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Vanity: The Issues Plaguing African-Americans Today
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Posted on 07/08/2016 6:18:43 AM PDT by ErikJohnsky

The Black Lives Matter movement is nothing less than a so-called movement stirring stuff up. Sure, the police forces might have a few bad apples, but aren't these people supposed to be all for due process? Someone takes a video or something, but without the full story/context, and immediately, the cops are guilty?

I think not.

One of the problems the black community has today is the much higher rate of crime among blacks compared to other groups, Hispanics included. Lower school graduation rates, low college attendance, and even lower majoring in USEFUL majors among blacks who get to college. Why is the nuclear family such a distant concept for so many young black kids (as in their pappies left before they were born)?

Jim Crow is over, a Democrat invention. Slavery is long over, a Republican achievement. Clearly, this is a problem of behavior.

Sure, there might be some bad apples among the millions of honorable cops; but the message, from people like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and guilty liberal enablers like DiBlasio, feeds this problem. People like them, and other parents of young blacks should be teaching their kids to respect and honour the institution of the police, not to be automatically suspicious of them. Such an attitude from the likes of the race pimps only teaches a disrespect for the law. "F**k tha Police?" Uhhh those police keep blacks safer than they would've been without police.

Are there some whites who don't treat blacks with respect? Absolutely. Of course, walking with pants where they should be, and not wearing a stupid amount of chains might help tho with regard to looking respectable. And stop wearing hoodies even when its not raining; you look like you're trying to conceal yourself, but then wonder why people get suspicious.

One of the tragedies about Bill Cosby getting accused is that he was one of the rare voices of reason among politically prominent blacks regarding young African-American behavior. I'm starting to think the reason the accusations popped up was they BLM thought he might torpedo them, and that whiny feminists would immediately toss Cosby aside because of so-called "rape culture."

This is the 800 gorilla in the room. The silent majority is sick of it all being whitey's fault.


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To: bert

During National Police Week in May young college Republicans at Dartmouth created a memorial honoring police.

BLM destroyed it.

No reaction from officials.

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21 posted on 07/08/2016 7:16:04 AM PDT by Mears (Afrocentrism is "the invention of tradition"-----Hobsbawm)
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To: ErikJohnsky
We need to stop calling them BLM

We need to call them BLT:

BLACK
LYING
TERRORISTS

22 posted on 07/08/2016 7:29:54 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!)
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To: ErikJohnsky

A big problem for blacks, in my opinion, is that too high a percentage of them resort to criminal behavior. The majority don’t do this, but way too many do. This leads to cops (both black and white) tending to treat blacks with more suspicion. This, of course, isn’t fair or right to the majority of law-abiding black Americans—but it is quite understandable from the law enforcers’ point of view.

I fear that the reaction to the (possibly/probably) bad shootings, led by our President and BLM types, will lead to more black fellow citizens losing their lives as cops back off on policing their neighborhoods. For some reason, blacks killing innocent blacks is not an issue, but non-blacks (not necessarily white) killing blacks is an unspeakable horror. I do not think this will end well—for anyone.


23 posted on 07/08/2016 7:47:45 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: ErikJohnsky

IQ?

Read: The Bell Curve. Explains everything.


24 posted on 07/08/2016 7:57:30 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: ErikJohnsky

The biggest issue facing Black Americans is the way white guilt is fanned into flame. White guilt causes all manner of mischief as it leads to imbalanced treatment. Imbalanced treatment of Blacks has led to lowering standards (affirmative action increasing racial division), enhancing a false sense of self (for instance, the black “thug” lifestyle is accommodated/glorified rather than marginalized/condemned as it should be), and, yes, reduced sentencing for crime (how many multiple offenders are out on the streets wreaking havoc in the black community?). These are all the result of white guilt. Liberalism has become the bastion of this disease and, currently, about half our country suffers from it.


25 posted on 07/08/2016 8:08:12 AM PDT by MarDav
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To: ErikJohnsky

The main issue “plaguing” blacks today is the BEHAVIOR of a substantial number of their population.


26 posted on 07/08/2016 8:18:13 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: ErikJohnsky

Median IQ:

Asians—110
Whites—100
Muslims—85
Amer. Blacks—80
Sub-Saharan Blacks—70
Australian Aboriginals—65

Peak IQ for criminality—80

When large numbers of a lower-IQ group invade or are imported to live among a higher-IQ group, they will have a higher failure rate in many respects, and lower success at earning, academics, etc.

Marxism prohibits mentioning IQ.

Therefore, in order for the Marxist party to maintain its hold on blacks, blame must be fixed on the higher-IQ groups. I.e., Asians and whites are “privileged,” and raaayssiss.

Thus, as America becomes more “diverse,” the vilification of Asians and whites intensifies, and black violence against and murder of whites is excused and, more and more, encouraged.

The importation of a second major low-IQ group, Muslims, works to the advantage of the Marxists in the same way—with the added benefit of Jew-hatred and Christian-hatred.

The European Union is deliberately destroying Europe in the same way.


27 posted on 07/08/2016 8:28:04 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Arthur McGowan; All
Median IQ:

Asians—110

Whites—100

Muslims—85

Amer. Blacks—80

Sub-Saharan Blacks—70

Australian Aboriginals—65

Do you have a source for this? Not disagreeing, just want to see the research behind it.

28 posted on 07/08/2016 8:47:22 AM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington DC has become the enemy of free people everywhere)
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To: Arthur McGowan

So,

Who are the Useful Idiots now?

The Low IQ groups or the PC White Liberals academics?

Maybe both?

This would suggest some grand conspiracy which I don’t believe for a moment.

I think they are on Auto-pilot, so to speak. For the most part they are advancing what they believe completely on their own. While I know there are some “Organized Players” here, their numbers are to small and they suffer their own internal power struggles that make their efforts ineffectual.


29 posted on 07/08/2016 8:49:14 AM PDT by Zeneta
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To: Varda

Same thing as Muslims with terror. If there are black people who DON’T support Hate Whitey (and I’m sure there are) they appear to be too afraid to speak up.


30 posted on 07/08/2016 8:58:28 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: JimRed

I have met a number of African immigrants. Aside from being extremely grateful to have escaped the hellhole that is Africa they share the trait of being hard-working and ambitions.

One was a programmer who eventually got his PhD and now teaches computer science. The other is a very successful small businessman.

It’s sure not in the DNA.


31 posted on 07/08/2016 9:02:48 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: ErikJohnsky

The vast majority of African-Americans (to use their term) are doing just fine, thank you very much. But the media doesn’t like to point that out.


32 posted on 07/08/2016 9:05:22 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Buckeye McFrog
I have met a number of African immigrants. Aside from being extremely grateful to have escaped the hellhole that is Africa they share the trait of being hard-working and ambitions.

And the ones I know cannot stand "African-Americans", they can't understand how they are so lucky to be born in this country and yet complain all the time.

33 posted on 07/08/2016 9:06:17 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator; Don Hernando de Las Casas; ErikJohnsky
The vast majority of African-Americans (to use their term)

We need to stop using the term 'African-American' to describe American blacks.

It is not their term. It is the Left's term.

34 posted on 07/08/2016 10:00:20 AM PDT by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a' white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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To: bassmaner

I will NOT bow down to those pieces of filth and address them in that magisterial-sounding, 7 syllable bullshit. MAYBE if they start call me “European American” (EIGHT syllables—I win) I’ll think about it.


35 posted on 07/08/2016 10:43:33 AM PDT by Don Hernando de Las Casas
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To: ErikJohnsky

Let’s start with 85 IQs and no impulse control—everything else stems from that.


36 posted on 07/08/2016 10:44:34 AM PDT by riri (Obama's Amerika--Not a fun place.)
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To: Don Hernando de Las Casas; NEMDF; hanamizu; Buckeye McFrog; bassmaner
When you say “african-American,” do you mean blacks?

We need to stop using the term 'African-American' to describe American blacks. It is not their term. It is the Left's term.

yes, tho I used the term for 2 reasons; for effect of starting off "soft" and then going hard, and because one thing people miss is how Hatian Americans do not consider themselves as "African-Americans," and not too coincidentally, most rich blacks, at least on the eastern seaboard, are of Haitian descent.

I also agree the outward appearance of buffoonery of much of the black population is definitely not in the DNA; all races have the same inherent intellectual ability (except in athletics, where blacks have a physical advantage), but indeed behavior is the problem.

I agree 100% Barack Hussein Obama is part of the problem; its so sad how he could've fixed it. He could've and should've done what Bill Cosby used to do, but Obama doesn't really care about his own people; he likes to whip them up, and please black politicos, the most vile people around. He also wants to please his academic guilty white base.

37 posted on 07/08/2016 10:49:45 AM PDT by ErikJohnsky
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To: ErikJohnsky
The problems basically stem from compulsion driven, social engineering, which ignores the vast range of differences among all peoples; my reference is to the frenetic pursuit of the fantasy that people are interchangeable, and that one size, in effect, fits all.

The betrayal of black children in public education--and some white children, as well--has been documented for over two generations: See the discussion of the Clairette Armstrong study in Making Minorities Dependent.

As for the terrible results from other efforts at social engineering, which afflict all races, Unintended Consequences.

In summary, their are legitimate grievances. Where the narrative becomes the "Big Lie," is in the Leftist attribution of blame & causation. Over that, there should indeed be outrage.

38 posted on 07/08/2016 11:03:17 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: ErikJohnsky

“all races have the same inherent intellectual ability”
Not to be a wise guy, but you need to get out more. That statement is insanely false and has been proven so a billion times. I recommend “The Bell Curve” (a great book) for you.


39 posted on 07/08/2016 11:04:15 AM PDT by Don Hernando de Las Casas
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To: bassmaner
You are correct The Left has for two generations, been trying to denigrate the importance of lines of descent; of the importance of kith & kin, etc.--hence the substitution of geographic references for specific ethnic origins. ("Native Americans," as a lumping together of the various North American Indian nations--whose members in many cases fought very bravely to maintain their distinct national existences--is a prime example.)

The one thing that we really all do have in common, is a common interest in not having our heritages trashed by Leftwing social theorists--spouting politically correct nonsense.

40 posted on 07/08/2016 11:10:11 AM PDT by Ohioan
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