DIYbanter - View Single Post - 58% of Police Support Black Lives Matter

rbowman

On 08/08/2020 11:26 AM, wrote:
On Sat, 8 Aug 2020 09:41:54 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

Let's be honest.
The people with money and influence created laws that repress blacks through out history.
The people in Portland and Minneapolis know this and are just reacting.

It is interesting that these things are going on in northern democrat
cities tho. I thought northern democrats were the progressive ones.
Yes I consider Atlanta a northern city it just happens to be in
Georgia. The vibe is more like DC and I lived in both.

Even more interesting Oregon had black exclusion laws on the books up
until 1926 and are still under 2% black.

I've seen a variation on the theme when living in New Hampshire, Maine,
and Vermont. When I lived in that area all three were lily white but it
wasn't uncommon to hear people saying racist things in casual
conversation. For that matter NH was the last state to officially
celebrate MLK Day and that took a Democratic governor pushing it through
in 2000.

We've had an ongoing peaceful demonstration on the court house lawn.
There was a rather heavily armed redneck presence at first but they got
bored and went away. I think they scared up 7 or 8 actual black people,
one of whom is very vocal. Otherwise it's the usual white middle-class
kids you find in a college town, the same cast of characters who lived
on the lawn during the Occupy fiasco.