Excellent result for the teddy bears!
Who needs Morelos?
Depressing to see the players take the knee though.
I'm all for it .
For me these people have been treated badly for decades if not hundreds of years .
Slavery abuse their children abused by the slave owners . No coloureds allowed in this shop or restaurant.
Not allowed on the beach . Blamed for murders they didnt commit and put to death .
But when the were murdered the authorities didn't give a dam .
The soul bus from the 60s travelled from the north side of America with the likes of a young Dianna Ross on it performing for the whites but by the time they got to the deep south they could eat inside restaurant's they had to stay on the bus even though they were doing hugely successful performance's at night for the whites .
Not surprising some have issues .
Oh does anyone remember the first black man to kiss a white woman at the back of a car .
That was too much for many in the white population of America . unbelievable. Name that film and the actor !
I just don't see how Black (POC seems to be a new trendy phrase I see) people are treated badly though. I've never seen any stats that convince me otherwise, all I see are what I see as conspiracy theories about the police, systematic racism etc.
I also don't get how the George Floyd situation sparked this off. It was a case of police brutality but there's nothing to show that he was targetted for his race. It seems he was targetted because he committed a crime, then one white police officer knelt on his neck whilst 3 non-whites looked on. It's since been shown that him not being able to breathe was being complained about before the policeman knelt on his neck and was most likely to him being off face on drugs. Was it even the neck-kneel that killed him?
Slavery, blacks being treated as 2nd class citizens and giving them the blame for things they didn't do were all awful and go against everything I stand for, but these things don't happen anymore.
Using the probable non-racist death of a drug-fuelled criminal as an excuse to riot, loot, burn and destroy livelyhoods just makes no sense to me, and reflects terribly on POC to large swathes of people. If the far-right needed an effective recruiting campaign then this is exactly it.
If Black Lives Matter really cared about black lives, but they would protest against the black-on-black violence within their own communities. Maybe they should ask for reparations from existing 'POC' in Africa for capturing and selling their own people to Western whites for a healthy profit in the past too.