If the KKK tried to hijack some point I was trying to make, I would speak out against them.
In a sense they are undermining your stance about a fair and unbiased police because a number of police officers are also KKK members, will call an actual lynching a suicide so nobody gets prosecuted, or have KKK memorabilia in their homes. There was an FBI warning issued some time ago about the KKK infiltrating police departments. A police killing from a police officer who also had ties to the KKK and then claims "he feared for his life" after killing an unarmed Black man would put everything in doubt right?
zekko said:
How many people support the KKK? Not too many.
Not as much as in the 1920s or earlier on, but it doesn't mean it's just a fringe group. If they have changed tactics from holding large meetings into infiltrating law enforcement agencies and going under the radar and taking over the police and criminal justice systems, then they have just become more smart. The type of people who take care of illegal immigrant detainees, are jail guards, police officers, also tend to attract people from these organizations.
I posted a link to a video earlier in a thread where a Black man was nearly lynched in a national park. The police were called in and guess who almost got arrested? The Black guy. He didn't receive treatment for his injuries and suffered a concussion. The hospital he saw a day later was outraged against the National Park and the police for siding with the people who nearly murdered the man.
So, honest, zekko, I feel you are misinformed as to the extent that the KKK (and other white supremacist groups) have infiltrated law enforcement, and how the current Trump administration has given a green light to these organizations by suspending any enforcement against them. Allot of talking points and re-tweets from the Trump has been from such organizations and hate crimes have gone up since Trump entered into office at a level not seen before.
I'm pleased we also have an agreement that the KKK and White Supremacists organizations are bad, and that racial violence and murder of other human beings such organizations deem to be inferior are also downright evil....but then we should also look at infiltration in law enforcement and officers who are carrying on clandestine lynching operations on the behest of such organizations under the colour of law.
zekko said:
In BLM's case, they are the Marxists. Oh, I'm sure there are many protesters who genuinely want to do some good, but even most of them are being used as dupes, and as a shield for anarchists.
Over the past number of years the BLM has made no such riots because the BLM was labelled as a hate organization by the Trump organization. Something like George Floyd had to happen under the same administration to galvanize people. The BLM became a fossil organization, like the Black Panthers when Trump was elected. There were police killings of minorities, but BLM and their people realize that because Trump was elected, nobody cared. Jeff Sessions, the former Attorney General winked at police killings by abandoning all the successful DOJ cases from the previous Eric Holder court orders where the DOJ did find egregious civil rights violations all over the various police department. The Trump administration has made it clear that it is their priority to protect the police at all cost.
Look at Eric Gardner. The Trump administration let this cop off the hook so he suffered absolutely no criminal consequences for the chokehold. Look at the message this administration has been sending. Of course protesting and riots were seen to be a complete waste of time because nobody is listening and nobody cared....until George Floyd happened.
So it's not just a protest with George Floyd. Its frustration with this president and way he's handled this issue from the get-go. It's bottled up anger from other previous police killings but they weren't able to protest because they could be arrested by the FBI for being part of a Black Extremist Orgnisation. Everything relating to Black identity groups was criminalized by the Trump administration while KKK groups were given a green-light and funding against them slashed.
So, zekko, allot of what you are saying has been hijacked by the KKK, and the KKK-friendly federal government. It has to take some incident like George Floyd to release a geyser where people just don't care anymore because they've got nothing to lose that even a designation of being part of a "Black Extremist Group" and being criminalized because of affiliation to BLM does not matter anymore.
zekko said:
Police brutality is a legitimate issue to discuss, but that doesn't mean anything goes. I don't believe in abolishing, defunding, or attacking all police. And if that issue is so important, how did it get so easily sidetracked to things like Mount Rushmore? Because the people running BLM have a far deeper agenda than simply dealing with police brutality, and the first thing they want to do is defund police, which I completely disagree with.
Trump did not have to do a July 4th speech at Mount Rushmore. Again, the president has allot of influence in setting the tone for reconciliation rather than adding more fuel to the fire. Again, please look at the KKK-friendly president and see if he's part of the problem, or if he's part of the solution.
zekko said:
Do you really think that the only thing holding white people back from lynching blacks is the law? You have your random group of nutballs, but I can guarantee you the vast, vast, vast majority of white people have no desire whatsoever to lynch a black person.
I did not say the law, I said the way the law is enforced. If the law is enforced in an uneven way (i.e. Whites who commit murder against a Black man is not prosecuted), then even if you have a law, then it doesn't mean anything because it's not enforced, and it's the non-enforcement, or acquittals, when there should be convictions, that changes everything.
Therefore, if the laws were enforced against police officers who commit hate crimes under the badge the same way Dylann Roof then there would be less police killings period. Laws are currently enforced properly if it's a Black police officer killing (accidental or intentionally) a White civilian. That is why you don't see the news dominated by Black officers killing White civilians. This is because such things are ust automatically enforced with a vengeance and the Black officer ends up in jail and serves time.
Emmit Till happened because of how things was in the past, including the way that the laws were enforced against White people who commit egregious hate crimes. George Floyd happened in 2020 because of the way the laws are enforced against White police officers who egregiously kill Black people. So, if a law against murder is not enforced because the perpetrator is the police and the victim is Black, then it means a value-statement is being made about the value of the life of the Black victim that his life is deemed to be too inferior for the State to protect. Such a value statement can only come from organization that is infiltrated by the KKK.
zekko said:
The police killing minorities is an exception, not the rule. But the protesters act like all police are the enemy. Maybe if they brought the police into the discussion they would have some good ideas on how to prevent such unfortunate events. But instead the police are all demonized.
But, the way that law is being enforced against White police officers who break the basic law "murder/thou shalt not kill" , when the victim is Black, is the rule. If they were properly prosecuted and laws are enforced as they would for everyone else or Dylann Roof, then there would be no issue. You had no mass BLM protest with Dylann Roof or other white supremacist murderers who were prosecuted properly in the criminal justice system. That is because when it's done under colour of law there appears to be a pass to the murder and that is unacceptable.