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The Coming Race War Won’t Be About Race
Time Magazine ^ | 16 Aug 14 | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Posted on 08/17/2014 5:18:21 PM PDT by SkyPilot

Ferguson is not just about systemic racism—it's about class warfare, and how America's poor are held back

ill the recent rioting in Ferguson, Missouri, be a tipping point in the struggle against racial injustice, or will it be a minor footnote in some future grad student’s thesis on Civil Unrest in the Early Twenty-First Century? More Feds Will Perform Another Autopsy on Michael Brown NBC NewsHungry Heroes: 25 Percent of Military Families Seek Food Aid NBC News'We Have Had Enough': Ferguson Rally Remembers Michael Brown NBC NewsFerguson Protesters Guard Stores From Looters Huffington PostWestboro Baptist Church's Plan To Protest Robin Williams' Funeral Thwarted By Love Huffington Post

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You probably have heard of the Kent State shootings: on May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard opened fire on student protesters at Kent State University. During those 13 seconds of gunfire, four students were killed and nine were wounded, one of whom was permanently paralyzed. The shock and outcry resulted in a nationwide strike of 4 million students that closed more than 450 campuses. Five days after the shooting, 100,000 protestors gathered in Washington, D.C. And the nation’s youth was energetically mobilized to end the Vietnam War, racism, sexism, and mindless faith in the political establishment.

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To: Biggirl
Come on that was photoshopped. Saw a woman on CNN that said so!!!
141 posted on 08/18/2014 5:07:52 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: SkyPilot

Okay, time to buy more ammo. I’m running low on 5.56


142 posted on 08/18/2014 5:13:13 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: Windflier

it’s a play on ebonics. Half Popeye and half nonsensical moron.


143 posted on 08/18/2014 5:17:55 AM PDT by jurroppi1 (The only thing you "pass to see what's in it" is a stool sample. h/t MrB)
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To: SkyPilot

Racial inequality is the direct result of racial laziness.

There are several subcultures that compose the black community and one of the most populous lacks the initiative to be effective members of society. The several successful elements belie the whines of those that chose not to coompete


144 posted on 08/18/2014 5:19:03 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: SkyPilot

I have plenty of ammo.


145 posted on 08/18/2014 6:44:52 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: SkyPilot
Now that is one true story of one town in this nation that happened just yesterday. What it represents to me is we have a great evil being committed in our nation. That was nothing but the torture of helpless elderly people based on race.

SHAMEFUL.
Letter to hospital president on what you witnessed.
Next time take a photo of it. DISGRACEFUL!

I hope there's a real warm eternal place for those who make the helpless suffer.

146 posted on 08/18/2014 6:47:19 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: boycott; Bernard Marx
The civil rights movement was hijacked by Communists

It's more accurate to say that the premises of what you call the "civil rights movement", once they were widely accepted by whites, created an opportunity for the communists that had not existed before.

No white people that I knew (though I was and I am a damn yankee) believed that, if the goals expressed by the CRM were enacted into law, that the condition of black America (expressed as a collective) would be radically worse in 2014 than they were in 1964. "Civil rights" has had FIFTY YEARS to work its magic, and the results are all around you.

Communists have obviously successfully exploited those results, but they did not create them.

147 posted on 08/18/2014 6:52:18 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: Le Chien Rouge

I grew up in the propaganda of “slavery is the reason” for the black’s plight. I see now that is not the case. It’s their own fault and I will not let myself or my kids take part in any guilt because of it.


148 posted on 08/18/2014 6:52:46 AM PDT by stevio (God, guns, guts.)
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To: Jim Noble

The original goal of the Civil Rights movement was equality of opportunity, regardless of skin color.

It became equality of outcome regardless of culture.


149 posted on 08/18/2014 6:53:42 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Jim Noble

“Civil rights” has had FIFTY YEARS to work its magic, and the results are all around you.


So true. One thing for certain is that the system is broken.


150 posted on 08/18/2014 6:58:14 AM PDT by boycott
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To: Jim Noble
Communists have obviously successfully exploited those results, but they did not create them.

History agrees with you.

It was not until the mid-seventies that the domestic Communist movement (Weathermen, SDS, etc.) concluded that violent action was getting them nowhere. A national conclave was called (in Chicago) and they agreed to pursue a different strategy of attacking from within the system. Infiltration of the education establishment, the media and the civil rights movement became paramount objectives.

Using the civil rights movement allowed them to employ disaffected blacks as surrogates for any violent action.

LBJ's War On Poverty created the conditions that allowed this strategy to flourish.

151 posted on 08/18/2014 7:03:39 AM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: Ignorance on parade.)
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To: Iron Munro

It’s a filthy koranimal too.


152 posted on 08/18/2014 7:12:38 AM PDT by bayouranger (Those who are anti-islam are a National Security Threat.- J.Brennan CIA Dir. Feb10)
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To: bert
The several successful elements belie the whines of those that chose not to coompete

I don't know how much of a choice it is.

153 posted on 08/18/2014 7:20:03 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: Jim Noble

There is not a single choice

There are a series of choices beginning at a very early age.

Some choose to take a path away from failure while others lazily just go with the disastrous flow.

The fact there are many that succeed belies the fact that all are doomed to fate


154 posted on 08/18/2014 7:24:04 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: bert
The fact there are many that succeed belies the fact that all are doomed to fate

Yes, that at least is true. W.E.B. Dubois' "talented tenth" were horribly disadvantaged and unfairly held back by legal segregation.

But it is also true that, in a high school where the average IQ is 80-85 (and there are many of them) mandating an academic curriculum including Algebra II and algebraic geometry, with outcomes measured by external validators, is cruel and unusual. That those subjected to "competition" in a system designed for an IQ range of 100-110 don't do well, and develop antisocial behaviors (aggression in males, pregnancy in females) is no surprise.

An otherwise fit 16 year old boy with an IQ of 80 does not "choose not to compete" in Algebra II, and telling him that he's "free" to engage in such a competition is a lie, and what's worse is, he knows it.

The dysfunctional "urban" culture doesn't "cause" school failure, but rather is caused BY school failure. Certainly you would agree that the emergence of this culture AFTER African-American students were made "free" suggests cause and effect.

And there is no evidence that African-American boys and young men abhor competition - far from it.

If you took the top 10% of white high school math students and sent them into a pre-NBA basketball teen league to compete, and you made them stay even after they wanted to leave (by law), and then you judged and scored them in one-on-one drills against the top African-American athletes, and when they didn't win you called them "failures", they would, I imagine, be angry.

155 posted on 08/18/2014 7:39:04 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: SkyPilot

What’s with the yellow box?
Is that a poor attempt at a SpongeBob costume?


156 posted on 08/18/2014 7:40:34 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (Your feelings don't trump my free speech!)
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To: junta
The media should be considered combatants.

The media are the top-priority targets.

They are FIRST.

157 posted on 08/18/2014 7:47:22 AM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
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To: SkyPilot

You can’t achieve peace and unity by preaching hatred and division. Reap, sow and all that.


159 posted on 08/18/2014 7:51:47 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (I'd use the /S tag but is it really necessary?)
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To: VerySadAmerican

“equality” is part of the problem. “leaders” preaching that it’s ok to hate someone who has more than you, that taking from someone who has more than you is righteous, is another part of it.


160 posted on 08/18/2014 7:55:20 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (I'd use the /S tag but is it really necessary?)
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