First, lets look at the real stats and note that 90+% of black homicides over the past several decades come from non-LEO blacks. Second, police killing of un-armed 'black and brown people' is less than their population percentages and thus far less than the same of caucasians (not to mention 'white hispanics')! Even then, LEO actions against unarmed individuals results in a very small incident of homicides, by number and percentages.
When you get to ARMED 'black and brown people', the excuse is not exactly baseless, is it? Ms Terrell Jermaine Starr is entitled to her opinions, but as the truism goes, she is not entitled to her own facts!
Many blacks do not consider this to be their nation.
Of course, many blacks are also 85 IQ geniuses that don’t know what nation they would rather have, they just are full of hatred and primal violence to destroy the one they live in. It is like when they also destroy their own neighborhoods and kill each other in large numbers; no reasons, they are just retarded and act with primal instincts.
I thought this would be satire. Sarcasm of the finest quality. Then I aw the author’s name. And sadly knew he would be serious.
What a fool. What a loser.
Since all of these old injustices are being dredged up, how come the Democrats’ racism and support for slavery never gets mentioned? How do they get a “pass”?
So says a person who writes for a black publication and from a group of people who have race specific political representation and race specific groups of every type imaginable and from people who almost exclusively think in racial terms and are as racist as they come.
She is correct.
A nation-state is in large part about a shared cultural-mythical vision. When this fails with a subset then the nation breaks.
This has happened often enough elsewhere. Spain, a very diverse place by nature, was held together by Catholicism and its empire. Its no accident that the start of nationalist movements by its more concentrated minorities began in earnest when it lost both. It was held together temporarily, first by force, and then by economics (the EU, and, earlier, its economic takeoff in the 1960s-90s). But now, there is nothing left. So Catalonia is now about to leave, and I dont see, long term, how Spain can hold it.
The US problem though is that, unlike Catalonia, black America is spread through the country. There are no majority black states. If there were they would most likely have been independent already.
And since we seem to suck so bad. I have a great idea--how about, just leave us alone. Stop following us. Stop using the stuff we invite and create. Pretty simple solution.
I read a few sentences. A total waste of time.
It used to be that getting something published required a lot of hurdles and vetting. It had to be compelling and worthwhile in order to justify serving it up to the reading public.
The reading public used to be discerning and erudite, and knew garbage when they saw it.
Things are different now. Hateful garbage like this piece is so easily passed off as journalism and gobbled up by a far less discerning public.
This clown talks as if he represents some large segment of society but there was no vetting process to verify it.
It’s a shame it’s so easy to write trash and get people to post it and give it the time of day.
I hope nobody bothers to read this.
“as black people, we are not free”
You’re free to GTFO if you don’t like the USA.
Would like to beat some sense into the “author”. Hope he and those like him decide to move someplace they can feel patriotic towards - would clean a lot of the trash from the Nation I love....
The 1968 Summer Olympics saw the black power salute and other demonstrations by other black athletes. Foreman, in contrast, was criticized by some activists for carrying an American flag into the ring of his 1968 Olympic Heavyweight bout. When he was later asked if he had any regrets, he said "I wish I'd carried two." He was also asked if he had been pressured at the time to join in the protests, and he said "yes, they tried to push me. But I was the heavyweight boxer -- I could take care of myself."
Not surprisingly, that kind, patriotic, ambitious American who happens to be black has had a wildly successful, happy life in this country. And we shouldn't lose sight of other patriotic black Americans -- they all don't share the views of the piece of garbage who wrote that article.
The fact that the Russian fake black lives matter account had more followers than the actual black lives matter account should tell you all you need to know about how much of a fraud all of this crap is. Black Americans are as American as anyone, and those of us with more than two brain cells are proud of it!
This is one black man responding to what I just read.
My opinion is the writer is full of bullshit, and looks to rationalize failed, self defeating world views.
Patriotism is for all Americans, regardless of color.
100 per cent garbage. Hate and ignorance go hand in hand.
This guy is free to be an idiot.
I wonder if all those Star Spangled Banner kneelers realize that there is more than to our national anthem than the first verse. The fifth verse, in particular, was written not by Francis Scott Key but by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, in 1861, to support the Union cause during the Civl War.
Perhaps celebrity vocalists at NFL football and NBA basketball games should be encouraged to sing this fifth verse, instead. Then, just maybe, the kneelers could make a statement by rising up off the artificial turf, and/or the hardwood, as one and stand at attention with their hands over their hearts, where they belong.
I suggest it’s worth a try.
When our land is illumined with liberty’s smile,
If a foe from within strikes a blow at her glory,
Down, down with the traitor that tries to defile
The flag of the stars, and the page of her story!
By the millions unchained,
Who their birthright have gained
We will keep her bright blazon forever unstained;
And the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave,
While the land of the free is the home of the brave.
This is about destroying America so the globalist can enslave us. It is called treason.
The author does not say how this country fought a war, largely over slavery, and ultimately freed the slaves. H e does not say how well African-Americans are doing in this country, be it in politics, law, business, communications, military, etc. Fact is Americans of African decent are much better off than other Africans the world over. We even had an anti American African American president.
Alternatively, here’s a National Anthem that might get the kneelers’ attention.
The SOB Anthem
(With apologies to Francis Scott Key)
Oh, say can you see
Me, asserting my rights,
As so proudly I kneel
And dis’ this whole flag thing.
Those broad stripes and bright stars
They Just piss my ass off
Like the whiteys who boo,
to the exits they’re streaming.
So why should I care
If the ratings aren’t there?
They can turn out the lights
But I’ll still get my share.
I don’t give a damn, let your
“Blood-Soaked” flag wilt.
Playing ball’s about me
Cashin’ in on white guilt.
The problem is people who go around saying “White people” and “Black people.” Anybody who reduces a complex human being to a SINGLE word descriptor doesn’t deserve to live on this planet and can go somewhere else. Sorry, bud. This is your country too. The moment when you stop blaming all your self-inflicted failures on “White people” you will begin to be happy.