RE: Controversial views
April 19, 2016 at 5:30 pm
(This post was last modified: April 19, 2016 at 5:30 pm by Napoléon.)
(April 19, 2016 at 5:27 pm)paulpablo Wrote: The leading cause of death in young black men in America is murder. Other young black men are the vast majority of the people doing the killing.
I suppose the point of black lives matter may not be that black lives are important and people should stop shooting black people in which case maybe their focus is in the right place but their title is misleading. It should be something like "We don't like police officers." or "We like shouting at white people."
I may be wrong but I think the point of 'black lives matter' is that they're saying that white people effectively get preferential treatment on the whole by police forces, so much so that a black person is more likely to be shot by a police officer than a white person? Which is why they're saying "black lives matter", as in "black lives matter too"...
A white cop is more likely to shoot a black person because apparently his life is worth less to that officer than a white person. I think that's the gist.
Might be totally wrong but that's my understanding of it.
Either way whenever I've seen these people in the news they're always being dicks.