Changing the banner to promote BLM

[Rev. Rye]

timpa and floyd's circumstances, character, or past don't mean absolute shit. It doesn't excuse what actions were done to them. Fuck @Grandizer I really expected more from you.

I think you have misunderstood Grandizer profoundly.

It's weird, it's almost like he's arguing that prejudice can come from a shitton of characteristics other than melanin content, like mental illness.

Seriously, from what I've heard, Timpa apparently called 911 for reasons that aren't clear, but are apparently related to his not being on his meds and 20 minutes later, he was dead. It's not a case of saying "Oh, look, a white guy died in similar circumstances, therefore, there's no problem with systemic racism and police brutality." It's another prejudice coming out in a brutal fashion (fun fact: according to my research, if a mentally ill person does something violent, it's more likely to be towards themselves than others. They are no more violent than the average person, but are more likely to be the victims of violent crime than perpetrators.) As someone with OCD, Depression, and an ASD (debatable whether that counts as mental illness, I admit, but it's in the DSM, so I'm putting it there), this concerns me dearly. However, the fact is, the effect of these prejudices on black communities is too stark and painfully visible to ignore it and to use Tony Timpa's death as a counterexample is to blatantly miss the bloody point.