Skip to content
  • Categories
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • Users
  • Groups
Skins
  • Light
  • Cerulean
  • Cosmo
  • Flatly
  • Journal
  • Litera
  • Lumen
  • Lux
  • Materia
  • Minty
  • Morph
  • Pulse
  • Sandstone
  • Simplex
  • Sketchy
  • Spacelab
  • United
  • Yeti
  • Zephyr
  • Dark
  • Cyborg
  • Darkly
  • Quartz
  • Slate
  • Solar
  • Superhero
  • Vapor

  • Default (No Skin)
  • No Skin
Collapse

The New Coffee Room

  1. TNCR
  2. General Discussion
  3. " I join all those who loved him"

" I join all those who loved him"

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved General Discussion
14 Posts 7 Posters 68 Views
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • MikM Offline
    MikM Offline
    Mik
    wrote on last edited by
    #5

    He died.

    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

    1 Reply Last reply
    • CopperC Offline
      CopperC Offline
      Copper
      wrote on last edited by
      #6

      He was a man who sold cigarettes.

      No different from any other man who sold for a living.

      I sold for a living.

      The cartoon on the locker room wall said "Selling is like shaving, you do it every day or you're a bum".

      I think George would have liked that sign.

      1 Reply Last reply
      • MikM Offline
        MikM Offline
        Mik
        wrote on last edited by
        #7

        I do too. It elevates bums.

        “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

        1 Reply Last reply
        • HoraceH Offline
          HoraceH Offline
          Horace
          wrote on last edited by
          #8

          His physical appearance helped the movement. All of god's graces that he had, were towards his physicality. He was a tall, good looking man. Actually to be honest I don't think any of this happens if he's a 5'8" sunken chested wannabe gang banger. He's a loser that looks actually pretty darned good.

          Education is extremely important.

          1 Reply Last reply
          • LuFins DadL Offline
            LuFins DadL Offline
            LuFins Dad
            wrote on last edited by
            #9

            He inspired a civil rights movement? What rights have been added to the constitution? What rights are even being considered? I mean, we defunded a few police departments, but have quickly reversed course… What’s the big win for civil rights and BLM? Honestly curious.

            The Brad

            HoraceH 1 Reply Last reply
            • LuFins DadL LuFins Dad

              He inspired a civil rights movement? What rights have been added to the constitution? What rights are even being considered? I mean, we defunded a few police departments, but have quickly reversed course… What’s the big win for civil rights and BLM? Honestly curious.

              HoraceH Offline
              HoraceH Offline
              Horace
              wrote on last edited by
              #10

              @LuFins-Dad said in " I join all those who loved him":

              He inspired a civil rights movement?

              He literally did. The effect of the movement is a different question.

              It raises the question of whether the right-side-of-history folk were on the right side of any good history.

              Education is extremely important.

              LuFins DadL 1 Reply Last reply
              • HoraceH Offline
                HoraceH Offline
                Horace
                wrote on last edited by
                #11

                Look at head shots of Barack Obama and George Floyd next to each other and tell me that it's just skin color that separates them.

                Education is extremely important.

                1 Reply Last reply
                • taiwan_girlT Offline
                  taiwan_girlT Offline
                  taiwan_girl
                  wrote on last edited by taiwan_girl
                  #12

                  I agree with the above. He certainly didn't deserve to die like he did, but he basically wasn't a good member of society.

                  1 Reply Last reply
                  • HoraceH Horace

                    @LuFins-Dad said in " I join all those who loved him":

                    He inspired a civil rights movement?

                    He literally did. The effect of the movement is a different question.

                    It raises the question of whether the right-side-of-history folk were on the right side of any good history.

                    LuFins DadL Offline
                    LuFins DadL Offline
                    LuFins Dad
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #13

                    @Horace said in " I join all those who loved him":

                    @LuFins-Dad said in " I join all those who loved him":

                    He inspired a civil rights movement?

                    He literally did. The effect of the movement is a different question.

                    No, he didn’t. What happened to him was already illegal. He was the victim of a crime, the perpetrators were arrested, tried, and convicted. Where is the civil rights issue?

                    The Brad

                    1 Reply Last reply
                    • HoraceH Offline
                      HoraceH Offline
                      Horace
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #14

                      When I say "he did", I only give too much credit to the narrative. I only acknowledge that he is a central component of the narrative.

                      Education is extremely important.

                      1 Reply Last reply
                      Reply
                      • Reply as topic
                      Log in to reply
                      • Oldest to Newest
                      • Newest to Oldest
                      • Most Votes


                      • Login

                      • Don't have an account? Register

                      • Login or register to search.
                      • First post
                        Last post
                      0
                      • Categories
                      • Recent
                      • Tags
                      • Popular
                      • Users
                      • Groups