White Lives Matter?
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When haven’t they?
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Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
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Think "punk rock". It started out as an outlier, a rebellion. It went from this:
to this:
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
*ALL LIVES MATTER
*EMBRACE THE RACES
*BORING IF WE ALL LOOKED THE SAME
*EVERY RACE HAS DIFFERENT & BEAUTIFUL CHARACTERISTICS
These were slogan ideas.
Shouldn't be barriers, and boundaries.
No one should have to apologise for what race they are.
Judge people individually not with a broad brush. Content of character, not color of skin.
And I would go one step further and say ALL LIFE MATTERS. The world would be much better off if we treated all life with respect. Humans, mammals, birds, insects, reptiles and amphibians, fish, bacteria, trees, plants and fungi, microorganisms. And water and the elements that make life possible. And let's not leave out geologic formations- mountains, rock formations. We humans generally see these things as less important than us. In doing so we seem to think it's OK to do this without giving thought for the resulting destruction (yes, without mining there would be no computer for me to write this on but like the plant and animal taken for food and clothing, we would do well to at least respect and honor that which is taken from the earth and do so more sparingly. We don't need to produce so much disposable crap):
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
environmental question: after miners and loggers destroy the land do they just leave it as is or do they have to plant a certain number of trees , restore the water quality , fill in the mine , etc.
maybe when cops can stop killing unarmed black people we can rebrand.
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Many logging operations have done long-term damage to riparian habitats as well, polluting streams and rivers and are then planting mono-cropped fast growing trees that are often used simply for cheap wood pulp products (hemp is a much better alternative!), replacing what were once health, mixed evergreen and deciduous forests. Some improvements to logging procedures have evolved through many years of activist interventions over several decades.
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
These blakent statements kill me. I'm white, but I'm not guilty by default.
A cop shouldn't be guilty by default.
And blacks are not guilty by default.
Not all cops kill indiscriminately. Most of them are there to keep communities in order often times having to make split second decisions. Most cops hope that they don't have to kill anybody. Most don't dream about who can I shoot today?
I say we as a society need to weed out the weeds. Support & thank the good ones.
Have you ever grown a garden? If you don't weed the garden often, the weeds creep in & before you know it they take over & suck the water, nutrients & sun away from your veggies and you end up with crap. If you are diligent, tend the garden a little bit every day PLUCK THE WEEDS OUT and till it once in a while, keep it waterd, you get much better results.
But anyway, I think
Michael Jackson said it best.
"I said, If you're thinking about being my brother, it don't matter if you're Black or White."
I couldn't agree more.
I agree, usually blanket statements are not very useful though I would have no problem with someones saying "Child abusers are evil". And sometimes generalizations are misleading but sometimes they are true as in, "Pearl Jam almost always puts on a terrific live show!"
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
I'm comfortable with those blanket statements.
I in my own life I try to ease what ever tension there might be. I can't change the world or erase history. But I'll make an extra effort to hold the door open at a convenient store if an African American is coming behind me, I'll hold it and let them go in first. Make sure to acknowledge him or her and say hello or what's up? Or something. A few weeks ago, I took my kids to a local park. We were the only ones there to begin with. They were on the monkey bars when a black dad and his daughter walked over. His girl sat on one of the swings by her self to begin with. I went and quietly told my girls to go pick a swing next to her, ask her what her name is, introduce yourselves and start swinging. My girls are 12 & 9. This girl same age or in between.
With in minutes they we're playing all over the playground climbing and going down the slides and having a good old time.
I sat across from the dad at a picnic table and chitchatted for a half hour.
Never knew these people before.
I explained to my girls on the way home, that's how we make the world better.
To me that's what it's all about.
yes most are, but the ones who arent remain on the job or on the streets.
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Police aren't racest, White supremacists by default. Neither am I.
The bad ones need to go. And if you find ones that were just Trigger Happy they, need to be locked up for good.
until that happens with regularity, we can only say , in theory, all lives matter. cuz in practice , we're far from it as a society.
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
http://www.theroot.com/white-lives-matter-members-attack-interracial-couple-af-1819969887
These people would do well to get their heads out of their dark places. Most of the world is non-white and really tired of having the minority race rule the world. White supremacists will continue to make a lot of noise but they will become increasingly self-marginalized in a mostly non-white world (whites are only something like 17% of the world's population).
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
Easy to see the extremely negative effects of mining and strip mining on the land and the people.
As a kid my family.and I went to Pennsylvania to visit the the family farm of some neighbors. We went for a hike and came across an area that had been stripmined. It looked like they had come through and tore the top layers of earth and trees and rocks off the planet to get to the coal. Then just left it. Leaving a big scar on the planet. This was the mid 70s so the regulations were much looser then they are now. That image stays with me even today.
We are the human race.
I don't even think it's a bad thing if we can poke find each other once in awhile in good taste in good fun that is.
You know White Men Can't Jump. I'm fine with that.
White Men Can't Dance. That is certainly true in that case.
-EV 8/14/93
In my world all lives matter. Black yellow red white brown is beautiful.
it's like telling african americans and first nations to "move on" and "get over it". it just doesn't make sense to try to squash their message when it doesn't affect you in any negative way.
-EV 8/14/93