Zorax, In my article Maria56 referred to Juanita is clearly shown to be black.
'A fanciful reality': Trump claims Black Lives Matter protests are violent, but the majority are peaceful
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"I've lost 34 friends to gun violence and police brutality, and it pushes me to keep going and show love," said resident Juanita Tennyson, 23, who has hosted three of these marches and a series of food drives since George Floyd's killing on Memorial Day .. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/10/07/derek-chauvin-george-floyd-death-released-jail/5911593002/ . "People think protests are bad and violent, and they're not. They can be beautiful and peaceful and calm."
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Juanita Tennyson, 23, gives out donated food and household supplies in the South Shore neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago on Oct. 14., 2020. Grace Hauck, USA TODAY
I'll agree with you i didn't know why Maria56 brought covid into the 34, but certainly still have no idea how you saw any racism in Maria's post.
That's what my post to you was about and it certainly was not an attack. I disagreed with your position. That was all.
"Really? Not only didn't the article not have this person the two of us were commenting about, it isn't stated that she is black herself. I know a lot of people pro BLM who are white. Again, I stand that this member made a lot of assumptions and your opinion what is racial or not is just as viable as mine.
That comment structure I've heard and read from bigoted black people as well."
You clearly got the bit about her color wrong. No big deal, a careless mistake. Off the top, without checking again, i have no idea what you're talking about re assumptions you claim Maria made.
"Lets change it. "I imagine she might know 34 people who died of COVID, probably all white." What comes to mind? Why even say that?
Do you actually believe that every black person loves white people? Then you never lived in a strong ethnic percentage neighborhood. But it doesn't have to be black for hate. I've seen all types.
And that's the other thing. African Americans do not own racial or ethnic mistreatment and I resent being forced by media and physical violence to accept that."
Yes, you have taken that line before. The thing is no one here has said anything to you (or others that i can recall) anything close to suggesting racism only exists on the white side of the coin. You come back to it again, yet it has no relevance here. It's something you are seeing yourself here, that doesn't exist.
Where you have seen the position in other places? Then i'd agree wholeheartedly with you and your criticism of it.
"And you all can attack me back, it's an open forum of sorts, that doesn't mean I have to entertain your opinions. I respect the blm movements, and support them in other ways. But that doesn't give them the right to order me to accept it as absolute truth and fall in place."
You are reading disagreement, or questioning, whatever, as attack. That's on you.
I'd guess all here who know you at all would say they have the impression you respect the BLM movement and that you generally support them. You have no reason to be defensive at all about that.
The BLM movement is basically about systemic racism and police brutality. They both still exists.
As far as i know it's not saying anything about racism not existing among blacks. Some of them may be racist toward whites. Some probably are, which would be a shame too as ALL whites are not racist. Just as ALL blacks are not racist.
Point is no group of people, no movement, is wholly and uniformly homogeneous in every way.
In conclusion, as am going on too much here, i don't see the BLM movement thinking of ordering you to accept anything. Not the great majority of the movement anyway.