Posted on 07/18/2016 4:40:31 PM PDT by Starman417
Not in the literal sense. Charles Manson wanted to incite a race war because he thought that after a race war that saw blacks kill all non blacks (Manson and his “family” would survive however…) that he would return to rule them. You can be pretty sure that the Black Lives Matter guys aren’t seeking to start a race war so they can be ruled by a white guy… But they certainly seem to want a race war.Just as Charles Manson was not connected with reality, the ideas behind the Black Lives Matter movement are equally disconnected to reality. Remember “Hands up! Don’t Shoot!”?
Black Lives Matter peddles the fiction that black men across the country are in mortal danger from police. That is simply a lie. An interesting study was just reported in the New York Times that showed that although black men are approximately 20% more likely to have a physical confrontation with police when compared with white men, they are also approximately 20% LESS likely to be shot by police when compared with white men in similar situations… A few years ago the Washington Post reported similar findings.
What is not a lie however is the fact that the lives of black man are indeed in danger, but that danger comes from other black men… not the police. To put that in crystal clear perspective, according to the CDC, the number one cause of death among black men between the ages of 15 & 34 is homicide. Literally, 43.7% of the young men in that cohort who die each year are murdered! The equivalent rate for white men in the same cohort is 7.3%. And regardless of the lies BLM tells you, most of those thousands of young black men are not being killed by police, they are being killed by other black men.
And it is thousands… In 2014, according to the FBI, 5,209 black men were murdered in the United States, 90% of those by other black men. During that same year 268 black men were killed by the police… that number includes criminals in shootouts with police, those resisting arrest and others threatening citizens. In addition, typically only 10% of those killed by police are unarmed, although unarmed doesn’t mean they weren’t a danger to police or others. So, as a thought exercise, let's imagine that 50% of the fatal shootings of black men were unjustified. That would mean that 134 innocent black men were killed by police that year. At the same time, we know that 5,209 black men were killed, 90% of them by other blacks. That equates to 4,688 black men killed by other black men. So... do the math absent the BLM calculator... even assuming that 50% of all police shootings of black men are unjustified - when the real number is likely in the low single digits - black men are still 35 times as likely to be killed by other black men than they are by the police.
There are no doubt instances of innocent black men being killed by bad cops. But that number is literally a tiny fraction of the encounters black men have with cops annually. And that's the problem with the BLM. It's a race pimp movement that focuses massive amounts of attention on a problem that is infinitesimally small when compared to real dangers that black men face... i.e. murder at the hands of other black men, violence perpetrated by other black men, unemployment, lack of positive role models in the home, etc.
BLM makes it out as if America in 2016 is the same as it was in 1950 and maybe not so different than it was in 1870... But that's simply not true. We've probably come 95% of the way in eliminating racial barriers in this country and while more still needs to be done, BLM proffers the fiction that the problem keeping so many black men from succeeding in America is white cops and institutional racism. Neither is true, and to the extent that BLM and Al Sharpton and Barack Obama focus on that they aren't focusing on the real, substantive issues that could give young black men real opportunities to succeed in life like a good education, a good entry level job to learn marketable skills and a nuclear family where a mother and father are able to provide good moral values and teach him to work hard, have respect for others and basically how to grow up to be a successful man.
But those things are hard and there’s no press or money in it while protesting and snarling traffic are easy… and they generate lots of press and big checks from liberal white guys like George Soros.
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Hate to break the news to “Vince” but the entire “Helter-Skelter” narrative was concocted by thatg weasel Vincent Bugliosi
Andrew Malkow (The Malkow Majority) on Sirius Patriot had ex-Navy Seals talking about this. They bluntly said that blacks would completely get their behinds handed to them if a race war ever commenced.
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Thanks, Starman.
Re the drawing “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot”
I suggest a new slogan, “Pants Up, Don’t Poop”. Why? Because we are dealing with a bunch of leftist/racist aholes and we don’t have enough corks.
You may be a dancer but you ain’t no lover.
Manson is abusing himself with reckless abandon at all this news
Just call BLM by their real name, the Black Lives Murder movement.
Are you sure? I thought the deal was that Manson did concoct it as a BS cover so that his followers would not catch on to the fact that the murders were simply revenge for Manson not being signed to a record deal by Doris Day's son Terry Melcher (Melcher used to live in one of the houses the Manson "Family" attacked).
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