Stackhouse Responds To Article About Raptors Locking Arms During The Anthem

[Zeno]

What is this, Embarrass Canada month? Entire crowd should lock arms during the Anthems along with the players to really drown out this idiot's message.

[super_balls]

What is this, Embarrass Canada month? Entire crowd should lock arms during the Anthems along with the players to really drown out this idiot's message.

I would be so down for this, imagine how inspiring and impactful this would be. Show the diversity in Toronto.

[Johnny Bball]

It's an extremely complicated issue and I'm disappointed that it's been boiled down to cops vs African-Americans. What's happening in the States between the police and minorities are simply a symptom of a larger problem that includes class divide, gang violence, drugs, lack of infrastructure, a lack of schools, teachers and jobs, etc.

It's hard to picture but, if you're from Toronto, Jane/Finch, Regent Park, etc are Disneyland compared to parts of Chicago, Detroit, LA.

It's such a systemic, deep rooted problem in American society, I don't think there is a solution.

Of course there's a solution. The problem is institutional poverty and racism in my opinion (and cops that are racist to the immediate issue). Even the poverty can be attributed back to racism in a way (the lack of help). The solution is to help the poor, and the immediate solution to the police problem is to stop racial profiling, and start putting murderous cops in jail for crimes like the killing of Terrence Crutcher.

[Harold_and_Kumar]

I find there's an interesting discussion to be had about Canada's view of these problems. I find that Canadians essentially try to be colourblind - meaning they don't want to decipher between ethnicities and prefer to treat everyone equally. Which I may add, is actually quite awesome considering how damaging race relations are around the world.The only problem to colourblindness is it hides some of the inequities that are historic and implicit and causes people to believe that "equal under the law" and equal are the same thing, when they aren't. Maybe that's our next step in Canada.

The other thing I'll say is that there are canyon like divides in the way this issue is seen in urban and rural Canada - Toronto and Thunder Bay, for example. I think people in Toronto don't see the rural mindset that can take hold in other places. While I lived in Thunder Bay I routinely saw racism, discrimination, hatred, or many of the things you'd see in an America city. It was essentially segregated between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous, and it was out in the open and in your face. Heck, an openly far-right candidate nearly got on City Council.

[Courtside]

I find there's an interesting discussion to be had about Canada's view of these problems. I find that Canadians essentially try to be colourblind - meaning they don't want to decipher between ethnicities and prefer to treat everyone equally. Which I may add, is actually quite awesome considering how damaging race relations are around the world.The only problem to colourblindness is it hides some of the inequities that are historic and implicit and causes people to believe that "equal under the law" and equal are the same thing, when they aren't. Maybe that's our next step in Canada.

I think this is an important thing to consider. We can all recognize that the issue is largely an American one, and an issue that we woudl prefer not ti import here in the form of creating issues with the way people interact with police. The question of whether we are importing a US problem into Canada through these demonstrations of support shouldn't be immediately viewed as racist or embarassing. It would be a bigger statement, IMO, if the Raptors only did this in the US and deliberately did not do it in Canada.

[ATLTimekeeper]

I find there's an interesting discussion to be had about Canada's view of these problems. I find that Canadians essentially try to be colourblind - meaning they don't want to decipher between ethnicities and prefer to treat everyone equally. Which I may add, is actually quite awesome considering how damaging race relations are around the world.The only problem to colourblindness is it hides some of the inequities that are historic and implicit and causes people to believe that "equal under the law" and equal are the same thing, when they aren't. Maybe that's our next step in Canada.

I think this is an important thing to consider. We can all recognize that the issue is largely an American one, and an issue that we woudl prefer not ti import here in the form of creating issues with the way people interact with police. The question of whether we are importing a US problem into Canada through these demonstrations of support shouldn't be immediately viewed as racist or embarassing. It would be a bigger statement, IMO, if the Raptors only did this in the US and deliberately did not do it in Canada.

How would these peaceful demonstrations import a problem?

[ontnut]

It's a very serious issue. No doubt about it.

What does making a statement at the ESPYs or locking arms for the anthem do to solve it though?

It asks people to take a look at what the f is going on and get behind some solutions that respect civil rights and public safety.

Every major media outlet is talking about it. It's bringing the issue directly into citizen's homes, directly into their ears and eyes. There's no hiding from it, largely due to the media coverage surrounding these displays. Awareness is step#1. Then it's up to the lawmakers to do something about it. Public pressure can be very powerful especially when it starts to affect the bottom dollar.

[scopy]

What is this, Embarrass Canada month? Entire crowd should lock arms during the Anthems along with the players to really drown out this idiot's message.

I pictured that and it gave me chills. Would be a fantastic display of humanitarianism.

[DonMega]

Finally someone with an IQ higher than 60 spoke out. Like he said, they should deal with american issues on their own time, this is Canada and we don't have these severe problems like the USA.

[ontnut]

I understand that black people tend to be more picked on by the police officers that's no secret to anyone but if the stats show that more whites and Hispanics are shot by officers, why is there no video evidence of that on cnn? Every story seems to be a black man shot by a white police officer? How is that helping racial tensions? hmm I'm no conspiracy theorist but can someone explain to me whats going on here...

If you have stats to back up your big what if-maybe please share them. These protests have as much to do with the divisions in a society along racial lines and the resulting violence. Stop watching CNN and start reading about the history of America. It will help.

History of America? You mean like civil war? That's what this is all about? That happened a long time ago dude I cant remember that far

Dude, seriously? As Oakley says, you really need to read up on American civil history if you're going to come out with racist, outlandish statements to the contrary.

Martin Luther King Jr., January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968. "He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs.......In 1968, King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D.C., to be called the Poor People's Campaign, when he was assassinated on April 4 in Memphis, Tennessee"
That's 58 years ago. A prominent black man preaching nonviolent civil disobedience was assassinated in the South. If you think that racial divisions and racism only happened eons ago, you're very, very, very, very, wrong.

Up to and right before his assassination, black people, especially in the South, were not given basic citizen rights such as freedom of speech, association, or indeed the right to vote.

Here's some more reading for you:
"The Jim Crow Laws were state and local laws enacted in the Southern and border states of the United States and enforced between 1876 and 1965. They mandated "separate but equal" status for black Americans. In reality, this led to treatment and accommodations that were almost always inferior to those provided to white Americans. The most important laws required that public schools, public places and public transportation, like trains and buses, have separate facilities for whites and blacks."

"In response to heightening discrimination and violence, non-violent acts of protest began to occur. For example, in February 1960, in Greensboro, North Carolina, four young African-American college students entered a Woolworth store and sat down at the counter but were refused service. The men had learned about non-violent protest in college, and continued to sit peacefully as whites tormented them at the counter, pouring ketchup on their heads and burning them with cigarettes."

" On Sunday, September 15, 1963 with a stack of dynamite hidden on an outside staircase, Ku Klux Klansmen destroyed one side of the Birmingham church. The bomb exploded in proximity to twenty-six children who were preparing for choir practice in the basement assembly room. The explosion killed four black girls."

"Despite gains made after the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing (the quote above), violence against black churches has also continued – fires set to churches around the South in the 1990s,[44] for example, and the Charleston church shooting of 2015, when nine people were shot and killed."
That's in the 90s.

"From 1981 to 1997, the United States Department of Agriculture discriminated against tens of thousands of black American farmers, denying loans that were provided to white farmers in similar circumstances. The discrimination was the subject of the Pigford v. Glickman lawsuit brought by members of the National Black Farmers Association, which resulted in two settlement agreements of $1.25 billion in 1999 and of $1.15 billion in 2009."
Again, this is in the 90s.

"Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was assassinated by Byron De La Beckwith, a member of the White Citizens Council. Evers was a World War II veteran who would become the Secretary of the NAACP in Mississippi helping to integrate the University of Mississippi. Beckwith would shoot Evers at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. It would take over 30 years after Evers’ murder for Beckwith to be convicted in 1994.
A WAR VETERAN who knows more about the meaning of the anthem and flag than any of us, was assassinated by a white "supremist".

"Harry and Hariette Moore were a husband and wife team of civil rights activists and teachers who founded the NAACP in Brevard County, Florida. In 1951, the couple’s house was bombed and both of them were murdered. 55 years after the bombing, the state of Florida concluded an investigation into the bombing and found that three, since deceased members of the Ku Klu Klan were responsible."
It took them FIFTY FIVE YEARS to convict the KKK members posthumously.

"August 13, 1955 · Brookhaven, Mississippi
Lamar Smith was shot dead on the courthouse lawn by a white man in broad daylight while dozens of people watched. The killer was never indicted because no one would admit they saw a white man shoot a black man. Smith had organized blacks to vote in a recent election."

"August 28, 1955 · Money, Mississippi
Emmett Louis Till, a 14-year-old boy on vacation from Chicago, reportedly flirted with a white woman in a store. Three nights later, two men took Till from his bed, beat him, shot him and dumped his body in the Tallahatchie River. An all-white jury found the men innocent of murder."

"October 22, 1955 · Mayflower, Texas
John Earl Reese, 16, was dancing in a café when white men fired shots into the windows. Reese was killed and two others were wounded. The shootings were part of an attempt by whites to terrorize blacks into giving up plans for a new school. "

"January 23, 1957 · Montgomery, Alabama
Willie Edwards Jr., a truck driver, was on his way to work when he was stopped by four Klansmen. The men mistook Edwards for another man who they believed was dating a white woman. They forced Edwards at gunpoint to jump off a bridge into the Alabama River. Edwards’ body was found three months later."

"September 25, 1961 · Liberty, Mississippi
Herbert Lee, who worked with civil rights leader Bob Moses to help register black voters, was killed by a state legislator who claimed self-defense and was never arrested. Louis Allen, a black man who witnessed the murder, was later also killed."

"April 9, 1962 · Taylorsville, Mississippi
Cpl. Roman Ducksworth Jr., a military police officer stationed in Maryland, was on leave to visit his sick wife when he was ordered off a bus by a police officer and shot dead. The police officer may have mistaken Ducksworth for a “freedom rider” who was testing bus desegregation laws."

"June 12, 1963 · Jackson, Mississippi
Medgar Evers, who directed NAACP operations in Mississippi, was leading a campaign for integration in Jackson when he was shot and killed by a sniper at his home."

These are all from the 50s and 60s. I'm sure people IN THIS FORUM were alive when some of this stuff was happening in the US. It's not like the civil war happened and then everything was fine. Racism has been, and still is, systemic. It's ingrained in many aspects of American culture at this point. These peaceful protests are bringing these issues into the spotlight so that hopefully we are all better educated and all understand that we have to individually play a part in fixing these issues. It's not something that "they will figure out". It's up to us to do it ourselves, and those with the loudest voices, ie professional athletes, especially NBA players, have a duty to do so.


On a side, but related note, this one in particular hit home. While it was a Caucasian (French) person who was killed, my parents, who came to the US from Hong Kong for the purpose of studying science and eventually medicine, could only afford to go to the University of Mississippi (they got a scholarship to go there). They were there in the early 70s, I think '71 or '72. This is just 10 short years after a white reporter was KILLED for REPORTING the fact that white people were demonstrating against the admission of a black person to this university. That's scary. My parents experienced severe racism during their time in Mississippi. I can't imagine how it must have been to be a black person in Mississippi in the 60s.
"September 30, 1962 · Oxford, Mississippi
Paul Guihard, a reporter for a French news service, was killed by gunfire from a white mob during protests over the admission of James Meredith to the University of Mississippi.

[Geddy]

Warmington is an idiot and should not be given the time of day. I mean he can't get simple things right:

[ontnut]

Finally someone with an IQ higher than 60 spoke out. Like he said, they should deal with american issues on their own time, this is Canada.

Seriously?
You think racism and tensions between police and (black) citizens is strictly a US problem, so only sporting events that happen in the US should be subject to protests or demonstrations? You think there have been no shootings or racially-inclined misconduct between police officers and black citizens in Toronto?

Seriously?

Nevemind that the athletes themselves are largely American, and that we are talking about an American sports league...

This is ignorance.

[TradeLowry]

It's an extremely complicated issue and I'm disappointed that it's been boiled down to cops vs African-Americans. What's happening in the States between the police and minorities are simply a symptom of a larger problem that includes class divide, gang violence, drugs, lack of infrastructure, a lack of schools, teachers and jobs, etc.

It's hard to picture but, if you're from Toronto, Jane/Finch, Regent Park, etc are Disneyland compared to parts of Chicago, Detroit, LA.

It's such a systemic, deep rooted problem in American society, I don't think there is a solution.

It's their own fault! They make guns so easy to get if I was cop I'd be scared too. knowing every criminal has easy access to a gun wtf?!

I really don't understand the logic behind it. They claim they want their guns to protect themselves against martial law. They fail to realize tho, their government spends 300 trillion dollars a year on Military. You can have as many AK47's you want, if martial law did happen they spend enough on military they could send drones to your house all day errday day for as long as you live.

You may shoot down a couple drones but they'll get you eventually. You will not win you stupid rednecks.

But until America starts respecting all people, they will continue to see hate and discrimination in their country. It goes to the whole mindset that America is bigger than the world. Most Americans feel this way. When you already believe you're better than anyone not American, that mindset is going to trigger down to how you view other people that are different than you within your country.

It's like the big debate in America right now is why aren't blacks getting a fair shake?! But what about the Muslims? If you really are for all people, who is speaking up for the muslims?

Because I'll tell you right now if someone running for President came out and said "I want to ban all black people from entering America." Donald trump would be dead or America would be flipped upside down right now. Once America starts respecting all people, outside of America, they'll start respecting all people within their country.

[DonMega]

Finally someone with an IQ higher than 60 spoke out. Like he said, they should deal with american issues on their own time, this is Canada.

Seriously?
You think racism and tensions between police and (black) citizens is strictly a US problem, so only sporting events that happen in the US should be subject to protests or demonstrations? You think there have been no shootings or racially-inclined misconduct between police officers and black citizens in Toronto?

Seriously?

Nevemind that the athletes themselves are largely American, and that we are talking about an American sports league...

This is ignorance.

You seem biased, you know more white people get killed by cops every year than black people right? Some how no one gives a **** about that. Just 3 months ago a teen got gunned down by a police officer and no one is talking about it, why? because he's white.
http://nypost.com/2016/07/14/body-cam-video-shows-cop-fatally-shooting-unarmed-teen/
He was unarmed. The black fatalities are usually justified, they have a gun, they fight with cops or are criminals. Then you have blm who come in and use the opportunity to start looting / burning towns down. 90% of Police black shootings are justified because they are usually a threat.
The worst was when BLM murdered those 5 white cops and then they were giving excuses that he had military mental issues etc. But what they didn't mention was that he was kicked out of the military for raping a girl.
Seriously dude you sound racist.

[Salted Meat]

Finally someone with an IQ higher than 60 spoke out. Like he said, they should deal with american issues on their own time, this is Canada.

Seriously?
You think racism and tensions between police and (black) citizens is strictly a US problem, so only sporting events that happen in the US should be subject to protests or demonstrations? You think there have been no shootings or racially-inclined misconduct between police officers and black citizens in Toronto?

Seriously?

Nevemind that the athletes themselves are largely American, and that we are talking about an American sports league...

This is ignorance.

You seem biased, you know more white people get killed by cops every year than black people right? Some how no one gives a **** about that. Just 3 months ago a teen got gunned down by a police officer and no one is talking about it, why? because he's white.
http://nypost.com/2016/07/14/body-cam-video-shows-cop-fatally-shooting-unarmed-teen/
He was unarmed. The black fatalities are usually justified, they have a gun, they fight with cops or are criminals. Then you have blm who come in and use the opportunity to start looting / burning towns down. 90% of Police black shootings are justified because they are usually a threat.
The worst was when BLM murdered those 5 white cops and then they were giving excuses that he had military mental issues etc. But what they didn't mention was that he was kicked out of the military for raping a girl.
Seriously dude you sound racist.

If your immediate position is that black people deserve to be killed, and that they are inherently criminals, you need to stop arguing because your confirmation bias has clouded your perception of reality.

[OAKLEY_2]

If you have stats to back up your big what if-maybe please share them. These protests have as much to do with the divisions in a society along racial lines and the resulting violence. Stop watching CNN and start reading about the history of America. It will help.

History of America? You mean like civil war? That's what this is all about? That happened a long time ago dude I cant remember that far

Dude, seriously? As Oakley says, you really need to read up on American civil history if you're going to come out with racist, outlandish statements to the contrary.

Martin Luther King Jr., January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968. "He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs.......In 1968, King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D.C., to be called the Poor People's Campaign, when he was assassinated on April 4 in Memphis, Tennessee"
That's 58 years ago. A prominent black man preaching nonviolent civil disobedience was assassinated in the South. If you think that racial divisions and racism only happened eons ago, you're very, very, very, very, wrong.

Up to and right before his assassination, black people, especially in the South, were not given basic citizen rights such as freedom of speech, association, or indeed the right to vote.

Here's some more reading for you:
"The Jim Crow Laws were state and local laws enacted in the Southern and border states of the United States and enforced between 1876 and 1965. They mandated "separate but equal" status for black Americans. In reality, this led to treatment and accommodations that were almost always inferior to those provided to white Americans. The most important laws required that public schools, public places and public transportation, like trains and buses, have separate facilities for whites and blacks."

"In response to heightening discrimination and violence, non-violent acts of protest began to occur. For example, in February 1960, in Greensboro, North Carolina, four young African-American college students entered a Woolworth store and sat down at the counter but were refused service. The men had learned about non-violent protest in college, and continued to sit peacefully as whites tormented them at the counter, pouring ketchup on their heads and burning them with cigarettes."

" On Sunday, September 15, 1963 with a stack of dynamite hidden on an outside staircase, Ku Klux Klansmen destroyed one side of the Birmingham church. The bomb exploded in proximity to twenty-six children who were preparing for choir practice in the basement assembly room. The explosion killed four black girls."

"Despite gains made after the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing (the quote above), violence against black churches has also continued – fires set to churches around the South in the 1990s,[44] for example, and the Charleston church shooting of 2015, when nine people were shot and killed."
That's in the 90s.

"From 1981 to 1997, the United States Department of Agriculture discriminated against tens of thousands of black American farmers, denying loans that were provided to white farmers in similar circumstances. The discrimination was the subject of the Pigford v. Glickman lawsuit brought by members of the National Black Farmers Association, which resulted in two settlement agreements of $1.25 billion in 1999 and of $1.15 billion in 2009."
Again, this is in the 90s.

"Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was assassinated by Byron De La Beckwith, a member of the White Citizens Council. Evers was a World War II veteran who would become the Secretary of the NAACP in Mississippi helping to integrate the University of Mississippi. Beckwith would shoot Evers at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. It would take over 30 years after Evers’ murder for Beckwith to be convicted in 1994.
A WAR VETERAN who knows more about the meaning of the anthem and flag than any of us, was assassinated by a white "supremist".

"Harry and Hariette Moore were a husband and wife team of civil rights activists and teachers who founded the NAACP in Brevard County, Florida. In 1951, the couple’s house was bombed and both of them were murdered. 55 years after the bombing, the state of Florida concluded an investigation into the bombing and found that three, since deceased members of the Ku Klu Klan were responsible."
It took them FIFTY FIVE YEARS to convict the KKK members posthumously.

"August 13, 1955 · Brookhaven, Mississippi
Lamar Smith was shot dead on the courthouse lawn by a white man in broad daylight while dozens of people watched. The killer was never indicted because no one would admit they saw a white man shoot a black man. Smith had organized blacks to vote in a recent election."

"August 28, 1955 · Money, Mississippi
Emmett Louis Till, a 14-year-old boy on vacation from Chicago, reportedly flirted with a white woman in a store. Three nights later, two men took Till from his bed, beat him, shot him and dumped his body in the Tallahatchie River. An all-white jury found the men innocent of murder."

"October 22, 1955 · Mayflower, Texas
John Earl Reese, 16, was dancing in a café when white men fired shots into the windows. Reese was killed and two others were wounded. The shootings were part of an attempt by whites to terrorize blacks into giving up plans for a new school. "

"January 23, 1957 · Montgomery, Alabama
Willie Edwards Jr., a truck driver, was on his way to work when he was stopped by four Klansmen. The men mistook Edwards for another man who they believed was dating a white woman. They forced Edwards at gunpoint to jump off a bridge into the Alabama River. Edwards’ body was found three months later."

"September 25, 1961 · Liberty, Mississippi
Herbert Lee, who worked with civil rights leader Bob Moses to help register black voters, was killed by a state legislator who claimed self-defense and was never arrested. Louis Allen, a black man who witnessed the murder, was later also killed."

"April 9, 1962 · Taylorsville, Mississippi
Cpl. Roman Ducksworth Jr., a military police officer stationed in Maryland, was on leave to visit his sick wife when he was ordered off a bus by a police officer and shot dead. The police officer may have mistaken Ducksworth for a “freedom rider” who was testing bus desegregation laws."

"June 12, 1963 · Jackson, Mississippi
Medgar Evers, who directed NAACP operations in Mississippi, was leading a campaign for integration in Jackson when he was shot and killed by a sniper at his home."

These are all from the 50s and 60s. I'm sure people IN THIS FORUM were alive when some of this stuff was happening in the US. It's not like the civil war happened and then everything was fine. Racism has been, and still is, systemic. It's ingrained in many aspects of American culture at this point. These peaceful protests are bringing these issues into the spotlight so that hopefully we are all better educated and all understand that we have to individually play a part in fixing these issues. It's not something that "they will figure out". It's up to us to do it ourselves, and those with the loudest voices, ie professional athletes, especially NBA players, have a duty to do so.


On a side, but related note, this one in particular hit home. While it was a Caucasian (French) person who was killed, my parents, who came to the US from Hong Kong for the purpose of studying science and eventually medicine, could only afford to go to the University of Mississippi (they got a scholarship to go there). They were there in the early 70s, I think '71 or '72. This is just 10 short years after a white reporter was KILLED for REPORTING the fact that white people were demonstrating against the admission of a black person to this university. That's scary. My parents experienced severe racism during their time in Mississippi. I can't imagine how it must have been to be a black person in Mississippi in the 60s.
"September 30, 1962 · Oxford, Mississippi
Paul Guihard, a reporter for a French news service, was killed by gunfire from a white mob during protests over the admission of James Meredith to the University of Mississippi.

I had a lady say to me in South Carolina with a completely straight face, in public, that she didnt like movies by Arnold Schwartze nWord.

[OAKLEY_2]

Wow.

Don't forget this is the sun which is ultra conservative

[img]

I think Warmington and the Sun are an egregious insult to people who might call themselves "conservative". Conservative generally means standing behind seemingly important traditions and certain well funded political operators have warped that title into a rallying cry for much dogma and intolerance. A short script for political conformity. You know the propaganda that says average citizens seek social entitlements when we know clearly those in positions of power and influence are the most "entitled" people on the planet. Some of these operators try to blame and shame the most vulnerable among us because of political expediency.

[OAKLEY_2]

It's a very serious issue. No doubt about it.

What does making a statement at the ESPYs or locking arms for the anthem do to solve it though?

It's not about solving it. It's about bringing more attention to the issues and getting more people behind it to effect change.

People decry Kapaernick for doing this but, now, there's a whole section of the population talking about things that for the most part they probably would have ignored or were ignoring as it didn't directly affect them.

Thing is racism and a financial system that completely underwrites a disaster class means the Chi-Raq reality in many cities creates dangerous communities where the cops are in survival mode. That definitely is a big part of the story. In these "zones" do some of these cops even value the lives of all they are sworn to protect? Are they accountable to civil rights legislation?

I think they have evolved a Robocop mindset where they are judge, jury and executioner. America's crony capitalism that throws so many under the bus has to evolve into a safer, more viable, more sustainable system or the rotten core will infect everything eventually.

[Johnny Bball]

You seem biased, you know more white people get killed by cops every year than black people right? Some how no one gives a **** about that. Just 3 months ago a teen got gunned down by a police officer and no one is talking about it, why? because he's white.
http://nypost.com/2016/07/14/body-cam-video-shows-cop-fatally-shooting-unarmed-teen/
He was unarmed. The black fatalities are usually justified, they have a gun, they fight with cops or are criminals. Then you have blm who come in and use the opportunity to start looting / burning towns down. 90% of Police black shootings are justified because they are usually a threat.
The worst was when BLM murdered those 5 white cops and then they were giving excuses that he had military mental issues etc. But what they didn't mention was that he was kicked out of the military for raping a girl.
Seriously dude you sound racist.

I would tell you how much is wrong with your attitude and what you posted, but I know there i just no point in it, because there is nothing for you to learn and just everything for you to argue.

[YogiStewart]

I'm a just stay out of these threads

This sht is for real and these protests are legit. People who can't appreciate the level of inequality in America need to leave the farm once in a while. Good on Stack.

the only issue i have with your statement is that we are ignoring the inequality that exists in Canada.
toronto has significant police-vs-black issues. the fact that they refuse to abolish carding of blacks is a disgrace.
and i won't even bring up the century-old tradition of treating First Nations' peoples like savages