to this day me and my dad have to force ourselves to call each other. I love him but I realized really young he was kind of a dick.
I grew up in a Republican family and while I didn’t buy what was being sold, I also didn’t disavow it. I was the douchey “socially liberal, fiscally conservative” guy and felt it was mostly gold jacket-green jacket. But the more I paid attention, the more I shifted left. And the more I shared my viewpoints the more my Republican family members have shifted toward me. Obviously not all at the same time, but except for a few holdouts it’s been a gradual shift. I’ve documented my mother’s shift on here, but my sister had a similar shift pre-Trump and my youngest brother (college age) has had a severe shift. My dad and stepmom have disavowed the Republican Party. I’m just ranting.
To follow up on those racist brothers from South Jersey, the CO and FedEx employees that were fired. BLM march in that town today, they tagged that same driveway with BLM.
I was on that path before Trump but Trump was the straw that broke the camel’s back for me, so to speak. I grew up in a staunchly Republican household and being in Lynchburg, VA I wasn’t exactly in a hot spot of liberal thinking by any means.
Talking about worlds colliding, this guy writes a very popular newsletter about AWS and cloud development, trying to summarize the rapid changing technologies that are being released. I know he's gotten a little political before but I never expected him to show up in this thread.
I'll answer honestly. Yes. My profession puts me very close to federal officers. My personal relationships with those people made mean lean towards the (bullshit) ideation that there are good cops. I think they are good people, but after watching the response to peaceful protests there are no good cops. Not a single one of them stopped any of the violence we saw on camera towards peaceful protesters or media. As an aside, I did a ride along with a cop to help with some field work last year. On our way there he called the state DEA on a car full of black guys with Michigan plates because they were going just under the speed limit. He said most of the drugs coming into the state were from Detroit, but he couldn't pull them over himself. That guy was and is 100% a bad cop.
The thing that has solidified the reality for me is that the "good ones" never do anything about the "bad ones" and the examples of "the system" punishing the ones who do actually demonstrate they are good are multitudinous - ergo if you last, you are in fact bad.
What if there was an ongoing investigation into it? He could've been told to just call it in and not mess with it.
No of course not. Especially when he just said the cop called it in didn't pull them over. Did you think he would've mentioned the cop stopping them if the cop actually did?
I mean can you trust people from South Dakota? Seriously though depending on the city/state involved in his example, maybe it wouldn't make sense to see someone with a Michigan plate driving through town on a weekday afternoon?
My upbringing on race is reflected through three generations. My paternal grandfather was a first generation son of Polish immigrants. He grew up in a company mining town, paid scrip instead of money, lived in a company house and his family could spend the scrip only in the company store. He turned 21 in 1935 when the Wagner Act passed, and became a union organizer. Every time the union went on strike, mine owners brought in black strike breakers to work the mines, which they did because the wages were good. They did this through fits and starts, breaking unionization until WWII. When the war ended, the union voted to integrate and they never broke a strike again. My grandfather moved the family and began selling TVs in the 1950’s. Probably told the strike breaking story to me at least once a year at a family gathering.
Just stop. He called it in bc it was a car full of black guys, not bc it had Michigan plates. If it was a car load of 22 year old white girls, he's not calling it in.
Not really, would you say the same thing about a teacher? i am canadian and I know a lot of police officers, they have the usual flaws but they are extremely competent. And always willing to help But of course I am talking about a superior country to yours so it’s to be expected
Jesus. Guy on Facebook arguing the cop couldn't let Brooks go because he's "now endangering the public." When I think of the spree of other drive-thru sleepings that would have occurred if he got away....(shudder)
By "always willing to help" does that mean they work to rid their ranks of those who use unjustified force or otherwise abuse their authority to the detriment of BIPOC citizens or nah?
not too many teachers killing unarmed students in the states. You Canadians might be taking education a little too serious
You keep shooting unarmed black men, we keep burning this bitch down, its that simple. Seems like a practical way to stop this from happening is better police, but im fine with destroying this shitty ass country.