re: Ferguson Protesters to block the Galleria entrance tomorrow and Friday?

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Roughly half of all teenaged black males who die each year are murdered by other young black males and practically nobody cares

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And 83% of white murder victims are killed by other whites, so what's your point?

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f those lives really mattered, the people protesting would have been in the streets years ago

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They have been. You've just been too busy making fun of them and marginalizing their cause.

I'm getting the laugh at the thought of some commuter who is heading home to Chelsea or Inverness and has to put up with this. They either won't care or will run right over someone in their way. Not only that, do those who are protesting think they'll be allowed on private property in order to protest? No, they'll be arrested right on the spot because the property owners do not want to lose one dollar over this.

Just goes to show you how much of a joke this all is. No thought put into it.

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I bet you made fun of the Million Man March, which addressed the very thing you claim black people don't care about. Get out if here with your ignorance.

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butcher english language, bring up something from years ago that has nothing to do with current events. One march years ago doesn't show any concern for the staggering violence that young male blacks commit vs other young male blacks. If they cared about it then you would see the crime stats going down. They would be cleaning up hoods and it would make news.

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Talk about what exactly? The justified shooting of a thug piece of shite?

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Truthfully, I don't give a shite if it was justified or not, thug or not. For all I care they all can DIAF, cops and thugs alike.

My only point is your talking about it in this thread. You wouldn't be if they were doing it with a permit quietly in whatever park.

And you're one the throwing around "fascist" because people are calling out the BS. You gave me a link to The Atlantic. Congrats. I'm giving you personal, first hand experience in a community that I see everyday.

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But you seem to have a problem with some choosing to protest over the recent rash of unarmed blacks killed by police. Why is that?

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Because it's a crock of shite. Your passive aggressive suggestions are precious though. It's a bandaid on a problem that extends way beyond a handful of bad white cops shooting young black men (and in some of those cases, young black men who put themselves in questionable situations). I've seen NOTHING to address the culture that fosters the robbery that Michael Brown committed that led to his altercation, the resisting arrest in Eric Garner's case, or the parental responsibility in the Tamir Rice case where he was brandishing an air gun with it's orange safety tip removed.

And lastly I didn't grow up with money. My parents were on welfare for a time when I was in elementary and are both blue collar workers (education and railroad). And I grew up in a diverse neighborhood. But I went to high school, went to college, and have worked since I was 14 years old. And for all the shitty cops in this area (and there's some) I somehow managed to not have a run in with any of them. I don't have the time to go out and protest because I work with at-risk youth like the ones we're talking about and trying to prevent them from dying on my watch. But there's little to no help from their communities when there's not TV time and some kick backs to support it.

That's the reality. Sorry it doesn't fit your agenda.

Vestavia Hills is closing the Cahaba Heights Elementary School early today to avoid "disruptions" from the protests.

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That's the reality.

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No, that's your reality, and your perception of reality. You're projecting what you see in your community to the rest of the nation.

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Because it's a crock of shite

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I guess we'll agree to disagree. I don't think protesting over cops killing unarmed citizens with impunity is a crock of shite.

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I've seen NOTHING to address the culture that fosters the robbery that Michael Brown committed

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You should watch Al Sharpton's eulogy at Brown's funeral then, because he addressed it.

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And lastly I didn't grow up with money.

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Nor did I.

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But I went to high school, went to college, and have worked since I was 14 years old. And for all the shitty cops in this area (and there's some) I somehow managed to not have a run in with any of them.

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Me too, but I did have a few run-ins with cops and on a couple of occasions I witnessed the difference in how I was treated compared ot my black friends.

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I don't have the time to go out and protest because I work

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Maybe the protesters work as well, but the cause is important enough to them to take vacation days, or unpaid time off. You don't know, nor do I, so stop projecting.

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trying to prevent them from dying on my watch. But there's little to no help from their communities when there's not TV time and some kick backs to support it.

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Good for you. That's extremely noble work. And I agree there is little support in many of these communities, and more should be done to address that, both from within those communities and from outside them. But I don't think that diminishes anything these protesters are trying to accomplish.

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The point is in the part of the statistics that you left out. Roughly HALF of black teenage males that die each year are murdered. For white teenage males, less that 10% that die each year are murdered. That's an incredibly vast difference. It gets even worse when you dig deeper into the numbers. Close to twice as many black teenagers are murdered in any given year as white teenagers despite there being 6 times as many white teenagers in America.

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But, but, this doesn't go along with the agenda.

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quality education

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That's a stretch. It's still Alabama.