Posted on 06/29/2020 7:47:02 PM PDT by dynachrome
It is based largely on the work of Heather MacDonald from The Wall Street Journal, and her statistical work done back in 2016 illustrate that a police officer of ANY color is 18 (EIGHTEEN!) times more likely to be killed by a black male than a black unarmed male is to be killed at the hands of a police officer.
I trust that work, and the fact that they have not been able to force Heather MacDonald to leave the WSJ for authoring that "heresy" indicates to me it is sound. (Based on the FBI-Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) data)
For me, what was astonishing was, at a maximum, six people out of a hundred in this country are responsible for 46% of the violent crime (defined by the FBI as Homicide, aggravated assault, armed robbery, and rape) and even that number is misleading.
Black men are 6% of the population, and it is said that one third of them have a felony record, so the staggering actual number might be one or two persons out of every hundred are responsible for 46% of violent crime. The other four or five percent of black males are painted unfairly in that terrible light that says one or two out of a hundred is responsible, just because they have the same melanin content in their skin.
One would say (as Bill Whittle opines) that surely that is evidence of racism, that those other four or five percent of the population are unfairly painted, but I see it quite the opposite.
With numbers like that, it is astonishing there isn't more outright police mistreatment of blacks. In my estimation, those numbers reflect a great forbearance in policing in that the numbers of outright mistreatment are small and most encounters with law enforcement do not involve that kind of negative force.
I think that MacDonald’s interview on FOX might have been where I heard it, but I disremembered the actual figures.
I must add that my dealings with blacks have not been any problem. Those I know personally are not that much different from me or my white acquaintances. Guys I play ball with, folks I ran against when I was a semi-serious runner, the neighbors a few houses down the street, people I worked with and worked for (as a real estate agent, handling their buying and selling needs) and I get along fine. But discussions of a racial nature are few and far between; maybe that’s one reason we get along so well.
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Yes, that is the thing.
People may accuse me of being racist by pointing out these things (and they will...it is how they roll. It is also why they are so effective in shutting down dissent...being called a racist is about the worst thing there is for an American) but I have two major reasons as a defense against that slander:
First, it is factual data. I am not playing fast and loose with the data (and neither is Heather MacDonald, though they have tarred her with every epithet under the sun) Facts are an absolute defense.
Second, of those six percent of the population that are black men, I readily point out that the 3-5 men who make up that six men out of every 100 US citizens are likely law abiding men who are working trying to make a living, sometimes in difficult places. They are no more criminal than anyone else, but are lumped in due to their skin color. And lumped in, I might add, not by me, but most of the time by the very people who profess to be their allies.
Oh great... thanks for crushing my dreams.
I had a colonoscopy this morning... that felt better. ;-)
Hahahaha...I am an optimist by nature, but that “hope dies last” thing sounds so Soviet I can’t help but reference it.
“In Soviet Russia, you don’t have hope...hope has YOU!”
This one’s important... turns out Forbes (owned by the Chinese) dropped the piece hours before it was suppose to be published.
I’ve often thought these expensive hoaxes (ozone hole, peak oil, climate change etc etc) are commie created to get us to throw our money away...
Here are some facts few people know: Humans are not causing a “sixth mass extinction”
The Amazon is not “the lungs of the world”
Climate change is not making natural disasters worse
Fires have declined 25% around the world since 2003
The amount of land we use for meat — humankind’s biggest use of land — has declined by an area nearly as large as Alaska
The build-up of wood fuel and more houses near forests, not climate change, explain why there are more, and more dangerous, fires in Australia and California
Carbon emissions are declining in most rich nations and have been declining in Britain, Germany, and France since the mid-1970s
Netherlands became rich not poor while adapting to life below sea level
We produce 25% more food than we need and food surpluses will continue to rise as the world gets hotter
Habitat loss and the direct killing of wild animals are bigger threats to species than climate change
Wood fuel is far worse for people and wildlife than fossil fuels
Preventing future pandemics requires more not less “industrial” agriculture
The lungs of the earth is blue green algae of the oceans. That is where most of the oxygen is made. The Amazon Jungle is most negligible in relationship to oxygen production.
I did both yesterday, it was VERY easy.
The prep wasn’t that much fun, but it was LOT easier than it was the last time I did it. I had to drink two small bottles of “stuff”, followed by 5 8oz glasses of water or tea. Then nature does the rest. :-)
The actual procedure was a breeze. I went to sleep, and woke up 45 minutes later. I was in and out of the hospital in 2 hours total.
As per part 3 of my tagline, TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.
Yep. They take that path like ducks to water...
Excellent.
TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH
Excellent.
Would look great on a T-shirt...
Yeah, my lower required drinking a full gallon of that panther sweat, not a couple condensed shooters and lots of fresh liquid. And you are correct in that it seems like you’re only out in an eyeblink and suddenly you’re in Recovery. I was home an hour later last Friday, munching on a bacon cheeseburger and a cup of chili. *chuckle* And ‘no driving, no alcohol for 24 hours’. Uh-huh. I was at the corner convenience store at 5, getting a 12-pack of Icehouse. LOL
I let my wife drive me home, and I stayed their with my Chic-Fil-A sandwich. But, that evening, I consumed a considerable amount of Kentucky's FINEST Bourbon! :-)
With no ill effect. Well, no more than usual. ;-)
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