(08-22-2017, 06:16 PM)Dakota Wrote: You need not look past current events. BLM, removing Confederate monuments, etc. Yet the statue of malcolm x in NYC remains unfettered.

What are these people protesting? Slavery? It hasn't happened in decades. Living conditions? Every person has a chance to make a good life for themselves. So, what's the deal? What are all these people so upset about?

Discuss.

http://www.newsweek.com/dylann-roof-conf...war-344797

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nati.../75573966/

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/05/09/...ainst.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post...a07b7eeef9

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/10/us/white-s...index.html

https://www.propublica.org/article/when-...upremacist

Yeah...we minorities are trying to start a race war.    

Black Lives Matter, despite what Fox, Breitbart, and Alex Jones drums into your head, was not designed to be anti white.  It was designed to stop unjust police killings of blacks.  There is a huge difference between being anti police brutality and anti white (unless you believe police function for the sole protection of whites).

The recent momentum against Confederate monuments (not WHITE monuments) was begun by Republican Nikki Haley, in the aftermath of the Dylan Roof massacre.

No, slavery hasn't happened in decades.  But the insinuation that slavery has no lingering effects today is ridiculous on many levels. 

If you consider yourself a patriotic, Christian American who at least believes in the 2nd Amendment, who has at least benefited from modern transportation mediums, your whole life has been impacted by things that happened and people who lived decades and even millenia ago

You revere confederates who formed their bigoted and traitorous entity 156 years ago.

For the past few months, the sports world and beyond have debated Colin Kaepernick's refusal to stand for the national anthem, which was penned in 1814-203 years ago.

We assert our freedoms, right, and limits on government based upon the Constitution, ratified in 1788-229 years ago.  Based on your logic, because these rights were created centuries before we were born, we, in no way benefit from them.

Your love of guns is based on an invention from 1394 (623 years ago)-the gun- which was based on a discovery-gun powder- discovered around 850 AD, roughly 1200 years ago.

If you think Islam presents a problem for the world and negatively impacts people and policy, or if you think it represents a positive force in the world, it is based upon a guy born in 570 A.D., roughly 1500 years ago.

If you are Christian, your faith is grounded in a man who died roughly 2000 years ago.  Some estimates put the Ten Commandments having been written circa 1513 B.C.-over 3500 years ago.

If you have ever driven anywhere, if you have ever landed safely in a plane, if you have ever had anything shipped by truck or train, you benefited by a technology-the wheel-invented 3500 BC-over 5000 years ago.

If something that happened over 5000 years ago can impact modern life, something that dominated the lives of people for centuries, ending less than 200 years ago, can have lingering and negative impacts.

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