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re: Mike Brown's Mom reacts to the Grand Jury decision (NSFW)
Posted on 11/25/14 at 6:41 am to TigerHam85
Posted on 11/25/14 at 6:41 am to TigerHam85
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I agree. I've never once justified the small criminal element that's taking advantage of a sad situation. I was responding to someone who asked for an explanation of people's anger.
Gotcha
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You're black, right?
Yes.
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Posted on 11/25/14 at 6:44 am to TbirdSpur2010
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I'm not angry about anything. My wife just came home from deployment and I'm happy as a lark. I see ignorant shite posted on here every day. Heard worse, seen worse. Not condoning the use of the slur (hell, most of us didn't even know what the frick that term even meant). I AM condoning callin that woman out for her hypocrisy. My being black doesn't mean I'm obligated to overlook that she did a terrible job as a mother and is now putting herself front and center to exploit her son's death. In that respect, she is no better than the media that have fanned the flames of this case into such a conflagration.
Posted on 11/25/14 at 6:45 am to TbirdSpur2010
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I'm not angry about anything. My wife just came home from deployment and I'm happy as a lark. I see ignorant shite posted on here every day. Heard worse, seen worse. Not condoning the use of the slur (hell, most of us didn't even know what the frick that term even meant). I AM condoning callin that woman out for her hypocrisy. My being black doesn't mean I'm obligated to overlook that she did a terrible job as a mother and is now putting herself front and center to exploit her son's death. In that respect, she is no better than the media that have fanned the flames of this case into such a conflagration.
I agree with you man.
I am black as well and people try and talk shite on how my wife and I has taught my kids to speak articulatelyand how to carry themselves in respectable manner. A lot of my own race look at kids in a weird way when you raise your kids to not be "street" and a "thug". Mike Brown's mother raised him into a fricked up person so instead of carrying himself respectively, he had to show how street he was and not let the cop tell him what to do. I still can't speak on what the hell happened that day between MB and DW that led to the shooting l, but teaching your children on how to talk to the authority will take them a long way.
Posted on 11/25/14 at 6:45 am to LSU CRAZY
Posted on 11/25/14 at 6:47 am to UFownstSECsince1950
lolz, she doesn't understand what a grand jury is.
Posted on 11/25/14 at 6:48 am to DBeaux225
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I am black as well and people try and talk shite on how my wife and I has taught my kids to speak articulatelyand how to carry themselves in respectable manner. A lot of my own race look at kids in a weird way when you raise your kids to not be "street" and a "thug". Mike Brown's mother raised him into a fricked up person so instead of carrying himself respectively, he had to show how street he was and not let the cop tell him what to do. I still can't speak on what the hell happened that day between MB and DW that led to the shooting l, but teaching your children on how to talk to the authority will take them a long way.
Exactly
I may have been called "uncle Tom" or told I "talk white" more times than I can count growing up by the more hood relatives of mine, but their asses are the ones bouncing in and out of jail, and mine has a clean record and a college degree. I thank God every day I was blessed with better parents than I deserve.
This post was edited on 11/25/14 at 6:50 am
Posted on 11/25/14 at 6:53 am to TbirdSpur2010
I'd buy you a beer
Posted on 11/25/14 at 6:56 am to TbirdSpur2010
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I may have been called "uncle Tom" or told I "talk white" more times than I can count growing up by the more hood relatives of mine, but their asses are the ones bouncing in and out of jail, and mine has a clean record and a college degree. I thank God every day I was blessed with better parents than I deserve
Me too. I grew up in rough arse North BR's 70805 area and my wife came from the projects in south BR. I've never been to jail or have baby mamas all over the place. My wife of 9 years graduated from LSU with her masters degree and we've created a life for our 2 children in which they will never know what the streets are.
Posted on 11/25/14 at 6:56 am to DBeaux225
Teaching your children how to talk to authority will take them a long way? Look, I feel you 100 percent on the importance of upbringing, education, etc. I was told I acted white. Inevitably my son (who is now two) will one day try to sag his pants and I've already been dreaming of how I will address it (take away all of his pants and replace them with ones a size too small) I'm literally scheming about that one lol! My husband and I are educated. He's an attorney. I GET IT. However, sometimes that simply isn't enough. Did you hear Jordan Davis' mother speak? She's incredibly poised and articulate. Her son was murdered for playing music that his killer didn't like. My husband, an officer, a Jag, and a tulane grad and I have been stopped by the police. His mother taught him how to speak to cops so he could make it out of the situation alive BUT he shouldn't have been stopped in the first place. Sometimes you can do everything right like Amadou Diallo and still have your body riddled a hundred times (o think) with bullets.
Posted on 11/25/14 at 7:02 am to TbirdSpur2010
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He wasn't executed for stealing--he lost his life because he lacked the common sense to not bow up to a cop.
Should bowing up to a cop always lead to being shot to death? That's my issue with the no true bill. I want to know what happened, because I want to discourage police tactics that seem to generate deadly encounters where they are unnecessary.
But this is the OT where cops are given the benefit of the doubt after they shoot an unarmed teenager who at one point was running away but not given that benefit when they shoot a dog that may or may not be threatening them with serious harm.
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Such a community should be striving to take positive steps to mend broken relationships with LE, not engaging in thuggery and violence that furthers the stereotypes that precipitate such antagonistic stances to begin with.
True, but what should we be doing? What should cops be doing? Those are harder questions to answer, but if we actually want to live in a better country, we have to figure it out. No matter how much some of you wish these communities would just disappear, they are not going to.
Posted on 11/25/14 at 7:10 am to lsuwontonwrap
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I hope no one helps them rebuild shite. frick that. You made your bed, now lie in it.
Check out your taxes this year... they say "youre welcome" as they relocate to nicer apartments and get more on the food stamp cards. We are essentially paying them to destroy Fergusons local economy.
Posted on 11/25/14 at 7:11 am to LSUfanalways
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Teaching your children how to talk to authority will take them a long way?
It will. You can't prepare for all of life and sometimes, no matter how well you prepare, bad stuff happens. I'm not sure what your example has to do with anything. The guy who shot Jordan is being tried (again) and the Justice system will work its way through it.
Posted on 11/25/14 at 7:11 am to YStar
quote:...well, yeah.
For instance he stole cigars and was smoking weed. That is no different than all of the younger people in Hollywood.. hell even Georgia. Only difference is the stealing part.
These protestors are no different than other protestors all over the country. Only difference is the destruction, violence, and looting.
Posted on 11/25/14 at 7:11 am to TaderSalad
Lol!!!!! You think that the reason your taxes are high is bc you're helping rebuild ferguson? I can't deal with this hyperbolic drivel.
Posted on 11/25/14 at 7:13 am to the808bass
The poster implied that YOUR behavior is always the determining factor in an outcome. My point is that many outcomes are still screwed up even if YOU do everything right. Jordan Davis' murderer was convicted, finally, thank God.
Posted on 11/25/14 at 7:15 am to LSUfanalways
quote:And he wasn't shot because of that crime. Forensic evidence proved, and a grand jury came to the conclusion, that the officer was within his rights to shoot Brown, as he was fearful for his life. Justice was served, it just didn't go the way the crowd wanted it to go. Hence the mass destruction.
Michael brown. Michael brown was obviously a thief who stole. However, in this country that isn't a capital crime
This post was edited on 11/25/14 at 7:16 am
Posted on 11/25/14 at 7:15 am to uway
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Should bowing up to a cop always lead to being shot to death?
No. But it will always (almost) lead to getting shot. White or black.
And it will almost always lead to no charges or a not guilty verdict against the police officer. That's not a good thing but it's reality. And everyone knows that reality.
There's no moral high ground to be taken for a thief who got into a fight with a police officer.
Posted on 11/25/14 at 7:18 am to LSUfanalways
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The poster implied that YOUR behavior is always the determining factor in an outcome. My point is that many outcomes are still screwed up even if YOU do everything right. Jordan Davis' murderer was convicted, finally, thank God.
I will wager that the poster to whom you responded allows that you can't control everything no matter what you do. Screwed up outcomes and injustice aren't owned by a race. It's part of the human condition. That doesn't mean that we don't still fight for equality and injustice. It just means that we don't pretend that the government's view of us will provide us with contentment or happiness.
This post was edited on 11/25/14 at 7:18 am
Posted on 11/25/14 at 7:19 am to LSUfanalways
As a school teacher this does not surprise me in any way. The total lack of respect for authority by males on both sides of the racial aisle is quite appalling. Anytime they are asked to do something or get in compliance with a school policy an arguement ensues. Whether you agree or disagree with the verdict at the end of the day the police are the authority in our society and if you are wrongfully accused we have one of the fairest legal systems in that world that will make it right.
Posted on 11/25/14 at 7:21 am to YStar
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You are a simpleton if you believe there is only one level of disaster that can affect a country.
I wouldn't go around calling people simpletons with your comprehension skills.
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