Posted on 06/24/2011 2:29:14 PM PDT by tcrlaf
CHICAGO (WLS) - Chicago's new top cop says the accessibility to firearms in America is an extension "of government-sponsored racism" that goes back to the days of slavery and Jim Crow.
Speaking to parishoners at St. Sabina Church earlier this month, Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy took to the microphone after Father Michael Pfleger spoke about gun control.
McCarthy said the topic of race is a sensitive issue "because everybody's afraid of race" but that he wasn't afraid to broach to subject.
So here’s what I want to tell you. See, let’s see if we can make a connection here. Slavery. Segregation. Black codes. Jim Crow. What, what did they all have in common? Anybody getting’ scared? Government sponsored racism."
"Now I want you to connect one more dot on that chain of the African American history in this country, and tell me if I’m crazy. Federal gun laws that facilitate the flow of illegal firearms, into our urban centers across this country, that are killing our black and brown children," he said.
"The NRA does not like me, and I’m okay with that. We’ve got to get the gun debate back to center, and it’s got to come with the recognition of who’s paying the price for the gun manufacturers being rich and living in gated communities," McCarthy said.
McCarthy illustrated his point by recalling a crime scene investigation while he was a police official in Newark, New Jersey where five children were shot, two of whom were killed. McCarthy said when he got home, he turned on his television to unwind and find an episode of "Sarah Palin's Alaska" showing.
"She was caribou hunting and talking about the right to bear arms. Why wasn't she at the crime scene with me?"
Wow, his logic is irrefutable! /s
So, McCarthy, if I visit Chitcago what I’ll see are roving bands of firearms all over the city indiscriminately shooting and killing Black and Hispanic individuals? How in the HELL people like this rise to such levels in our society?
Thanks!
This is one of the many reasons I don’t want to live in that $hit hole called Chicago, I’ll stick to the suburbs.
Looks like the kind of guy you’d find in a travel trailer on a union construction site performing quality control on a 20-dollar-an-hour whore.
Or the kind of guy you’d find on stage at Fleegle’s plastic banana church. Same difference.
Here we go. A PC police official blaming the civil rights of law abiding people for the crimes of criminals. Lord! White race pimps are the lowest.
I love the way the music kicks in every time Chief Paleface panders to the victim class with the preferred buzzwords.
I wonder why he didn't ask why Palin wasn't protecting the kids at Columbine? Why stop with the streets of the city that this moron WAS PAID TO KEEP SAFE!
We are losing the battle.
Where the hell were the cops while these 5 kids were being shot?
Non-sequential and disjointed thinking with paranoia and nonsense. I’m thinking he’s on something he shouldn’t.
No, you maroon, gun laws that severely restrict the law abiding citizens' ability to PROTECT themselves with a firearm has caused the deaths of little black and brown children. The fact that it is only the thugs and criminals who have guns makes it so much easier for them to prey on those black and brown families. So it's the government that is responsible, NOT the NRA, and certainly NOT Sarah Palin.
If Sarah Palin’s responsible for gun violence against blacks, who’s responsible for the flash mobs beating people on the streets of Chicago? Rush Limbaugh? Another 50 Amish kids looted a Walgreens on Michigan Avenue today. The cops caught 3 of them. Apparently McCarthy was too busy giving speeches at church.
That is certainly possible but an even more likely explanation is that he is a big liar.
No surprise, really. Mayor ballerina is a liberal fascist tyrant with the appropriate minions who share the same anti-Constitutional and social justice ideology. The city is sitting on a powder keg with blathering fools like these who will attempt to manage future chaos.
This sounded like he was rallying a crowd to help him in a lynching.
Emanuel - Daley
Meet the New Boss. Same as the Old Boss.
No Improvement. If anything, a De-Provement
HEY, I JUST INVENTED A NEW WORD. :-)
I agree with your thoughts it being a backhanded slap at white responsibility, however . . .
I see it as a very racist thought and statement . . .
This country endowed with specific freedoms unlike any other country in the world, this poor excuse of a human being is also saying certain races of this country does not have the brains nor the responsibility to exercise those freedoms.
seems to be a pretty racist thought and comment
This is a true ahole.
Just when you thought they couldn’t find a worse candidate than the unlamented Jody Weiss.
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