Baltimore: Implosion Central

[Doc Holliday]

Another unarmed black teen assaulted by a white student. Will it ever end??

[Dolemite]

Bitch stepped on her arm. Got what she deserved.

[Josh]

Note the subtitle middle finger.

[Fe 26]

subtitled middle fingers are the best

[YellerDog]

White subtitles are always hard to see.

[Doc Holliday]

I watched Do the Right Thing again. This movie is so amazing and answers a problem Euro-Americans still fail to understand 25 years later. Spike Lee quipped only white critics asked if Mookie 'did the right thing' by tossing a trash can into the shop window and diverting the violence from Sal or if he just escalated the violence? Blacks never asked that question. It's the still unresolved issue of lives vs property. And that's the unresolved conflict with whites & blacks in America.

European society built cities and used currency and had this ever dying thirst to advance it's society. They sprawled out on new land so more individuals could build new homes, new cities, new nations. Where the Africans lived in small groups content with basic life. Then the Africans were kidnapped and forced into this society, forced to contribute to it's development, then denied any of it's rewards.

Eventually, this was found wrong by the Europeans and they freed the Africans, but they never sent them home. They kept them here in limbo, in purgatory. For another century, through discrimination and segregation, they may have been 'free' but they were still denied the rewards of their efforts.

That crushed spirit remains today and is why African Americans see property as less valuable than life. For Europeans, for Sal, his shop was not just property, but his life's work, his purpose in society, and the inheritance to his children, an ongoing legacy. To Mookie, and the block, it was something they were never a part of and never will be. They riot because their lives are what they have and the society around them is representive of the centuries long progress created by their oppression, so to Hell with it. Burn the fucker down!

[Yoshi]

That crushed spirit remains today and is why African Anericans see property as less valuable than life.

Unless it's a pair of Jordans.

edit: I'd argue it's more about the value of the work put in to attain the property than the value of the property itself.

[dave is ok]

In other news: 30 people shot over the long weekend in Baltimore. Doesn't seem to be getting a lot of attention

[Yoshi]

Had it not been in the "Trending" section of Facebook, I would have had no clue honestly.

[Doc Holliday]

Link?