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After a night of violent protests, Milwaukee residents gathered Sunday evening to mourn an armed man shot to death by police and begin the healing process.
Family and friends of Sylville Smith, 23, held a candlelight vigil at the site of Saturday's shooting in a residential area of North Milwaukee.
The shooting triggered unrest in the city's north side Saturday night as protesters torched businesses and threw rocks at officers. Four officers were injured and 17 people were arrested, Mayor Tom Barrett said.
Tensions on Sunday gave way to calls for peace as activists gathered outside the affected businesses.
Smith's sister, Sherelle Smith, condemned violence carried out in her brother's name, saying the community needs those businesses.
Black Lives Shatter
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/14/us/milwaukee-violence-police-shooting/
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 15 2016, @07:37PM
> They didn't build this civilization so why should they have accumulated generational capital in it?
In fact slaves did build this civilization. Why do you think the South was so willing to secede? Money. Tons of Fucking Money. On the eve of the Civil War, the slave South had achieved a level of per capita wealth not matched by Spain or Italy until the eve of World War II or by Mexico or India until 1960. One crop, slave-grown cotton, provided over half of all US export earnings. Thus slavery paid for a substantial share of the capital, iron, and manufactured goods that laid the basis for American economic growth.
In addition, precisely because the South specialized in cotton production, the North developed a variety of businesses that provided services for the slave South, including textile factories, a meat processing industry, insurance companies, shippers, and cotton brokers. Slavery was the economic engine that created the United States.
You have inadvertently made the best argument for reparations. Good job!
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday August 15 2016, @09:37PM
He's a real piece of fucking work, isn't he? I wish that kind of ignorance were excruciatingly painful...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 15 2016, @09:40PM
So you're saying the millions and millions of immigrants after the civil war didn't do shit in helping to build america?
I guess the blacks just did everything back then, and fuck history and the truth. After all, black lies matter.
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/immigrant-population-over-time [migrationpolicy.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 15 2016, @10:23PM
All those immigrants wouldn't have come here were it not for what the slaves built.
The USA would have been just another banana republic otherwise.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 15 2016, @09:57PM
Lol. Slaves didn't build shit. They took orders from their masters. If the slaves were so good at creating a society and infrastructure then what the fuck happened to Haiti and the entire continent of Africa?
(Score: 2) by t-3 on Tuesday August 16 2016, @05:00AM
Intentional destabilization by white men with resources.