BLM protestors block entry to Heathrow and Birmingham airports

Are you actually DUMB? As a black person I have experienced racism and prejudice. These issues happen STILL...very disappointed

Well personally I don't feel that there is racism n prejudice against black people in the UK anymore. Some isolated incidents that you have experienced doesn't mean that there is a wider problem.

I hope you're not trying to say that black people are less intelligent. All races are equally intelligent.

I hope you're not trying to say that black people are less intelligent. All races are equally intelligent.

Being genetically different doesn't mean inferior, and we know that the differences are genetic, evolution isn't a ladder system it's a branched network.

Would you say different breeds of canine are superior to others, is a Chiwawa superior to a Alsatian or a wolf is superior to a Doberman. No, they are genetically different canines that better suited to certain environments and situations.

You could train a chiwawa to be a guard dog or a wolf to be a house pet, but one isn't superior because it is genetically better suited to certain things. Likewise;

Lower IQ and higher testosterone creates higher crime rates among black communities, it also resigns the vast majority to the lower economic classes in a capitalist society that favors intelligence.

Does it make our society inherently racist, given that intelligence/IQ is race correlated I would say yes.

But it's not something we can compromise on.

Yeah, not wasting my time on this except to say as much. Go to google and do a quick search, your claptrap is easily falsified and mine is public knowledge. Type in 'black crime London' or 'intelligence hereditary' or 'racial IQ gap'...sigh, I've to go get ready to go out, do some reading on the issue.

There isn't any in London. But when I moved to Lancashire there was graffiti saying "Kill the blacks". We moved back to London...

I have some sympathy for BLM protesters in the USA: I do think there's some issues there regarding white cops & black men (and not just because black men are more likely to come into contact with the police).

But my sympathy totally stops when it comes to Mark Duggan - he was a known gang affiliate with drug links and was in possession of a hand gun. The Armed Police in the UK are subject to very strict regulations; you can't even draw you firearm without requiring paperwork to be filled in retrospectively. It's an absolute world apart when compared to the American police force.

Protests like this aren't going to win them any friends.

There is alot of ignorance on this thread. Some posts are plain racist.

Although I am not in support of BLM supporters blocking roads to Heathrow, I support the inherent view that black lives matter, whether in the UK or the US. It does not mean that other lives matter less, but that black lives matter.

Some of the campaigns about BLM has to do with insitiutionalised racism, discrimination or bigotry. We have some examples on this thread. I think it is ignorant to say that racism does not occur in the UK. You need to get off your high horse and visit some of the most deprived areas of the UK. It may not be as high or visible as in the US, but it still exists.

Also, just because a movement starts in a particular country does not mean that it cannot spread to other countries. If that is the case, why are people still campaigning in the UK about Russia's treatment of homosexuals in Russia?

What people should do, is to go out and speak to people, expand their viewpoint and see how things are. You cannot live in your small world, be on TSR and assume that the world is the way you see it.

Nah, I don't buy that. I just see a lot of attention seekers desperately wanting to be relevant.

Like I said, I don't support those supporters blocking roads to Heathrow. However, we should recognise that things are not perfect.

The UK is not perfectly equal and we should not pretend that things are perfect.

This.

We aren't the USA and Mark Duggan met the end that a lot of people leading that life do if they don't end up in prison.

The people rioting in "protest" in 2011 were looting to enrich themselves not fight discrimination.

Equally, it's nowhere near as bad as these attention seekers are making out.

Come on, they're so desperate that their poster children are the least sympathetic people ever.

If you took a bunch of black people in the US (where, let's face it there are serious serious problems with law enforcement) and brought them here and showed them what people are doing here - do you think they would be impressed, or pissed off that there's people here basically minimizing their plight?

BLM UK is so desperate that their headlining social media doesn't stand up to the merest scrutiny.

How is this helping anyone?

Equally, it's nowhere near as bad as these attention seekers are making out.

Come on, they're so desperate that their poster children are the least sympathetic people ever.

If you took a bunch of black people in the US (where, let's face it there are serious serious problems with law enforcement) and brought them here and showed them what people are doing here - do you think they would be impressed, or pissed off that there's people here basically minimizing their plight?

BLM UK is so desperate that their headlining social media doesn't stand up to the merest scrutiny.

How is this helping anyone?