Last time I saw a mouth like that it has a hook in it
Posted on 06/27/2017 6:30:00 AM PDT by rktman
As News One Now managing editor and former liberal CNN contributor Roland Martin appeared as a guest on Sunday's The Point with Ari Melber on MSNBC, during a discussion of black suspects being shot and killed by police officers, the liberal commentator seemed unaware that more whites than blacks are killed by police as he declared that "it's going to have to take a series of white Americans shot and killed in a similar fashion for America to deal with this issue."
When fellow guest Professor Joe Giacalone of John Jay College informed him that, "if you look at the statistics, more people are shot by the police every year," it still didn't sink in as Martin retorted, "I said, 'Killed.'"
Giacalone then informed viewers: "And killed, yes. More white people are killed by the police in this country than black people are."
In fact, according to statistics compiled by the Washington Post, only about one in four criminal suspects killed by police are black.
The dominant news media just seldomly take the time to highlight the cases of whites or Hispanics being killed.
Below is a transcript of the relevant portion of the Sunday, June 25, The Point with Ari Melber on MSNBC:
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Actually if you correct for the percentage of people by race who commit street crimes (those likely to involve confrontations with police as opposed to white collar/cybercrime) the fact of the matter is that police disproportionately kill white men, not black ones.
“Clewiston, FL”
There used to be a excellent BBQ joint in Clewiston back in the day. Always looked forward to stopping there after passing through the sugar mill stench on hwy 27.
blacks = 13.2%
whites = 62.06%
about 4.8 times as many whites as blacks.
Crime statistics are a completely different story.
When I was born, white people made up almost 90% of the citizenry.
I feel like something will be lost forever. That’s sad.
[[That’s what caused me to take a second look at this thread!]]
Lol- me too
In 1940, whites made up 89.8% of the population.
In 1950, 89.5%
In 1960, 88.6%
In 1970, 87.5%
In 1980, 83.0%
Between ‘40 and ‘70 there was a 2.3% change
Between 1970 and 1980 alone, there was a 2.5% change
I know very well of what you speak! Not the restaurant, but the stench. And, I go into those sugar mills. Normally, I walk in standing at 5'10" and leave standing 6'4", from the molasses building up on your shoes and gathering any, and all, dirt on the floors and parking lots.
In the mid 80s, as part of my job I had to go into chicken slaughterhouses in the middle of the summer all over North Georgia.
Until you have walked around for couple of hours in full rain gear in one of those places under an unconditioned hot box of a metal building, you haven’t lived.
Sugar, schmugar - I DREAMT of having sugar on my boots ;)
Funny, though how the human brain/senses can become desensitized. I brought an assistant one time who by the end of the tour had thrown up his previous week of food, and was moving into the dry heaves; I was by then unfazed.
What people of this ilk are unaware of is a very long list . . .
I’ll see your poultry plant and raise you a distillery!
Do you remember Harold Ensley?
It doesn’t fit the narrative. So it has no business in the story.
LOL
When I was about 16 (many moons ago) my family went to Busch Gardens, Tampa, which included a trip through the Busch plant and all its aromas.
I had long since had my first beer, but my unknowing Southern Baptist mom, God love her, as we walked into a particularly aromatic room full of stainless steel open vats said - “Boys - this is what beer smells like”!
It was REALLY hard to keep a straight face ;)
In short, white people don't stand with criminals just because they have white skin.
If the black community STOPPED standing with their criminals they'd be better off - and fewer of their children would go into crime. (oh - and statistically a black persons chance of being shot by a cop goes waaaaay up if the cop is black)
When liberals tell us more 'whites' are on welfare than blacks they NEVER consider percent of population either. Most of us here understand that as a percentage of population more blacks are being shot.
I recall the name but, he’s a bit before my time.
By age I’m closer to a contemporary of K VanDam (and fished on the same set of local lakes in SW-MI)
As of 2010, the racial/ethic breakdown of welfare recipients is 31.8% white, 31.9% black, 30.0% Hispanic. So they only get that figure by counting Hispanics as white. There are slightly more blacks n welfare than (non-Hispanic) whites.
Meanwhile, blacks account for over 50% of homicide arrests and robbery arrests. This indicates that cops are trying really hard to avoid shooting blacks, for fear of causing a riot.
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