My black Muslim buddy!

[Jesster]

How much worse would the conditions have to have been for black people at the time for you to sympathize with their struggle?

When did I say I didn't sympathize with their struggle? It couldn't get much worse. Please don't add words to my mouth.

 

[Jesster]

Sorry, I did not intend to do so.

What would the conditions have to had been like to warrant rebelling?

I said rebelling can appropriate. That's not what I'm taking issue with. Read BSM1's first post here.

 

[BSM1]

Somehow people manage to appeal to moral relativism to defend American presidents and their slave systems, but the black panthers are somehow a bunch of thugs because they wanted to revolt against the racist system they were forced to live in.

If that were only the case...

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Even if you find his former beliefs off putting, surely he became admirable later in his life.

 

[Epic Beard Man]

I do.
Unsafe gun handling in the media bothers me.

If I'd known him, I'd have helped him be safer than he was.

You are saying that after the fact he took 15 bullets.....I doubt during that time you would help a black man...Not testing your humanity but the nature of that time not what or who you are now.

 

[Revoltingest]

.....I doubt during that time you would help a black man....

Oh, ye of little faith.

 

[Epic Beard Man]

Oh, ye of little faith.

This is not to deny the person who you are now but during those times the mentalities were different.

 

[Revoltingest]

This is not to deny the person who you are now but during those times the mentalities were different.

If he were game to learn, I'd have been ready to assist.
What separates people is attitude....not race.

 

[Spiderman]

Whenever I meet a person of a certain race who I don't like, I always reflect on all of the good people I've met from that race, and all the bad people from my own, and it prevents me from having any racist thoughts

 

[Mark Dohle]

When I was a young man (I am now 69) I read his bio. I was touched by it and I agree, he was a holy man used by God to try to bring some prace and equality to the world. Thanks for sharing.

Peaced
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