On Wed, 17 Jan 2018 16:02:38 -0700, casa de los sueños >
wrote:

>On 1/17/2018 2:02 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>> On Tuesday, January 16, 2018 at 11:03:10 PM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote:
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>>> Colour or country make no difference whatever to me. Personality is all!!!
>>> Kindness seems to be a premium around here sometimes I don't care if you
>>> are from Mars with 5 legs ... err you aren't are you???
>>
>> From my limited exposure to you all, I'd say that the Brits seem to be better suited for living together with non-whites. It might be because you guys were spread all over the world and got used to being in the minority.
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>Fascinating theory, perhaps so.
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>> Americans have no such history and black folks are reduced to screaming out "Black lives matter!" It's a shameful situation.
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>And yet we beat the crap out of slavery, Jim Crow, segregated schools,
>bussing, etc.
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>The current angst is all cop-related, and that means it's all in
>reaction to insanely high levels of crime in the hood.
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>There are of course places where police forces act with /extreme/
>passion against...wait for it...the HOMELESS.

Growing up in NYC I've never seen cops harrassing the homeless....
cops have much more important things to do. I have seen cops buying
the homeless a meal and pointing them to a soup kitchen/shelter. Many
homeless have a cat and I've always given them cans of cat food.