Posted on 12/30/2014 3:47:47 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski
WASHINGTON, DC – If not for President Barack Obama’s bold, unexpected diplomatic breakthrough with Cuba, the last weeks of 2014 would have been relentlessly unkind to America. The deep flaws in our country’s justice system, the continuing racism in our society, and our government’s recent record of torture and abuse have been on display for the entire world to see.
The video of five police officers subduing and then killing a man, despite his pleas that he could not breathe, could have come from many countries around the world. But the killing of Eric Garner in New York City, like that of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, last summer and of 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland in November, reflect the heightened risk that young African-American men face at the hands of the police in many US cities. Indeed, according to one recent analysis, young African-American males are 21 times more likely than young white males to be fatally shot by the police...
(Excerpt) Read more at project-syndicate.org ...
BARF does not even suffice to describe this spewing of unmitigated idiocy. The first sentence alone makes it sound like this country is really the scourge of humanity. Which, I realize what the left does think of it. Still, this is hard to stomach.
The first paragraph alone, I should have typed....
America in Crisis
https://www.dropbox.com/s/iu92zs5gg2bwuy3/FIRE.avi?dl=0
the figures relative to “black” men being shot and killed far more often than “whites” has of course nothing to do with the CRIME STATS for either group ....
all these monkeys are interested in is rousing the rabble...and their naive and oh so foolish supporters.
I was paying a great deal of attention to some commentary I heard recently relative to the fist paragraph of this sort of article. It seems that most people...according to the speaker dont read beyond the headline and that first paragraph..
they assume that can get away with laying out the big lie..and walking away..
Quadruplesupernovabarfapaloozasquared.
Meanwhile in my city, black on black crime continues and the death rate grew in December. No marches. No op eds. No condemnation by Obama/Sharpton/Jackson
It also proves that achieving a so-called high level of education does not mean a person has been educated. Slaughter is a typical, liberal nincompoop put in positions she’s obviously unqualified for.
nothing worse than liberal white guilt masquerading as intellectualism
The welfare leviathan that the progressives have created is destroying the entire system...
What is this?
Agreed!
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