Joe speaks out

[*Nately120*]

(05-29-2020, 10:30 PM)Mer Wrote: I think the point is we need to stop focusing on race and focus more on the problem. In this case police brutality. Whether if the poor victim was asian, Hispanic, black, white or any mix at all shouldn't matter. That also goes for the police officers involved. The issue is when you start a slogan for any individual group that started mainly because they feel oppressed by another group it's going to ruffle some feathers. I respect your opinion about our veterans. I'm thankful for their sacrifices everyday, but there are many races in our military so I think to say what you did is completely taking it out of context.

With that said, because of those veterans as of now we still live in a free nation so your entitled to speak your mind and I respect you for that.

Again, your response that the race of the person killed in this case could be seen as off-putting to some people.  I'm not black, I'm not a veteran, I'm not much of anything so I have the luxury of not being upset by a lot of things but I also try to not tell people what should and should not matter to them.

The fact that the man was black matters to a lot of people, and if you want to tell them that you disagree and his race isn't important than you are opening what could be seen as a contentious dialog.  That's all.  I don't tell black people that all lives matter any more than I tell veterans that kneeling is no big deal.  It's not for me to decide, and I'm free to voice my view but they're free to not like that, too.

So I'm saying that "ALL LIVES MATTER" might not be the olive branch people think it is.