"I Will Heal America" (Trump)

[Peter Pedant]

Yeah OK no wonder you clicked on "read"
He didnt of course - (Trimp) - nowhere near
but nonetheless America Burns ( well 80 bits of it) and there is no visible thread

what does Answerbank think of the civll unrest ?
( no not the kneeling on someones neck - we are all agree that may end in death)

[woofgang]

gulliver, relevance?

[tiggerblue10]

This isn't about Boris.

[Peter Pedant]

// I don't think Trump has helped matters either with the way he has responded.//

I dont think he went voluntarily - I think he might have been dragged.
The King of Denmark ( yeah really) said in 1940 when he was offered a body guard byt he occupying Nazis ( so I agree there are differences) saaaaid: "I dont need one the people of COpenhagen are my bodyguard"
hmm I dont see trump saying that !

and where is Meghan I aks myself?

[tiggerblue10]

It's about inequality and injustice in the US.

[Peter Pedant]

trump please boys - - - trump

[Peter Pedant]

equality justice and freedom
but this is an election issue as well isnt it

[naomi24]

The only question I see in that OP is:

//what does Answerbank think of the civll unrest ?//

… but I suspect it’s a veiled invitation to Trump-bash - and one that I’ll decline in favour of answering the question.

I can’t speak for AnswerBank, but whilst I think protests are understandable, wanton destruction verging on anarchy, which is what we’re witnessing, is not. This isn’t just about George Floyd.

[Peter Pedant]

thank you Naomi - short and succinct if I might say

[woofgang]

An American friend of mine who lives in the uk describes the current situation in the US as a "perfect storm"
1. Covid
2. Racist lady with dog
3. Death of George
4. Arrest of black CNN reporter when his white colleague was not a block away when questioned
5. President of the USA glorifying violence

[douglas9401]

The problem with peaceful protest in the US is that it achieves nothing as has been seen time and time again.

The only way to change is to fight, smash and burn, have a few heads broken by state operatives then convene hearings with newly discovered leaders from the oppressed side to the fore.
Pass a law or two and relative peace reigns for a few years.

[allenlondon]

Trump, you want. Well, he's one of a long line of professional US politicians, mostly mendacious, mostly self-serving, few as intellectually challenged (mind you, young Bush springs to mind as quite similarly stupid).

Protests over the police murder of a poor black man in America? I don't know the answer. Seeing TV programmes about slavery and its aftermath do not inspire me with hope. It's taken a century and a half to get to this level, which is that many Americans still believe in the superiority of the white 'races' (as people do here in the UK).

It will change, it will change; the pendulum will swing - not in your lifetime, nor mine, but it will swing. All empires fall, and their most stoney inbuilt prejudices fall, eventually.

I have hope, but more sorrow.

A.

[lady-janine]

Does he only eat cake?

[youngmafbog]

Ah, so it's a Trump bashing thread. I'll pass.

[Spicerack]

allenlondon //Trump, you want. Well, he's one of a long line of professional US politicians//

Wrong. Are you honestly so ignorant?

[allenlondon]

Spicerack.

If
i called you the word that comes to mind I’d be barred.

[Spicerack]

tiggerblue10 //It's about inequality and injustice in the US.//

Nonsense. It's thick scum emboldened by left wing scum. Both need eradicating.

[jno]

"eradicating"? Calling for a final solution, are we? Please tone your language down a teensy bit.

[Spicerack]

You could always try to argue your point about Trump being a professional politician.

[shoota]

I have been vaguely following the events in the US, mainly Minneapolis, following the Floyd incident because I have been expecting some form of civil unrest for some time.
Many of the rednecks on the US gun channels on YouTube have long been talking about 'Boogaloo' (and it's derivatives, Big Igloo and Ice House) which is their codename for civil insurrection. I was expecting it to come following some kind of restriction on firearms ownership or seizure issue. Much of what these people write in their comments on the channels can be dismissed as juvenile fantasy but not all.
What really concerns me is who placed the pallet of bricks on the sidewalk by the courthouse? Who was the man carrying an open umbrella seen to be smashing windows systematically with a hammer but not looting? An ex-girlfriend thinks she recognised this person as a serving Police Officer.
I am not a conspiracy theorist normally but all these circumstances seem to point to some kind of underlying plot, the nature and intent of which I cannot fathom.
Links can be supplied (again) if required.