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Posted on 08/17/2014 3:19:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The events in Missouri spring from America's deeply embedded segregation and black economic deprivation.
I spent my very early years in New York, living a very multiracial Sesame Street life, a big swinging bellbottom of a childhood. And then our family moved to Baltimore and the iron curtain of the "colour line" fell. I felt that I had moved from the 1970s through a time warp where black and white were the only two colours and never the twain shall socially meet.
I grew to understand what the 50s were actually like in Baltimore, when my mother, for example, was permitted to buy clothes from the major department store but not try them on. (Heaven forfend some black lady should be in the dressing room, right? You know they leave a residue of blackness on the clothes.)
America has never had one racial reality, but a series of them strung together from San Antonio to Pittsburgh to Appalachia. What we are seeing in Ferguson, Missouri, is the result of life in a specific type of heavily racialised zone. Yes, a city such as New York, where a black man was recently choked to death by police officers, has its own very clear forms of racialisation and it's a national issue. But the police killing, last week, of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teen in Ferguson has sparked national protests because it represents a specific type of racialisation. This is of the majority black city, big or small, with a white economic and political power structure.
I grew up with mayor William Donald Schaefer, who presided over Baltimore from 1971-1987, an unusually long stretch....
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The trouble in Ferguson has fired up the base for the Dems.
Expect more incidents between now and the elections.
They don’t want to go to Africa,the locals there have to work to survive.No government tit to suckle there.
The only flash points will be from armed citizens firearms if these crooks venture outside of the ghetto thinking that they will be able to loot and riot outside of the hood.
I don’t see white racism present in this case, but I see a great deal of lawlessness.
People forget the Ferguson Police Department working the protests the five days before the State Police took over did not kill or injure any protester. The restraint displayed is remarkable.
Yep, that’s what has happened everywhere. Trashed out neighborhoods, abandoned homes and buildings, graffiti, trashed out schools, crime, drugs, middle class and business flight. They’ve destroyed historic neighborhoods, buildings, business districts, schools.
Yet they still have all the excuses. Always somebody else’s fault, never theirs Even after all the disproportionate crime, abuse, laziness.
This will work to the advantage of those that are now fanning the race flames, and want to see BIG flash points for November and 2016. Actually, works well especially for 2016.
There will be a trial, it will now get national coverage. A sequestered jury, immersed in the evidence, finds the cop innocent. Further inflaming race riots, say around summer of 2015. Just in time for the fall 2016 campaign.
80% of AA women are obese.
Because white privilege.
We’re “privileged” to send them food stamps, WIC, government cheese, meals-on-wheels and food bank groceries?
“Is the shit about to hit the fan............ YET?...
It’s coming..”
And if it is the Free Sh$t Army that takes it national they are going to seriously outgunned.
It’s “Selma forever” for those who refuse to see any progress in the advancement of civil rights.
Here’s the deal. Big Mike would presumably still be walking around today, and this whole mess could have been avoided, if he would have: 1. paid for the damned cigarillos and 2. walked on the damned sidewalk, two simple acts that help contribute to a civilized society. I understand about racism and discrimination, but they are not all that are holding African-Americans back. Take my principle about simple acts that contribute to a civilized society and extend it to the whole gamut of personal and social behavior — education and work, marriage and family life, the kind of role models you follow, cultural influences — and there you have the beginnings of a solution to the problem.
Not to mention all the affirmative action!
Did you know government contracts give minority bidders a 5% advantage? You big $1,000,000 they can bid $1,049,999 and still be the “lowest bidder”.
One of the joys of being an expat is that I do not see black/afro people. I have seen maybe 3 in the last 5 years.
I left Memphis for the last time in 2005. I understand that it is now 60% black.
Farai
Pronunciation: Fur-eye
Meaning: Be happy
Origin: Zimbabwe
http://www.babynology.com/meaning-farai-m72.html
Chideya
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We went through Memphis in the 90’s on our way from Des Moines to Biloxi to visit my parents. We left our hotel to visit a nearby mall to buy swimsuits. We were the only white people in the entire mall, as far as I could tell.
I could also do that as a disabled veteran, unless they’ve eliminated that program.
In some ways yes, in many ways no. The narrative of Evil Whitey Is The Source Of All Black Problems has been a constant for the last fifty years for many black self-appointed spokespeople and intellectuals. Why do you think Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are still so popular? I would bet only a tiny percent of black adults know who Tom Sowell or Dr Ben Carson are. The capacity for blaming others for their problems is deep in the black community.
The truth is that it will push those who have had enough of these “flash points” to vote for those who are the most no nonsense rule of law folks and it will backfire big on those who want to fan the flames of division in 2014 and even more so in 2016.
But can she read/write cursive?
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