Posted on 08/17/2014 3:19:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The events in Missouri spring from America's deeply embedded segregation and black economic deprivation.
I spent my very early years in New York, living a very multiracial Sesame Street life, a big swinging bellbottom of a childhood. And then our family moved to Baltimore and the iron curtain of the "colour line" fell. I felt that I had moved from the 1970s through a time warp where black and white were the only two colours and never the twain shall socially meet.
I grew to understand what the 50s were actually like in Baltimore, when my mother, for example, was permitted to buy clothes from the major department store but not try them on. (Heaven forfend some black lady should be in the dressing room, right? You know they leave a residue of blackness on the clothes.)
America has never had one racial reality, but a series of them strung together from San Antonio to Pittsburgh to Appalachia. What we are seeing in Ferguson, Missouri, is the result of life in a specific type of heavily racialised zone. Yes, a city such as New York, where a black man was recently choked to death by police officers, has its own very clear forms of racialisation and it's a national issue. But the police killing, last week, of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teen in Ferguson has sparked national protests because it represents a specific type of racialisation. This is of the majority black city, big or small, with a white economic and political power structure.
I grew up with mayor William Donald Schaefer, who presided over Baltimore from 1971-1987, an unusually long stretch....
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Usually the lawabiding and decent will congregate together and vice versa for the criminal element. The Left has tried to promote a race war between the Whites and Blacks in the United States since at the 20's or 30's with negative results. Why? Because the decent element of both races refuse to take the bait.
That said, I agree that he'll be back, the same ol' drunken cowardly liar, with a new name...and we Dawgs will still be guarding the manger, ready to do what Dawgs do best...protect the home.
Dawg Soldiers up!
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
There is not a country on earth that has done more for their poor and minorities, specifically the blacks than the USA. We have redundant programs,( city, county, state, and federal) to feed, clothe, house, give healthcare, and aid them. Our educational system has been designed and destroyed to educate. Find another country that does more.
Addendum to post 161: the phrase,”relating to each other have always got along”, should have read, “relating to each other as human beings have always got along with each other”.
Humble, in that side profile picture, you DO look a little like Uncle Teddy,,,
A LOT, actually...
NICE PIC, ma’am!!!
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
True that.
Testament to patience, though. Was class of 1998. He probably wasn’t always like that.
Everybody gets a chance to speak their piece. Sometimes, we all say things that are over the top, especially when we’re ticked off. Hell, there’s MORE than enough crap going on to be ticked off all day long... but most folks try not to let it wipe out their optimism.
But Al just continually tried to grind things down. Yeah, we’ve got problems right now - BIG problems - and there are folks working to resolve them, playing whatever small part they have to play.
I have no time for people who want to delight in the misery of others and the current agonies of the Country.
But I agree with wku man; he’ll be back under another name. It appears to be his nature.
We’ll be here too, “good lord willin’ and the river don’t rise”.
I ditto that. I couldn't have stated it better. Thanks for calling *ahem* a spade a spade.
Thanks, man. I thought it was most appropriate for this particular zot.
The smoke from the flares almost look like angel wings for a couple seconds.
Guardian Angel wings...
“Angel of Death” for the bad guys.
Thou shall not shoot a black man who is coming at you with bodily harm in mind
Whitey shall not shoot a black man who is coming at you with bodily harm in mind
Blacks shooting blacks and killing them wholesale as in Chicago each weekend? That’s OK for the liberal media and the so called black community. I was glad to see Rush bring this up yesterday and on other occasions. Being that Rush Limbaugh is so influential.
I thought the kitties were on vacation getting ready for back to school mischief....
I don’t know where kitties go in vacation but I would I imagine it has sand, and sunshine. Kitties love sunshine and sand.
Kisses to your three, and all other Viking Kitties here.
I just took a little break there for a while.
I’m feeling better now, though.
Outstanding post, FRiend!
BTW His ninety-nine ran out.
Thanks, TOL. A most appropriate pic for this occasion!
Yes. I really like that one. Glad you do too.
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