Posted on 08/12/2014 7:10:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Edited on 08/12/2014 8:16:47 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
So, the US isn’t for black people because there isn’t “special” or exclusive “rules of investigation” for their race? Is that what this person is suggesting?
Anyone know if any of the dialogue, between these guys and the cop(s), was on tape?
Well, I didn’t know rheumatoid arthritis was cool. /s
“The police in the USA have largely turned militarized.”
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I noticed that even before I last left the US in Jan. 2005.
Police were morphing from “To serve and protect” into “jack-booted thugs” shouting “Get on the ground...Get on the ground NOW.” Where did they learn this attitude? Movies and TV?
All of the movies with cop scenes that I see on cable seem to reflect this attitude.
No post-medieval western society has a place for “black culture” (which is the author’s real subject).
The Democrat Party is destroying us all with their invention.
I agree with him in his basic premise. There’s no way in the world we will ever be able to live together in peace. The only way forward is secession.
where?
please.
let’s get more precise.
america isn’t for criminals of any color.
there are several witnesses saying they saw the kid going for the officer’s gun. not other cops with the blue wall. other witnesses.
if black people aren’t going to remain civil, and riot, and destroy other peoples’ stuff, and post death threats to go and kill white people, then yes, america is not for those black people.
they’d die in any african country in a week. there are no social services and welfare offices to go to and collect other peoples’ money.
Horse shit! America is for everybody who can assimilate to the American culture and can abide by America’s rules.
Someone forgot to tell the sports and entertainment industry.
No, America is not for whiners! Pick your stupid self up by the nape of the neck, give your sweet self a good shaking, and git a life. There is all the room in the world for people who want a life, just not for thugs and low-lives.
Blacks should feel fortunate their ancestors sold their own people because they are so much better off here than they would be in Africa.
Re: “The police in the USA have largely turned militarized. . .”
Agreed. They are not just shooting innocent black men, but all races of men - as well as anyone’s dog that happens to bark at them.
As you said, we don’t yet have all the info on this particular case, and, the writer of the article, as is typical of most black journalists, views everything through the prism of race, so “America is not for the black man, blah, blah blah. . .”
So, the writer is off base on that point, but police depts acquiring tanks, drones, military gear (Kevlar helmets, camo uniforms, etc)’ is definitely a visible and viable criticism. Add to that every governmental entity purchasing weapons and ammo up the wazoo, utilmately, all that gear is going to be used and the “soldier” rather than public servant attitude is going to take over.
I wonder if the author realizes that?
I will reserve any judgment because I don’t know the facts of the case.
However, there are several points that are spot on. The militarization of police forces HAS had a profoundly negative effect. They are no longer Barney and Andy patrolling the streets of Mayberry. They are rolling around in MRAPS hopped up on steroids and the euphoria of power.
Thinking isn’t a liberal strong point.
There’s always plenty of bitching on this site when a cop shoots a dog but when a cop kills a teenager, it’s ok, if the kid is black? I’m no bleeding heart, but this thread is over the top. Even if the kid was a thug or criminal, that gives Kop Dredd the right to be judge jury & executioner? Disgusting...
Slavery in modern Africa
Slavery in Africa continues today. Slavery existed in Africa before the arrival of Europeans - as did a slave trade that exported millions of sub-Saharan Africans to North Africa, the Middle East, and the Persian Gulf.[1] However, slavery and bondage are still African realities. Hundreds of thousands of Africans still suffer in silence in slave-like situations of forced labour and commercial sexual exploitation from which they cannot free themselves.
Modern-day enslavers also exploit lack of political will at the highest levels of some African governments to effectively tackle trafficking and its root causes. Weak interagency co-ordination and low funding levels for ministries tasked with prosecuting traffickers, preventing trafficking and protecting victims also enable traffickers to continue their operations. The transnational criminal nature of trafficking also overwhelms many countries’ law enforcement agencies, which are not equipped to fight organised criminal gangs that operate across national boundaries with impunity.
Slavery by African country
Chad
IRIN (Integrated Regional Information Networks) of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports children being sold to Arab herdsmen in Chad. As part of a new identity imposed on them the herdsman “...change their name, forbid them to speak in their native dialect, ban them from conversing with people from their own ethnic group and make them adopt Islam as their religion.”[2]
Mali
The Malian government denies that slavery exists, however, the slavery in Timbuktu is obvious. Slavery still continues with some Tuaregs holding Bella people.[3]
Mauritania
A system exists now by which Arab Muslims — the bidanes — own black slaves, the haratines.[4] An estimated 90,000 black Mauritanians remain essentially enslaved to Arab/Berber owners.[5] The ruling bidanes (the name means literally white-skinned people) are descendants of the Sanhaja Berbers and Beni Hassan Arab tribes who emigrated to northwest Africa and present-day Western Sahara and Mauritania during the Middle Ages.[6] According to some estimates, up to 600,000 black Mauritanians, or 20% of the population, are still enslaved, many of them used as bonded labour.[7] Slavery in Mauritania was finally criminalized in August 2007.[8] Malouma Messoud, a former Muslim slave has explained her enslavement to a religious leader:
“We didn’t learn this history in school; we simply grew up within this social hierarchy and lived it. Slaves believe that if they do not obey their masters, they will not go to paradise. They are raised in a social and religious system that everyday reinforces this idea.[9]”
In Mauritania, despite slave ownership having been banned by law in 1981, hereditary slavery continues.[10] Moreover, according to Amnesty International:
“Not only has the government denied the existence of slavery and failed to respond to cases brought to its attention, it has hampered the activities of organisations which are working on the issue, including by refusing to grant them official recognition”.[11]
Imam El Hassan Ould Benyamin of Tayarat in 1997 expressed his views about earlier proclamations ending slavery in his country as follows:
“[it] is contrary to the teachings of the fundamental text of Islamic law, the Quran ... [and] amounts to the expropriation from muslims of their goods; goods that were acquired legally. The state, if it is Islamic, does not have the right to seize my house, my wife or my slave.”[12]
Niger
In Niger, where the practice of slavery was outlawed in 2003, a study found that almost 8% of the population are still slaves.[13] Slavery dates back for centuries in Niger and was finally criminalised in 2003, after five years of lobbying by Anti-Slavery International and Nigerian human-rights group, Timidria.[14] More than 870,000 people still live in conditions of forced labour, according to Timidria, a local human rights group.[15][16]
Descent-based slavery, where generations of the same family are born into bondage, is traditionally practised by at least four of Niger’s eight ethnic groups. The slave masters are mostly from the nomadic tribes — the Tuareg, Fulani, Toubou and Arabs.[17] It is especially rife among the warlike Tuareg, in the wild deserts of north and west Niger, who roam near the borders with Mali and Algeria.[18] In the region of Say on the right bank of the river Niger, it is estimated that three-quarters of the population around 1904-1905 was composed of slaves.[19]
Historically, the Tuareg swelled the ranks of their slaves during war raids into other peoples’ lands. War was then the main source of supply of slaves, although many were bought at slave markets, run mostly by indigenous peoples.[20][21]
Sudan
Francis Bok, former Sudanese slave. At the age of seven, he was captured during a raid in Southern Sudan, and enslaved for ten years.(Courtesy Unitarian Universalist Association/Jeanette Leardi)
There has been a recrudescence of jihad slavery since 1983 in the Sudan.[23][24]
Slavery in the Sudan predates Islam, but continued under Islamic rulers and has never completely died out in Sudan. In the Sudan, Christian and animist captives in the civil war are often enslaved, and female prisoners are often used sexually, with their Muslim captors claiming that Islamic law grants them permission.[25] According to CBS news, slaves have been sold for $50 apiece. [1] In 2001 CNN reported the Bush administration was under pressure from Congress, including conservative Christians concerned about religious oppression and slavery, to address issues involved in the Sudanese conflict.[26] CNN has also quoted the U.S. State Department’s allegations: “The [Sudanese] government’s support of slavery and its continued military action which has resulted in numerous deaths are due in part to the victims’ religious beliefs.” [2]
Jok Madut Jok, professor of History at Loyola Marymount University, states that the abduction of women and children of the south by north is slavery by any definition. The government of Sudan insists that the whole matter is no more than the traditional tribal feuding over resources.[27]
It is estimated that as many as 200,000 people had been taken into slavery during the Second Sudanese Civil War. The slaves are mostly Dinka people.[28][29]
Child slave trade
The trading of children has been reported in modern Nigeria and Benin.[30] The children are kidnapped or purchased for $20 - $70 each by slavers in poorer states, such as Benin and Togo, and sold into slavery in sex dens or as unpaid domestic servants for $350.00 each in wealthier oil-rich states, such as Nigeria and Gabon.[31] [32]
Ghana, Togo, Benin
In parts of Ghana, a family may be punished for an offense by having to turn over a virgin female to serve as a sex slave within the offended family.[33] In this instance, the woman does not gain the title of “wife”. In parts of Ghana, Togo, and Benin, shrine slavery persists, despite being illegal in Ghana since 1998. In this system of slavery, sometimes called trokosi (in Ghana) or voodoosi in Togo and Benin, or ritual servitude, young virgin girls are given as slaves in traditional shrines and are used sexually by the priests in addition to providing free labor for the shrine.[34]
Ethiopia
Mahider Bitew, Children’s Rights and Protection expert at the Ministry of Women’s Affairs, says that some isolated studies conducted in Dire Dawa, Shashemene, Awassa and three other towns of the country indicate that the problem of child trafficking is very serious. According to a 2003 study about one thousand children were trafficked via Dire Dawa to countries of the Middle East. The majority of those children were girls, most of whom were forced to be sex workers after leaving the country. The International Labor Organization (ILO) has identified prostitution as the Worst Form of Child Labor.[35]
In Ethiopia, children are trafficked into prostitution, to provide cheap or unpaid labor and to work as domestic servants or beggars. The ages of these children are usually between 10 and 18 and their trafficking is from the country to urban centers and from cities to the country. Boys are often expected to work in activities such as herding cattle in rural areas and in the weaving industry in Addis Ababa, and other major towns. Girls are expected to take responsibilities for domestic chores, childcare and looking after the sick and to work as prostitutes.[35]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_modern_Africa
Hey idiot, That is a gang sign! Good grief, just Google gang signs and There they are.
It's actually the Gang sign of the " The Almighty Vice Lord Nation " the oldest
street gang in Chicago. And the 2nd largest in Chicago.
The loony left never cared about the truth on Trayvon either, they just
kept Spewing all the lies.
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