Posted on 08/21/2014 3:55:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Race Manners: Michael Brown’s death didn’t cause a divide between you and the people in your social networks. It simply revealed one. Use the information you’re getting to decide which relationships you value.
Dear Race Manners:
I have been so offended and angered by what some of my friends on Facebook have said about Michael Brown and the situation in Ferguson (he was a thug, he deserved it, black people destroy their own communities, blacks are criminals, all the police officers in Ferguson should quit because blacks don’t appreciate them and more). I feel as though I don’t know some of my former classmates. You would be shocked if I gave you the quotes, believe me—so heartless and sometimes flat-out racist.
To be honest, my heart is already heavy for Michael’s family and the Ferguson community and for the way we are seen and treated in this country, so sometimes I don’t have the strength to respond, but I’m both hurt and frustrated, not to mention angry. What to do? —Anonymous
It's no surprise that you're seeing a racial divide in the reactions to what happened in Ferguson, Mo. A poll conducted by Pew showed that blacks are about twice as likely as whites to say that the shooting of Michael Brown "raises important issues about race that need to be discussed."
To be clear—as plenty of people pointed out to me on Twitter when I shared those results—that doesn't mean that only nonwhite people care about Brown's death or are sensitive to the racial dynamics of this week's events in Ferguson, including the treatment of protesters in the predominantly black town by a militarized police force....
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Nope.
no, u are not alone.
no social media for me
I do not. I am not a lonely person.
>> Am I the only person left who doesn’t live on Facebook and Twitter?
It’s now down to just you and me.
:-)
No. But those mediums are a good indicator of how completely stupid most people are.
I avoid them
I don’t use or have an account on any of those wretched hives of scum and villainy ...
It darn tootin' does.
One must ask why the fans of St. Trayvon and St. Michael are willing to ignore the assaults that lead to their getting shot, let alone the path they took to get to that point in their lives, while wailing about the problems with white Americans concerned about rampant black violence and criminality.
Somehow I don't think that's the issue they want to discuss.
“Please don’t smash my store window and steal all my inventory” = RACIST!!!!!!!!!!
Only this one?
Nope
That's so sad... please let me help.
And me and my wife.
We tried it and dropped it a couple of years ago.
How to deal with race-obsessed brainstems who refuse to recognize that they’ve been manipulated by the democrat party for their vote.
No.
So there’s actually quite a few of us then! Maybe we should start a Google Group or something. :-)
No, and I work in IT.
Ok, let's look at the list
he was a thug
Why let a video of him committing a strong arm robbery get in the way of his sainthood?
he deserved it,
Where I come from, if you punch a cop, try to take his gun, and then charge him in the street, you pretty much have a shooting coming to you.
black people destroy their own communities,
One only needs to take transit through poor urban black neighborhoods to confirm this.
blacks are criminals,
Not all blacks are criminals, but a very disproportionate number are. And that ain't the fault of whitey.
all the police officers in Ferguson should quit because blacks don’t appreciate them and more
I'll leave that up to the individual cops after this is all over. But if Wilson gets railroaded, I sure would think about relocating if I was a cop in Ferguson.
So in other words, speaking truth is racist to this person. But we pretty much knew that anyway.
If we’re opposed to the nightly Molotov cocktail throwing, looting and rioting in Ferguson we’re racists?
If we agree with the black LEO who has to have a press conference in the middle of the night every night after the nightly riot subsides to explain that there was not as much crime, violence, arrests, looting, rioting, burning, and fewer Molotov cocktails thrown tonight as the prior night so things are gradually getting better we’re racists?
If we agree with the courageous young black man taking a stand against the looters in the video linked below we’re racists?
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