The 800 lbs elephant in the room is that racism is a learned behavior. Blacks need to ask why they are discriminated against more than other minorities. If the are honest with themselves, it’s because of the violence everyone sees associated with blacks. We read stories about a black woman who jumped out of a car in a Burger King line and start waving a gun at the employees because she didn’t think they were fixing her food fast enough. We see a young black riding a bicycle on the sidewalk and for no reason, sucker punches an 80 year old lady. Sorry, but you have a problem and it’s a black problem that needs to be solved by blacks, not every stupidly-woke company or person in the US. Until they fix their problem, why should anyone feel differently about blacks?
“The 800 lbs elephant in the room is that racism is a learned behavior. Blacks need to ask why they are discriminated against more than other minorities. If the are honest with themselves, it’s because of the violence everyone sees associated with blacks. We read stories about a black woman who jumped out of a car in a Burger King line and start waving a gun at the employees because she didn’t think they were fixing her food fast enough. We see a young black riding a bicycle on the sidewalk and for no reason, sucker punches an 80 year old lady. Sorry, but you have a problem and it’s a black problem that needs to be solved by blacks, not every stupidly-woke company or person in the US. Until they fix their problem, why should anyone feel differently about blacks?”
My life has been directly threatened four times. Gun in your face kind of threatening. In all four cases the perps were black. In all four cases I was doing absolutely nothing to cause the event, climbing into my car to go to work, coming out of the library, walking across a parking lot, parking my car. Does that impact the way I look at people? You bet it does.
It seems to be a Florida problem too. They don’t seem to get shot as much though.
In 1960 MLK said:
We represent 10% of the population (blacks) and 58% of the crime. We need to work on our morals and values. [paraphrased, I don’t remember the exact quote, but that’s close].
Today, blacks represent about 13% of the population, and when Michael Brown was killed I saw Sheriff David Clarke and several others I trust stating that blacks account for 70% of the arrests every year. While cops shoot overctwice as many white suspects.
2014 when Brown was killed, about 128 blacks killed by cops, 322 whites. Thank you Sheriff Clarke, he was the 1st one I saw quote those numbers. I think that was from the year before. The CDC cause of death file for 2017 has similar numbers, 148 black, 292 white. Doesn’t look to me like cops are out hunting black guys...looks quite the opposite.
Nothing has changed in 60 years. If anything, it’s actually worse today, and very few are trying to tell the black community to look in the mirror, like Sheriff Clarke did.
All of the thugs listed in this article died for one reason.
Resisting arrest.
Two more who can be added to that list:
Freddie Gray
Eric Garner
And every one of them engaged in criminal activity, all except Michael Brown had long criminal records, I suspect he had a juvenile record, but city officials refused to release it.
Eric Garner had been arrested 9 times for the same thing in the same general area. Selling loose cigarettes. New York taxes make cigarettes about $10 a pack, (thank you democrats) $2 each for singles, and Garner could get a couple of cartons out of state, resell at price gouging rates and come out way ahead. Cops were called by local businesses, as before, because he was disrupting their business.
Freddie Gray had been arrested and convicted of selling heroin in the same location where he ran from cops.
Michael Brown was caught on video stealing cigars from a convenience store 10 minutes before being stopped for jaywalking, and shoved the store manager into a potato chip rack. The “friend” who started the “hands up don’t shoot” lie helped him steal the cigars.
My train of thought derailed...
OK all better now...
All of them appear to be career criminals. You’d think their parents might have listened to MLK. Apparently not. He’s just a name they throw around when they call you a racist because you want their innocent little boy arrested.
Every city has a street named after MLK. How many of the blacks who demanded those streets be renamed can tell you about that quote? We represent 10% of the population and 58% of the crime...