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Hundreds of left-wing celebrity figures, including actress Gabrielle Union and Comedy Central late-night host Trevor Noah, signed onto a statement from the Black Artists for Freedom — “a collective of black workers in the culture industries” — demanding the abolition of police and “the complete dismantling of the racist prison-industrial system” as a means to end America’s “racist culture.”
“The fact is plain: Black people are still not free,” the statement, titled “Our Juneteenth” reads. “Day after day, generation upon generation, we are threatened, brutalized, and murdered by law enforcement and vigilantes. When we hear ‘I can’t breathe,’ we hear the voices of our children, parents, brothers, sisters, cousins. We hear our elders and ancestors. We hear ourselves, some future day.”
The statement — whose signatories read like a who’s who of actors, producers, directors, writers, and poets including Sterling K. Brown, Cynthia Erivo, Ava DuVernay, Dee Rees, Barry Jenkins, Nia DaCosta, Lena Waithe, Justin Simien, Roxane Gay, Lee Daniels, and hundreds more — contains a list of radical demands designed to address the “colonialism, capitalism and racism” that purportedly plagues the various culture industries.
“The representation of Black people in the media has long been used to justify the violence against us. Racist stereotypes of Black criminality, monstrosity, unchecked rage, hyper-sexuality, immunity to pain, and so on, are still recycled today in books, films, and on the Internet,” the statement continues. “Consciously and unconsciously, these stereotypes are invoked — in everyday interactions and in courts of law — as reasons why Black people do not deserve human rights. We do not wish merely to modify or alleviate this racist culture. We aim to eliminate it.”
Looking forward to the overtaking of Bel-Air, Beverly Hills and Malibu by the mobs just simply asking for respect. Oh, and Martha's Vineyard and The Hamptons for good measure. Barry would welcome them, I'm sure!
Looking forward to the overtaking of Bel-Air, Beverly Hills and Malibu by the mobs just simply asking for respect. Oh, and Martha's Vineyard and The Hamptons for good measure. Barry would welcome them, I'm sure!
I told people years ago that the taxi industry is broken and this new company called Uber can put them out of business if the taxi companies didn't shape up. They were like, "That's silly, people will always need taxis."
Before that, I remember thinking the whole shopping experience is unpleasant, inefficient and time consuming. And sure enough we now have a whole new way to shop that offers more selection, better prices, and in the comfort of you own home.
For one of my thesis in college, I wrote about paper money becoming obsolete. That one day, we will not need to carry around cash or credit card; we can pay simply by scanning our fingerprint and choosing the method. You know what, we are almost there.
The police system as a whole has been broken long before taxis and retail. No one is saying we become lawless; but it is time to rethink how law can be better enforced.
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Trevor Noah is South African and probably has every reason to distrust the police given the history of the country.
The police are needed however the objective should be to build a better police force with better accountability and training should be the objective, as should de-escalation, and using lethal force as only a very last resort.
Neighbourhood or Community policing, where you have a neighbourhood team of officers who know a lot of the community and who work with the community including in areas such as community centres and activities to keep youngsters out of crime is the model that some countries strive for.
Community based officers can also have close links to social workers including mental health teams, and can develop a multi-agency approach.
I told people years ago that the taxi industry is broken and this new company called Uber can put them out of business if the taxi companies didn't shape up. They were like, "That's silly, people will always need taxis."
Before that, I remember thinking the whole shopping experience is unpleasant, inefficient and time consuming. And sure enough we now have a whole new way to shop that offers more selection, better prices, and in the comfort of you own home.
For one of my thesis in college, I wrote about paper money becoming obsolete. That one day, we will not need to carry around cash or credit card; we can pay simply by scanning our fingerprint and choosing the method. You know what, we are almost there.
Wow, you are the oracle of the bleeding obvious. Pray tell us your next revelation!
If they mean fully armed civilians, with automatic machine pistols, trained in their use, sure, why not?
Anyone with an endowed right to life and the right to defend that life, should be armed and ready.
With an armed populace, all those thugs, gang bangers, and extortionists will be swiftly dispatched at the first sign of atavistic behavior... and so would organized crime.
I told people years ago that the taxi industry is broken and this new company called Uber can put them out of business if the taxi companies didn't shape up. They were like, "That's silly, people will always need taxis."
Before that, I remember thinking the whole shopping experience is unpleasant, inefficient and time consuming. And sure enough we now have a whole new way to shop that offers more selection, better prices, and in the comfort of you own home.
For one of my thesis in college, I wrote about paper money becoming obsolete. That one day, we will not need to carry around cash or credit card; we can pay simply by scanning our fingerprint and choosing the method. You know what, we are almost there.
The police system as a whole has been broken long before taxis and retail. No one is saying we become lawless; but it is time to rethink how law can be better enforced.
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In terms of BLM it only seems to apply to black people killed by white people, and I wonder how many black people were killed by other blacks in Chicago and other US cities on the day George Floyd was killed.
The lack of a police force will just mean the loss of more black lives, and I think you will find that when the police aren't arpund organised crime takes over.
In terms of London for instance, WW2 was a golden age for organised crime, lots of blackouts, lack of police who had joined the armed forces and plenty of illicit goods to sell on the black market.
Gangs roamed the streets and the writer Anthony Burgess's wife was attacked and sexually assaulted, which was one of the themes in his later work 'A Clockwork Orange'.
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