Black Lives Matter

The right wing idiots can't deal with the truth, namely too many unarmed/innocent black people are being shot/killed/ unlawfully arrested by racist police. That's why BLM exists, in response to that.

Nobody has suggested that all police are racist, or denied that a lot of police do a damn good job above and beyond. Yet this is the lie, the false narrative that Curly, Larry and Mo are trying to impose upon this thread. And they can circle jerk as much as they want, but it won't change the fact that it's a lie.

They're so wired into dishonest, underhand tactics that they probably don't even know they're doing it. They'd much rather lie, about BLM, racist police, and ultimately themselves, than deal with reality.

The reality is they're not very nice people at all.

A teenager who has become the face of a juvenile detention scandal has thanked Australians for their support.

Images of Dylan Voller cuffed to a mechanical restraint chair drew widespread condemnation after they were aired on television.

The Australian Broadcasting Corp.'s Four Corners programme this week showed footage of teenage offenders stripped naked, assaulted and tear gassed at the Northern Territory's Don Dale Youth Detention Centre.

Youth detention rates are three times higher in the Northern Territory than elsewhere in Australia, according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

Although the institute does not break down Indigenous youth incarceration rates specifically for the Northern Territory, young Indigenous people across Australia are 26 times more likely to be in detention than non-Indigenous youth.

Too bad they were still slaves.

A day after Michelle Obama proved progress is possible by speaking about her historical legacy as the first black first lady "living in a house built by slaves," Bill O’Reilly decided to give a positive spin on slavery itself.

"Slaves that worked there were well-fed and had decent lodgings provided by the government, which stopped hiring slave labor in 1802," O’Reilly said on the latest edition of the The O’Reilly Factor Tuesday night. "However, the feds did not forbid subcontractors from using slave labor. So Michelle Obama is essentially correct in citing slaves as builders of the White House, but there were others working as well."

O’Reilly is right that slaves weren’t the only ones who built the White House. Technically, enslaved black people were joined by free black people and local white laborers. But black people, many of them slaves, did the bulk of the heavy lifting and digging.

This reluctance to view slavery, or the tokens we carry through history that were created as a benefit of slavery, as horrific or difficult has been a long journey for most Americans. Only recently are popular representations of slavery appropriately brutal and representative of the reality of the practice.