re: Alabama Football Marching Monday for Racial Injustice

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When does the black community begin to take responsibility for their own actions?

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So let's talk about this.

The 1994 crime bill is getting a lot of attention now because Joe Biden supported it. You know who else supported it? Black people. Read this article below, and I also encourage you to read the book it references..."The Black Silent Majority."

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The Black clergy and civic leaders, including my uncle who pastored a Huntsville church until his death in 2014. Why did he support a bill that disproportionately locked up black men?

Because they were ravaging communities. Selling dope, gang warfare, you name it. My uncle had to eulogize countless black people who were victims of drug warfare, and after eulogizing a pre-teen kid, he'd had enough.

So he and others like him pushed for that crime bill. Because all the values that I grew up being taught by him and my parents about earning your way through life wasn't getting through to the whole community.

So when people talk down on the 1994 crime bill, just know that most of those folks who got locked up for federal level crimes deserved it. And the black community absolutely does and did hold their leaders accountable for crime. Many black people like myself simply pulled ourselves up by our bootstraps, improved ourselves economically, and moved to the suburbs.

I saw my first dead body coming from school in 1994, and God as my witness, my kids won't have to live around that shite.
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This is why its off-base to use black people's accountability of black crime as a deflection against issues in policing. Its also important not to make this a liberal or conservative issue because the issue transcends ideologies.

And as a black person, I’m telling you he’s on point.

Human rights isn’t a special treatment and stop parroting the Jesse Petersons.

Yeah I can't get with the belief that the police profession isn't dangerous.

Alabama alone lost, what 6 officers last year? Wyt Carter from BPD hit home because we had mutual friends.

Anytime someone has an open firearm, there's a layer of danger that comes with that.

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The facts are already out. Rittenhouse went to the protest, armed illegally, looking to "defend property" that didn't belong to him.

That's not self defense. That's vigilantism, and it's against the law.

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That’s not the entire picture. A few things:

1. Rittenhouse was assisting the community non violently all day. Washing graffiti off walls, putting out a fire in a dumpster which btw put him on the crowd radar and started everything. A dumpster fire which was aimed at being smashed into police vehicles and likely causing an explosion. Breakdown of charges and fire here

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2. If you watch his interview he specifically points out his medical kit because he wants to help people, the interview points out his rifle and he immediately says its to protect himself. Found here

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3. The bald guy, had been aggressive for hours. Rittenhouse attempted to retreat, had a Molotov Cocktail thrown at him, and according to the witness account standing behind the bald guy tried to grab his weapon. That’s instant defense 101. Justified here.

4. While retreating again, Rittenhouse falls and is immediately ninja kicked, he fires and misses that guy who runs off. Then he is struck with a skateboard across the shoulder/face he fires a single shot killing the skateboarder. Next a guy runs up with a gun and does a few things, when Rittenhouse points his rifle at him, he goes hands up, then immediately reaches for his weapon, again that’s an instant defense.

You can blab all you want about him being there, being 17 etc. those charges will stick. His defense is justified. He actively attempted to flee every time people engaged him. Had they taken him weapon and this will be key in court, he could have been killed or beaten to death.

She handled his money. She died and some of his money, no can find.

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Your spot on Stomp. It's an underappreciated, dangerous profession.
I'm sure with all the disrespect, defunding talk, many are looking for other professions, early retirement.
Younger generation probably no interest getting into law enforcement.

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The only people taking that stuff seriously are the fringe. Neither candidate and no politician at any level has the will to weaken a police department. The mayor of Birmingham recently explained why that dog doesn't hunt.

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Rittenhouse attempted to retreat, had a Molotov Cocktail thrown at him

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Where did this lie come from? There was never any Molotov cocktail thrown at the child

Read the police report, the child had a plastic bag thrown at him, that fell harmlessly to the ground without even touching him

Watch the video dumbfrick LINK

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These guys are exercising their freedom and there is absolutely nothing wrong with it. We can't pick and choose when to apply civil liberties and freedoms.

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I wholeheartedly agree.