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Column: As country listens to Florida teens, Black Lives Matter youths feel ignored
Chicago Tribune ^ | Feb. 28, 2018 | By Dahleen Glanton

Posted on 02/26/2018 4:46:27 AM PST by ConservativeStatement

The young people of Black Lives Matter are hurt. And they have every right to be.

When they were protesting in the streets of cities across America, much of the country didn’t bother to listen to their message. They were not embraced by the mainstream for their bravery, their determination or resolve to bring attention to reckless police killings that disproportionately impact young African-Americans.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: blacks; blm; murders
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"unscrupulous police officers?" And yet nothing about blacks killing people including blacks. Sounds as if this person only cares about one issue. "It is because in America, black lives often don’t matter." Oftentimes, to other blacks.
1 posted on 02/26/2018 4:46:27 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
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Unscrupulous police officers kind of describes this Broward Sheriff and his deputies.


2 posted on 02/26/2018 4:48:41 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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This part of the country isn’t listening to any teen...in Florida or elsewhere.


3 posted on 02/26/2018 4:56:48 AM PST by ealgeone
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This , coming from Chicago of all places.

Heyjackass!

4 posted on 02/26/2018 4:57:13 AM PST by csvset (illegitimi non carborundum)
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I could see Hogg on top of an overturned, burning police car with a looted TV in his arms.


5 posted on 02/26/2018 5:03:26 AM PST by Noamie
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Ironic isn't it? The only time the left screams about gun control is when white kids are being shot. Black kids are murdered and maimed in droves across this country and not one word from the left. It's the only time the left's "never let a good crisis go to waste" playbook is set aside.

Or is it that they don't view the death of black kids as a good crisis?

Maybe someone can explain this to me.

6 posted on 02/26/2018 5:09:16 AM PST by Paco
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As long as blacks vote monolithically, their opinions won’t matter either.


7 posted on 02/26/2018 5:14:36 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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This makes me think, in an offhanded way, about the chapter in Bernard Goldberg’s book “Bias” about how the news media dealt with homelessness.

He writes “The networks were doing lots of homeless stories back then and the homeless we put on TV almost always looked just like you and your next-door neighbors.Except the homeless I saw on the streets of New York didn’t look anything like that. Most of them were either alcoholics, or drug addicts, or were talking to space ships in the sky.
But reporters felt they needed to portray the homeless as people just like you and me. In fact, Tom Brokaw actually said that the homeless are “people you know.””

So I get the impression that the networks are happy to put on a white, middle class face to the criminal and tragic misuse of firearms which happens far more in the black underclass areas of large American cities (which tend to have strict gun control laws). And they can still ignore issues such as the neglect of the mentally ill, drug abuse, illiteracy, corrupt local political systems, generations of poverty and welfare mothers that are far more involved in the real causes of criminal activity and mass shootings as opposed to firearms and the local laws pertaining to them.


8 posted on 02/26/2018 5:14:48 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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The BLM effort has been culturally appropriated by liberal White women and tenured professors.
Those black signs posted in affluent neighborhood yards, used as inoculation against the inner city scourge, have watered down their rioting and social justice marches.


9 posted on 02/26/2018 5:14:59 AM PST by Fireone (Lock Her Up! (and 100 of her accomplices))
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Someone needs to set up a rumble with BLM vs the Hogg Group. Never thought I’d say it, but if that were to happen I might be rooting for BLM.


10 posted on 02/26/2018 5:16:22 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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BLM is a black plague destroying America.

BLM is in effect one of the black political organizations directly responsible for the massacre in Florida. There is nothing good about BLM


11 posted on 02/26/2018 5:18:27 AM PST by Thibodeaux (The FISA judge is corrupt)
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Sorry BLM, you’re not the liberal flavor of the month anymore.


12 posted on 02/26/2018 5:23:25 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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"...the BLM effort has been culturally-appropriated..."


Good points! The tensions arise among the assorted leftwingers as they seek to “out virtue-signal” each other.

13 posted on 02/26/2018 5:24:41 AM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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There are metal detectors in most majority black schools in this country.


14 posted on 02/26/2018 5:35:10 AM PST by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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I guess even the Left realizes that it’s awkward to claim that “Cops Are Evil Racists” and “Police Are the Only Defense You Need” at the same time.


15 posted on 02/26/2018 5:39:40 AM PST by A_perfect_lady
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“When they were protesting in the streets of cities across America, much of the country didn’t bother to listen to their message. ”

So, we’re required to listen to their message?


16 posted on 02/26/2018 5:43:24 AM PST by FrdmLvr
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The Florida teens are misguided doing what their liberal parents and liberal politicians are telling them to do. They need to start thinking for themselves. I blame the adults mostly.
BLM is worse. These idiots block roads, disrupt people minding their own business and are defending gangbangers and other bad people. The article is pure insanity.


17 posted on 02/26/2018 5:46:09 AM PST by San F
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Because the black kids are being shot by other blacks.


18 posted on 02/26/2018 5:47:45 AM PST by FrdmLvr
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It’s only a ‘good crisis’ when the wee lil black tot is shot by a white cop.
Simple


19 posted on 02/26/2018 6:02:38 AM PST by AllAmericanGirl44
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They need to listen to Biden

Obama is an African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,

The florida kids can be cleaned up and taught to parrot liberal talking points in common English. The same with the DACA "kids" who make it on the news. That's what liberals are looking for - a campaign message, not solutions.
20 posted on 02/26/2018 6:09:53 AM PST by LostPassword
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