Protests following the killing of George Floyd

What's unsettling is that I thought it had happened a long time ago, not a mere three weeks before George Floyd was murdered.

And it happened less than a week apart from the NYPD officer assaulting a man that was filming a brutal arrest.
 
To be fair to Maitlis, her job is to ask those sort of questions as a decent proportion of the viewers will have that attitude.

It’s a fair point but there was nothing about her framing or tone that suggested that her intent was to enable him to rebut a popular myth, rather it looked much more like she was presenting a view common to her and much of her colleagues in the media. So yeah it’s good he was able to dispel it but it’s depressing that a leading BBC presenter/journalist has such a myopic view of Britain’s history of slavery and racism.
 
The “crime” here was asking an adult to buy some tobacco for him.
It's like history books, where you read of hungry kids being deported or hung for stealing an apple, and you think 'Thank god those times are past...'
 
Holding up a book that's been used to install and maintain social control for centuries; it figures. Heck, even Black folks look to a white man's god for guidance and solace, so effective is the brainwashing.



Thanks for providing a perfect excuse to share this
 
The “crime” here was asking an adult to buy some tobacco for him. It’s insane how something so trivial can escalate like that. What the feck is wrong with these cops?

Yeah I think the States are totally fecked and I have said before it is just a two party dictatorship where nothing really changes whoever is in charge. It is just Trump doesn’t even hide the fact that the minorities do not have a chance but it would probably take someone like him in charge to make people rise up.

The carnage they do to other countries is now happening on their own soil (to a lesser extent obviously) and wouldn’t surprise me if they rolled out the ‘heart and minds’ for the black community.
 
The “crime” here was asking an adult to buy some tobacco for him. It’s insane how something so trivial can escalate like that. What the feck is wrong with these cops?

Funny. I thought the crime in that transaction was purchasing the controlled product for a minor. Maybe I'm wrong.
 
The Harlem Riot of 1964 lasted about a week, as did the Watts Riot of 1965. In 1967, there was the "Long Hot Summer" where there were riots in something like 150 cities across the country. Most of those lasted about a week as well. The biggest national social unrest since the Civil War though were the individual protests and riots that followed MLK Jr's assassination... each of those lasted around a week also and spread nationwide, but they were spread out over an entire month.
From what you know, what is a chronological order of good movies made on 1960s black civil rights movement? I've found the below. Any others you would suggest?

Selma and Malcolm X covers 1960-1965
Mississippi Burning and Freedom Summer is specific to 1964
Detroit 1967
I am not your Negro seems to cover entire period?
 
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From what you know, what is a chronological order of good movies made on 1960s black civil rights movement? I've found the below. Any others you would suggest?

Selma and Malcolm X covers uptown 1960-1965
Mississippi Burning and Freedom Summer is specific to 1964
Detroit 1967
I am not your Negro seems to cover entire period?

Detroit is a decent modern one that I'd recommend. I know it's already on your list btw.

Also saw a post earlier about books to read regarding race, and although it's aimed at teens I'd strongly suggest noughts and crosses for anyone that hasn't read it yet. Even if you can't be bothered with the full series the first book in itself is an all time great for me.
 
From what you know, what is a chronological order of good movies made on 1960s black civil rights movement? I've found the below. Any others you would suggest?

Selma and Malcolm X covers uptown 1960-1965
Mississippi Burning and Freedom Summer is specific to 1964
Detroit 1967
I am not your Negro seems to cover entire period?
Marshall covers the early career of Thurgood Marshall in the WWII era.

Loving starts in 1958 and covers the backstory behind the Loving v. Virginia SCOTUS case that made interracial marriage legal in 1967.

Ruby Bridges covers her story and the beginning of integration in 1960.

Ghosts of Mississippi covers the murder of Medgar Evers in 1963 and the trial of his murderer in 1994.

Two movies on the Johnson presidency 1963 to 1964... ‘All the Way’ and ‘LBJ’. All the Way has Brian Cranston as LBJ and the other has Woody Harrelson.
 
From what you know, what is a chronological order of good movies made on 1960s black civil rights movement? I've found the below. Any others you would suggest?

Selma and Malcolm X covers 1960-1965
Mississippi Burning and Freedom Summer is specific to 1964
Detroit 1967
I am not your Negro seems to cover entire period?
The Hurricane
 
Tweet thread: I’m at a house in DC after being pepper sprayed and knocked down by the police. There are about 100 of us in a house surrounded by cops. All the neighbors on this street opened their doors and are tending to protesters. The cops corralled us on this street and sprayed us down.







 
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Not just letting them in but letting them in during a pandemic too.
Was just talking about that. Probability that one of those 70 was asymptomatic covid19 infected is quite high I'd guess? If so, many would have become infected in that gathering. Protestors trying to observe social distancing protocols all day long and then forced into extended close contact because of USA police. It could become the ground zero for a huge outbreak and the blame would be purely on Trump.
 
There are some good people though;



They're praying, not begging. However, instead of calling on a higher power, why don't they open a dialogue where minorities can educate them on how they can challenge and change racial bias. The Good Lord has given them the means to do it.
 
They're praying, not begging. However, instead of calling on a higher power, why don't they open a dialogue where minorities can educate them on how they can challenge and change racial bias. The Good Lord has given them the means to do it.

Praying or begging doesn’t matter as the hope is what is important. It is just nice to see a bit of empathy at this time.
 
Twitter restricts Matt Gaetz's call for killing protesters

Twitter on Monday restricted access to a tweet posted by Rep. Matt Gaetz in which the Florida Republican called for what commenters described as extrajudicial killings of protesters.

"Now that we clearly see Antifa as terrorists, can we hunt them down like we do those in the Middle East?" Gaetz tweeted, joining Donald Trump and other Republicans in blaming anti-fascists for the violence across the country at protests over the death of George Floyd.

Floyd, an unarmed black man, died after a white police officer kneeled on his neck for eight minutes, even as Floyd said he could not breathe. Autopsies have found that Floyd died of asphyxia.

While Gaetz's tweet is still up, users have to click on it to see its contents. It's covered by a box that reads, "This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules about glorifying violence. However, Twitter has determined that it may be in the public's interest for the Tweet to remain accessible."

Democratic lawmakers called out Gaetz in response to the tweet and urged Twitter to remove it from the social media platform.

"Take the Gaetz tweet down right now @twitter. RIGHT NOW," Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) tweeted Monday night. "The survivors of mass shootings are lighting up my phone. They are scared to death this will inspire someone to start shooting into a crowd tonight. They are right."

After Twitter took action against his tweet, Gaetz said, "Their warning is my badge of honor."

"Antifa is a terrorist organization, encouraging riots that hurt Americans. Our government should hunt them down. Twitter should stop enabling them. I'll keep saying it," Gaetz said in a tweet that he pinned to the top of his profile page.

Donald Trump has demanded that the antifa movement be labeled a domestic terrorist organization.

However, as factcheck.org noted, "There is no such official federal designation for domestic terrorism organizations." Even if such a designation existed, the site said, it would be "difficult or questionable" to categorize antifa in that manner because it is not an organized group with a hierarchy and leadership.

So brave of Twitter.
 
Remember when Gaetz wore a gas mask in Congress to mock coronavirus and then caught coronavirus? Good times.
 
Praying or begging doesn’t matter as the hope is what is important. It is just nice to see a bit of empathy at this time.
I agree. Racism is a learned human behaviour that subsequently becomes deeply emotional and entrenched. People in that VDO seem to be genuinely emotionally challenged, perhaps understanding their own subconscious bias for first time. Emotional moments are often the ones we remember and help people pivot into a different world view.
 
If they really cared about racism, they wouldn't be called the 'Redskins'.