Posted on 07/12/2016 7:51:58 AM PDT by Kaslin
After the massacre of five Dallas cops, during a protest of police shootings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota, President Obama said, "America is not as divided as some have suggested."
Former D.C. Police Chief Charles Ramsey, an African-American, says we are "sitting on a powder keg."
Put me down as agreeing with the president. For when a real powder keg blew in the '60s, I was there. And this is not it.
In 1965, the Watts area of Los Angeles exploded in the worst racial violence since the New York draft riot of 1863 when Lincoln had to send in veterans of Gettysburg. After six days of looting, shooting and arson in LA, there were 34 dead, 1,000 injured, 4,000 arrested.
In 1967, Newark, New Jersey, and Detroit exploded, bringing out not only the Guard but the 82nd Airborne. After Dr. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, a hundred American cities burst into flame.
Troops defended the White House. Marines mounted machine guns on the Capitol steps. Thousands of soldiers patrolled the city. The 7th and 14th street corridors of my hometown, D.C., were gutted and would not be rebuilt for years. That was a powder keg -- that went off.
But only crazed cop-haters applaud that Dallas atrocity by the delusional anti-white racist Micah X. Johnson. As for the shootings of Philando Castile in Minnesota and Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, almost all agree they must be investigated, and justice done.
Chief Ramsey says he expects trouble at the conventions. But if Black Lives Matter shows up to raise hell in Cleveland, then that is going to be a problem for Hillary Clinton.
After the massacre of five Dallas cops, during a protest of police shootings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota, President Obama said, "America is not as divided as some have suggested."
Former D.C. Police Chief Charles Ramsey, an African-American, says we are "sitting on a powder keg."
Put me down as agreeing with the president. For when a real powder keg blew in the '60s, I was there. And this is not it.
In 1965, the Watts area of Los Angeles exploded in the worst racial violence since the New York draft riot of 1863 when Lincoln had to send in veterans of Gettysburg. After six days of looting, shooting and arson in LA, there were 34 dead, 1,000 injured, 4,000 arrested.
In 1967, Newark, New Jersey, and Detroit exploded, bringing out not only the Guard but the 82nd Airborne. After Dr. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, a hundred American cities burst into flame.
Troops defended the White House. Marines mounted machine guns on the Capitol steps. Thousands of soldiers patrolled the city. The 7th and 14th street corridors of my hometown, D.C., were gutted and would not be rebuilt for years. That was a powder keg -- that went off.
But only crazed cop-haters applaud that Dallas atrocity by the delusional anti-white racist Micah X. Johnson. As for the shootings of Philando Castile in Minnesota and Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, almost all agree they must be investigated, and justice done.
Chief Ramsey says he expects trouble at the conventions. But if Black Lives Matter shows up to raise hell in Cleveland, then that is going to be a problem for Hillary Clinton.
This writer was on the 19th floor of the "Comrade Hilton" in August 1968, looking down as Mayor Daley's finest marched up Balbo to Michigan Avenue, then stormed into Grant Park to deliver street justice to the radicals calling them "pigs."
"A police riot" liberals raged. The cops beat "our children" up.
Richard Nixon came down on the side of the cops, carried Illinois and won the election. Liberals were still calling "law and order" code words for racism. Most Americans had come to recognize they were the indispensable elements of a decent and civilized society.
"Richard Nixon," lamented Hunter S. Thompson, "is living in the White House today because of what happened that night in Chicago."
This weekend, Rudy Giuliani called Black Lives Matter "inherently racist." Does he not have a point?
After the death of Eric Garner in a police takedown, Black Lives Matter led mobs onto the streets and highways of Manhattan chanting, "What do we Want? Dead Cops! When do we want them? Now!"
In anti-police demonstrations since, another chant has been, "Pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bacon."
This is pure hatred, and as it is directed against white cops, racist.
Obama should tell Black Lives Matter to stop the hate. But though he has shown no reluctance to lecture white America, he has rarely shown the same stern judgment with black America.
Now there is no denying that urban black communities are among the most heavily policed. Why? As Heather Mac Donald, author of "The War on Cops," writes of a city she knows well:
"Black people make up 23 percent of New York's population, but they commit 75 percent of all shootings. ... Whites are 33 percent of the city's population, but they commit fewer than 2 percent of all shootings...
"These disparities mean that virtually every time that police in New York are called out after a shooting, they are being summoned into minority neighborhoods looking for minority suspects."
As these percentages are unlikely to change, we are going to have more collisions between black males and white cops. Some will end in the shooting of black criminals and suspects and, on occasion, innocent black men. Some are going to result in the death of cops.
Mistakes are going to be made, and tragedies occur, as with the shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, killed in Cleveland while waving a toy pistol.
But if there is to be a social explosion every time an incident occurs, like the deaths of Trayvon Martin, shot while beating a neighborhood watch coordinator, and Michael Brown, shot in Ferguson after trying to grab a cop's gun, America is going to be permanently polarized.
And there is no doubt where the majority will come down, and who will be the near-term beneficiary.
Monday, Donald Trump declared himself "the law and order candidate," and added: "America's police ... are what separates civilization from total chaos and destruction of our country as we know it."
And Clinton? On Friday, she said, "I'm going to be talking to white people. I think we're the ones who have to start listening."
Prediction: If Black Lives Matter does not clean up its act, Obama and Clinton will have to throw this crowd over the side, or the BLM will take her down.
Yes, the day after she is elected
She’ll have to if she wants to win.
But she can’t because it will touch off a race war
within her own party.
She can’t. George Soros funds and leads BLM through shell groups, and Hillary is beholden to George and will never ever not do his bidding. They have an unholy and devious alliance.
The question is not addressed in the article.
Pander Bear will never abandon any group to which she promises milk and honey!
No more than Obama could drop Jeremiah Wright and his “church”....oh, wait.
More important, will America ditch Hillary.
Hillary’s support of them is on the record. She even tweeted out their hashtag the day of the march before the cops were killed. She’s on tape blaming white people
She needs to stick with them, to energize black voter turn-out...without it, she can’t win.
Didn’t she say, just Friday, that’s she’s going to be talking to white people? In order to get them to understand the plight of AAs...
BLM are Obama’s red guards. Obama/Holder/Lynch/Jarrett supported, consulted, and planned with them.
Hillary may want to ditch them, but then they may go completely rogue, which would make them a liability instead of an asset.
Intersting read. Interesting stats, such as New York’s population being 1/3 white, but only about 2% of shootings in that city involve white gunmen.
So sadly, it stands to reason that since blacks commit disproportionate amounts of crime, that they have disproportionate amounts of arrests and encounters with police in the first place.
She would ditch her grand kids for a vote!
She can’t dump them, she needs the black vote to have a chance of winning. She currently is probably not even close to the levels of black votes el-presidente’ got in 2008-2012 so she needs every black vote possible. If she turns on the terrorist group BLM she loses significant numbers.
On the other hand her lecturing white white voters for allegedly being racist is pissing lots of white voters off. She is stuck betwixt and between.
She can not turn her back on the BLM terrorist organization.
Banking on their support in November.
Plus Soros pulls the strings.
Yep, she’s going to talk to white people.
Hillary, sorry, I have been lectured enough by liberals such as yourself, on so many issues, not just this one.
I will tune you out when you start your lecture to white America. Sorry, I’ve had my fill of this.
Peddle your Alinsky s**@ somewhere else.
I believe she did.
I have a stupid question.
Do the mainstream of black voters, all support Black Lives Matter?? Given their racist and violent ideology?
So I’m wondering, if Hillary goes all in supporting Black Lives Matter, will she really pump up the black vote??
Yes I know any Democrat pres candidate will get 90+% of the black vote just for being a Democrat. Because for unknown reasons, blacks vote almost as a bloc for Democrats. I’m wondering if her embrace of Black Lives Matter would increase voter turnout among blacks. And gets back to how many blacks really support Black Lives Matter.
After watching the last two elections you had to ask?
80% of black people in this country have been brainwashed to believe that they’re victims of SOMETHING, and that whitey is behind it.
Only a small number of dedicated nutjobs actually want to go out and shoot cops. But the rest quietly acquiesce and even support. Just like Muslims do to their terrorists.
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