Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Who didn’t see this coming?
Faith Communities Connect Floyd Protests, Climate Change
June 2, 2020
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — An interfaith group working to slow climate change says there is a link between ending reliance on fossil fuels and the protests taking place across the country.
The COVID-19 pandemic and protests over the police killing of George Floyd, an unarmed African-American man in Minneapolis, have eclipsed many other major news stories. But according to the Rev. Alison Cornish, executive director at Pennsylvania Interfaith Power and Light, the long history of systemic racism sparking nationwide protests is part of the climate crisis, too.
“We know that people with fewer resources and less power and who are more oppressed are going to be people deeply affected by climate,” Cornish said.…
Read more: https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2020-06-02/climate-change-air-quality/faith-communities-connect-floyd-protests-climate-change/a70410-1
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Boy howdy it’s mighty white around here!
“one guy…one cop…”
Not even Stokes is that ignorant.
“Boy howdy it’s mighty white around here!
“one guy…one cop…”
Please explain this virtue signalling. Your meaning is not clear. Your attitude is.
That you think only “white” people (whatever that means as far as race) view police officers such as the bad cop in Minnesota as an anomaly is racist thinking. Yes, CP. –> YOU are displaying a tendency to bigotry.
People of ALL races/ethnic groups believe the above to be true. Even black people:
(Source: https://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2015/10/02/ben-carsons-different-take-on-race )
Blacks like B. Hussein Obama tell half-truths to use race to stir up hate to promote their agenda.
Blacks like Ben Carson tell the truth and urge us to get beyond race, to judge by the content of [one’s] character (M.L.K., Jr.), to love each other to promote peace and prosperity.
Boy howdy it’s mighty white around here!
A racist!
I have mentored both black and white young men from disadvantaged settings. All I did was treat them as my 7th grade immigrant father that always held two jobs treated me. Dignity and respect to all. No self pity. Work hard and do well. I would alternate fun days with work days and service to the community days. Good news is now after 20 years, both young men are doing well and out of the circle of destruction. I was blessed with two young men that would listen. Anyway……
That is exactly how it should be Shark and what you did is how people should treat each other. Sadly those two important words ‘dignity and respect’ have been obliterated from society. They’ve been replaced by hate and division, and it’s not just about race.
I’m wondering how many of these protesters actually get out and vote. I vote. Yesterday I was hunted down to sign a petition because I’m on the voter roles and it’s known that my signature on a petition is valid.
Voted, in person and happily presented my DL as ID. Did not need to, I cut the lady’s grass and hedges who was marking people off the roster, did anyway. Proudly.
Voting is compulsory in Australia, if you don’t vote you get fined. It used to be that we had a choice of conservatives or leftist. We don’t have that choice anymore, one is leftist and the other extreme left. The only reason people vote here now is so they don’t get fined.
We could vote for one of the minor parties as a protest vote, but that is taking a risk that you end up with extreme left because your preferences weren’t there to get the ‘pseudo conservatives’ over the line.
It’s a joke, and this used to be the Lucky country. We don’t have leaders that have the guts to lead, so they hand out money instead. Maybe it’s come down to trying to buy votes. The thing is the people they’re handing the money out to are never going to vote for them and it will never be enough.
Can you turn in a blank ballot?
If someone says they’re going to ‘vote informal’, then they have decided there’s no one worth voting for. So yes technically they just turn up to have their name ticked off to avoid a fine. I have never seen Australian politics as bad as it is now, we no longer have a conservative party. The party we voted in has gone so far left they’re unrecognisable. Unless they wake up to the mood of their own constituents there will be alot of informal votes next time around. The rollout of renewable energy here is unbelievable.
Not Climate Change so much as Extreme Inequality caused by the Federal Reserve. In the 2008-2012 Recession, it took 29 Trillion dollars to bail out the Elite. Who knows how much this time. But Main Street will suffer more this time. Wall Street never loses.
“We know that people with fewer resources and less power and who are more oppressed…””
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Well that partly describes what ending fossil fuels will do for the people. These riots will look like Sunday school picnics compared to the reaction if he gets his way.
If they mean a “political climate change” then yes.
Well darn. Turns out he had fentanyl in his system. So much for the outstanding citizen, innocent black man narrative. Now the story is drugged-out black man resists arrest, fights with police and has counterfeit money in possession. It’ll be interesting to find out if the story of his having to be removed from the police car is true. I guess I still haven’t seen an innocent man the victim of police brutality. STOP RESISTING!!! “Yes, sir” and “No, sir” and he’d still be alive.
I think once he was cuffed and on the ground there was no need for multiple people to be kneeling on him.
I think once he was found to be missing a pulse that emergency actions should have been taken rather than continued kneeling on his neck.
In US Army Riot Control and Prisoner Handling training we were taught that once they are down and cuffed/tied you control them by placing a foot on back just above their bound hands. They are going nowhere and can flail about till they exhaust themselves. Putting a knee on their neck and bearing down has only one purpose, to kill them, slowly.
I watched the 10 minute video only once. If he was bearing down then Brown would not have been able to lift and move his head as he did while complaining that he couldn’t breath.
There may have been times where the cop pushed with his knee, rather than just holding his knee in place, but I didn’t see it.
The cops were so scared and stubborn that they just kept it up. Neither of the two, that are prominent in the video, are emotionally stable enough to be given that kind of responsibility or power.
They’ll both, deservedly, go to jail. If found only guilty of the manslaughter charges that they deserve, there will be more riots (because it’s not about justice, it’s about revenge)
Scared? Of what? They had total control of the situation, multiple officers and vehicles, the crowd staying out of the area the cops controlled, and Chauvin was quite relaxed as he spent over 8 minutes bearing his body weight down on a restrained man’s neck, and he kept it there well after the man stopped moving. Ever choke a man out? You feel it when they go slack, that is when you let off. Chauvin didn’t, he kept the pressure on even after the victim went slack.
Watching the 10 minute video it did not appear that the cop was ever “bearing his body weight down on a restrained man’s neck”.
I can’t tell if there is two, five, or 20 pounds of pressure. I am pretty sure that if the the body weight (or even 50 pounds) was bearing down that George would not have been able to lift his head when complaining about not being able to breath. And yes, I know that it doesn’t take much pressure on the arteries to close them off either, but the knee wasn’t pressing directly on the artery.
In addition, when you see the cops stand there with their hand in their pocket they are scared. They may not have a valid reason to be scared, but they are. They are afraid that they may have to get the spray out in a hurry … the longer they are tensed up with the hand in the pocket, the worse it gets for them … in the 10 minute video you can see that each one of them briefly loses it for a few seconds.
Entire time he was bearing down on Floyd’s neck. The. Entire. Time. You keep defending a cop who killed a restrained suspect, live on video, all while he was quite relaxed and untroubled by what he was doing. Oh, I get it, it is all that climate change forcing you to defend a murderer. Got it.
I’m not defending him, at best he is an incompetent piece of shit.
(from your view of the videos, how much force, in psi, was on Floyds neck?)
But if you need to exaggerate to make your point, then you must know that there is something wrong with your point of view; either that or you are as emotionally stunted as the cops.
(from your view of the videos, how much force, in psi, was on Floyds neck?)
How many times have you choked out a person? There is no specific number dictating how fast they go out, depends on lots of factors, apparently Floyd had several bad factors that contributed to his murder. Yea, murder, when anyone places their knee against the neck of a person on the ground and keeps it there long after they stop moving is intentionally attempting to kill them. You can defend Chauvin all you want, does not change what happened, he killed Floyd. What their races are is totally irrelevant.
“Well darn. Turns out he had fentanyl in his system. So much for the outstanding citizen, innocent black man narrative.”
George Floyd was murdered, fentanyl or no fentanyl.
The policeman had no business putting his knee on the man’s neck. Floyd had his hands handcuffed behind his back and was not a threat to anyone.
There is no justification for what happened to George Floyd.
And there is no justification for blaming all police for the actions of this one psychopath cop. Every profession has its share of psychos. That doesn’t mean everyone is a psycho.
From the article: “the long history of systemic racism”
What is systemic racism? Isn’t this just saying that all white people are racists? Isn’t it racist to think all white people are racist?
The white race is no more racist than any other race.
The lie the Democrats push is that all white people are racist. Even the white Democrats say the same thing. They are so ashamed of their whiteness.
I heard a Black civil rights leader on tv tonight say the two groups pushing this “all white people are racist” narrative are self-guilted white people, and affluent Blacks who have made it in the world (read Labron James), yet still try to sell the racist narrative that there is systemic racism in the U.S. caused by any and all white people.
It is a constant racism propagand barrage from the Left. They’ve been doing it for years. Lying to Black People is their Bread and Butter.
It’s the same in Australia Tom. Injustices suffered by people of any colour in past generations can never be resolved. Holding on to injustices suffers by past generations serves no purpose. Why do people choose to hold on to the pain that was not theirs to bare. The people here in the present were not responsible for those injustices and blaming them is simply perpetuating hate.
Hate is such a wasted emotion.
If the color of their skin is all that makes their lives matter then they are racists.
The riots in the US and now in Australia have nothing to do with George floyds death it is all about the Communist Democrats trying to create Mayhem, thinking this will help them in the November presidential elections and they are doing this because they have nothing else going for them and they know they’re going to lose big time.
The riots in the US and now in Australia have nothing to do with George floyds death it is all about the Communist Democrats trying to create Mayhem, thinking this will help them in the November presidential elections and they are doing this because they have nothing else going for them and they know they’re going to lose big time.
These people have completely lost their minds. Bogus “systemic racism” has anything to do with climate???
Racists are the ones who view things only through that lens. They are the leftists, not the vast majority of the American people. Who really don’t think of things in racial terms. Martin Luther King (great man, in spite of his failings), would be just appalled.
Well of course the Cult of Calamitous Climate will claim Climate Change did it.
There is nothing Climate Change can’t do.
Also there is no low to which these same creatures will not stoop.
As for these riots..Oh sorry “Peaceful Protests”
What is the toll so far of brutally beaten and murdered citizens?
I noticed our putrid Media Party here in Canada fails to even mention this small detail as they laud the thugs and then launch into their Trump Derangement Schick.
Quite amazing how this “Saint of the Street” is killed at the hands of a Democrat controlled police force,in a Democrat controlled region with Democrat Majority control for near 50 years..but President Trump done it.
And in “Protesting” this mans demise,ignoring due process,rule of law and the court system,these hysterics are burning, looting,vandalizing property and killing people..But the media seems to maintain all these other casualties do not matter.
This is beyond sickening.
Inciting a riot is the kind of thing we need bounty money placed on the culprits heads.
Dead or Alive.
Second thoughts skip the alive,they have already confessed their malice.
One has to wonder,why does the media so desperately seek to reelect President Trump?
Is it a death wish?
To go with their death cult of calamitous Climate?
“One has to wonder,why does the media so desperately seek to reelect President Trump?”
The media think they are harming Trump’s chances, although I agree with you that they are probably helping him more than hurting him.
The Left is desperate to get themselves back in power and President Trump and Republicans stand in their way, so they attack at every opportunity. It’s TDS on steriods. They may lose their minds completely if Trump gets four more years.
Well as someone who teaches martial arts and self-defense and with a 50 year familiarity in the practice of restraint and choking techniques. I’d have to say that the only reason to interfere with someones respiration for 5 minutes after they pass out is to make sure they are dead.
The cause of the riots isn’t so much that Mr Floyd died it’s that despite copious and clear evidence that a crime had been committed the authorities sat around with their thumbs up their arse for 4 days before effecting an arrest and laying charges. Something that should have been done the same day.
There have been lots and lots and lots of non dark shaded people railroaded & treated like crap & killed by those in power … without riots in the guise of protest (and even without protest).
You are wrong. The riots are not because of lack of immediate justice, they are because the criminal that was abused was black. (if he was Asian there would not be nationwide riots, if he was Spanish there would not be riots, if he were some dark mix that did not include African there would not be riots.)
The police (or any policing agency) should not in any way abuse any criminals (or non-criminals), period.
Oh indeed, if you run the numbers white people are almost twice as likely to die during an arrest than black people. Black Lives matter is mostly a mind wank if looked at dispassionately. Real concern about criminal mortality in the black community would look to address the rate at which black people kill each other.
But, the USA ran a slavery system until it’s most bloody war ended it, then ran an apartheid system in large sections of the nation until the late ’60s and the legacy of that is abiding tension. It’s impossible to prevent incidents of racism such as the one that consumed Mr Floyd, it is possible not to be an incompetent dawdling booby when they do occur.
I’m still missing the racism part of the killing….
I could assume he was treated differently because he was dark.
I could also assume he was treated differently because he was big (& call it largism?). I could assume he was abused because they knew of his history and didn’t trust him. I could assume he was treated differently because he was big & acting a little weird. I could also assume, based on what I had heard about fentanyl in the past, that he had a fentanyl reaction and he would have died regardless of the abuse he endured; to me these are all possibilities, but I am not going to assume any has enough credence to act upon.
I think if I was there I would have braved the mace tried to get the guy with the knee restraint off of him when it was obvious he was out. (that is an assumption as well … I may have froze, or obeyed the cops as well as the others did).
I am, though, making an assumption here; you somehow think a four day analysis of what happened is too long to take before deciding on the appropriate charges (murder 1,2,3, manslaughter, assult, & which combination of the charges apply to any of the 4 to 6 cops that were involved) … that 4 days is so long that it should be characterized as incompetent & dawdling? and somehow that is a reasonable rationalization for the riotous reactions?
I don’t care if race motivated it or not, simple fact is the man was down and restrained and the cop intentionally put a knee into the side of his neck and refused to back off. Why? Most likely because people kept yelling at him to stop, so he said f**k you, I is the popo, you ain’t bossing me around.
Many white people get killed by the police and there is nothing done and no riots.
Don’t they know that Extinction Rebellion are a racist organisation? Look at any photograph of any of their ‘protests’ anywhere and what do you see? A bunch of white people.
What was it one of their founders said? Something like ‘ It’s not about climate, it’s white supremacy.’
“More Intersectional Than Thou”. Excellent.
Now someone encourage “Brianna Wu”han comment on the climate “crisis” a few hundred times, and the entire alarmist memeplex will become too vapid to remain stable at room temperature.
Linked? Weak tea, indeed, like almost every claim I’ve seen over the past 30 years about climate change.
LOL – the simulation we’re in just keeps getting weirder.