Posted on 06/01/2020 10:25:10 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
I knew some Cuban and Nigerian blacks and they are quite “white” culturally.
She’s hawt...
Love her. She sees right through the BS.
In terms of where the vitriol stems from, it primarily arises from the fact that most (first generation) Africans in the US came for tertiary education. That means either 1) their families had to pay through the nose to give their children the best education; and/or 2) they only managed to scrounge enough cash to get to the US and thus they have to work several jobs to pay tuition. Then they arrive here to meet a group of people that speak funny, wear pants that don’t cover their behinds, and a number are deficient when it comes to critical thinking, theory of knowledge and general intelligence.
Then these people unable to wear pants have the temerity to come and tell us we are ‘acting white’ because we don’t ape their sartorial (lack of) style, do not copy their (imbecilic) mode of ‘speech,’ or that we prefer studying (which is what brought us to the US in the first place) rather than dribbling some orange ball. I think that is what really sticks in our craw ...the judgement from people who really should not be judging us. Judging us because we want to study hard (which in most cases is because we know the difficulties in Africa and want to rise above that), and then someone mocks us for that?
We may ‘look’ the same (actually not really - even in college I wore a suit for most of my MBA classes), but the difference is profound. Take education - African immigrants in the US are some of the most educated immigrant groups in the States ( African Immigrants often more educated than other immigrants ) yet a good number of African-Americans don’t even graduate high school. Yet they try and lecture us on what we should or shouldn’t do? Someone who thinks Socrates is a brand of gold-teeth grill (and 10K gold at that, not even proper gold) or that fluid dynamics is how to gargle mouthwash tries to tell us how to ‘conduct’ ourselves so we can fit in?
Ridiculous!
Anyway, rant over. No love lost.
Fwiw, our church has had missionaries in Nigeria & “British East Africa” since the early 19th Century & thus the students who want to attend college in the USA tend to attend our church-affiliated schools.
Even in the mid-1960s when I was an undergrad, our African students DESPISED & mostly AVOIDED “associating with” American Blacks. = My “sophomore year roomie”, Stephen, was a pre-seminary student from Lagos & he didn’t even try to disguise his antipathy toward US Blacks.
(Fwiw, in 2020, Stephen pastors one of the largest Baptist churches in Nigeria.- He is still married to the lady that he married while in college in May 1967 & they have 11 children & “a goodly crowd” of grand-kids.)
Yours, TMN78247
Welcome to America! It is truly a pleasure to read your comment, and your studying habits are evident in your mastery of English. I am glad to have you as a fellow citizen - we can never have too many people of character in this country. Your parents must be proud of you!
Thank you for your insights. It seems to square with my experiences.
CC
Wonder how long before this disappears downthetube at youtube?
Yeah, don’t do anything, which is exactly the way Democrat politicians deal with things in their cities, and which basically means black on black crime is condoned by both the members of the neighborhood, and the public officials. And the vicious cycle keeps going on.
I’m not sure that is her. There is a photo of a Nestrid Yumga in the Air Force that looks more like her. And a listing for a home healthcare worker in D.C.
Yeah - I hope this gal gets more press. It would be interesting to hear her talk about the issues.
Thanks for posting this link.
This lady is one smart cookie, shame it’s not always easy to catch what she says, as she makes a string of important points. She understands what is going on, not least that this is the version of America that the international media chooses to portray, giving voice to the protestors (attracted like flies to horsesh*t, is the expression that comes to mind!) and unfortunately the version most folks here in Britain will see.
This lady speaks better English than most of the people she was confronting. What struck me is that they really didn’t have any reasonable retort to what she was saying to them. The white witch kept trying to tell her that all blacks are oppressed in this country. She quickly nailed the witch to the cross.
I LOVE this girl!!!
We don’t have freedom of filming in the US. If you film the wrong stuff you could be killed for it.
Bump
Humm. BLM.
This seems like a good place to post a reminder that Eric Holder investigated and issued a report that found that Officer Darren Wilson DID NOT kill Big Mike Brown as he was trying to surrender. (How many crimes had BMB committed at this point? 5?) The entire basis of BLM is B/S.
From Eric Holder's report, page 78 and following:
https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releases/attachments/2015/03/04/doj_report_on_shooting_of_michael_brown_1.pdf
Snip..."Because none of these individuals actually witnessed the shooting incident and admitted so to law enforcement, federal prosecutors did not consider their inaccurate postings, tweets, media interviews, and the like when making a prosecutive decision.
“IV. Legal Analysis
The evidence discussed above does not meet the standards for presentation of an indictment set forth in the USAM and in the governing federal law. The evidence is insufficient to establish probable cause or to prove beyond a reasonable doubt a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 242 and would not be likely to survive a defense motion for acquittal at trial pursuant to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 29(a). This is true for all six to eight shots that struck Brown.
Witness accounts suggesting that Brown was standing still with his hands raised in an unambiguous signal of surrender when Wilson shot Brown are inconsistent with the physical evidence, are otherwise not credible because of internal inconsistencies, or are not credible because of inconsistencies with other credible evidence.
In contrast, Wilson’s account of Brown’s actions, if true, would establish that the shootings were not objectively unreasonable under the relevant Constitutional standards governing an officer’s use of deadly force. Multiple credible witnesses corroborate virtually every material aspect of Wilson’s account and are consistent with the physical evidence. Even if the evidence established that Wilson’s actions were unreasonable, the government would also have to prove that Wilson acted willfully, i.e. that he acted with a specific intent to violate the law.
As discussed above, Wilson’s stated intent for shooting Brown was in response to a perceived deadly threat. The only possible basis for prosecuting Wilson under Section 242 would therefore be if the government could prove that his account is not true – i.e., that Brown never punched and grabbed Wilson at the SUV, never struggled with Wilson over the gun, and thereafter clearly surrendered in a way that no reasonable officer could have failed to perceive. Not only do eyewitnesses and physical evidence corroborate Wilson’s account, but there is no credible evidence to disprove Wilson’s perception that Brown posed a threat to Wilson as Brown advanced toward him. Accordingly, seeking his indictment is not permitted by Department of Justice policy or the governing law.
(Snip--sets forth legal standard and precedents req. to prosecute Officer Wilson...) There is no dispute that Wilson, who was on duty and working as a patrol officer for the FPD, acted under color of law when he shot Brown, or that the shots resulted in Brown’s death. The determination of whether criminal prosecution is appropriate rests on whether there is sufficient evidence to establish that any of the shots fired by Wilson were unreasonable given the facts known to Wilson at the time, and if so, whether Wilson fired the shots with the requisite “willful” criminal intent, which, in this case, would require proof that Wilson shot Brown under conditions that no reasonable officer could have perceived as a threat" There we be! From Eric Holder to the reader of the report.
It's not that Floyd was innocent. He had a violent felony conviction.
It's that he was lying on his back in handcuffs, which triggers constitutional protections for the apprehending officers to be in a custodial role ("in custody") towards his safety.
This whole incident, the whole time HE WAS IN CUFFS ON THE GROUND, is on a single, uninterrupted, unedited, not-selectively-edited, 9-minutes long video taken by a bystander from 6 feet away.
Not an ambulance-chasing lawyer seeking a payout.
Not a BLM rabble-rouser showing something out of context.
The one policeman has his knee on the guy's neck for 9 straight minutes.
The guy on the ground says he can't breathe.
OK, lots of people lie about that.
He passes out.
He might have been faking that.
Except that an eyewitness who identifies herself as a first responder starts begging the cop to get off of him and check for a pulse.
He keeps the knee on the neck.
A puddle runs out from under the car. He's let go his bowels or bladder or both.
The now-ex-cop keeps the knee on the neck.
(At this point we are WELL into civil rights violations for continuing to use potentially deadly force, on an unconscious, handcuffed man. He is openly unable to resist.)
One of the other officers holding the guy down, checks for a pulse, and tells Mr. Kneecap, hey, he doesn't have a pulse.
("Not having a pulse" is what laypeople, not trained law enforcement officials, call "dead.")
HE KEEPS HIS KNEE ON THE NECK FOR ANOTHER TWO MINUTES.
This is not a Zombie Movie. Men without a pulse don't suddenly grab your gun and shoot bystanders.
This is way the Hell over the line on unreasonable force.
It is also a blatant civil rights violation. Once you are in custody, the police have the legal responsibility for your bodily safety.
Keeping your knee on the neck of a man, who one of your fellow officers just told you doesn't have a pulse, and not even pretending to check for a pulse yourself, let alone performing CPR, FOR TWO FULL MINUTES, is a violation of civil rights. IT takes four minutes for brain death, you know.
He even at one point, brandishes a can of mace at a bystander who tries to approach to help.
As well as being an exact fit for what is called "Depraved Indifference." It is the key element in 3rd degree murder in Minnesota state law.
And it's all captured live on uncut video as it happens in real time, on a busy street, fro six feet away, in front of several (white) witnesses, too.
So blather all you want about Mike Brown, all you trolls on this and other threads.
This situation, and the evidence for it, are TOTALLY different.
“It’s that he was lying on his back in handcuffs, which triggers constitutional protections for the apprehending officers to be in a custodial role (”in custody”) towards his safety.”
Precisely!
This was filmed on multiple cameras. The police had him under control.
We will need to see how the fact that both men were bouncers at the same club impacts this case. (Something else funny going on here!)
Cameroon, eh? Well, I was close. LOL! It borders Nigeria.
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