Posted on 07/14/2016 12:30:24 PM PDT by Enlightened1
The agenda continues unabated. Take out cops and whitey.
of course, the perps come overwhelmingly from the small sub-set, black males making up 6.5% of the US population, and adult black males comprising an even smaller proportion..... hard not to “profile” an accurate description of the most likely source of many criminals.
Thank goodness. That means no more polar bear hunters.
I remember when ESPN was all about sports, now it has turned into a retarded version of MSNBC (if that was even possible). I had my car worked on last week and in the lobby they had this show on the television that was discussing black lives matter, taking the liberal position on this nonsense, looked at the corner of the screen to see what garbage channel I was watching and it was ESPN!
WTH!
They need to be mugged for their bling by a brother
“We all feel helpless and frustrated by the violence. We do, but that’s not acceptable. It’s time to look in the mirror and ask ourselves, ‘What are we doing to create change?’ James asked.I’ll tell you, Mr. James, what you are not "doing to create change.”I am familiar with a boy’s basketball league practice - that of using coaches for teams not playing to referee their games. That is not what the coaches want, but they have no other volunteers so that is what they do. Well, of course sometimes the coach of a team in the game will disagree with the call made by the referee, and will fail to refrain from complaining. When that happens, the referee cheerfully takes the whistle lanyard off his neck and proffers it to that coach. That instantly ends the discussion.
Mr. James, if you want to create progress, there is one singular remedy you can avail yourself of - you can become a cop. Until you “pick up the whistle” you are nothing but a second guesser, and a biased one at that.
While we are dealing with basketball analogies, your complaints about “disparate impact” of policing on blacks make no more sense than if you were to complain that NBA officials, over the course of a season, call more fouls in total on black players than they do on white players even though blacks are a minority of the population in the country. That would be silly, of course (tho I don’t put it past you to try it), because blacks are a preponderance of NBA players, and there may be no white players on the court at a given time during a game, but never the reverse. The majority status of non-blacks in the total population is utterly irrelevant. And, unfortunately for the peaceful and civil majority of the black population, disparately blacks are victims of crime - and thus, equally disparately, the police are called by black victims, and the preponderance of their complaints are about other blacks.
- From Theodore Roosevelt's 1910 speech at the Sarbonne:
- There is no more unhealthy being, no man less worthy of respect, than he who either really holds, or feigns to hold, an attitude of sneering disbelief toward all that is great and lofty, whether in achievement or in that noble effort which, even if it fails, comes to second achievement. A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticise work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life's realities - all these are marks, not as the possessor would fain to think, of superiority but of weakness. They mark the men unfit to bear their part painfully in the stern strife of living, who seek, in the affection of contempt for the achievements of others, to hide from others and from themselves in their own weakness. The rôle is easy; there is none easier, save only the rôle of the man who sneers alike at both criticism and performance.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
So, what you should be doing is twofold:
- you should “pick up the whistle,” and
- you should look reality in the face - which is a lot less comfortable than mere cynicism about others.
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13% of the population committing 50% of violent crime has to stop.
After they told Rush Limbaugh they wanted his conservative take on football then fired him within weeks when he did what they asked, I have, for the most part, eliminated ESPN from my house.
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