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I visited Groves, TX. I was there doing the big flood. I was treated real nice and I remember staying at a shelter that was near a post office. Even though I was from another State they gave me rest. I saw a lot of people showing compassion. I felt a connection since that day. Learned a lot about high school football. I’m sorry, but you guys high school football is like a college game day. I saw a clip of MId County Madness, Dogs vs Indians on YouTube. I only see that type of crowd and excitement when I go to College football games or State Championship, I really enjoy the people. I have never met Stevenash, but we bump heads a lot. He’s a good person and as a side note he gave me sound advice on my TSP retirement nest egg. The guy is real smart and knows numbers. I never met Mr. Hagar, but I can tell you he loves his grandkids and he’s active in going to all of his kids games. I enjoy the young man Lumbertonraider because he speaks from the heart. Bad dog is good at heart. Smash mouth won’t back down right or wrong. They all bring something to the table. The fun part about this message board is that we can all agree to disagree. If your skin is tough you will hang around. This political forum is also mostly Republican. My point we are (I) May never meet any of you in person but it’s been real.

Talcum X may have got hacked? He’s making too much sense.

I never much considered racism up until now. I thought it was a vigilante trying to take the law into his own hands. I loon at these things in black and white and I am not taking about race. I read and teach the law and frequently read laws from other states. I try to avoid the emotional side and simple ask, what evidence do we know about and then compare that to the law. Every time new information is released, I reevaluate my opinion. On another forum I posted on l before this one, I called it Murder based on what I read and saw and on reading GA law. That was before any arrests were made. That was subject to change with new information. All of the new information kept my original opinion in place.

So I agree and disagree at the same time. Let’s talk about the disagree part, and maybe we can educate and understand more. Why do you think Floyd’s death was a racist action? Could it just have been a $ hithead power hungry cop that didn’t know when to stop?

I just read where two of the four officers that were arrested were on their 4th shift ever as a policeman. Them boys hadn’t even gotten their first paychecks yet, lol. It also kinda explains why those two might have hesitated to intervene. Also makes me wonder if Officer Chauvin might have been trying to “show them the ropes” and it led to some really bad judgment on his part. Does that change anybody’s feelings towards those two officers?

Zero Corona deaths in the last 24 hours in NYC. The news must have forgotten to report on that

I would love to see that on cnn, msnbc, and all the other crap news networks.

John Dowd letter to Mattis. How about posting that one?

Good Lord, I wish every man and woman in America had to watch that video! Especially about the Cowboys! Seriously though, what a great great message. Good find 5gal.

I thought you were kidding... PAT is Port Arthur, Texas. That's what city buses had down their side in big letters "PAT" for Port Arthur Transit. Then it got all famous in that Jay-z song. The posters on the board are real heavily conservative so sometimes it feels like Big Girl, Kountzer, and the rest are kinda getting ganged up on a little bit, lol.

2 of the cops were rookies. One Only on his 4th day and asked to roll Floyd over multiple times. [Hidden Content]

That’s where you and I are different. I will never be quiet just to avoid ruffling somebody’s feathers while they’re spreading falsehoods. The news story for the last three years in the NFL has been concussions and kneeling. We’ve moved backwards in AMERICA to the point where Drew Brees had to apologize for saying “I don’t agree with kneeling during the anthem.” What? That’s the reason that things have deteriorated here in the US. We’ve babied, coddled, and entertained stupidity and now we’re here. Do you feel like the only way to fix the “inherently racist legal system in America” is to defund police departments? Then you’d better start speaking up when people say that you’re a racist. People absolutely have a right to say “the legal system is racist.” And you, as an officer, have a responsibility to say “no, CRIMINALS commit more crimes... it doesn’t matter which color they are.” Why is it okay to protest and riot about the statistical anomaly that it “unarmed black men killed by cops” but racist to to point absolute genocide being committed on blacks by blacks? Genocide isn’t the right word, but there isn’t a word to describe a race killing their own in mass numbers. That dude is a clown. He still can’t admit that there’s a problem in PAT (my hometown) except the old standby, racism.

I have never heard of using a knee to the head or neck as a means of controlling a person. I am not saying in a fight you won’t use any means available up to deadly force if necessary but as a trained technique of control, I have never heard of it and in my 37th year.

You’ve been straddling the fence a lot lately. I don’t know anything about your hometown but the comment about we really like what y’all have done with the place gives me the impression you may have hidden racism in your heart. I agree with bad dog I am proud and I won’t apologize for what I am. I will never say things that will divide us because underneath all this shoe leather we all bleed red.

Hey, don’t hold back. Tell him how you really feel.

I don’t think the knee got him in much trouble for a minute or so. Several minutes after Floyd had quit moving? Animosity or not......

Much broader problem than what we’re discussing but I can’t disagree.

I truly don’t know. A lot of things just don’t add up. Why so many drugs in one’s system? The sad part is that either way it goes, NOBODY WINS! I think of Jussie Smollett....martyrs, lying news stations, Obama sounding the alarm. None of this crap is about Floyd. It’s about taking America down. No police force...... what a joke. All of this stuff just makes me sick. I am tired of being made to feel bad because I am white. If someone doesn’t like me because I’m white, I say forget them. Who is the racist? I am not going to apologize for things I had no control over. Ok, I’m done ranting. I feel great that I am white and very proud to say so. Don’t care who likes it.

Finished watching it last night. Jordan is the GOAT.

That is something that I questioned. At the very least, sit him upright. I have been involved in thousands of arrests including some very violent incidents. I agree with you, go straight to a car. On occasion we leave them outside but never restraining them to the ground. If they continue to be violent, off to the car they go.

Your opinion means nothing when you can’t even admit that there’s a black on black crime problem in Port Arthur that’s a way bigger detriment to the black community than a bad cop in Minnesota. That’s just some more of that, what did you call it...” people on this board looking for anything and I mean anything to not have to deal with the truth.” You see, I was born in Port Arthur. My family was in Port Arthur for almost a hundred years. The last of us left around 2000. We really like what y’all have done with the place.

Anybody wanting to dispute my assertion from a couple of weeks ago that we have violence problem in the black community?