Mitt Romney takes part in protest supporting Black Lives Matter near White House

Romney hasn't been right since he lost to McCain and Obama... I guess like McCain, Romney also has given into the notion that if you can't beat them - join them! 

He should turn in his Republican papers and make the party switch official. Thing is about people like McCain and Romney, who both lost elections, is that they probably feel they might have a better shot at election as a Democrat, only the Democrats are just playing him for the fool he is... no Democrat would vote for him and not long ago they gave him tremendous grief about his Baine capital while running against Obama. To people like Romney and McCain (losers), they would like to believe it was the choice of parties that caused them to lose, rather than their own shortcomings. 

People are free to march and protest until the cows come home, but the moment it turns into property damage and theft it's no longer a protest... it's a riot. 

I feel that Black Lives Matter is racist! That is how the movement comes off to me!

What about everyone else? Should we be able to lip off to the cops and resist arrest too!?

PowerStroker wrote:

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Why would black lives matter be racist? Don't you think black lives matter? Resisting arrest is against the law, but lipping off is protected by the 1st ammendment.

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I find it shocking that people fail to see the racism and bigotry in just the name alone... Black Lives Matter... I know liberals aren't the sharpest tools in the shed, but honestly on this I think they are just playing dumb. It's an insult to anyone not of color! It implies that blacks should be treated better than society as a whole. It is VERY important for Democrats to support this in order to divide people by race and incite anger... What we have all been seeing is not the result of people being black, it's the result of an overwhelming amount of black people resisting arrest! The idea that blacks should not be pulled over or arrested for breaking the law is laughable, as it should make no difference what a persons race is when they are being taken into custody - and a majority of the times it doesn't. But you always have that hard ass that wants to put up a fight thinking it will somehow result in their violations being overlooked when really it just ends up adding more charges like resisting and assault. 

Lipping off is a protected right, however when being placed under arrest or during questioning it's probably not a good idea. Most reasonable people would agree!

PowerStroker wrote:

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You've got it all wrong. People don't need a reminder that white lives matter, your privilege of being a white man means that if you are killed, an enormous amount of effort will go in to making sure you get justice. The same effort is not uniformly applied when a black person is killed. This is why people who are unaware of their white privilege need a reminder that black lives matter. It does not mean white lives don't, because everybody already knows that. It's not racist to try and elevate a suppressed race to the same level as everyone else. It's racist not to.

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That is the biggest load of horse shit I have ever seen PowerStroker! BLM is 100% racist on it's face and in it's movement! 

If you want to end Police brutality you should just say that! But Democrats won't achieve a racial divide unless it's packaged and marketed as "black lives matter". Of course POC will get behind it, since DUH - they are the people who would benefit! Meanwhile, white people are having to tow the line as usual. This white privilege you speak of does not exist! If anything black people get much more leeway than white people when it comes to all manner of things!

An enormous amount of effort would go into making sure black people got justice too, if the other people who witnessed it would take the time to record it on video like they do when the police are involved! But you don't see no idiot on the streets video recording black on black crime because the person recoding would likely be killed too! In 2019 ten (READ THAT AS 10) blacks were killed by police and eight of them turned out to be valid instances where they tried to assault the police! The other two were instances charges were made against the police! 

If black lives are going to matter then it should start in their communities! If black lives matter they should act like it when being questioned or arrested by police rather than resisting and causing further inflammation. 

What you suggest is absolutely bullshit! There is no such thing as white privilege in this day and age! Grow up PowerStroker!