But I want to call that a billion dollars show. Now, a billion dollars show would be Game of Thrones. I didn't really watch it, but I'm sure it got plenty of years and sure did. But when you try and say that you got fired because you're black just because of the Black Lives Matter movement. That's pretty stupid. You deserve what you got. And that's exactly why I don't care. And that's just my personal opinion
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:27
Hey, Armando, welcome to Swell. Really good to hear your voice and your perspective. And I just feel like this platform is so perfect for deep conversation, meaningful exchange where we just take a breath and think and listen. And I'm listening to your voice. And I want to paste here a link to a conversation going on right now about this, so maybe you could contribute there also. Okay. Thanks so much. Welcome
Police officers are not being trained for the amount of time that you would expect someone with that important of a job to be trained. You combine that with weaponizing or militizing them. And what you see before you is instances where some police officers use their power to go a little bit too far resulting in someone's death. The outrage is because that person is hired to protect and serve. They are government employees. It is not their job to kill a citizen
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 2:23
Hi Armando. So thank you to DB parties for linking that other conversation on Cancel Culture and also to Callie Guinea for your perspective. It was really great to hear you kind of break all that down and see how this conversation is expanding. It's really great to hear. I just wanted to link a few things. One of the things I posted in another swell about this as well that I think is really useful in talking further about why All Lives matter. It's kind of stating the obvious
Mtwadamela Ijogo
@Mtwadamela · 4:56
And there's probably a lot of people out there who really don't care because they deep down, they believe that we are inferior. And that's okay, too, because just because you believe something doesn't make it true. Now, I want to touch on a couple of points that you spoke about, particularly the black on black crime that you talk about in Chicago
Mtwadamela Ijogo
@Mtwadamela · 1:25
So what the creators of Black Lives Matter, what they really wanted to say or what they're really saying is that Black lives Matter, too, because we know White lives Matter. We fully understand that America tells us that America shows us that all the time, every day, every day. But what we don't see and what we have not seen in our history is that Black lives matter as well. So all they said is Black lives Matter