Posted on 08/15/2016 3:47:07 AM PDT by reaganaut1
The burning buildings, smashed police cars and scuffles between police officers and angry protesters on Milwaukee’s north side over the weekend might have seemed like a spontaneous eruption.
But for many in the city’s marginalized black community, it was an explosive release decades in the making.
Milwaukee is one of the United States’ most segregated cities, where black men are incarcerated or unemployed at some of the highest rates in the country, and where the difference in poverty between black and white residents is about one and a half times the national average. There are barren lots and worn-down homes all over the predominantly black north side, while mostly white crowds traffic through the restaurants and boutiques downtown, or inhabit the glossy lakefront high rises.
Add to that the disrespect that many black people say the police show them, and many of Milwaukee’s African-American residents are unsurprised by the volatile response after a police officer fatally shot a black man on Saturday — even though, as it turns out, the officer also was black.
“This isn’t just, ‘Oh, my gosh, all of a sudden this happened,’” said Sharlen Moore, 39, who lives in Sherman Park, the mostly African-American neighborhood where the shooting and unrest occurred. “It’s a series of things that has happened over a period of time. And right now you shake a soda bottle and you open the top and it explodes, and this is what it is.”
Milwaukee, a city of nearly 600,000, joins other embattled parts of the country like Baltimore and Ferguson, Mo., where police killings did not so much draw outrage for the deaths alone, but for the systemic problems that have so many black people feeling hopeless.
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I have been hearing the same crap for 50 years. I am done caring. Make your bed, lie in it.
Order the police to shoot to kill rioterd
Democrats are socialists
All happening in large urban centers controlled by democrats...will blacks never learn that only their votes matter with the demoKKKrat party.
And encouraged and supported on the national level by President Barack Obama, founder of Black Lives Matter.
Exactly.
Maybe because some cultures create society, and some cultures can only destroy it.
Leftists want us to overthink things.
The left loves racial violence, and does everything it can to increase it.
New York Times Report summary: Crackers’ fault.
This has been going since around 1900. The NYT probably helped engineer it.
No, the end game is most of us dead, the rest in chains.
This is difficult to understand, because blacks in Africa are all well to do members of the middle class. Poverty is virtually non-existent in Africa. I wonder what it is about living in American that causes them to be poor?
Must be racism.
Young black men: 3% of the population. 50% of the murder.
ON TARGET! Memphis is the same, DEM controlled for decades, mostly black, black Police Chief, all the school super’s have been black until they gave up their school charter, trying to take over the entire county school system. Small towns fought back and formed their own school systems. They just annex and sue these smaller cities into submission. Gives them more tax dollars, dilutes crime stats, the annexed areas are not given the same treatment as the city dwellers, and their areas go to pot, and people move out of Shelby Co.
One step at a time.
And even though, as it turns out, he was carrying a gun, and we will likely find out, since this black officer had a body camera, was pointing it at the cop.
If blacks do not commit more crime, then howcome I can tell I am in black neighborhood without seeing a single individual? Among scores of tell tale signs, quickee marts are made of bullet proof glass. But it is unfair that there are no white people around to pick up garbage, or do maintenance on the houses
The NYT is just fueling its own demise.
These events will send white voters stampeding over broken glass to vote Trump.
Third-world type scummy ‘leaders’ have found a way to ascend to the top in the United States... The White Trash Clintons opened the doors wide and the filth is pouring into DC...
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