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
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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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The civil rights movement was hijacked by Communists in the guise of the New Left.
So true.
It is no different than Muslims holding Muslims back and blaming Israel.
You mean Lewi Alcinder?
No, it won’t fizzle out. They are getting what they want. Politicians and the media are falling all over themselves to give them whatever they want. There are no consequences to their lawlessness. This has nothing to do with justice. These people are terrorists and extortionists, and I’m tired of a riot being called a protest.
If this kind of crap gets near my store, the crowd will have to crawl over bodies to advance.
I’m on SSD right now and I don’t (and never did) think that welfare is something that only the worthless are on. As I’ve been on SSD I’ve been turning a huge part of my life around and working on a lot of gaps in my development that were missed because of a problematic upbringing and the failure to recognize the influence of a lot of problematic people in my life (my bio mom being one of them).
A mob is no more an army than a pile of bricks is a house.
Lew, you ignorant slut.
They will be by some.
All men are created equal, but the end result is never the same. Is implied, but people are stupid enough not to read between the lines.
One thing the founders did wrong was underestimate that technological advance breeds stupidity. Or in other words, the more people with a voice that there are the stupidest of voices reach the masses.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.
Seems that this article pretty much misses the basket.
"Then we’ll argue about whether there isn’t just as much black-against-white racism in the U.S. as there is white-against-black. (Yes, there is. But, in general, white-against-black economically impacts the future of the black community. Black-against-white has almost no measurable social impact.)"
Kareem waves his hands and glosses over the sins of the black community, and highlights perceived sins against blacks.
We could emphasize the tremendous disparity of how blacks rob, murder, and assault whites. We could also discuss the horrible crime of rape.
According to DOJ statistics, there were 35,000 white women raped by blacks in one year, and nine (9!) black women raped by white men.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ad7_1336230731
But let's discuss something that came up at dinner with another couple we know very well. My friend is a nurse (she is white) at an adult care center. Most of the patients are white, and many of the orderlies and people who work there are black.
Yesterday, she was visibly shaken, to the point of tears. We asked her, and she told us horror stories. She said patients were being abused and neglected. One old white man was crawling with insects, including a centipede and maggots. The nurse was horrified, and immediately attended to the poor man. Right afterwards, she was approached in the hallway by an old woman with Alzheimer's who collapsed in her arms crying, pleading "Please help me!" Her linens were soiled and she was dehydrated. Then she found a man covered in his own feces, who had been screaming and pleading for help.
She went into the "break room" and there were several black orderlies gathered there, eating piles of take out Popeye's, playing on the cell phones, and laughing at the plight of the patients that they refused to help. They even brought up the Ferguson riots in the course of their conversation.
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.
To a degree, the same thing was happening at the VA. A good friend died of cancer a few years ago. The Houston VA is loaded with blacks on the payroll and many of them don’t give a damn about helping whites. In fact, they don’t want to be bothered by their white patients.
Your friend has a responsibility to these elderly patients. She should take photos, record conversations (if legal in that state), and document everything. She should then go to the head of that organization or to the governing body. If they don’t respond by firing a lot of people, they should take it to the media. Most adult care facilities are big money makers. They wouldn’t want to lose their license, get sued, or have bad publicity.
The truth is so many blacks are full of hate. I have seen it in so many.
This is what obamacare will bring on a large scale. If older people today think that the youth will take care of them when they are elderly and unable to care for themselves, they are in for a rude awakening.
No, because the Republican Party will knock him/her off if they try.
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