.....and they will "reap the whirlwind"
Posted on 07/09/2016 4:35:18 PM PDT by Ennis85
Dallas. The name was already a byword for political violence before Thursday’s massacre – the place where Lee Harvey Oswald shot John F Kennedy in 1963 and shattered America’s post-war innocence.
Now, five local policemen lie dead, killed while serving their community. Others fight for their lives.
The bloodshed at what was supposed to be a peaceful rally on Thursday night was plainly a hate crime. But how do we define this hate? Was this an act of terrorism, an assault inspired by racial tensions, or both?
Whatever the motives behind this madness, race is back at the top of the agenda in America. The country’s first black president may be in Poland, at a Nato summit designed to stamp on Russian aggression, but he could soon need to return to put out the flames in his own country. That is not the progress he promised.
For black Americans, innocence was lost long ago. Violence has been the norm for centuries. A study conducted last year found that black Americans are more than twice as likely to be unarmed than whites when killed in incidents involving the police. The protest at the centre of Thursday’s horror was a response to the “death-by-cop” this week of two more black men.
America prides itself on being an ongoing experiment in democracy that guarantees the rights of all. Yet racism remains a fact of every day life.
One hundred and fifty years after slavery was ended and 50 years since segregation was outlawed, some black citizens still live in fear of their own police – and are still far more likely than whites to grow up in a single-parent household in poverty or to go to jail.
We mustn’t stereotype and embrace the racism of low expectations: a black middle-class certainly exists.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Obama and his administration are fomenting the discord.
Like the Brits have room to talk. Oliver Cromwell, anyone?
I LONG for the day that the NAACP will admit that just as EASY as it is for Whites to distrust Blacks...that the same could be said about some black people have a chip on their shoulder and can HATE someone just because of the color of their skin. THIS is also racist. Why cant the other side see this.
Yeah, at least we recognize we are committing national suicide.
Intensely stupid author. There are some very valid reasons why cops are wary of dealing with African-Americans, primary because of a higher likelihood of violence.
Cops aren’t always perfect but they are our main defense against criminals and violence and deserve our respect and support.
America is not a “democracy”, it is a Republic. And of course, we are so ‘rasis’ that we never elected anyone who “identifies” as being black except for a white guy named Willie Clintoon.
“and are still far more likely than whites to grow up in a single-parent household in poverty or to go to jail. “
And this is someone else’s fault?
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oh, look. another 30yo know-it-all “historian”. Color me surprised.
If the urban blacks would stop being such entitled generational racists, we’d have a chance.
Yes, a very astute observation by an intellectual schmuck who ignores the 8:1 peaceful periods in US history versus the conflicted ones.
This is not a racist country. This is a country where people who make their money and power by complaining about racism try to promote it whenever and wherever they can.
The Curse of Diversity
Anyone who didn’t see this one coming just wasn’t looking. In our country’s recent history we’ve celebrated diversity in our population as if it were a good thing. However, one look at world history will show you that no country with a diverse population of different races, languages, and religion has long survived.
Countries don’t naturally form with a diverse population, and when in the past they’ve occurred it’s usually been as a result of armed conquest. These unnaturally formed countries have either melded together into a single population made up of one mixed race with one language and one religion or they’ve come apart, and they’ve usually come apart with extreme violence. The longer these diverse populations were forced to coexist with one another without mixing and becoming one, the more the hatred grew among them and the more violently they broke apart, but break apart they did, or genocide has settled the issue once and for all.
Why is this and why can’t we all just get along? The truth of the matter is that we (the human race) just aren’t as civilized as we would like to think we are. Our species, Homo sapiens sapiens, isn’t that long “out of the trees” and the veneer of civilization is very thin, to non-existent, upon us all. We’re all carrying the genes that got us here and some of those genes carry a very basic survival instinct that has allowed us to survive thus far.
This most basic of all survival instincts is self preservation and it’s the one that warns us to be very wary of those who are different than us, our family, and our tribe. Those who possessed this survival instinct survived and reproduced, and those who had no fear/distrust of strangers didn’t survive. Over the years, this survival instinct has been referred to as tribalism, nationalism, nativism, ethnocentrism, racism, and various other isms, but it’s an inborn instinct carried in our genes whether we like it or not.
.....and they will "reap the whirlwind"
America gets credit for slavery and Racism. That shows just how stupid the world really is and how stupid American are for believing it.
I ask all that are interested or any that buy into the premise how much we are into slavery and Racism to go to this site and read some facts.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/06/the_myths_of_american_slavery.html#ixzz4AMnvzr4x
Read about Racism and Slavery.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/06/the_myths_of_american_slavery.html#ixzz4AMnvzr4x
They see it and know it. You have been sold a Bill of Goods by your government,especially the Democrats and folks like the NAACP ETC!http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/06/the_myths_of_american_slavery.html#ixzz4AMnvzr4x
Kennedy’s murder has nothing to do with this. Any reporter who writes like that is incompetent.
Blacks commit half the crime, so STFU.
Au contraire, this is *exactly* the progress Obama promised. The author is delusional if he thinks otherwise. Obama campaigned on thinly disguised racism, and his presidency has been one long exercise in fanning the fires of racism.
A study conducted last year found that black Americans are more than twice as likely to be unarmed than whites when killed in incidents involving the police.]
A statistically insignificant number.
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