I thought you didn’t actually live IN the city, just nearby.
Why should you have a say in what they do or don’t?
Could even be why you weren’t consulted!
They can not display it on their private cars while on company property.
It’s my city, I’m like a mile away. and its on a state highway.
I’m in upstate NY so we do really play the suburb game like downstate. The main city is our city.
Do you pay municipal taxes to ‘your’ city?
What it has to do with is called “institutional racism”. Which is not the same thing as legally mandated and enforced racial discrimination.
If you’re not particularly bothered by the presence of institutional/systemic racism in your workplace culture because it doesn’t seriously hamper your work, fine by me. I’m just pointing out that when racist attitudes and discriminatory tendencies persist in institutions and social structures even though they’re no longer required by law, and even though they don’t affect all members of the target group uniformly or drastically, that still counts as institutional (or systemic) racism.
Keeping with the established theme of the thread.
Can you explain what a TED talk is and link to a couple of the ones ‘people like you’ have done?
CMC fnord!
N.m., it’s been addressed.
Dude, if you are looking for allies then the republicans would LOVE to get you and your blackness on camera spouting this bullshit.
I too, am a black man who has largely been able to avoid the bullshit, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have solidarity with those brothas and sistas who have had issues.
I’m an atheist but I have always identified with the saying “there but for the grace of god, go I.” I encourage you to consider the fact that, if things had been a little bit different in your life, you might have become the victim of police violence, lying dead on the street somewhere in America and people like you wouldn’t give a shit.
It could still happen.
Why not? You got on your horse over a city sponsored painting of city street.
In a city he doesn’t actually live in!
Would it be less political if it said “All lives matter”?
Complain about the blatant ballot-box stuffing.
Type o-positive or o-negative?
:rolleyes:
I… see.
Equating the statement “Black lives matter” with “the slogan of a extreme left wing political movement” is actually a powerful example of how institutional racism is.
You don’t live in that city, of course. Is this some sort of “winning ticket”?
And you don’t agree with BLM? Do you have the courage of your convictions? Are you bravely walking with your fellows chanting “Black Lives Don’t Matter”?
You don’t live there (of course!) but it’s your city? Is this related to your username “split p&j”? Is it the p who doesn’t live there and the j who does, or vice versa?
And precisely which “whole thing” is getting out of hand? Police brutality?
Reported! 
I don’t think anyone has mentioned traffic safety. In addition to the big yellow BLM letters, I have heard of a city close to here that has painted some crosswalk symbols in the street with the colors of the rainbow and a city I am associated with has an entire intersection painted with a Toad Suck Daze emblem (I am not making this up). Without taking any political, religious, or social position one way or another concerning the Bureau of Land Management, diffraction of visible light, or Bufonidae, I assert that these practices should stop immediately. Imagine a driver from out of town suddenly encountering something like this. They might think they are supposed to slow down, change lanes, stop, or who knows what. At the very least they would be distracted.