Thread: Black Lives Matter
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Old 11-06-2020, 10:13   #287
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Re: Black Lives Matter
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth View Post
Yes - with a colleague who progressed from Apprentice to fully fledged employee and then onto a double salary elsewhere in London.

His attitude was that times had moved on and that in the UK movements of the BLM type were ill-judged, trouble making and a road to nowhere. He is of Sierra Leone origin and some of the influences (apart from me as his manager) were how The UK stood by Sierra Leone during a period of political instability and how the UK responded to the EBOLA plague - plus white girls love him.

It makes one wonder why the demonstrators are bothering given that the trigger was typical US police brutality.
Spot on! The BLM movement was about police brutality in the United States and over here, protesters have hijacked the cause to concentrate on statues. This is pathetic - why do the wreckers get such media attention? Their views are not reflecting the mainstream of public opinion.

Slavery was and is cruel in the extreme, but Britain was the prime mover to abolish it, and we did. Why, therefore, do we have this hard core who are still going on about it now, all these years after abolition? They cannot change history. They should be concentrating on supporting equality for everyone, particularly in the US, and campaigning to tackle head on the problem of modern slavery.
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