That's pretty much what this is, because despite black forgiveness white people have never promised us to actually stop perpetuating white supremacy, which is what proper forgiveness should be predicated on.
Yup i'm happy for the brother finding his own way to grief the loss of his brother, but the judge doing it is reprehensible and she should lose her position as a judge.
People really need to read up on MLK before they use him as a bludgeon
He would not have accepted the societal norms but he would have not called this man "indoctrinated" for doing what he did. He would have actually welcomed it. He was not against individuals forgiving people who wronged them but the luck of justice in society. Which is a valid place to direct anger (e.g judge)
You don't even need to read up on him to realize the man got murdered.
And how every black person has to be MLK level or they ain't shit. I live for the day when the rest of the society gets Tim Wise thrown in their face.
No one is saying every black person should be mlk. At least im not. However dont hate on a black person for forgiving a white person and claim the only reason he did was because of white people indoctrination. Like he has no mind of his own. Ironically, you'd call that white washing.
I never said that, i am calling out the feels masturbation that is overshadowing the fact a man is dead for nothing
(whispers)
The people in the court trial thread mentioned the judge hinting at the jurors to take it easy on her too. I'll have to search that thread to see what was actually said but I think all this is because she was Dallas PD.
Yeah, i agree. Had the convicted murderer, former cop been the one to ask to give a hug to the family and beg forgiveness, completely different. That POTENTIALLY makes for a powerful moment...but this?
You have a romanticized view of the civil rights movement. MLK and others disagreed all the time on how to handle stuff, Bayard Rustlin was pretty dismayed at how the Civil Rights Movement omitted LGBTQ issues and voices
And a thousand other stories that don't fit "I have a dream" speech ended racism chapter in history books
I hope they weren't paid off, take this person to civil court, and make it so she can't get out and sell books to the right and pretend left about her experience, and murder drama she thought of while in jail or prison.
Indeed. We're not a monolith. The Civil Rights movement squeaked us by on actually getting the Voting Rights Act passed (which was gutted some years ago anyway). It cost us many casualties in terrorist attacks, lynchings, and assassinations, to say nothing of how deftly white people were able to snatch control of the legacy of the movement and turn it into this next-level, magical pacifist movement for their own gain as a hypocritical moral bludgeon for the black people fighting today. MLK didn't get to his plans for socialism for obvious fucking reasons. The Black Panthers were quickly destroyed while we predictably turned their school meal program into another way to shame the poor and destitute.
The mom gives me hope. She seemed to be in mama bear mode when a hunter killed her son. I bet she didn't hug Amber, or wish to be her friend.
