Is It Is Now Deemed Racist For Our Troops To Black-Up?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3851226/British-Army-accused-racism-blacked-soldier-tweet.html

Will this now make white soldiers more conspicuous to the enemy?

Well here is one who has surrendered to the PC brigade.

https://www.wideopenspaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Facepaint1.jpg

[Baldric]

So what passed for humour when you served your Country or your fellow Man/Woman then Andy?

[Mamyalynne]

I don't find it offensive, keep the daft humour between mates - don't post it everywhere and chance bringing a superb organisation into disrepute.

Simply because some parts of social media are full of folk waiting for an opportunity to get all upset.

[naomi24]

Mamyalynne, all the more reason to post it, in my opinion. High time we stopped kowtowing to this petulant nonsense. Everyone's treading on eggshells for fear of upsetting anyone else - and everything, it seems, upsets someone.

[Togo]

What happens when the army operates in Arctic conditions? Do all personnel have to "white" up? You know where this goes doncha?

[Mamyalynne]

//Face camouflage should be suited to the surroundings//

[Mamyalynne]

Maybe Naomi, as long as the forces are happy - I only read stuff like this on here, don't read Twitter otherwise and FB just for family stuff.

[naomi24]

Mamyalynne, I don't read either.

[Orderlimit]

What sort of weak minded easily manipulated fool could even possibly class this as racism. We are certainly going through a nonsense era.

[Lunol]

Divebuddy what are the stats of white cops on the force and white cops who have killed without real reason when another route could have been taken?

Also what are the stats of cops who have literally walked away from "Murder" or assault charges without even a false arrest charge or police misconduct including those that attacked Rodney King? Actually we could go to around the prohibition era when the Wickersham Commission were formed but to my knowledge those were aimed mainly at Americans and Italian Americans and the "Open the cans of whoopass" day wasn't in full fledge until the brutality was aimed at the African Americans in the late 1950's 1960's sadly until now Have you got those stats?

I have some stats for you

Young black men were nine times more likely than other Americans to be killed by police officers in 2015, according to the findings of a Guardian study that recorded a final tally of 1,134 deaths at the hands of law enforcement officers this year.
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Despite making up only 2% of the total US population, African American males between the ages of 15 and 34 comprised more than 15% of all deaths logged this year by an ongoing investigation into the use of deadly force by police. Their rate of police-involved deaths was five times higher than for white men of the same age.

Paired with official government mortality data, this new finding indicates that about one in every 65 deaths of a young African American man in the US is a killing by police.

Police killed at least 102 unarmed black people in 2015, nearly twice each week. (See which police departments were responsible for these deaths)

Nearly 1 in 3 black people killed by police in 2015 were identified as unarmed, though the actual number is likely higher due to underreporting

37% of unarmed people killed by police were black in 2015 despite black people being only 13% of the U.S. population

Unarmed black people were killed at 5x the rate of unarmed whites in 2015

Only 10 of the 102 cases in 2015 where an unarmed black person was killed by police resulted in officer(s) being charged with a crime, and only 2 of these deaths (Matthew Ajibade and Eric Harris) resulted in convictions of officers involved. Only 1 of 2 officers convicted for their involvement in Matthew Ajibade's death received jail time. He was sentenced to 1 year in jail and allowed to serve this time exclusively on weekends. Deputy Bates, who killed Eric Harris, will be sentenced May 31.

That was just 2015!

What about this "A young black Chicagoan, Eugene Williams, paddled a raft near a Southside Lake Michigan beach into "white territory", and drowned after being hit by a rock thrown by a young white man. Witnesses pointed out the killer to a policeman, who refused to make an arrest. An indignant black mob attacked the officer.[4] Violence broke out across the city. White mobs, many of them organized around Irish athletic clubs, began pulling black people off trolley cars, attacking black businesses, and beating victims with baseball bats and iron bars. Having learned from the East St. Louis riot, the city closed down the street car system, but the rioting continued. A total of 23 black people and 15 white people were killed"

It's no wonder the black people in the U.s are a bit edgy.

[Lunol]

^Sorry sources are The Guardian and Wiki

It appears that this all stems from slavery and the lynching days imo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_racial_violence_in_the_United_States

[Baldric]

What the feck that ^^^ has to do with the OP I don't know!

[Baldric]

Ok, off now, cooking dinner for three, eating Dinner for one, I'll be back, now's your chance Andy.

[whiskeryron]

I Don't Believe It

[-Talbot-]

Baldric

I haven't seen anyone on this thread yet who to my knowledge has any experience of Service Life.

dannyk @ 15:13, Baldric.



An OP that doesn't really desrve any replies.
Some of the posts are as absurd as the OP.

[Baldric]

Well spotted Bill, Sorry Danny, missed that one. I notice AH has not found the cojones to respond yet.

[andy-hughes]

Baldric - //Well spotted Bill, Sorry Danny, missed that one. I notice AH has not found the cojones to respond yet. //

Cojones? Ha ha, very butch, very military.

I don’t need ‘cojones’ to address any point on here, and I never will.

But to return to the gist of your point – I have not served in the military I am delighted to say, but I am entitled to have an opinion on military humour, and to express it, and that is what I have done.

Feel free to disagree, but don’t ever think that serving makes you a better man, it just makes your experience different.

[andy-hughes]

Naomi - //andy-hughes, It wasn’t offended by it either – but, unlike you, I didn’t feel compelled to preach, for the benefit of those who may have smiled at it, the rights and wrongs of humour because you decided it isn’t funny. I’m sick of listening to the whinging of the ‘precious’ brigade who as Baldric, quite rightly, observes cannot wait to be offended on behalf of others. //

I’m sorry if you felt I was ‘preaching’ it was not my intention, I was merely expressing a view.

Humour is obviously subjective, and not everyone finds the same thing amusing, or for that matter, offensive.

I do agree that far too many people are keen to be outraged about matters that are really not worthy of such reaction, I do hope you do not put me among their number.

[naomi24]

andy-hughes, //I do agree that far too many people are keen to be outraged about matters that are really not worthy of such reaction, I do hope you do not put me among their number. //

It may disappoint you, but yes, I do put you among their number.

[andy-hughes]

Naomi - //It may disappoint you, but yes, I do put you among their number. //

Not really.