Calling every white person a supremacist/racist is akin to calling every cop bad, every black person crime-prone, every non-masker apathetic or every conservative heartless idiot.
I see 3 of those dehumanizations transpire here, daily. Hey, its even there in the above post /\
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Thatās not what I doubt. I doubt that his intentions were in killing him. The report came out detailing the sequence of eventsā¦ you can read it here.
To me it looks like a case of criminal neglegence rather than a hate crime. I donāt know, of course. Maybe Chauvin had some grudge towards Floyd, since thereās some information that connects them, but Iām fairly certain he as a police officer would be aware of consequences of killing a black man in such a manner in our politically-charged climate.
If you read the report, the way events unfold seem to be more in line with criminal negligence than a hate crime.
If you think that it somehow diminish the severity of what he did, you need to ask yourself why you think so.
George, you understand that these two are not exclusive, right?
And since when the murder isnāt enough in this context?
Yes, George. It would. A very similar case actually happened in Texas, and Iām fairly certain itās not one of the kind. Police were joking around as they kneeled on his back and cracked jokes as he was dying and couldnāt breathe. But, in that case they were not even charged or fired. It took years to even release the bodycam video and restart an investigation.
So no, it doesnāt merely happen to back people, and the punishment is not more severe when white people are the victims.
What a powerful and accurate statement!
There are āimmovableā people among every single racial group. There is no racial group in which everyone is āimmovable.ā
Racism is easily detected, though people who are infected with this (apparently incurable) disease believe that they can easily disguise themselves and fool the public. But they canāt, because they keep defending their own racial bias - thus, as you said well, staying āimmovable.ā
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May be if people where working this wouldnāt have happened
From Australia the liberal states GOD may be withdrawing his protection
LOMA LINDA is smack bang in this
Is this a warning for our church and leadership
Serious stuff
Thou shalt not kill . Is not racial its law.
Now because of all media fueling this look at what is happening
Because I think the black leaders would have more influence. I was not trying to be dismissive of those of others races who joined in the violence.
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This response while cloaked in piety is really no different than that of character portrayed by Slim Pickens in the opening scenes of Blazing Saddles.
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Your response, while clothed in piety, isnāt a response at all actually. Itās a form of abrasive intellectual laziness.
Jesus said the law could be summarized: Love thy neighbor as thyself.
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By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for; And by the fear of Jehovah men depart from evil.
Proverbs 16:6
Thanks, NAD.
Our pastor built a Zoom sermon/talk around this statement, this past Sabbath; one where he went through the document, and encouraged us, as parishioners, to respond.
Iāll say, here, in short, what I said there:
This is a more forceful analysis than the NAD usually gives on matters of social justice. Our pastor noted this, and for this the Division should be commended.
There are two terms, though, that should have been in this statement, but do not appear here:
One is police. Even as a wide sectors of our society begin to acknowledge that there is a national problem, in the way that law enforcement executes their duties relative to African-Americans, the NAD has only done this in the most mealy-mouthed way.
By saying that āsome of those who have been trusted to protect all members of society have broken their solemn pact to serve others,ā the Division evades the forthrightness with which prophetic movements are called to denounce evil.
Itās almost as though the church had, what the Pew Foundation calls, the racial confidence gap in police performance in mind, when it wrote the letter; i.e., that āroughly three-quarters of whites say police in their communities do an excellent or good job in using the appropriate force on suspects, treating all racial and ethnic minorities equally and holding officers accountable when misconduct occurs.ā Only a third of Black people agree.
Perhaps deeming it important not to offend the wealthiest, longest-standing, and most influential of its members, the NAD merely soft-pedaled the problem.
That ethos continues in the absence of another term: white supremacy. Given that the North American Division administration which composed the letter is a multi-ethnic body, my guess is that this term did not even come up in discussion, as non-white members deferred to the sensibilities of the white membership; i.e., white supremacy.
(Again, Iām only guessing, here, based on how Iāve seen similar efforts play out, in all areasāeconomics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex, and war.)
Perhaps white supremacy is something that our overwhelmingly non-white, but white-dominated denomination cannot name because it is culpable. The Seventh-day Adventist Church has never had a non-white president, even though the ālamb with two hornsā has ābeen there, done that.ā
White supremacy was the seed out of which grew our system of regional conferences; a racist artifact that has existed so long that, increasingly, the calls to dismantle it come from embarrassed white members.
Itās a truism that one cannot fix what they cannot see, but, even more, that to which they cannot even point.
The NAD showed strength when it addressed the careless deletion of so many Black peopleās lives. But it was weak, and flaccid, when it refused to call out sin by its right name.
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Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Matthew 22:40
AMEN - so why do people bear false witness
isnt provocation or calling someone rascist or calling TRUMP names as bearing false witness ?
AHHH politics and our SDA intellectuals
where there killing in JESUSāS time ? did CAESARS solders ever do a wrong act ?
LOL and did JESUS lobby or come out as a moral voice against CEASAR?
JESUS pointed to salvation not this temporary planet
some groups may label certain classes or colour or whatever based on there actions
well black america has just fueled the divide by acting badly - like stealing and burning and killing
why not protest peacefully on the side of the road away from traffic ! the veganism and extinction rebellion all use these tactics
all these movements question authority - sounds familiar
IRON AND CLAY will never mix - THE ROMAN EMPIRE IS VERY MUCH STILL ALIVE
its bible prophesy so why resist prophesy ? do we question the aurthority of the BIBLE as SDA
Dudeā¦ Not cool.
There isnāt some monolithic āblack Americaā in which one set of individuals get to speak or do things on behalf of everyone. Because, if such is the case, thereās plenty of the very same black America who was standing and holding the lines and keeping people from looting. And there were plenty of āwhite Americaā who were looting.
I wouldnāt even classify them as having political agenda, since they were anarchistā¦ who are a-political.
This isnāt the time where we can afford to keep flaming over disagreements. Itās time to find some agreement and move on to cleaning the mess left behind. Thatās something weāll have to do no matter who you agree with or who you support.
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Why? Why would you parrot identitarian and divisive media narrative here, and then get upset when someone points out a problem with it.
Notice that I have not called you racist. If I count how many times I got labeled racist by implication on this forum in the past 4 daysā¦ Iām sorry, but I would likely win 
I merely pointed out the problematic language that does inflame these narratives and have people draw lines in the sand they donāt have to draw. Thereās a broader spectrum of āwhite Americaā just as thereās a broader spectrum of āblack Americaā.
You have to look at it this way. We are at the point in our cultural marriage in which we got to violence and yelling, with police essentially looking the other wayā¦ because many donāt want to be the next ātop storyā. It is up to us now. Either we find some common language and agreement from which we can pivot, or the divorce will be very ugly.
Harrpa, I am told that that was the first verse DT read when he opened that Bible yesterday - for the first time in his life. Then, he was looking for the book āTwo Corinthiansā when, inadvertently, he read another verse elsewhere saying something about loving others as we love ourselves. Case closed, Bible closed forever!
So letās see what happened in his mind overnight. Will see in his actions today. Brace for impact.
Stay tuned! 
if we had this misterious āloveā we would finish the 3 angels message as EGW was told by the holy spirit
what else can we do ? get involved in a anti trump politacal fight sounds a little dirty
I am not taking sides but there is a distict pelosi+schummer clan vs trump fight
Like I said . BEARING FALSE WITNESS
So where is the LOVE 
Is this what comes to your mind when you read a joke???
Could part of the problem be that a significant number of persons expect and label all or most āwhiteā people as āsupremacistsā and react that way? I do not think that white racism is as prevalent as we make it out to be. And those of us who get labeled by skin color by folks who donāt know us, are hurt and confused as much as the Black person who gets profiled. I donāt understand your experience, and you apparently donāt understand mine. I know my many Black friends do not consider my color as a problem. I attend an integrated church and live in an integrated apartment complex. You ignore the large percentage who are middle class and higher and never lived in the ghettos that local politics trapped the poor in. It turned into a poverty culture and whites living in Appalachia are just as poor and drug ridden. I note that people from the Islands (as some of my relatives were) arenāt as hostile and they also had slave ancestors.