Posted on 05/02/2015 11:57:52 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Aghast at the sight of the Baltimore riot, I struggled for days to find meaning in what appeared senseless. I searched history for answers, discovering that what's happening through the protests and riots of African Americans throughout the country is similar to the "Arab Spring" that occurred in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria and Bahrain. Are we on the cusp of an "African American Spring" akin the Arab Spring? Perhaps.
The Arab Spring was an "awakening" of long-held yearnings for equality led mainly by young, disenfranchised citizens. It began as popular uprisings in the form of local protests, riots, social media campaigns and, eventually, military strikes against oppressive rule that spread transnationally. While the uprisings had precipitating factors, such as we have here with the police killings of unarmed black men and boys, they were linchpins rather than causes of the Arab Spring. The cause was freedom from oppression. America viewed the Arab Spring as the people legitimately raising their voices in pursuit of democratic ideals such as freedom.
Like the Arab Spring, people in Sanford, Ferguson and Baltimore did not riot for the black men killed. They were waging a legitimate insurrection against racial oppression affecting their own lives--poverty, lack of opportunity and mistreatment by law enforcement--that may be the cusp of an "African American Spring." But we have a difficult time accepting these "raised voices" because we are conditioned to dismiss black rage....
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...
We can only hope.
I dispute the idea that the Democrats oppress blacks.
The Democrats give stuff to the blacks they would never get otherwise, and their loyalty in return is perfectly logical.
Poor idiots; it is the Springtime of the immigrant. How many times has Obama done an executive action for you?
He omits the real crime perpetrated against blacks for the last decades (and one that is increasingly being perpetrated against whites): The lack of an education despite years of “school”; that leads into all of the other (crime, unemployment, drug use, etc.).
Great post.
Well, clearly that's the fault of the whites for not piling more billions into the cesspool.
Gates is an over-credentialed idiot for the need to research this problem.
They burn thier own house down this is fine
“According to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund 682 law enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty in the past five years in the United States. That averages out to over 136 dead law enforcement officers each year.
Here are the numbers:
2010 – 161
2911 – 171
2012 – 126
2013 – 107
2014 – 117
Conversely, on average, there were 96 black males who are killed by white police officers each year – and another 300 white males who are killed by police officers according to FBI statistics.
USA Today reported:
Nearly two times a week in the United States, a white police officer killed a black person during a seven-year period ending in 2012, according to the most recent accounts of justifiable homicide reported to the FBI.
On average, there were 96 such incidents among at least 400 police killings each year that were reported to the FBI by local police.
Then there’s this… There were 431 black killers of “whites” in 2014, compared to 193 “white” killers of blacks while blacks make up only 13% of the national population. There were approximately 6,000 black on black murders last year.
Remember this the next time the liberal media or some far left crank tries to persuade you there is an epidemic of black men being slaughtered by white cops.”
Read more: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com#ixzz3YpgAXKRH
http://www.nleomf.org/facts/officer-fatalities-data/year.html
Poverty: Their own making, over an amount of $22,000,000,000,000
Lack of Opportunity:
Because education is acting White and so is refused. If followed, their advantages far outweigh everyone’s-including my own experience
Oppression by law enforcement:
Don’t break the law. Everything will be fine.
I just saw Father Pflager on WGN Chicago News. He was crying and asking, "...when hell will this violence stop?" My thought, when victim blacks act more like The Ben Carsons of the world, Asians and/or Whites.
http://wgntv.com/2013/06/21/march-against-violence-today-on-south-side/
Today in Chicago only 4 people were killed and 14 wounded and the weekend is only half over. So far this year there have been 640 shooting victims in Chicago.
Looks like John Fitzgerald Gates, Ph.D. - I hate my white skin - is willing to send blacks to die for his Nazi philosophy, while he hides under a rock.
Whatta puke.
Oops. I was wrong. He’s not a white, pasty-face professor. He’s a black POS neo-Nzai racist punk who wants to rumble.
This giving you describe is the mechanism of the oppression I’m talking about.
Along with fear and propaganda it’s what keeps blacks on the plantation.
Oh, it's oppression, all right - of the taxpayers.
Oppression of the blacks, not the taxpayers. It is plundering the taxpayers. The taxpayers are inconvenienced by the crime but they are not kept or put on the plantation like the blacks are.
Open the other eye, please.
The soft racism in this article just made me puke up my dinner.
"Black rage" is nothing more than a bunch of thugs rioting, smashing and stealing things that they wouldn't other wise have because they're too f**king lazy to get a job and EARN IT. They'd rather stay on welfare and "collect checks."
I am so sick and tired of the white privilege apologists sucking up to these thugs rather than holding them to the same accountability as everyone else.
Don't like what happened? RIOT! Self-hating whites think it's ok!
I'm wretching it makes me so sick.
But they can damn' sure find the local welfare office to pick up their checks now can't they?
As you assert, dysfunctional public education indeed oppresses blacks and all others who must endure it. However, good education is not a monopoly of the public school system.
Never has knowledge been so freely available but so seldom accessed. Today a good education, as opposed to Gate’s meaningless credentials, is a matter of desire, discipline, and diligence. And those are of the individual, not the institution.
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