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Social Justice Black Lives Matter Discussion Thread

Cheshire_Kat said:
No, the full definition is by is that they are segregated by minority groups, interests, religious beliefs , or financial status.

NOT just race.
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In America our ghettos are almost exclusively race based.

DeadManWalkin' said:
so an elite neighbourhood full of white conservatives would be a ghetto, because of their beliefs + financial status + race?
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No it wouldn't really be, hence why I think the word is being misused a little.

Minority vs majority groups is what's the point behind the word.

I have no problem with multicultural neighborhoods or low income neighborhoods, I'm just explaining words and why I had a problem with what Priest said.
 
Cheshire_Kat said:
Still racist, Cap. Think about it a while.

The KKK would absolutely LOVE your definition, btw...
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It's a reality in America, I didn't create society. I don't like racial segregation. It's very prevalent even in "liberal" parts of America.

It's interesting you think what I said is racist while what other posters said wasn't? I.e. TheInvisibleStoner and Priest?
 
Sorry, didn't mean to trigger you.

So unless I agree 100% with the hive mind I'm what... a racist, a Nazi?
 
Cheshire_Kat said:
Um that's a pretty racist thing to say, Cap. Not to mention inaccurate since many races live in ghettos.
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His comment is not racist at all, actually. Minority groups are part of the definition, if you're white, you're part of the majority. What's racist about that?
 
^ Right. That's what I'm trying to understand, of course there can be white people who live in the ghetto, I'm white and I have lived in inner city ghettos. But, it's a simple minority versus majority issue when it comes to the definition.

I find it odd when just the acknowledgement of racial issues or discussion of said issues gets lumped in as racism.
 
Then why can one (the Cap) say that because the neighbors were white it wasn't the ghetto?

Oh come on. Breonna Taylor's neighbors were white, so how is this "the ghetto" again?
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Cheshire_Kat said:
Then why can one (the Cap) say that because the neighbors were white it wasn't the ghetto?
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From my experience, white people are the severe minority in a ghetto. That's what I interpreted his comment to mean, not that no single white people live in the ghetto. (I.e. if all of her neighbors were white, the chance of it being the ghetto was small)

Maybe just a difference in interpretation?

I can't speak to what cap actually meant, just how I interpreted it.
 
Cheshire I am disagreeing with Priest calling where Taylor lives a ghetto. It sounds like a hasty generalization.

I am sorry you are offended by the reality that in America we have neighborhoods and parts of town in many states that are almost entirely non-white. Some parts of America still have severe racial divisions/segregation. I didn't create America. I don't embrace this part of it. I live in a (relatively) diverse neighborhood where the majority are not white people.

I'm just making social observations about America.
 
I am offended because I am not entirely white.

I am offended that you inferred that if white people are present, it's Mr Roger's Neighborhood and there is no tension.

For the record, in the hood you don't talk to the popo for your own safety. I can see why any neighbor (regardless of race or color anything else) would change their testimony once they realized what they were up against. It's a matter of survival.

Call out Priest all you want, I get it, but don't insult folks on the way. That is not cool at all.
 
Cheshire_Kat said:
I am offended that you inferred that if white people are present, it's Mr Roger's Neighborhood and there is no tension.
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You infer, I imply. And I implied no such thing. I pointed out the logical possibility that where Breonna Taylor lived was not a ghetto. You're kind of putting words into my mouth.

don't insult folks on the way. That is not cool at all.
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I didn't insult anyone.
 
Cheshire_Kat said:
Um that's a pretty racist thing to say, Cap. Not to mention inaccurate since many races live in ghettos.
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True. I lived in a moderate crime area with mainly Europeans, Mexican mestizos and Chicano cholos/vatos, native Americans, South Asians, and some blacks. Drug dealers lived near me and they were European and the ones down the street were Mexican but I just ignored them all. I remember seeing young chicano kids in elementary school or early jr highschool who saw older relatives join gangs and sell drugs so they joined their carnales, got gang tattoos on their hand or necks and became cholos or homeboys shooting guns, selling dope(heroin), crack rocks, and METH. If you asked them why they joined up they would tell you, 'I didn't choose the cholo/thug life, it chose me and the opportunity to make money selling drugs was too good to turn down.'
 
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TheInvisibleStoner said:
The police were shot 1st.
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Ballistics report doesn't support Kentucky AG's claim that Breonna Taylor's boyfriend shot cop

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A Kentucky State Police ballistics report does not support state Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s assertion that Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, shot a police officer the night she was killed.

Cameron said Wednesday the investigation of Taylor’s death March 13 ruled out “friendly fire” from officer Brett Hankison as the source of the shot that went through Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly’s thigh, prompting him and officer Myles Cosgrove to return fire, killing Taylor.

The KSP report says that “due to limited markings of comparative value,” the 9mm bullet that hit and exited Mattingly was neither “identified nor eliminated as having been fired” from Walker’s gun.

Cameron said Hankison had been eliminated as the shooter because the three officers carried .40-caliber handguns, while Walker had a 9.
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