There are a few Johnny Cash songs that are good.Jay wrote:
I was stationed down south for years though! Johnny Cash is about as deep as I go in country.SuperJail Warden wrote:
You are a New Yorker. You better not like country music.Jay wrote:
i never got into rap or cuntry
john prine was very good (rip, thanks covid). funny and witty writing. good songs. doesn’t sound too dissimilar from Dylan sometimes.Jay wrote:
I was stationed down south for years though! Johnny Cash is about as deep as I go in country.SuperJail Warden wrote:
You are a New Yorker. You better not like country music.Jay wrote:
i never got into rap or cuntry
New York Times sent an alert to my phone today with the words "Bob Dylan thinks about the protests" I straight up thought he died for a second.uziq wrote:
john prine was very good (rip, thanks covid). funny and witty writing. good songs. doesn’t sound too dissimilar from Dylan sometimes.Jay wrote:
I was stationed down south for years though! Johnny Cash is about as deep as I go in country.SuperJail Warden wrote:
You are a New Yorker. You better not like country music.
Man, Bob Dylan can write a song, but he's got one of the worst singing voices. Basically every cover is better than the original with him.uziq wrote:
john prine was very good (rip, thanks covid). funny and witty writing. good songs. doesn’t sound too dissimilar from Dylan sometimes.Jay wrote:
I was stationed down south for years though! Johnny Cash is about as deep as I go in country.SuperJail Warden wrote:
You are a New Yorker. You better not like country music.
I'm about the most white European white guy you're going to find. I can enjoy and appreciate some rap music, figure out what they're actually talking about, and then go about the rest of my day as if nothing happened. My existence is completely alien to theirs.uziq wrote:
so what is your problem with people identifying with ‘i can’t breathe’ when their own racial groups are profiled and targeted by the police wherever they are? it seems like a straightforward analogy to me. meanwhile you listen to black rappers from compton and see no incongruity. lol ok. you’re a strange case.
I prefer something a little fasterKEN-JENNINGS wrote:
save the children
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8-7JDRr9wo
This song is probably only relevant to the 1970's black experience though.
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I Can't Prayuziq wrote:
in the UK we use the term BAME, which includes arabs and middle-eastern people. larssen probably wants to avoid that because he likes rhetorically sectioning off police brutality and discrimination against 18 year old moroccans and tunisians and nigerians into separate things. europe is true paradise!
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i don't care about belgium. in the UK our general view is that it's a fake and stupid country. but you pretending your shit doesn't stink, and that the protests are 'minor', is funny. typical white person stuff.Ever since the Forest protests, the police oversight body, Comité P, has investigated racism and discrimination in both internal and external police operations and expressed serious concerns in different reports (as recently as 2015). Yet while collecting data is often the important first step to determine whether the problem of racial profiling exists in a police unit, the next step—getting rid of it—is just as critical. Aside from calls for increased diversity within the police, there has been no policy response to the police targeting of minority communities.
Today, the relationship between police and minority communities has only deteriorated with the introduction of counterterrorism policies that criminalize and target many of the same ethnic minorities—now, also for being Muslim—and the areas where they live.
Some high-profile victims have testified in Belgian media and public debates about the trauma, humiliation, and feeling of being unsafe in their own neighborhood after guns were put to their heads on their way home or out to lunch. In many cases, police or soldiers told them they “looked suspicious.” At the same time, ordinary police checks of minority youth and police actions in the areas where ethnic minorities live continue to lead to violent clashes.
In a new report [link in French], Amnesty International Flanders and partners interviewed over 48 police officers and officials about discriminatory practices during policing and identity checks. The report showed that half of the officers interviewed believe ethnic profiling is happening, and they often lack the tools to avoid and end it.