‘Best Xmas party of the year': #BlackLivesMatter Trashes Oakland

breitbart.com ^ | 12/26/2014 | Joel B. Pollak

[rktman]

Demonstrators participating in a Christmas Day “Black Lives Matter” protest in Oakland against police smashed store windows, injured a journalist, and vandalized the city’s main Christmas tree in Jack London Square in the latest violence associated with the movement.

[rrrod]

Before any start cheering for the cops remember this is OAKLAND CA. Not the most respected LEOs in the country....kinda like NOPD during/after Katrina.

[norton]

Pick up a history book.
Ghettos have existed across the ages and have produced vibrant & frequently prosperous societies. (L.A. before the Watts Riots, Harlem early in the 20th century, Warsaw before the Nazis, and so on).
People seek people like them just as much as people tend to marginalize or ostracize people not like them.
If you travel to Europe you'll find an expatriate American Community likely living within easy reach of one and another. When I lived in Asia I knew that I was in the American Ghetto, today we have freeway signs directing people to Little Tokyo, Korea Town, Cambodia Town, and of course, China Town.

You've never been to a German Town on the east coast??

The problem today is that ghettos and barrios no longer foster any kind of functional society: progressive politics make it far too profitable for some in the culture to encourage separatism & hostility to the detriment of the rest of that community.

[norton]

Sorry, I left out mention of the hoards of very white agitators bulking out the ranks “protesters” we get to watch nightly on TV news.

[norton]

Sorry, I left out mention of the hoards of very white agitators bulking out the ranks “protesters” we get to watch nightly on TV news.

[tomkat]

Well said, MHG.

It's vitally important that black Americans are distinguished from the feral thugs - of whatever color - that seem to want an actual war with the rest of us.

I truly empathize with the former, while holding nothing but utter contempt and a defcon mentality in regards the latter.

And yet, as with the muslim hordes, silence seems rather the rule than the exception.

Until that changes, there'll be no defusing of either powder keg, and the clock will continue to tick.

/.02

[MHGinTN]

I too feel that the rise of black radicalism can only be stopped and erased by the actions and lives of black Americans. I don’t count sharptoon or jackasson or hold’emup. or obarry Soetoro in that category. I do count Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell, Ben Carson, Sylvia Thompson, Walter Williams, and many other black Americans in that category capable of stopping the rise. But it will not be enough for these brave black fellow Americans to raise their voices if a majority of common everyday fellow black Americans do not endorse openly the sanity of such ignored leaders as Sylvia Thompson and Ben Carson.