Farai Chideya is an author, broadcaster, and the Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University's Journalism Institute.
Farai Chideya is an author, broadcaster, and the Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University's Journalism Institute.
Ferguson won’t be the last flash point
Does she think this scares us? I am not intimidated.
When folks like this say “we have so far to go on race”....they do not mean in a positive direction.
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.
80% of AA women are obese.
Because white privilege.
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.
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.
“Later still, the local police chief was removed as primary responder, but he still managed to muddy the waters (which the Brown family calls character assassination) by first releasing video of a black robber and then admitting it had nothing to do with Brown’s shooting.”
It had a great deal to do with the shooting, as every sane person knows.
“He [Obama] could have tackled the unacceptable level and variety of unwarranted stops, searches and frisking of black men in particular. For bonus points, he could have gotten into black incarceration rates or, as author Michelle Alexander puts it, the “New Jim Crow”.”
He could have also pointed out the gross disparity in crime rates, with roughly 3% of the population (black men between 15 & 40) committing nearly half of all murders - and 90% of the time, against other blacks.
“In any case, shoplifting is not supposed to be punishable by death.”
No one shot him over stealing. He was shot while attacking a police officer, or at worst, immediately afterward by the man he tried to kill.
But then, the real racism in America is the liberal refusal to discuss race honestly. If a cop ever shoots a [white / Asian] guy dead, do you think either either community will burn buildings and rob stores? Do you think the President will launch a racial discrimination case and send 40 FBI agents, or order a new autopsy?
The real racism in America is refusing the face the failure of blacks to police their own, starting with marrying a man before having kids by him.
Now, for extra credit, guess what? History is repeating itself. The progress made socially is being rapidly eroded by grievance pimps and hucksters who cry 'racism' rather than admit that some of the people who look like them (superficially) are bad people or do bad things and will suffer the consequences of their acts. Failure to recognize that is a sort of 'racism', too, and I have never seen that fostered like I have during this administration.
The folks who don't look like you are sick sh*tless of being blamed for the shortcomings of your community, are tired of being hunted on the streets they pay for, are pissed that their children have to work twice as hard to get an opening in a college--which they have to PAY for, while set-asides and scholarships (and even jobs) are reserved for someone with more melanin.
I know I'm done feeling guilty, if I ever did. I have given anyone the same basic respect due any human being in my life, and where you go from there is up to you.
Throw cherry picked social situations at me from a limited experience base (I'm a great-grandfather) and I'll spit the pits back at you.
Somebody 6'6" and nearly 300 lbs comes charging down on your a$$ saying 'I'm gonna f*** you up!', you'd bust some caps in the SOB, too--and the last thing you'd care about is what color they are.
The author complains about segregation but her solution seems to be a call for segregation of communities into 'black' and 'white' communities. And, discrimination against hiring whites in black communities. Should the 30% white citizens move out, too?? We want black mayors but we want white 'economic structure' to pay our way?
What about 30 years from now when Ferguson has slowly shifted again to an Asian or Israeli or Hispanic population? Can the new population 'remove' the blacks? Has anyone told this galpal that she lives in an Anglo-Saxon nation that celebrates diversity?
some people
Oh, God.
Imagine a world without sniveling, whining minorities.
I know it can’t happen, but just imagine.
As long as there are race baiters, there will be racism.
She needs to live in Chicago.
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Conversation states that furgie bumrushed the officer when he was told to freeze
Lets write an article about maybe how you should pull up your pants, go to school regularly, study very hard and get a useful education. Don't get a degree in air hockey or sociology or journalism. Go for something challenging like engineering or computer science. Avail yourself to what America is already offering you.
Lets continue the article about acting like a responsible, dignified person. Being poor or past racial injustice is no excuse for being a thug/criminal. There are millions of poor people around the world. They don't sit on their rear ends feeling entitled, and going around being a thug. Respect has to be earned. Preceptions are changed when you change them yourself. You cannot force new preceptions on other people. Looting and pillaging is not the way to earn respect whether it is done in your own neighborhood or someone else's.
The rest of America is already paying for a lot of free stuff. For once they would like to save a bit of money for their own children. After all, scholarships are not readily available to them. They would like to send their children who have worked very hard and earned great grades to a good college, but college seats are limited for them. Yet they don't perpetually whine or go on a rampage. They just work very hard and do the best they can.
The article is wrong. America has gone too far on race. Affirmative action and 70+ welfare programs have given minorities a sense of entitlement. We have told them they do not need to work, they do not need to study, there there we will take care of you.
Stop.
Cut the umbilical cord. The best thing this country can do is to push people back out to the work force. No more preferential treatment. No more coddling in the schools.
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You do the crime you do the time.
Maybe once they start taking care of themselves instead of expecting more and more from everybody else, they will EARN something to be proud of.
Farai is a fat ass, loud mouth bigot. If she thinks America has far to go she’d love anywhere else in the world. Western Europe, Russia(Russians HATE blacks) Asia, South America. She wouldn’t last a day in any of these countries, not with her attitude.