Not a riot

[taiwan_girl]

@George-K said in Not a riot:

@Jolly said in Not a riot:

From the man who set race relations back twenty years...

From the man who was in the White House when Ferguson and Baltimore burned.

Not knowing much about this, where do you guys thinks race relations are right now in the US.

If assume at the end of President Bush, it was at a baseline of zero.
Jolly mentions at the end of President Obama, it would be a minus 20

Where does the US stand now? Still -20? Better? Worse?

I have never been affected by it, and don't really know anybody who as, so am somewhat ignorant about how this affects people.

[Mik]

Starting to get ugly here after a peaceful protest all night.

[Doctor Phibes]

@taiwan_girl said in Not a riot:

@George-K said in Not a riot:

@Jolly said in Not a riot:

From the man who set race relations back twenty years...

From the man who was in the White House when Ferguson and Baltimore burned.

Not knowing much about this, where do you guys thinks race relations are right now in the US.

If assume at the end of President Bush, it was at a baseline of zero.
Jolly mentions at the end of President Obama, it would be a minus 20

Where does the US stand now? Still -20? Better? Worse?

I have never been affected by it, and don't really know anybody who as, so am somewhat ignorant about how this affects people.

Everything's great here. We're just getting a little tired of all the winning that being going on. It's been freaking non-stop. Win, win, win.

If anything bad has happened, it's basically Obama's fault.

[Horace]

Pop culture is never more than an anecdote away from nodding to each other in unison that racism is as bad as it has ever been. I have no doubt that it will be that way for the rest of my time on this earth.

[89th]

Good discussion in this thread. I thought your posts @Horace were especially accurate in at least reflecting most of my take.

[xenon]

Shameless, but hilarious:

https://twitter.com/khaliya/status/1266512743990996994?s=20

[Jolly]

@taiwan_girl said in Not a riot:

@George-K said in Not a riot:

@Jolly said in Not a riot:

From the man who set race relations back twenty years...

From the man who was in the White House when Ferguson and Baltimore burned.

Not knowing much about this, where do you guys thinks race relations are right now in the US.

If assume at the end of President Bush, it was at a baseline of zero.
Jolly mentions at the end of President Obama, it would be a minus 20

Where does the US stand now? Still -20? Better? Worse?

I have never been affected by it, and don't really know anybody who as, so am somewhat ignorant about how this affects people.

It's never absolutely wonderful. Never will be. But it's not bad, even in the Deep South. Sure there are some pretty racist people out there, but I think you can find that everywhere.

[brenda]

The rioters destroy their own neighborhoods, rob their local businesses, create a lawless environment for everyone, and then will wonder why businesses close, leave the neighborhood, and never come back.

There will be future Economic Development initiatives in the neighborhood to bring back business and jobs, to repair or rebuild entire city blocks, using taxpayer funding to incent the programs. This destruction/rebuild sequence gets mighty expensive.

[Mik]

Yes, indeed. Then they complain about living in food desert.

Racism is, sadly, a one sided conversation in this country. That is bound to lead to no good.

[Copper]

Racism is gone.

There is no more racism in this country.

There are, of course, people who make judgments based on race, but the number is so low it is not worth counting.

The media coverage of racism in this country is about exactly what it was 30 or 40 years ago and it will never, ever change.

The virtuous politician's talk about racism in this country is about exactly what it was 30 or 40 years ago and it will never, ever change.

[George K]

The Mayor of Minneapolis gets it. It's the fault of white supremacists (and maybe THE RUSSIANS!):

[Horace]

all of American culture's dumbest ideas are are around issues of race. That wasn't a reasoned mind forming those thoughts, it was sheer terror of saying the wrong thing.

[Jolly]

@George-K said in Not a riot:

The Mayor of Minneapolis gets it. It's the fault of white supremacists (and maybe THE RUSSIANS!):

Actually, my nephew the cop is friends with a cop in Minnesooota...He said his friend told him there were outside people helping to instigate the rioting and they were using cellphones to organise waves of mayhem.

Wonder who's paying them?...

[George K]

@Jolly said in Not a riot:

Wonder who's paying them?...

As usual, follow the money.

[xenon]

[89th]

[brenda]

Yes, the arrest reports indicate these are not local people rioting, not even Minnesoooootans.

We import our rioters here. We get the professionals. Only the best for us, thank you!

[jon-nyc]

Nope.

https://www.fox9.com/news/jail-records-show-most-arrested-in-minneapolis-riots-have-minnesota-addresses.amp?__twitter_impression=true

[brenda]

@jon-nyc said in Not a riot:

Nope.

https://www.fox9.com/news/jail-records-show-most-arrested-in-minneapolis-riots-have-minnesota-addresses.amp?__twitter_impression=true

From the same article:
"Speaking Saturday, Minneapolis police spokesman John Elder, however, said that sometimes people arrested will provide false information. He says background checks are showing some people arrested have records from other areas."

Interesting that there are any people from other states coming here to be in riots. I don't usually think of that as being a good guest.

[Horace]

I'm more unsettled at this nation-wide rioting than I ever was by Corona virus. I suppose I'm in the minority about that.