Posted on 08/16/2014 5:29:57 PM PDT by mandaladon
MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry devoted much of her show Saturday to the fatal shooting of Michael Brown and the unrest that has followed in Ferguson, Missouri. But perhaps the most moving part of her broadcast came when she looked at the hundreds of other unarmed black men who are killed by police every year.
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Harris-Perry began by solemnizing reading off just some of the names of those men before arriving at Michael Brown. “In the past decade alone, these men and hundreds of others have lost their lives to police,” she said.
She cited a recent story that said local police report to the FBI the killing of at least 400 people per year. “From 2006 to 2012, a white police officer killed a black person at least twice a week in this country,” Harris-Perry said.
Harris-Perry drew a parallel between the current situation in Ferguson and the Dred Scott case of 1857 that originated in nearby St. Louis. Scott sued the United States for his freedom, but was rejected by the Supreme Court. In his decision, Chief Justice Roger Taney said he had “no rights which the white man was bound to respect.”
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I hope she will be fair and balanced and also do a tribute to police officers killed by black men.
>>Melissa Harris-Perry. Raised in an upper middle class Mormon home and has at least a six-figure salary. She’s down with the struggle cuz she knows first-hand about OHpreshun!
She has to deal with oppression that you and I can’t imagine. It’s horrible things like the guy at the shoe store saying that they don’t have the shoe she wants in her size. She knows that he’s just saving that pair for some white lady. Or when the barista at Starbucks doesn’t call her ma’am. She knows that he’d call her ma’am if she was a blonde. Oh yeah. There’s racism everywhere...if you just look for it! Sometimes you have look really hard...and imagine some stuff. But its there. It’s just like getting lynched, I tell ya.
Cue the “let den touch nice tings” alert.
Of the 729 arrest-related shooting deaths in 2009, 340 were white, 218 were black and 130 were hispanic (the rest were asian or unknown).
Based on these figures, I could just as easily spin that whites are over 50% more likely to be killed by police than blacks.
Marxists need to keep the races hating each other or they won’t need a larger gummit.
Pray America wakes up
For some strange reason the CHP officer never tried to shoot me.
You must be special.
And how many Black men are being killed by OTHER Black men???
It’s that simple.
Yet no tribute to the innocent who are murdered in Chicago everyday, including children..but hey, its MSNBC, they can give a rats ass when blacks are killed as long as they are killed by other blacks, then its some strange rite of passage..but when its the other way around oh my nothing but outrage..Meanwhile, an elderly woman was beaten by two black men, not a peep from the oh so caring media
Was Melissa wearing the tampons in her ears? Just wondering.
I have no idea, Id rather get an enema than watch MSLSD..but that chick has serious daddy issues
Was she wearing her tampon earrings?
Partisan Media Shills at Mediaite eulogizing a Partisan Media Shill on the MediaShillsNBC network. Thanks mandaladon.
There were 726 homicides committed in 2011 alone with hands, fists and feet, Missy.
A 6’4” 292-pound documented violent thug like Saint Michael would be more than willing and capable of killing a cop with his bare hands and Air Jordans.
Re: “90% of Black murders are perpetrated by other Blacks and only 8% by whites.”
The 8% “white” number is very misleading.
The FBI includes “white” and “Hispanic” murderers in the same category.
Thus, when a Hispanic gang banger murders a Black gang banger, the FBI says that is a “white” person murdering a Black person.
I have seen her show. Probably the dumbest person on PMSNBC.
- 90% of all murders of barack men are committed by barack men - Attorney Gerneral Eric Holder’s FBI/DOJ Uiform Crime Report stats….
- Watch your back Beery Husein Ebola Junior -
And that includes 2012:
When the psycho in Connecticut murdered 26 adults and school children with a semi-automatic rifle.
And the psycho in Denver, who murdered 12 in a movie theater, most of them with a rifle that jammed.
I detest that woman.
Woe is we.
I'm guessing, but I'll go with ZERO
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