Posted on 05/01/2015 9:20:01 PM PDT by dangus
A lot of elites are writing columns about how white people shouldn't disapprove of riots, because they have no interest and they can't understand. A one-word rebuttal: "Uptown."
You see, in most older, Eastern cities, "uptown" refers to neighborhoods with gorgeous, Victorian homes near city centers available at ridiculously low prices. Like Roxbury, Boston, MA or Harlem, NYC, NY, or Brightwood, Washington, DC. An 8-bedroom, 3,000-SQ ft home in Roxbury is available for $125,000. It's a quick trolley ride -- or long walk -- to downtown.
Or you could live in 1-bedroom, 600-sq ft condominium for $875,000. So why would anyone chose the latter? Because if you're white and they catch you in Roxbury after dark, you are dead. Yeah, a lot of urban black people live in squalid, cinder-block tenemant homes. But a lot don't.
So no, I can't understand what it's like to be black. And please understand that I'm not meaning to say, "poor li'l ol' white me, I'm the victim." But there's two sides to every coin. And I've had a low income; I've lived in small, group-home apartments with a suite-mate living in closet (literally), paying five times more in rent than co-workers who lived in mansions.
So when a neighborhood watchmen spots a serial burglar and wants to get a better view, he's a hero to me. And when that gang-banging, drug-dealing thug smashes the watchman's head on the concrete curb, I actually do consider it very unfortunate the thug gets killed, but very fortunate it was him and not the watchman. And when the news fills with reports that an unarmed black man was shot in the back, without bothering to find out that that man had wrestled the cop for his gun, and was not in fact shot in the back, yeah, I resent that a generation is being taught to hate whitey.
Police-state tactics are a problem. Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown were killed by people acting in self-defense and in heroic defense of their community, but then there's the story of the flash bomb that was lobbed in the wrong window and landed in a baby's crib. Or the SWAT team that smashed in a veteran hero's door without proper warning, riddled him with bullets when he in his ignorance grabbed a gun to defend himself, and then left him to bleed for hours. (You probably never heard about those cases because they don't fit the media template.)
And while we don't yet know whether the Baltimore police had anything to do with Grey's death -- the city's State Attorney has charged the police without even advancing a theory of how the death has happened -- we do know that he was being arrested for LEGALLY carrying a weapon.
But the media-inflamed race-baiting are counter-productive to helping achieve effective, civil policing.
I think having police have cameras on them to record their interactions is a great idea. I think refusing to hire anyone who doesn't live in a given jurisdiction (a practice given the Orwellian term, "community policing") is a terrible idea. I think inferring bias from arrest rates without respect to rates of criminal behavior is a civilization-destroying idea.
CNN may be a poor choice for an example. Not very many people watch that much.
If the thugs want to burn down their city, don’t let them out of the area. Do not rebuild. Wall it up and make them stay in there.
Bttt
As it should. Nice story. In the Tampa Bay area we have the Tampa Bay Times, formally known as the St Petersburg Times. Same garbage, different name.
CNN is doing what Obamas people are directing them to do. That IS how it works said at least one former CNN Employee.
This rant of yours is neither news nor activism....perhaps you might move it to general chat or something.
So true.
It’s social media that is moving the masses out to the streets.
http://thisisthemovement.launchrock.com/
http://us5.campaign-archive2.com/?u=81643c9592bb041cc8a4ea614&id=831788c1be
They’d like you to think this was all spontaneous, but they are organized and someone is funding the protest.
Planned Events: #BlackSpring coming to your city. http://fergusonresponse.tumblr.com/
“You have a role to play in the fight for social justice.
Movements are organized people and organized resources working towards a common goal.” http://thisisthemovement.launchrock.com/
(Launched and manned by Deray McKesson who resigned from his job to do this and claims to be jetting around the US and organizing protests on his “savings.”)
Deray Newsletter archives: http://us5.campaign-archive1.com/home/?u=81643c9592bb041cc8a4ea614&id=389b94819d
Deray on Twitter: https://twitter.com/deray
@deray, 29, is the former Senior Director of Human Capital with Minneapolis Public Schools and is a Teach For America alum, having taught 6th grade math in NYC. He has been documenting the events of Ferguson via twitter (@deray) and is the Founder and Co-Editor of the Ferguson Protestor Newsletter. He is an activist, organizer, and educator focusing primarily on issues impacting children, youth, and families. He previously worked for the Harlem Children’s Zone and TNTP, opened an academic enrichment center in West Baltimore, and with Baltimore City Public Schools leading systemic human capital change.
(He’s also posted a picture of himself to Facebook in drag and makeup.)
They are using cell phones to text event notices: https://gather.mailchimpapp.com/subscribe/50th-anniversary-selma-march-15
http://www.wetheprotesters.org/
They are organized, they are obviously being paid by someone or some entity because no one flies around the country for free.
The second amendment permits it. I see no exceptions for released felons there. Any one who cannot be trusted with a weapon should not be running around loose, but that's another issue...
The knife issue I referred to earlier (jurisdiction & probation issues):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3285581/posts
In all seriousness, why would a newspaper bother kowtowing to such a non-reading population?
“In all seriousness, why would a newspaper bother kowtowing to such a non-reading population?”
I think they do read it. There’s something we call the Tallahassee ‘Tude. One example of it is when black clerks go out of their way with body language to tell white customers just how little they care. Other examples occur at places like the gym where they do things like glare at you when you might have gotten too close to their space. It’s so noticeable that people talk about it, once another patron leaving a store who also experienced a rude black clerk. I’ve had people tell me that it doesn’t occur where they’re from.
Keeping the race issue hot is why they do this and Ferguson and what’s going on now in Baltimore. It’s the whole George Zimmerman disaster. It’s how the Democraps hold onto their constituency. Yes, I’m sure a lot don’t read the paper, but so do (or, don’t, rather) a lot of whites. I recall seeing the black floor workers at both companies I worked at here reading the paper, so it does happen.
Incidentally, I think the ‘Tude is much reduced now. Possibly it has to do with fewer total people reading the paper or, possibly, the paper isn’t that bad anymore. I wouldn’t know as I wouldn’t let it into my house.
I see. I work with a number of blacks, and only a few of the older ones read papers (I guess that might be related to technology as well). We don’t have black-themed papers here, but they are all liberal (and hurting financially). As more and more foreigners replace Americans here, the papers struggle because many of the remaining Americans don’t trust them and the foreigners can’t read them (though Spanish-language papers seem popular).
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