Why are most of the artists in the USA democrats?

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Maner [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

First off you need to prove the millions claim. Secondly I believe you are forgetting that it started over Mike Brown, who was a drug dealing shop lifter, and gained attention due to the false whitness reports along with misinformation from liberal news stations like CNN. The "movement" still hasn't been able to prove that police violence towards minorities isn't directly related to those minorities crime rates.

Their first rallies all ended in riots where large portions of cities and towns were vandalized. Baltimore and Ferguson are just two examples. This movement topped out in the thousands and never reached millions of supporters.

Ok, let's start with the millions thing: measuring membership in social movements is hard. It's not like everyone who believes in and supports BLM goes to a webpage and registers. But all you need is basic math to see it has to be in the millions.

There are 326+ million people in America. For "millions" to be accurate, only 2 million, or 0.6% of the population would have to support BLM. Do you really think less than 0.6% of America supports BLM?

Second, you're 100% wrong about it starting with Mike Brown; hell it didn't even start with Rodney King. African-Americans in our society have been dealing with police brutality and harassment since the moment they were freed, and they've been fighting it for just as long. BLM is just a continuation of MLK's and Malcom X's fight, which in turn continued the fight that came before.

As for:

The "movement" still hasn't been able to prove that police violence towards minorities isn't directly related to those minorities crime rates.

You sort of have a point: African-Americans (as a logical function of their history) have higher crime rates. And certainly, if cops are arresting criminals, and African-Americans make up more of the criminals, they'll get arrested more.

But none of that has anything to do with the stuff BLM is fighting, stuff like police brutality and false arrests/convictions. No one, whatever their race, deserves to live in fear of the police, to be beaten by police, or to be falsely arrested and/or convicted.