The author is in denial. Sounds like the regular people have it right. Comments at the article certainly don't agree with her.
Had a acquaintance who was a professional black woman and she was very strict about making her kids dress properly.
I read the article. The author TRIED to pinpoint the problem. She TRIED to offer solutions.
But she failed.
With crap like this; no one can take her seriously....
Clark went even further. “No one treats African-Americans worse than we treat each other,” he said. “We were outraged when George Zimmerman killed a black boy, but Zimmerman was taught by watching black people kill black people. He learned it from us. We planted the seed.”
It was a sentiment I heard again and again in Ferguson: Yes, the largely white police force acted egregiously
I stopped reading at the word “rapper”.
This is so profoundly psychopathological it’s scary.
It starts one way, veers another, then head straight off the ultra-Marxist cliff.
In my day, looting actually meant something
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3195069/posts
****Michael Brown, the unarmed black 18-year-old****
He was not unarmed - he had two massive arms and, if the reports on the police officer’s orbital fracture are accurate - Brown used his weapons first.
It seems to me blacks can do one of two things—
1. continue to blame everyobody else for their situation (a strategy which hasn’t worked one bit)
2. or they can take an honest look at themselves, admit their problems are primarily only ones they can solve, and try to do that.
>> No amount of grooming changed the fact that he was a black man in America.
Sucks to be black in America. That’s what I’m hearing.
Slavery was a really, really, really stupid idea. That is a hard truth. America screwed up messing around with it. Slavery was (and is) immoral and evil.
Now, a couple thought questions: how much better off would America be now, if we had never been so short-sighted as to import blacks and enslave them?
~AND~
How would the average African-American have fared, over history, if we had never brought their ancestors over to this country and they therefore ended up born and raised in Africa?
Things that make you go, “hmmmmmm...”
They still equate acting civilized with acting white. So long as they demand that the civilized majority accept criminality as being no more than cultural differences to be accepted, even celebrated, they will be regarded as barbarians by civilized people of all ethnicities.
If that were the rule as once it was, the riots wouldn't even start for the most part. Every generation there would be one or two rioters somewhere shot breaking through store windows. That would end it for another generation. To the Left, though, it is more humane that many be killed in huge riots with many millions of dollars of property destruction every couple of years than that one looter get shot.
Yeah and how much is a young boy going to learn about being a good man from an irresponsible single baby momma on welfare?
Zero, Zip, nada, nothing.
African American, meet Chinese People, now still feel like no one would treat you worse? Didn’t think so.
In America,if you behave and dress in a civilized manner, you get treated in a civilized manner, no matter what your race. If you don’t, your treatment may be different.
blacks play knockout, others play shootout
What a genius.
True for Muslims too.
Blacks think they are the only ones who ever get pulled over by the police but they are wrong.
They say they are stereotyped, but every stereotype is based on some truths.
Blacks do commit a disproportionally large percentage of crime - especially young black males.
If they don’t want people to be suspicious of them they could clean their act up, stop acting like criminals and stop being criminals.
If black adults spent less of their time wailing about racist whites and being stereotyped by police, and more of their time building families with a mother and a father, and raising their own children to be good, honest citizens their world would change for the better.
Blacks live in a world they create and perpetuate.
Unless black people are in our faces, knocking us out, stealing money from us or burning down stores we don't think about them much.
Does Julia Ioffe care how American Indians live? Do she and her friends discuss American Indians at the dinner table? Or how they dress? Their oppression? Probably not.
We're the same.
Race is discussed here at FreeRepublic because it's political. But in my real life it's almost never discussed. Can Julia Ioffe say the same?
Trailer trash has no color. If you act like trailer trash, you’ll be treated like trailer trash.