Posted on 07/29/2020 8:39:55 AM PDT by rktman
I doubt whether any American would defend the police treatment of George Floyd that led to his death. But many Americans are supporting some of the responses to Floyd's death – rioting, looting, wanton property destruction, assaults on police and other kinds of mayhem by both whites and blacks.
The pretense is that police conduct stands as the root of black problems. According to the NAACP, from 1882-1968, there were 3,446 black people lynched at the hands of whites. Today, being murdered by whites or policemen should be the least of black worries. In recent times, there is an average of 9,252 black-on-black murders every year. Over the past 35 years, that translates into nearly 324,000 blacks murdered at the hands of other blacks. Only a tiny percentage of blacks are killed by police. For example, in Chicago this year, there were 414 homicides, with a total of 2,078 people shot. So far in 2020, three people have been killed by police and four were shot. Manhattan Institute scholar Heather Mac Donald reports that "a police officer is 18 1/2 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer." Crime is a major problem for many black communities, but how much of it can be attributed to causes such as institutional racism, systemic racism and white privilege?
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As always W.W is right on point.
Corporations who benefit from banking largess while small businesses get bought out love the canard of systemic racism
Perfect cover to divide labor and small businesses
Williams is a jewel. He nails it and states it simply and eloquently.
Is racism really responsible for today’s black problems?
Of course not.
You are seeing increasingly, every day and in every way, a divergence between what Black Americans are really concerned about and what White Liberals keep insisting they are concerned about.
People who have time to feel oppressed by inanimate objects and street names are not oppressed at all.
This is doubly the case if they can do something about whatever offends (no matter how spurious the reason for being offended) them just because they are offended.
According to the NAACP, from 1882-1968, there were 3,446 black people lynched at the hands of whites. Today, being murdered by whites or policemen should be the least of black worries. In recent times, there is an average of 9,252 black-on-black murders every year. Over the past 35 years, that translates into nearly 324,000 blacks murdered at the hands of other blacks. Only a tiny percentage of blacks are killed by police. For example, in Chicago this year, there were 414 homicides, with a total of 2,078 people shot. So far in 2020, three people have been killed by police and four were shot. Manhattan Institute scholar Heather Mac Donald reports that "a police officer is 18 1/2 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer."
The destruction of the black family can be traced to Lyndon Johnson's 'War on Poverty'. Johnson was a racist. He didn't more damage to blacks than the KKK could have dreamed of.
There is no question that a strong nuclear family with judeo Christian values of hard work and responsible behavior would help blacks tremendously.
But there is still the elephant in the room that is going to upset the apple cart and create havoc.
The name of that elephant is “The Bell Curve”.
Take the ideal situation where there is absolutely no discrimination of any kind and everything is done on a merit basis. Which group do you think would end up with the menial jobs? Which group of students would do least well at school?
And what would be the reaction of other people of that group in seeing that members of their group are performing so poorly, especially when told that all groups are the same?
And what would be the reaction of some of the people of other groups who believe the fiction that we’re all equal at seeing these inequalities?
And don’t your answers to these questions describe almost exactly what we’re seeing playing out today (and actually through most of our country’s history)?
Floyd’s death was an excuse for the left to try and take over our nation via violence and with the threat of violence.
When their coup against President Trump did not work they had to keep all of the negatives in the news. They are doing that by refusing to let our nation go back to work and school, and by claiming that the USA, the greatest and most anti racist nation on earth is saturated by white people who hate blacks.
Just more of the lies that have been put out there by the left since before Trump was sworn in as president and continue each and every day.
If you are a democrat you support terrorism and terrorists and you are a liar.
If you deny that the violent anti right riots exist then you are clearly a liar and at the very least tacitly support terrorism and terrorists.
In contrast, in the late 70s, a successful Black friend affectionately described his parents -- a Professor of Engineering at Tuskeegee and a Professor of English at a nearby state college -- as both being Archie Bunker in their cultural and religious values.
In contrast, in the late 70s, a successful Black friend affectionately described his parents -- a Professor of Engineering at Tuskeegee and a Professor of English at a nearby state college -- as both being Archie Bunker in their cultural and religious values.
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“Is racism really responsible for today’s black problems?”
Yes. Democrats have worked for decades to persuade black Americans that they can’t possibly succeed without special favors granted by Democrats.
That’s almost like, systemic!
Yeah, ain’t it?
Bttt.
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“The tragedy of Black America is that just as segregation was ended in the 1960s, America’s cultural revolution wrecked the moral consensus and settled practices that favored and strengthened the nuclear family.”
Yep. Thanks, LBJ! *rolls eyes*
It is really sad how the black nuclear family never really got the chance to make some progress.
Republicans, like Abraham Lincoln, have really always been on the side of freedom for black Americans, while Democrats have always tried to keep them chained, metaphorically speaking, to their “owners.” Now the “owner” is the welfare state.
Republicans are usually not very good at cultural issues. Most lack the spine for it and have little understanding of how to make their points in a manner that advocates moral standards without sounding like a scold.
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