Posted on 08/17/2016 9:22:07 AM PDT by MNDude
The metaphor, Beck said, was intended to draw attention to white Americans' neglect to understand the very real issues, like police brutality, facing black Americans on a daily basis. He repeated the "All Lives Matter" mantra in an NPR interview the following day, where he further urged all Americans "to start listening to each other and getting out of our own little labeled bubbles."
Beck's "labeled bubbles" theory may be ground in reality. A Pew Research Center survey released Monday finds "significant differences" in the way black and white adults use social media to share and interact with race-related content. A Pew analysis of 995 million tweets over a 15-month period - from January 1, 2015 to March 31, 2016 - reveals that events from Baltimore, to Charleston, South Carolina, to Dallas "often serve as a catalyst for social media conversations about race" that go beyond just hashtag activism.
The conservative backlash to Beck's new-found position was immediate. Leading sites, Breitbart News and The Drudge Report, lambasted Beck's comments, which were made just hours before riots in Milwaukee following the fatal shooting of Sylville K. Smith at the hands of police.
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Frontiers in goofballism.
You mean .000001 % of the black population. Most blacks go their entire lives without being hassled by the police even once.
Or reality may grind it.
This guy is still around?
Go away Glenn. Just shut up and go away!
GLENN BECK is rapidly falling into the abyss of his reality.
I wonder what Beck thinks of his candidate Cruz’s (correct) assertion that BLM is an anarchist movement that celebrates the murder of cops? Some cognitive dissonance for ya, eh Glenn? Nah, that would imply you’re capable of even rudimentary cognition.
Beck was God’s gift to Trump since Beck’s public antics in Iowa and since.
None of us support police officers that break the law in the course of doing their job. BLM, tries to make folks think that’s what it is all about. Untrue.
Beck has a hard time grasping issues.
How can it be a justification for a riot about racial bias, when a Black man kills an armed Black perp?
Beck is lost in space. That’s not new territory for him.
Well said .
Why is there this false dichotomy? I can fully understand the plight of Black America. I know, the racism, past and present, institutional and societal. But fully understanding that, I can also say that the #1 thing holding down black people today is the violent, destructive, nihilistic culture of the urban ghetto. That is one they are going to have to take on if they really care about black lives.
Forty six years on the planet as a black person, and I have yet to experience a single interaction with a police officer that was anything but polite and professional. I guess I must be incredibly lucky . . .
I think he’s moving left to get back on a cable news show that isn’t Fox.
That Blaze isn’t working out as planned.
“Forty six years on the planet as a black person, and I have yet to experience a single interaction with a police officer that was anything but polite and professional. I guess I must be incredibly lucky . . .”
Are you serious??
Agree.
You must be raciss!
One thing I've learned is that almost to a man, every black person beleives they've been hassled by the police. If they get stopped at a DWI checkpoint, they find some reason why it was tougher for them to get through than for the white guys. If they get pulled over for speeding and running a red light, it's because they are black. If a cop nods at them and smiles, that's a microagression that white folk never have to deal with.
I was in a mandatory diversity class at work and they gave black people a chance to weigh in on their greivances and they were thrilled to do so, all of them had stories like the above. All of them. And when they were done hugging each other and wiping away their tears, I was like "wait, where was the oppression?" But I dare not say it out loud, that's for sure!
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