As a dirty liberal, I so want the narrative in this piece about “coming together” and ending violence and stuff to be true. But based on my own experiences with street dirt bikers and ATV riders in DC and Baltimore, there’s just no fucking way it is. They do this because fuck, they live in a city and there are lots of…

A skateboard is for white people. This article is about black people and their inability to follow basic social order and rule of law.

The message it sends is clear: “I am unemployable and my impending head wound is going to cost the taxpayers dearly.”

Violating noise ordinances, traffic laws, helmet laws and motorist intimidation... those are all A-OK in your book as well?

There’s a bunch of poor white trash rednecks on the other side of Baltimore,…

I dont think skateboarders can go 50 mph

Perfect analogy! Skateboarders kill people all the time.

but youre wrong. To ride is to occupy a space that you have been told not to. You have been told not to occupy that space because of the color of your skin. White people move in and kick the black people out, the white people create rules that excludes black people from the visual realm of the neighborhood because to…

Also killing the protest narrative that its been going on for years well before any protest or BLM. What a joke that this is defended by this author.

I couldn’t really hear it, but it DID seem to me that he was fishing for a very specific, “I’m sad I had to beat my sister” quote here. Not that it’s an appropriate question, anyway, but it is better than the normal “Hey, baby, SMILE!” that ladies often get.

It is correct and moral because intelligent people of the world agree that motorcycles/motorcyclists should be licenced, roadworthy, inspected, and trained in safety as not to injure the rider or those around them. Also, Maryland has helmet safety laws. If society is going to allow people to stupidly endanger…

Not sure the exact law the article is referring to:

The ironic part is the protest narrative is 100% fabricated. They do this because it is fun, not because riding your way into a wheelchair somehow shows up the “man.”

But you don’t understand, they are Black.

We have the dirt bikers here in Harlem, too. They ride all over the neighborhood, and the stunts they do are very impressive. But they are very dangerous, and very loud. They always say that they ride in the streets because they have nowhere else to ride. I’d love to have a dirt bike park for them, but I seriously…

So riding these bikes through the city is illegal, but the police trying to stop the event are the bad guys?

This has been going for years in Baltimore and Philly. Connecting it to Freddie Gray is stupid both for the subjects of the article and the author. Also, it is far from a benign activity. They most certainly do not use hand signals (at least in my experience). It’s usually a 14 year old helmetless kid doing a 50 mph…

Why on earth should Jesus have anything to do with U.S. laws about LGBT people? Even if he was a totally chill, gay loving, lefty. He is irrelevant to the topic.

Completely agree. I was only commenting on all of the “too much time in the board room” things people say about the new movies. They were too action-heavy in my mind, so those comments always made me wonder.

BMI is a system used to evaluate health not physical appearance. Overweight on BMI is overweight medically. Suggesting your dietary and lifestyle choices are negatively affecting your health. If you feel physically attractive then that’s fine. But if your BMI indicates a classification of “overweight” it suggests a…

“That abuse is underpinned by al-Baghdadi’s own “theology” that justifies the rape of non-Muslim women in the name of religious doctrine.”

Don't think you can embed Vines on Kinja, but this is the height of the medium