the groups to live together in the first place.
This doesn't mean I believe we can't be friends.
But they don't seem to be very friendly, at all (Black Lives Matter and all their co-activists or supporters), to us.
As for the way bias can work differently, that applies to the quoted part of the California constitution that got nixed. It was for "affirmative action". You can even more discriminate legally now against whites.
But also- Whites have mental disorders:
America's White Saviors
I don't think the group tested as "Liberal" is very based. They're also the most likely to support Black Lives Matter, I'd guess. They're the only group that was tested that favored outside groups more than in-group. It's quite whack. If you look at the graphic for blacks, and every other group, even their in-group bias is higher than white conservatives.
So the situation is far more complicated than people are giving it credit for.
I think perhaps something(s) could be done, structurally, and perhaps it's been calling for it for a long time. But I don't think it's being handled rightly, from the protestors, the Antifa, the rioters and looters and vandals, and I don't think we have a strong voice in government, that will calm people. There's too much opposition. And part of it is this chaos system.
I do not advocate for multiculturalism, or mixing of races on this level (not to say I don't understand advocating tolerance - and that can be a slippery slope again to what I don't advocate...).
And if it were to come to defend myself or submit to them, I'd defend myself. And I feel no shame in saying if I had to choose one "race" to live it would be the people generally identified as "white". And this has become an attack on it, and the well-being of whites, in some way.
Also, here is a thread of videos of black on white violence. You will not find anything like it in the reverse.
#LifeMatters
You do not honestly believe that, do you? Black lives matter and the BLM supporters have ALWAYS been a black supremacist hate group and promoted racism, and as quiet as it's kept they only care about black Americans only. Yet refuse to speak out against black on black crime or murders, or about the Arab-African slave trade which has been going on for centuries long before the European slave trade happened, and the Arab-African slave trade still goes on today in 2020.
