Posted on 08/17/2014 5:18:21 PM PDT by SkyPilot
Ferguson is not just about systemic racism—it's about class warfare, and how America's poor are held back
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The protests against the secret bombing of Cambodia were well underway when the Kent State shootings occurred. The upheaval ended shortly thereafter. It didn't signal anything but the end of the 1960's.
it’s about class warfare, and how America’s poor are held back... by Democrat Urban policies aka socialism.
Will a Republican conservative populist come forward?
So...it’s all about what I have to do?
There’s two white kids and an Asian in there. The guard got taken down by the black kid, but the rest egged him on. There also appears to be a Muslim gal in a hijab.
waitn’ for someone to answer that !
Sorry, wrong thread. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3193938/posts?page=12
Thug-Life Culture is the only thing holding Blacks down. It’s a self-defeating and self-destructive ideology that goes no where good.
makers vs takers.
look’at’the actionsof’rioters. just an excuse to take stuff. opportunists.
makers vs takers. and the takers elieve they are’Godly entitled to makers’ stuff.
doesn’t matter how hard you worked for your stuff. somehow ou screwed them out of their stuff, b/c as everyone knows the economy is a closed system and if someone gains,’someone else must lose. what bullshit.
these are people who don’t study or even try to do well b/c that to them is acting white. these are people who stay duped on the democrat plantation for promised handouts from othr citizens’ pockts and told they are virtuous because they’re poor. in itself being poor has no virtue.
no sympathy.
The wisdom of Kareem Abdul-Marx.
when the day comes, there will be NO holding back, and no quarter...
Hey Cream honey, you need to shave off about 3 feet if a race war begins!
“We can’t expect that blacks to act white, so I guess all the whites are just going to have to act black.
We’ll see how well that works out.”
Does that mean we get free stuff and get to play the knockout game with impunity?
Obama Holder Pelosi Reid etc. are of no help, they will get the votes of the disenfranchised and the only thing that will basically happen is government will grow, it will grow, it will have corruption and it will be dysfunctional and no one will pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
It’s reached the point that trying to interpret the drivel Time prints isn’t worth the effort. I have more important things to do - like trim my toenails.
Real helpful Democrat party wants to cut the percentage of the black population down to around 10% from 12-13% by making a bunch of illegal aliens citizens.
It means we get to wear saggy pants with our cracks showing and collect government checks.
TWO black young men were walking in the street when the police told them to move aside.
One, moved... he’s alive today.
One ran, then turned and charged the police. He’s dead.
From this? We’re supposed to assume the police are evil and America is inherently racist?
I don’t think so... although, events like this make me MORE racist than I thought I could be.
She’s smart enough to find some valuable loot, but not smart enough to cover her face. Check the local mugshot database.
Great points but you forgot something important: only American blacks can't seem to make it here. Blacks from many other places, the Caribbean and several African countries come here, get educated, work hard, obey the law and are extremely successful.
The civil rights movement was hijacked by Communists in the guise of the New Left. The Black Panthers, the Angela Davis's, Jesse Jacksons and Al Sharptons have all exploited race for both monetary and ideological reasons. LBJ, the world's worst sonofabitch -- curse his memory! -- created and made into a permanent entitlement the racial animosity we've seen played out over and over. Now, with Obama and Holder giving tacit approval for unlawful, anarchic race hatred and violence, push is coming to shove.
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