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re: Protestors on Siegen Lane are likely racist
Posted on 6/3/20 at 10:47 am to Logician
Posted on 6/3/20 at 10:47 am to Logician
I don’t trust that news source one bit. Basically, they are using the together Baton Rouge racists arguments as their reason for picking that spot. It’s not a section of the city like this quote states.
I doubt the news organization mentioned the fact that this area they are protesting is not part of the city of Baton Rouge. I’d love to be the St. George Police Chief.
I doubt the news organization mentioned the fact that this area they are protesting is not part of the city of Baton Rouge. I’d love to be the St. George Police Chief.
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Posted on 6/3/20 at 10:47 am to Lickitty Split
quote:That's right tough guy! You don't have to get ready because you stay ready.
Just pointing out they are racist. Let me know when they want to have a conversation because I’m ready.
Posted on 6/3/20 at 10:48 am to LSUJML
quote:
Even after the Sterling incident BR was relatively non violent
Sure other than three officers getting murdered
Posted on 6/3/20 at 10:48 am to Logician
I believe on Sunday they found the Jack in the Box parking lot was too small and stopped their operations do they moved Sough to Target and RaceTrac where there are large parking lots nearby.
Posted on 6/3/20 at 10:48 am to doubleb
I have zero problem with peaceful protests.... just don’t destroy shite that doesn’t belong to you.....
Posted on 6/3/20 at 10:49 am to doubleb
Why would they park at Jack in the Box and not Calandro's?
Posted on 6/3/20 at 10:49 am to BigDawg0420
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Sure other than three officers getting murdered
We are discussing the protests but you knew that
ETA
frick you for acting as if I disrespected those officers in any way
This post was edited on 6/3/20 at 10:51 am
Posted on 6/3/20 at 10:51 am to OysterPoBoy
Jack in the Box at Airline & Siegen
Posted on 6/3/20 at 10:52 am to OysterPoBoy
quote:
Why would they park at Jack in the Box and not Calandro's?
Huh?
If you wanted to protest at Siegen and Airline you wouldn’t park at Calandro’s.
Posted on 6/3/20 at 10:52 am to Bayou_Tiger_225
quote:
"Protesters said they chose Siegen Lane as the backdrop for their demonstrations in part for symbolic reasons. The bustling retail district has come to represent the disinvestment, racial segregation, white flight and classism that opponents of the St. George movement have used in their campaigns against incorporation."
"We chose this location because it is an economic hub of Baton Rouge, which a diverse group of people travel through daily," she said. "It is a section of the city that labeled itself as St. George to segregate from the rest of Baton Rouge. We are not here to cause chaos as some may believe — but rather to convey a message."
So they admit the scope of the protest has, illogically, moved beyond complaints that police discriminate and unnecessarily use force on black people on the basis of race to a protest against white "discrimination" in general. Even though the event which is the genesis of the protest did not involve a white civilian whatsoever. How in the hell is the decision by the people of the unincorporated area of EBR to incorporate have ANYTHING to do with alleged POLICE racism and unlawful use of force?
Posted on 6/3/20 at 10:53 am to LSUJML
Ah, I thought they were on the other end.
Posted on 6/3/20 at 10:54 am to doubleb
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believe on Sunday they found the Jack in the Box parking lot was too small and stopped their operations do they moved Sough to Target and RaceTrac where there are large parking lots nearby.
i do not buy the "large parking lot" idea at all. there are MANY large parking lots between jack in the box and target.
just a few days after it's all over the news that target was ravaged, they decide to move the operation right in front of..........target.
guess i'm just cynical.
Posted on 6/3/20 at 10:54 am to LSUJML
quote:
We are discussing the protests but you knew that
You brought up BR after Sterling. So what are we actually discussing?
quote:
frick you for acting as if I disrespected those officers in any way
Wasn't my intention. Just pointing out your statement about BR wasn't true
Posted on 6/3/20 at 10:56 am to Alt26
quote:
So they admit the scope of the protest has, illogically, moved beyond complaints that police discriminate and unnecessarily use force on black people on the basis of race to a protest against white "discrimination" in general. Even though the event which is the genesis of the protest did not involve a white civilian whatsoever. How in the hell is the decision by the people of the unincorporated area of EBR to incorporate have ANYTHING to do with alleged POLICE racism and unlawful use of force?
Maybe we are missing something here? Do you think the protesters are supporting SGeans who are fighting against big brother in Baton Rouge who has been taking our tax dollars to pay their bills even though we had an election to stop it?
Maybe we are both victims of the man?
Posted on 6/3/20 at 10:58 am to BigDawg0420
quote:
So what are we actually discussing?
Protesters being racist because they chose to protest in a white part of town
It was suggested they chose Target because they saw a chance to loot it like other cities
I called BS because violence / destruction has never been the intention of the organizers
& stated that even in 2016 BR didn’t have the type of violent destructive protests we’ve seen on tv
Posted on 6/3/20 at 11:01 am to LSUJML
Just an overview of how the media controls the information.
Yesterday, I got calls from two out of state friends asking if I was doing OK because they saw Baton Rouge on the news as being a hot bed of riots. They were, having watched the reports, under the impression that we were having out of control looting and burning.
Yesterday, I got calls from two out of state friends asking if I was doing OK because they saw Baton Rouge on the news as being a hot bed of riots. They were, having watched the reports, under the impression that we were having out of control looting and burning.
Posted on 6/3/20 at 11:02 am to doubleb
Like I said, they are racist for choosing the spot they chose.
It was all about what this area decided to through a vote of its people wanting to form their own government. They were told that this is the white flight area. They only want to disrupt white people. Little do they know the racial makeup of the residents and employees of the area they are protesting does not represent a greater proportion of white people compared to the areas I mentioned earlier.
It was all about what this area decided to through a vote of its people wanting to form their own government. They were told that this is the white flight area. They only want to disrupt white people. Little do they know the racial makeup of the residents and employees of the area they are protesting does not represent a greater proportion of white people compared to the areas I mentioned earlier.
Posted on 6/3/20 at 11:27 am to Alt26
Their line of thinking is that police brutality against African Americans comes from racist white cops. So in addition to protesting that, they chose Siegen because to them it draws attention to the overall issue of racism in America which is being exemplified by the racist white people of St. George.
In reality those protesters want St. George's tax dollars, but without their political policies. Because if the people of St. George are racist, there is no way those protesters think they should have any say in how the city is run right?
In reality those protesters want St. George's tax dollars, but without their political policies. Because if the people of St. George are racist, there is no way those protesters think they should have any say in how the city is run right?
Posted on 6/3/20 at 11:31 am to doubleb
quote:
Do you think the protesters are supporting SGeans who are fighting against big brother in Baton Rouge who has been taking our tax dollars to pay their bills even though we had an election to stop it?
I have to be honest. This is a confusing run-on sentence.
That aside, let's kind of walk through the events:
1. A black man in Minnesota dies after an interaction with police wherein a white policeman kneeled on the guys neck for what seemed like an inordinate amount of time.
2. Outrage and outcry erupt thereafter alleging the incident is a another example of police racism, or at least racially motivated police misconduct.
Then, that SPECIFIC event, which involved alleged misconduct of a person lawfully vested with the power to restrain and/or arrest people, somehow gets conflated into an example general racism at large? Somehow, we zoomed passed the incident being an example of the need for police reform to the basis for demanding "change" from people who had no role in the incident whatsoever. Nor are members of the police force with the means to be able to change such practices.
So again, a white officer in Minnesota commits an act of wrongdoing and that somehow translates into the need to send a message to the people who voted to incorporate their area in to a city in Baton Rouge, Louisiana?
That's not to say that they don't have a right to protest (within the limits established by the 1st Amendment and binding legal precedence). It's just that I fail to see the connection between the nature of the event that took place in Minnesota and the need to send symbolic message to a totally unrelated group of people in Baton Rouge.
Posted on 6/3/20 at 11:37 am to Alt26
quote:
I have to be honest. This is a confusing run-on sentence.
That aside, let's kind of walk through the events:
1. A black man in Minnesota dies after an interaction with police wherein a white policeman kneeled on the guys neck for what seemed like an inordinate amount of time.
2. Outrage and outcry erupt thereafter alleging the incident is a another example of police racism, or at least racially motivated police misconduct.
Then, that SPECIFIC event, which involved alleged misconduct of a person lawfully vested with the power to restrain and/or arrest people, somehow gets conflated into an example general racism at large? Somehow, we zoomed passed the incident being an example of the need for police reform to the basis for demanding "change" from people who had no role in the incident whatsoever. Nor are members of the police force with the means to be able to change such practices.
So again, a white officer in Minnesota commits an act of wrongdoing and that somehow translates into the need to send a message to the people who voted to incorporate their area in to a city in Baton Rouge, Louisiana?
That's not to say that they don't have a right to protest (within the limits established by the 1st Amendment and binding legal precedence). It's just that I fail to see the connection between the nature of the event that took place in Minnesota and the need to send symbolic message to a totally unrelated group of people in Baton Rouge.
I’m sorry you actually took me seriously,
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