IOW, if you can't afford it go steal it?...Something to put the looting into perspective...Link.
This is a really piss-poor excuse for looting and I'm totally not buying it, sorry if that makes me politically incorrect. My grandparents were poor in the depression and they didn't steal things. Please.
This is a really piss-poor excuse for looting and I'm totally not buying it, sorry if that makes me politically incorrect. My grandparents were poor in the depression and they didn't steal things. Please.
I come from poverty as well. My parents were immigrants who were super poor in Mexico. They left Mexico for the American dream Of becoming crop pickers. Their history compels me to feel empathy for others. As much as I keep repeating that I’m torn between the anger and the empathy at the looting, this video reminds me that my heart is in the right place when I lean towards empathy. Bc as poor as I was, I have never been desperate enough to wake up and tell myself, today I’m going to risk my freedom and my life to steal shoes. Or angry enough.
@nala First of all, I'm not arguing with you or anybody. And how you came to the conclusion that I care more about the motivation for looting than I do about the murder of black people is baffling.
No, no-one's advocating for it, of course.@yssie I see the point you’re making about ethical considerations. And again. No one is advocating for looting or destruction. But I think it’s fair to say black Americans have been questioning those hiring practices, the wealth gap, hiring practices, etc. since the Civil Rights movement (and earlier), and not only have there been few improvements, their people are continuing to be murdered. I think the time for ethical considerations in response to systemic murder is over.
The problem with this premise is that it doesn't reflect what's actually happening - the looters and rioters aren't all black. They aren't all poor. They aren't all from a disenfranchised group of people that has been swallowing their (I agree) criminally unfair treatment for hundreds of years.Sure. But I think it’s also fair to say that historically peaceful protests are not as effective as destructive uprisings in creating positive social change. How long are we as a society going to let the police murder black people indiscriminately? How long is a disenfranchised group of people supposed to swallow their unfair and frankly criminal treatment before they use the tools they have at their disposal to create change? 400+ years seems long enough to me.
This is a really piss-poor excuse for looting and I'm totally not buying it, sorry if that makes me politically incorrect. My grandparents were poor in the depression and they didn't steal things. Please.
I get where you're coming from. Obstacles are stacked SO high against people who want to do the Right Thing without doing any harm to anyone else.ETA I am not condoning it. I’m saying I understand and see the motivations that led to the behavior. I wish the alternative options (peaceful protest, lobbying, voting in un-gerrymandered districts) were available and effective. But let’s not kid ourselves that they aren’t.
@stracci2000 Do you think it’s wrong and prevalent enough that cities will be changing their laws or practices in response?
The term is redlining, decades of preventing people of color being denied home loans in this "nice" part of town, IOW racism.
Ya'll need to do some serious reflecting, reading (and praying if that's your thing), on why you're more outraged about property destruction, than, you know, the systemic murder of a group of people based on their skin color.
@yssie On an intellectual and moral level, I completely agree with you. But I live in downtown Chicago and I’m currently blockaded in my apartment (with my infant or I’d be out there too), surrounded by military humvees and helicopters, listening to the chanting in the streets. I see the prejudice and hate that exists from the CPD in my neighborhood towards black people. The time for a just and moral resolution to this situation I fear is decades and many dead bodies too late.