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I'd rather gathered that you are not interested in the facts concerning the history and contemporary usage of the clenched fist. FACT. I'm curious. Is it the use of the clenched fist salute by the BLM that so offends you or is it the BLM per se? Do you have an issue with its use by other groups or just the BLM? What if a white supremicist group used it (showing a white fist of ...
The clenched fist salute, as I have shown above, was in use far before it was taken up by the Black Power movement. And as I have also shown, it has been used, and is presently being used, by other groups who are feeling oppressed. What bit of that is it that you cannot grasp? I am not in anyway condoning George Floyd's criminal activities. As I am sure many others of whatever colour ...
Picture above taken this month in Belarus. I see 4, raised, white skinned, clenched fists. The people are protesting about the political system in that country.
Why/how is the usage of the clenched fist racist? Have you researched its historical usage? Try this for starters http://www.docspopuli.org/articles/Fist.html and this "throughout history, a variety of communities have used it as a symbol of resistance and unity: a simple yet demonstrative act of rebellion against institutional oppression." ...
And your point is? Addendum: It has just occurred to me that you might be referring to the fact that those who advocated eugenics and the supremacy of the Aryan race (ie the Nazis) were in the end defeated by those whom they regarded as being of inferior genetic stock. Is that the point you are making in your post above?
@carer - Are those people, of English slave descent, distinguishable by the colour of their skin in present day Rome and discriminated against because of it? I don't think so. Do those who have fought (and are still fighting) for the rights of women in this patriarchal society of ours have chips on our shoulders? You might think so. I most certainly do not. Is it right that there is ...
Perhaps that is what those who are descended from the once enslaved are hoping will happen sometime soon - a reckoning.
Seems it depends on the circumstances: An £85,000 benefit cheat has avoided jail despite breaching her suspended prison sentence by shoplifting. Jeanette Bishop, aged 56, swindled money from the state for nine years by claiming she was living alone – when in fact she was sharing a home with a working partner. ...
Racial integration and cultural integration are not necessarily the same things. I do not disagree that white lives matter. Because all lives matter. BTW - Whose country do you think this is?
