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If Eric Garner Were White (His death would be a Tea Party crusade.)
The Atlantic ^ | DEC 4 2014, 10:08 AM ET | PETER BEINART

Posted on 12/05/2014 2:29:57 AM PST by granada

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To: granada
Imagine that Eric Garner had been white. Imagine that he’d been living in Idaho. Imagine that the law-enforcement officers who killed him had been federal agents.

Imagine that Julio Inglesias was a small asian girl. Imagine that he lived on a planet made of armpit hair. Imagine that he was killed by a yellow dragon.

(Eric Garner was killed by the nannystate.)

21 posted on 12/05/2014 3:30:30 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: granada

The fact IS there are LOT of white Garners.
This is NOT a race issue as racialist prostitutes like Sharpeton would have you believe. It’s an ENDEMIC abuse of power issue by the increasingly militarized and elitist police which threatens ALL Americans REGARDLESS of race. If it can happen to Garner it can happen to ANYONE.


22 posted on 12/05/2014 3:30:33 AM PST by ZULU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qLDFiQcjlY Impeach Obama in 2015 !!!)
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To: granada
Here's a list of white people killed by blacks during June and part of July earlier this year:

7/18- Jimmie Norman, white male murdered by black male. No national news.
7/18- Terry Taylor, white male murdered by black male. No national news.
7/17- Cindy Raygoza, white female murdered by black male. No national news.
7/11- Luis Aguilar, 91 year old hispanic male murdered by black male. No national news.
7/10- Brittany Simpson, white female murdered by black male. No national news.
7/6- Sarah Goode, white female murdered by black male. No national news.
7/6- Jeffrey Westerfield, white male murdered by black male. No national news.
7/5- Perry Renn, white male murdered by black male. No national news.
7/3- Laurey Kennedy, white female still in coma from beating by black male. No national news.
7/3 Eric Mollet, white male murdered by black male. No national news.
7/2 Rupert Anderson, white male murdered by black male. No national news.
7/2 Jennifer Kingeter, white female murdered by black male. No national news.
6/30 Jim Brennan, white male, murdered by black male. No national news.
6/29 Paul Shephard, white male, murdered by black male. No national news.
6/27 Shirley Barone, white female, murdered by black male. No national news.
6/27 Penelope Spencer, white female, murdered by black male. No national news.
6/27 Inga Evans, white female, murdered by black male. No national news.
6/26 Jake Rameau, white male, murdered by black male. No national news.
6/25 Gina Burger, white female, murdered by black male. No national news.
6/24 Nathan Dasher, white male, murdered by black male. No national news.
6/22 Jonathan Price, white male, murdered by black male. No national news.
6/20 John Whitmore, white male, murdered by black male. No national news.
6/18 John Yingling,white male, murdered by black male. No national news.
6/17 Allyn Reeves, white male, murdered by black male. No national news.
6/15 Michael Beaver, white male, murdered by black male. No national news.
6/12 Angela Cook, white female, murdered by black male. No national news.
6/11 Nathan Hall, white male, murdered by black male. No national news.
6/7 Harry Briggs, white male, murdered by black male. No national news.
6/5 Laura Bachman, white female, murdered by black male. No national news.
6/2 Robert Mohler, white male, murdered by black male. No national news.
6/1 William Headley, white male, murdered by black male. No national news.

(From a poster at 'Twitchy'.)

...so WHERE are the white riots? Especially from the Tea Party? Oh...none of these black murderers were black cops.

Got it.

23 posted on 12/05/2014 3:31:58 AM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: granada

To the author, not to you: imagine you are an idiot. Imagine you are a member of Congress. But I repeat myself!


24 posted on 12/05/2014 3:32:34 AM PST by 22202NOVA (Tagline? I don't need no stinking tagline!)
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To: Yardstick

I like your summation.


25 posted on 12/05/2014 3:37:00 AM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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To: granada

What a crock. Cops kill way more whites than blacks. If he were white, it wouldn’t even make the evening news.


26 posted on 12/05/2014 3:43:35 AM PST by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: Travis McGee
Eric Garner who sold untaxed cigarettes was choked to death by police 2 months after Mayor Bill de Blasio instructed the NYPD to aggressively police untaxed cigarette sales.
27 posted on 12/05/2014 3:47:19 AM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (Obama - "I will stand with the Muslims")
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To: RC one

He died because he had the sickle cell gene, which causes that sort of choking maneuver to have a high fatality rate, causing that sort of choke hold to be banned by most departments. The intent is to take down, not kill, but the result is death.


28 posted on 12/05/2014 3:50:22 AM PST by Ingtar (Is this the Ebola and rumors of Ebola mentioned in the Bible?)
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To: granada

Rush Limbaugh went off on the stupidity of sending a half-dozen cops to roust some jamoke for selling single cigarettes. So did Greg Gutfeld on “The Five”. And Limbaugh also pointed out that nobody seemed bothered that apparently deBlasio’s NYC regime has decided to crack down hard on black market smokes.

The difference is neither started with a default position of victimology; neither said anything that could remotely be considered a justification of rioting; and both recognized that nothing would’ve happened if the perp hadn’t insisted on resisting arrest.

But I guess the pinheads at the Atlantic were just distracted by all the TeaParty-inspired rioting we’ve seen over the past half-decade.


29 posted on 12/05/2014 3:55:55 AM PST by Stosh
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To: granada

This is a straw man argument being used by O’Reilly and Fox talking heads too, allowing them to appear moderate, while insinuating that conservatives are on the side of the cop. I dont know any conservative who believes what the cop did was appropriate. Maybe some ex cops on Fox but that’s it.

Most on the right think it is an issue of police overreach and the unintended consequences of big government (high taxed cigs). But it’s been hijacked by the race hustlers so its become an issue of racism. And conservatives are on the sidelines now basically watching the clown show led by Obama and Sharpton.


30 posted on 12/05/2014 4:01:21 AM PST by nhwingut (This tagline for lease)
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To: granada
His death would be a Tea Party crusade.

Does he really think that tea party would be burning down businesses, looting and hammering people to death? These are the methods of blacks and other liberals not the Tea Party.

Tea Party people are decent and law abiding. Comparing them to the dregs of society is just wrong.

31 posted on 12/05/2014 4:05:41 AM PST by Graybeard58 (V.33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. Corinthians 10:)
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To: granada

The atlantic is slick-looking and thinks it’s sophisticated. But it’s a liberal rag and worthless.


32 posted on 12/05/2014 4:08:52 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: granada

What a steaming pile of BS from a leftist hack.


33 posted on 12/05/2014 4:09:58 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Good to hear. I will add that there’s quite a bit of disagreement between conservatives about the actions of the police as one can see right here on FR. However, the idea that we’d be rallying around Eric Garner as some kind of Clive Bundy figure if he were white, as Beinart is attempting to claim, is nonsense.


34 posted on 12/05/2014 4:10:18 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: Slings and Arrows
Welcome to Leftist Reality.

I've decided to adopt the black/liberal reasoning in cases like this, based entirely on skin color and since I am a "privileged" white man, if he's white, he's innocent and pure as the driven snow, if he's black, hang him high.

35 posted on 12/05/2014 4:10:54 AM PST by Graybeard58 (V.33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. Corinthians 10:)
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To: granada

The death would have never been heard about. This is just another racist liberal.

Pray America is waking


36 posted on 12/05/2014 4:16:43 AM PST by bray (Palin/Perry 16 two Ps in a pod)
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To: Ingtar

I would be very curious to see any evidence to support that.


37 posted on 12/05/2014 4:16:49 AM PST by RC one (Militarized law enforcement is just a politically correct way of saying martial law enforcement.)
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To: granada
"His death would be a Tea Party crusade."

No, the story about his death would not be printed anywhere in the New York Times, never mind on the first page. The Tea Party wouldn't even put down their collective coffee cup hearing about it.

"Morbidly obese uncolored man dies while resisting arrest" is a headline that will never be printed. It doesn't matter if the arrest was for selling untaxed cigarettes or unpaid parking tickets. Statistically, uncolored people are much less likely to do stuff that will get them arrested, and much less likely to resist arrest if they are arrested.

38 posted on 12/05/2014 4:19:02 AM PST by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: granada

If Garner was white, or the cop black, we’d never have heard their names. Racial injustice is currently, by practical definition, only when certain racial identities are aligned. Like everything the liberals touch, it’s about politics to the absolute exclusion of everything else.


39 posted on 12/05/2014 4:26:10 AM PST by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: granada

Mark Levin says that the cop that instructed this was a black female sergeant. She was the one in charge. No news outlet is reporting this.


40 posted on 12/05/2014 4:30:16 AM PST by albie
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