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There you go again,you should try counting slowly to 100 before replying;)

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Nothing over the top at all.

The current issue's aren't being caused by people being 'to woke' nor would a further deterioration be able to to be attributed to being 'to woke' either.

There's currently a refusal to listen or hear (to some degree, from all 'sides') which is impacting and will continue to impact the change that needs to be made.

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Nothing idiotic about a statement that suggests there will always be certain people who complain and feel aggrieved at a 'percieved' injustice . . often something so inconsequential that it goes unnoticed apart from those actively looking for such occurences.

If some people have a mindset that they're always picked on, then that's how they will go through life . . . dragging similar minded folk along with them.


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Apart from the fact the situation isn't 'perceived'

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Read the posts again, you're proving a point :p:

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Part of the problem is that some people don’t believe there’s a problem... :(

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So it is dualling then .. :)

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Are you saying that racism is one of these "smallest of things"? You will get people who overreact on both sides of the political spectrum ..

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Nope. I said it'll get worse, because the actual message just gets lost, hijacked, amplified etc etc. As seen here, everything gets argued to death and without any outcome.

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Trump is ordering a database of excessive force complaints to be created so corrupt police cannot avoid tracking by switching departments.

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That's a start.

I think a big part of America's problem is guns. Every misunderstanding, every dodgy bit of policing, every difficult suspect can very quickly escalate.

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If you can find it still I'd recommend watching the episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver from the other week. A really powerful breakdown of why the police in the US have such a problem with race.

A bit of it is covered here:
https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/jo...dern-policing/

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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/b...0ce9e1d79e0c36

This link from today’s Times

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is the problem to do with Socio-economic prospects of Black kids, the lack of stable father figures, gang culture and black on black violence........................or 200 year old statues?

I know what I would be focusing my attention on.

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Here is a Bristol councilor's take on slavery.

Elfan Ap Rees claimed he was stating 'an historical fact' when he said that black slaves exported to the Americas were better off than if they had stayed in Africa

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/lat...after-22205375