re: #54 Nyet

I hate to jump in when you’re on a roll, but The Movement for Black Lives is not actually the same thing as the Black Lives Matter movement. So the MBL seems to have incorporated some of the goals of the BLM, but it is not solely focused on criminal justice reform.

Reparations aren’t freebies either, but I honestly think having a conversation about that specific topic would not be very fruitful. I don’t personally want reparations, but I don’t think they would have been unwarranted. I just think it’s low on the list of priorities and unrealistic in any political climate the US has ever had.

re: #129 Decatur Deb

Right now I don’t think either you nor I could name those two idiots without Google. They had their moment, then the moving finger wrote and moved on. I would offer a 1:4 bet that the phrase ‘BLM’ will not be trending one year after Nov 8.

NAACP, SPLC, and Jon Lewis will still be trudging along.

I’m not a gambler, but I take that to mean you pay out four times? I would take that bet absolutely. It’s not as if there aren’t new reasons for the movement every week. I mean, if Hillary gets elected and there is a wholesale revolution of the criminal justice system in a year, then sure it would go away, but the movement is in no way built around this election cycle.