"Black Brunch" goes live

[HTFOff]

This is too good. :awe:

http://news.yahoo.com/black-brunch-protests-nyc-berkeley-oakland-190212742.html

In a twist on sit-in-style protests, civil rights activists entered several restaurants in New York City and Oakland, Calif., on Sunday in what organizers billed as “Black Brunch.”

About three dozen people participated in demonstrations in New York, where they momentarily “disrupted” meals at popular midtown eateries, including Lallisse, Maialino and Pershing Square — places protesters identified as predominantly “white spaces.”

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Uninvited guests. Tell them to leave. Warn them. Upon not leaving, use force.

Simple. This is private property. Go do your protests on public property. I have no qualms about protesting legally. This is like coming into my kitchen while my family is having dinner to interrupt us.

 

[PokerGuy]

Uninvited guests. Tell them to leave. Warn them. Upon not leaving, use force.

Simple. This is private property. Go do your protests on public property. I have no qualms about protesting legally. This is like coming into my kitchen while my family is having dinner to interrupt us.

Exactly. I'd love to see them try that crap in some other parts of the country where the reception would be... less tolerant.

They have the right to protest peacefully in public areas. If they decide to disrupt people's activities or go into private spaces, they should be arrested and charged.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Exactly. I'd love to see them try that crap in some other parts of the country where the reception would be... less tolerant.

They have the right to protest peacefully in public areas. If they decide to disrupt people's activities or go into private spaces, they should be arrested and charged.

Honestly in certain states, they are at the point where they should have deadly force used on them based on the property owner telling them to leave multiple times.

This is absolutely absurd, ludicrous, and childish. Attention whoring 101. If only I could get away with T-shirts that said "<Insert Race other than Black> Power" and go around chanting this barbaric shit on other people's property uninvited.






If anyone is missing the reference, see the OP picture.

 

[Newell Steamer]

OK,.. but, pretty pointless though - since this does nothing but insight eye rolls and probably fantasies of gunning them down for trespassing (i.e. I hope they try this in my county,... ::shot gun cocked::).

 

[HTFOff]

Uninvited guests. Tell them to leave. Warn them. Upon not leaving, use force.

Simple. This is private property. Go do your protests on public property. I have no qualms about protesting legally. This is like coming into my kitchen while my family is having dinner to interrupt us.

The revolution is fly tho.

 

[Nebor]

While I do think this is more likely to get attention than rioting and burning down their own neighborhoods, it won't get them the kind of attention they want. As an every Sunday brunch kind of guy, I'm off to start marketing "I can't brunch" t-shirts to my yuppy friends.

 

[BoberFett]

OK,.. but, pretty pointless though - since this does nothing but insight eye rolls and probably fantasies of gunning them down for trespassing (i.e. I hope they try this in my county,... ::shot gun cocked::).

You fucking lefties are crazier than the right wing you hate so much. The shit you assholes dream up...

 

[OutHouse]

places protesters identified as predominantly &#8220;white spaces.&#8221;

racist will be racist.

 

[Newell Steamer]

You fucking lefties are crazier than the right wing you hate so much. The shit you assholes dream up...

Not my fault you don't like what you see when you look in the mirror,...

 

[soulcougher73]

Shoot on site. easy way to make them go away.

 

[OutHouse]

“Every 28 hours, a black person in America is killed by the police,”

so the cops are rounding up black people and shooting them? why is it so hard to look at the activity one of those people that got shot was doing to get shot??

news flash, being unarmed has no bearing at all of not getting shot. be a threat and you will get a unwanted hole in you.

 

[Newell Steamer]

You fucking lefties are crazier than the right wing you hate so much. The shit you assholes dream up...

Shoot on site. easy way to make them go away.

Welcome to The Left™ soulcougher73!!

Your inauguration will occur tomorrow night, at the Barbara Streisand concert - be sure to bring your iPad to take pictures with.

 

[schmuckley]

Welcome to The Left™ soulcougher73!!

Your inauguration will occur tomorrow night, at the Barbara Streisand concert - be sure to bring your iPad to take pictures with.

What's the qualifications for that? poor spelling?

"site" "insight"
it should be:
"sight" and "incite"

 

[Subyman]

So did they eat or just stand around? There aren't "white spaces", they are free to go eat there if they want.

 

[Matt1970]

I don't understand what they are protesting.

 

[ElMonoDelMar]

Welcome to The Left™ soulcougher73!!

Your inauguration will occur tomorrow night, at the Barbara Streisand concert - be sure to bring your iPad to take pictures with.

You missed one.

Honestly in certain states, they are at the point where they should have deadly force used on them based on the property owner telling them to leave multiple times.

 

[Subyman]

I don't understand what they are protesting.

They are protesting against a respectable lunch between law abiding families. I guess?

 

[Ackmed]

She is asking for justice in Ferguson. Justice was served, a thug was killed.

They're race baiting calling it "white spaces". If it was the other way around, and white people did this in predominately black populated places calling it "black places", they would be called racist. Typical double standard about racism.

 

[Blanky]

Who do people involved in these really think they are helping? They are just annoying people.

 

[alcoholbob]

Thought this was gonna be about a black version of the Brady Bunch...then realized its 2015.

 

[Knowing]

I was following this yesterday, wondered if it would make it here. This was my favorite tweet. It was actually hard to choose because there were so many good ones.

 

[Belegost]

They are protesting against a respectable lunch between law abiding families. I guess?

I think they were protesting against merging the words "breakfast" and "lunch" into the "brunch" abomination - those should be separate. (but equal!) /humorous

Really, what did this accomplish? Making a lot of people just out enjoying their morning roll their eyes at the antics?

Maybe a better idea would have been to go to these "white spaces" enjoy a nice brunch with their friends like everyone else, and show everyone that these are really "anyone who peacefully patronizes the restaurant spaces."

 

[Subyman]

I was following this yesterday, wondered if it would make it here. This was my favorite tweet. It was actually hard to choose because there were so many good ones.

Wow, twitter makes P&N look like a hospice book club.

 

[railer]

I don't understand what they are protesting.

I can only surmise that they are protesting their own stupidity, as one of their main talking points is bogus:

"The figure &#8220;every 28 hours&#8221; comes from an April 2013 report titled &#8220;Operation Ghetto Storm&#8221; by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. The report analyzed officer-involved killings of African-American victims in 2012. The report &#8220;is a window offering a cold, hard, and fact-based view into the thinking and practice of a government and a society that will spare no cost to control the lives of Black people,&#8221; according to the preface.

It&#8217;s not hard to debunk the claims using basic findings and methodologies from the report. (Twitter user @FeministaJones did it in a series of tweets using Storify.)

The report looked at the deaths of 313 African-American men, women and children in 2012, who were killed by police officers, security guards or &#8220;vigilantes.&#8221; Vigilantes are defined &#8220;self-appointed enforcers of the law&#8221; who had immunity under self-defense legal protections such as the stand-your-ground law or the castle doctrine.

If you divide the number of hours in a year (8,760) by 313 deaths, it does come out to one death per 28 hours. But the rest of the claim is problematic.

Among those killed in 2012, 136 people (44 percent) had no weapon on them when they died. That negates the claim that people who were killed &#8220;every 28 hours&#8221; were unarmed. Since the study looked at police officers, security guards, police officers moonlighting as security guards, and &#8220;vigilantes&#8221; that do not fit under any of the other categories, the claim that an African American is killed &#8220;every 28 hours&#8221; by a police officer is also false.

The &#8220;every 28 hours&#8221; figure is being quoted by thousands of people, including those who accurately cite the figure based on the report&#8217;s findings."

The above from: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ck-person-is-killed-by-police-every-28-hours/