Originally posted by 1UP
The only delusional one here is you. There's a difference between a peaceful protest and the shit that actually is going on. Blocking off high ways and disrupting commerce that has nothing to do with your "cause" is a problem. Apparently you don't pay attention to anything that goes on. You are also probably the same person who blames the cops for shooting a person who refuses to comply / drop their weapon. How about we take some fucking personal responsibility for our actions instead of looking for someone else to blame?
Burning a town down and robbing your community in the name of protesting for some black person who was killed is bullshit. Checking off your Christmas shopping list at the local get go is not protesting. Could you imagine if these "protests" happened any time a black person killed a black person. The world would be burning non stop.
I live in the United Kingdom, i have no affiliation with the United States whatsoever. But what I do know is that the country is systematically racist. It has been for centuries. What we see in the case of the black lives matter sub-culture is them raising awareness for systematic racism from the top down, not the bottom up. I don't condone the violence, i'm not a moron, of course, it has an effect. The biggest killers of black people in America, statistically speaking, are other black people, they commit more crime against one an other than other race. The Ferguson case is different. It was UNLAWFUL/UNCONSTITUTIONAL/RACIST shootings that sparked the outrage. It happened here in the UK, when, again, an INNOCENT BLACK man was shot, for no apparent reason, shops, local businesses, even rioters were robbed, and of course there is no correlation between looting a shop of an independent business and the riots.
But I can't and won't accept that ALL of the Ferguson riots were violent, they weren't. You, unknowingly, are reinforcing the racist stereotype by saying that all the incidents that occured were ones of violence. I don't blame cops for shooting a person who doesn't comply with the law, but I do blame them for treating black citizens differently to any other, you can't deny that ALOT (not all) of America's police force targets black people for being, well... black.