DC Resident who sheltered protesters is a Michigan Alumnus
The DC resident who sheltered protesters is a Michigan Alumnus.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/indian-american-rahul-dubey-emerges-hero-after-sheltering-70-protesters-in-washington-dc/ar-BB14XY4b
Here he is singing “Victors”:
Salute to a King
Another great American!! Hail to you, my friend.
I wish I kept old HTTV backer data so I could see if he's ever gotten one.
Send him one now.
I feel like he's earned a Brian Cook photobomb tshirt at a minimum.
Leaders and best for a reason
Wonder who the person negging this post is.
Shouldn't he be stalking the Michigan capitol with like 12 AK's to show how unafraid he is?
Probably people who didn't read the article, which notes that he was shielding peaceful protesters. They may assume that the protesters were doing something that caused them to be pepper sprayed. You could have that view and not be crazy, or a racist, or a yuk yuk AK carrying capitol rusher.
This isn't about your team winning. Your team is responsible for where we're at, just as the other one is, just as we all are.
We can celebrate this hero while trying to understand where everyone is and how they feel. We don't have to separate ourselves along asshole political lines, which just creates more "us" and "them", which breeds more fighting. I'm guessing black people don't give a shit about how a white guy like you (and me, and all of us) - who let things get to where they are today - is from political party A or B. And they shouldn't. And we shouldn't either. My suggested first step in this process: fuck off political parties. They encourage division by design, and allow people to hide behind lies that their party is right on this issue, while the other one isn't. The last 50 years proves they're both shit.
Let me be a little more clear on this: Dr. Detroit your dumb-ass worldview encourages the continuation of policies and culture of violence against black people, because it substitutes phony partisan rhetoric/nonsense in the place of genuine reflection/change/action, seeks to hijack the anger of POC and direct it at your political enemies for your own benefit rather than theirs, and allows the majority of white people to keep shouting at each other over partisanship nonsense that black people could probably give two fucks about, rather than address what black people really need us to address.
Bodogblog...well said +100. That was an excellent post
I always find it strange when groups of white people argue about what’s good for black people. Honestly I don’t know how to perceive all of this I’m conflicted. One thing that keeps coming up in my mind is I would like to see more “us” and “we” talk rather than “they” and “them”. I was really hoping the shared strain the virus put on the country as whole was going to help people find common ground.
I do too. And there's a time for that, but it's at the end of a very long road. I think right now it's good to hold that in your mind as the end goal, but not the today goal. Today it's very much us, meaning white people, as the asshole perpetrators, and them, black people and other people of color, as perpetrated. I don't say that coming from a self-loathing family background, or from a desire to start a war with reactionaries. I am white and I love white people. I don't know that any culture has solved racism, which is tribalism, which seems ingrained in the species (if black people disappeared then blue eyed white would be racist against brown eyed, or whatever else that thousands of year of wars on the Euro continent before any black people showed up proves; and the same can be said of Africa). But we need to try. Let's get to the first step: err'y white person needs to stop pointing at someone else and start with themselves. Can we do that? Well if I do then I can't blame my political foe. Well fuck you and your political foe, they are irrelevant relative to this discussion. Well if I do then I'll be called a racist and be cancelled. Well, not if we all do it. Let's fucking cancel ourselves and the idea that there's no institutional racism in this country.
We need to be looking at we, and be listening to them.
It's patently untrue that racism is ingrained in human nature. Anti-black racism and white supremacy was created and modified throughout the European imperial project from the 16th and 17th centuries onwards. It can be dismantled through concrete actions that transform sociopolitical institutions. It doesn't require a transformation of human nature.
Bodogblog,
Thanks for you response. Well stated. I complain to myself all of the time about the hateful hijacking of posts.
Please pick up your jock before leaving the court and sitting on the end of the bench, Dr Detroit.
My dumbass world view was not hardly touched here. It was a stupid comment concerning how, as of the time I posted the OP sat at negative votes. I happen to actually be of a world view that Mr. Dubey did the right thing, particularly for his statement about how all he did was open a door.
Thank you for also assuming that I am "white." You win a prize or something, as your assumption is correct. I also happen to be one whose children have considerably more melanin content than I do, as do most of my friends. I also have lived in black neighborhoods most of my life I have had multiple run-ins with police that showed me exactly how differently people are treated by them due to their skin. I have had a white guy ask a question at a job then tell me the klan knows who I am & I should watch my ass (while calling me by name) and have had the lovely experience of coming home to find racist graffiti on one of my homes. I have also heard some of the most vile, disgusting racist things come from the mouths of people with skin tone similar to mine who did not know who I was and just assumed I was like minded.
So please forgive my one line crack about the good old boys who armed up to march around the Michigan capitol. For some reason I assumed they were not the type to sit down and have conversations about what we can do to fix the problems of society that led to George Floyd (and countless other victims) to be murdered by police. Perhaps I should open my views up a bit and engage these types in how the president should have staged his photo op and whether violently clearing peaceful protesters from a park as they packed up for the night was the proper thing to do the morning before the Secretary of State met with Tiananmen Square survivors.
It's always nice to be judged by the likes of you for a stupid post on the internet, but then I guess I'm just another dumb ass and should go fuck myself or something.
(By the way, it has been my experience that any time you try to meaningfully engage someone on the internet they either disappear or repeat what they said and insult you. I will refrain from insulting you, though I am pretty damn sure the black community is really happy that you are here to speak up for them in support of not making fun of people who would laugh at their deaths as it does not further the debate.)
" My suggested first step in this process: fuck off political parties. They encourage division by design,"
And fuck off cable news and talk radio and 90% of social media which encourage division to enhance the profits of giant corporations. You know, so their quarterly results exceed analyst expectations and the CEO class can justify themselves gigantic bonuses.
I see one more upper-middle-class white kid tweet about and shame someone using '#whiteprivelage' as they tweet from daddy's Mercedes pulling into the garage at their half-million-dollar home I'd like to find them, take them to Darlington SC, Detroit,any other struggling community etc and have them live in some of the more poor and truly underprivileged areas for a week without their allowances and new iPhone whatever. Maybe they would see the stupidity in their hits and likes hunting.
Standing for a cause, opening your eyes to the world, protesting, fine...turning something that is a deep cut into a hashtag or meme, is indescribable.
Pretty much this
And you know that all of the protesters he sheltered were peaceful how?
I'm going out on a limb assuming they sought shelter instead of running at the tear gas with bricks, meat cleavers, and incendiary devices...sure it's an assumption, but it appears MOST protestors are doing nothing more than protesting. Some more resilient, some more vocal. Those looting, burning, violently reacting with anarchist agendas are incredibly obvious if you watch the coverage. They scatter like rats, regroup, and re-engage.
I think the point Jim was trying to make (assuming he wasn't just trying to start a flame war) is that police normally (in the 21st century in this country) don't just start firing tear gas, pepper spray and taking other hostile measures against a large group of people just standing around peacefully. Something must have happened to trigger the violence and allow it to escalate. I checked to DC police website earlier today and they said a report would be made public later this week - very curious to see it.
Were many (if not most) of the sheltering protesters purely peaceful (in actions, at least)? Probably. Were there likely a few among them that also resorted to violence at some point that evening? Probably. No one's hands are clean in something like this - if everyone were to just behave like civilized adults all the time, the world would be a better place.
Did you just get back from a week in the woods and comment here before seeing any of the hundreds of videos of unprovoked attacks by police?
I have seen videos of protesters attacking police and videos of police attacking protesters. If you believe every instance was instigated by the police, you might want to review all the info again.
As I said: no one's hands are clean here.
Because the violent ones are roving around in out-of-state cars or with no license plates and driving away.
Because they didn't vandalize this guy's house.
Because you're being fed this idea that DC citizens are tearing their city apart, and those of us actually here see a completely different scenario playing out.
No reports of anyone shitting in an open ice cooler at his place.
I bet he is glad he didn't invite in the people who were walking by from this video:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1267908030206816259
Or these rioting thugs
Paid outside agitators!
I don't have any insider info but i would guess that most of the violent confrontation is not coming from actual protesters.
Good on him. There's something poetic about an immigrant sheltering people protesting violence against POC and the more general systemic racism in this country. Glad he's an alum.
Yep this was a great sight to see.
HAIL! HAIL! to Rahul Dubey, a true Conquering Hero!
What a disturbing account he gives, though---the capitol police were even spraying pepper spray into the windows to try to force out those who were given refuge in Dubey's home and the homes of others in that neighborhood.
All for a stinkin' photo-op.
So we done worrying about COVID now?
have you heard of multi-tasking?
Not sure how you can multitask covid and cramming 70 people in a row house?
There is a time and place for this question. Is it really this thread? It's insulting to a topic - institutional racism - that should be at least just as concerning to you.
Ok. I admit, I chuckled a little (on the inside - I'm a karate man!).
But yes, probably better placed in another OT post. DCGrad take the lead!
We’ll find out in 2 weeks.
His landlord threw an amusing fit on twitter because he hadn't paid his rent and the WaPo weirdly reported it.
Didn't pay his rent? Definitely sounds like a "Michigan man".
Michigan Man
Straight dope!
Protecting peaceful protestors is nothing short of awesome.
Bars on his windows. Is this normal in a city setting?
In most of the citiy sections, yes they are
Almost always at the ground level in DC, but those seem to be on the level up from the ground. That's less common, but still happens.
They probably ate all his snacks.
I saw the extended news bit on this, with the commentary by one of the individuals who sheltered there, and my only issue with it is these weren't innocent waifs set upon for no reason. The curfew had been established, and given the destruction in the city the previous days, I think a curfew was rational. The time of event was significantly past curfew, and the authorities had announced a couple times we will be clearing the streets. The protestors had decided to stay out, and well the unpleasant result occurred. The protests themselves are entirely justified, the point of them is being lost when the express defiance of needed orderly behavior becomes the norm
Ah, how refreshing. Someone with the courage to post the full story, instead of feel-good snippets. Bravo, Desert Wolverine!
ANYONE THAT DRIVES 10 MPH ABOVE THE SPEED LIMIT MUST RECEIVE JUSTICE