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A Very Scary Situation (race relations)
The American Spectator ^ | December 10, 2014 | Ben Stein

Posted on 12/10/2014 10:10:52 AM PST by reaganaut1

A disturbing conversation with one of my smartest, most astute friends who is from a border state but has been observing race relations for a long time now. He is white. He is definitely idiosyncratic. This, in paraphrase, is what he said:

“I keep reading in the newspapers and seeing in the mainstream media how angry blacks are at whites over the Trayvon Martin case, the Ferguson case and the Staten Island case. And what the media is missing is that as angry as the blacks are at the whites, that’s how angry many — not all — whites are at the blacks. Blacks ask for reparations for slavery and Jim Crow, as if paying today’s twenty-year-old crack addict had anything to do with his ten times removed grandfather being a slave or could make any difference at all to the soul of that slave.

“What I wonder is when white people are going to start asking black people for reparations for wrecking the public schools, for destroying urban life in many cities, for the insanely disproportionate share of armed robberies, homicides, and rapes they commit? When are black people going to pay reparations for putting the whole nation in fear?”

I heard this from a man about my age and I would chalk it up to one person’s oddness except that I hear words a bit like these constantly these days from white people.

Except during the era of school busing in the seventies, I have never heard or seen whites so angry at blacks. Al Sharpton has done what he set out to do and so has Eric Holder. They have fanned the flames of racial anger to a white hot pitch.

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I wonder if Ben Stein's "astute friend" is Ben Stein.
1 posted on 12/10/2014 10:10:52 AM PST by reaganaut1
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To: reaganaut1
They have fanned the flames of racial anger to a white hot pitch.

He said "white". Not allowed. Racist. Privileged.

2 posted on 12/10/2014 10:16:19 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: reaganaut1
“What I wonder is when white people are going to start asking black people for reparations

for wrecking the public schools,

for destroying urban life in many cities,

for the insanely disproportionate share of armed robberies, homicides, and rapes they commit?

When are black people going to pay reparations

for putting the whole nation in fear?”

Broken up for MY viewing ease

EXCELLENT question

3 posted on 12/10/2014 10:17:30 AM PST by knarf
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To: reaganaut1
Well, I'll admit I'm pissed. This feels exactly like the late 60's. Liberals are attacking the institutions that make us safe, the police, military, CIA. Then they support the lawbreakers. We have race riots once again and liberal whites pretending to be black. Given what's happening in New York, I fully expect it will return to the lawlessness of the Dinkins era. Chicago already seems to be there.

I expected Obama would be a rerun of the awful 70's, but now they are going all out to make it much, much worse.

4 posted on 12/10/2014 10:17:31 AM PST by colorado tanker
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To: reaganaut1
It's all intended to cause race riots, the solution for which will be a national police force and suspension of habeas corpus.

Gestapo, anyone?

5 posted on 12/10/2014 10:17:44 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
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To: reaganaut1

I am Ben Stein’s astute friend.


6 posted on 12/10/2014 10:17:45 AM PST by Jedidah
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To: reaganaut1

“What I wonder is when white people are going to start asking black people for reparations for wrecking the public schools, for destroying urban life in many cities, for the insanely disproportionate share of armed robberies, homicides, and rapes they commit? When are black people going to pay reparations for putting the whole nation in fear?”

And that is not only true in the U.S.A. It is across the board, around the world, into every country/society where they have been allowed to emigrate, to say nothing of what is still happening in Africa.


7 posted on 12/10/2014 10:17:58 AM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian, political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I do?)
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To: reaganaut1
“What I wonder is when white people are going to start asking black people for reparations for wrecking the public schools, for destroying urban life in many cities, for the insanely disproportionate share of armed robberies, homicides, and rapes they commit? When are black people going to pay reparations for putting the whole nation in fear?”

HAH! I'm loving this.

Good for Ben.

8 posted on 12/10/2014 10:18:32 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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Could be, but there are many millions that would nod their heads in agreement. It wasn’t just Olympic hopefuls and clay pigeon shooters who bought all those firearms the last seven or eight years.


9 posted on 12/10/2014 10:18:52 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: reaganaut1

Pray.

I think he makes a great suggestion and as a God knowing individual, I have spoken to God a lot about this. I used to pray to God as a child to fix race relations.

Unfortunate that their community organizers have to keep Blacks on the plantation otherwise Al Sharpton would have to get a real job.

But to pray for peaceful outcomes hang on be right back....LOL

But I think it is a good idea.


10 posted on 12/10/2014 10:19:31 AM PST by Uversabound (Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts


11 posted on 12/10/2014 10:19:55 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: reaganaut1

I hope Ben has good security.


12 posted on 12/10/2014 10:21:23 AM PST by defconw (If not now, WHEN?)
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To: reaganaut1

Sounds like “The Derb” (as in y shire)


13 posted on 12/10/2014 10:22:23 AM PST by nevergiveup (When in Rome, speak Roman.)
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To: reaganaut1

He is.


14 posted on 12/10/2014 10:22:30 AM PST by Argus
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To: Servant of the Cross

I think Ben Stein’s astute friend lives in the border state of California. Maybe he is Ben Stein.


15 posted on 12/10/2014 10:23:42 AM PST by forgotten man
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To: reaganaut1
I grew up in the 60's and 70's, with the Civil Rights Act going on and I was raised by parents that totally embraced Martin Luther King's dream of judging people by their character and not skin color, so that has always been my worldview.

As an adult, I've been burned a number of times as a manager when I treated poor performing blacks the same as I treated poor performing whites.

And, in the last ten years I've been shocked to learn how widespread and deep is the hatred blacks have for whites. With all that hatred, sensitivity to any perceived slight and random acts of violence against whites, I now generally avoid any blacks that I don't know personally, not out of prejudice but as a matter of safety.

16 posted on 12/10/2014 10:24:40 AM PST by Teotwawki (For a person to get a thing without paying for it, another must pay for it without getting it.)
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To: reaganaut1

They want reparations.

Trust me, we’re paying.


17 posted on 12/10/2014 10:25:27 AM PST by ryan71 (The Partisans)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There will be an E.O. for gun confiscation. That will be the first mission of Obola’s domestic army.


18 posted on 12/10/2014 10:26:25 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That only works if enough people fear and respect the State to follow their orders.

We are honestly past that. Which may be a very bad thing.

The State can no longer maintain order, and those in power have no wish to. People are viewing themselves as members of a different group rather than as Americans first.

In other words, we are unraveling.


19 posted on 12/10/2014 10:27:48 AM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: redgolum
Why do you think all those MRAPS have been staged with police departments throughout the country?

I'm not sure how much good a handgun is against them.

Waco will be the model for how they go about it.

20 posted on 12/10/2014 10:29:31 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
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