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It seems my post #85 was removed. I considered that might happen, but I felt that referencing the comment of a local person on (I think it was) WLKY web site was relevant enough to chance it. I think it was illustrative of the anger and frustration a lot of people in Louisville feel.

The people are, for all practical purposes, being told that they must remain defenseless victims of racially motivated crimes. And that they are expected to keep a civil tongue after being assaulted by racists.

IMO, the real racism surrounding this event, and others of its ilk, is the refusal of the authorities to acknowledge the relevant racial component of the event. And the racist intentions of the perpetrators in many of their attacks.

As long as that refusal lasts, there will be no improvement, no lessening of these attacks. The authorities are lighting a tinder box here and are too short sighted (and cowardly) to see that.

Popeye used to say something when he had enough of Bluto’s beatings: “That’s all I can stands, I can’t stands no more”, and then he proceeded to whip the crap out of Bluto. What is going to happen when the people refuse to stand any more of these beatings? It could easily get well out of hand. The victims are the majority, that’s a sizable sleeping dragon to arouse.

One more thing ... I think the stories are correct in downplaying the “racist” aspect of the riot.

It’s really not racism; the blacks aren’t attacking because they happen to be black. It’s really cultural (ie ethnocentricity) in nature. And it’s the culture, not race, that’s at issue.

What’s happened is that we’ve allowed the Left to politically corrupt the language so that race and ethnicity/culture are indistinguishable. This allows people to be beaten into submission under the charge of “racism!”

We need to reclaim the language and really define what’s at work here : a sick and permissive urban culture that breeds violence.