Posted on 08/27/2016 12:10:49 PM PDT by Olog-hai
After threatening to sue, the Chicago Tribune has obtained data from the city’s police department that tracks every time an officer has opened fire in the city over the past six years. The vast majority of those hit were black men or boys.
There were 435 police shootings from 2010 through 2015, in which officers killed 92 people and wounded 170 others. In all, officers fired 2,623 bullets.
The newspaper’s findings show about four out of every five people shot were African-American males. It found that about half of the officers involved were African-American or Hispanic and most of them had years of experience and were not rookies. …
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You’re correct about the genesis of the collapse of the black community.
Step One, was Uncle Sugar handing out free money and other goodies, which made black fathers redundant and obsolete. That, in turn, caused the breakdown of those nuclear families thus affected. Primarily, those families were on the very lowest rungs to begin with, and were easy prey.
Not every family fell for the trap. Many blacks of the time saw it for what it was, and redoubled their efforts to keep themselves and other family and friends self sufficient. My extended family was one of those.
As the years rolled on, LBJ’s enslavement net captured more and more blacks, dooming generations to a lifetime of gov’t dependency and apathy. These broken, diminished people, easily fell into destructive lifestyles of drugs, gangs, and criminality.
When the smokable form of cocaine (crack) appeared on the streets in the late 70s, it became the drug of choice among those people, literally overnight. The viral spread of the crack epidemic was like nothing I’ve ever seen. It was swift, and the social effects were dramatic. Those in the black community who were already trapped in the ‘system’, were now completely devastated by this latest scourge, which turned their neighborhoods into deadly killing fields.
As I said earlier, what ails the lower end of the black community today, is a combination of things, all of which had their genesis decades prior. There are multiple causes, and they’ve all interlocked to create a genocidal master mechanism which is evil beyond description.
I can’t fully communicate all of my observations, thoughts, or analysis about this issue, within the confines of this medium. I would have to collect them all in a book to say it all. Perhaps when I retire, I finally will.
I have been pondering this issue for a very long time, and I now realize that the fuel of our destruction is this money from Washington. I realize that this business since LBJ's war on poverty is just the continuation and expansion of something that had been going on for long before that.
There is a certain region of the nation that thrives on the business of distributing government dollars, and they have every incentive to not only continue it, but to expand it at every opportunity. There is a reason we cannot balance the budget. There is a reason we have a nearly 20 trillion dollar national debt and a 100 trillion dollar unfunded obligation in the form of retirements and medicare.
It's because a *LOT* of powerful people are making fortunes from this never ending spending spree, and they want it to continue.
Not every family fell for the trap. Many blacks of the time saw it for what it was, and redoubled their efforts to keep themselves and other family and friends self sufficient. My extended family was one of those.
I'm willing to bet that religion played a very powerful role in convincing people that they should maintain their own independence. Free money is a drug, and it will morally rot whomever takes it. Religious people know this.
As the years rolled on, LBJ’s enslavement net captured more and more blacks, dooming generations to a lifetime of gov’t dependency and apathy. These broken, diminished people, easily fell into destructive lifestyles of drugs, gangs, and criminality.
And to make matters worse, all official acknowledgement of a moral code, such as Christianity, was expelled from public government. It teaches a behavior different from what the advocates of government want people to follow.
When the smokable form of cocaine (crack) appeared on the streets in the late 70s, it became the drug of choice among those people, literally overnight. The viral spread of the crack epidemic was like nothing I’ve ever seen. It was swift, and the social effects were dramatic. Those in the black community who were already trapped in the ‘system’, were now completely devastated by this latest scourge, which turned their neighborhoods into deadly killing fields.
I have known a lot of crack heads, and I have had a lot of friends whom I tried to talk away from the lifestyle. It's a horrible and insidious drug. Many people were snared the very first time they tried it.
As I said earlier, what ails the lower end of the black community today, is a combination of things, all of which had their genesis decades prior. There are multiple causes, and they’ve all interlocked to create a genocidal master mechanism which is evil beyond description.
I am coming to realize this. Perhaps I am imagining it, but I am starting to see how a lot of things tie together. I used to wonder why Democrats were so stupid about the Budget, and why couldn't they understand that we had to quit spending more money than we took in? I used to wonder why the media was so unbelievably biased and why they never seemed to be fair to conservative ideas when they related them to the public.
I now realize that the Democrats were not stupid. They can do math as well as anyone, they just put the best interests of themselves and their coalition ahead of those of the nation. I realize the Media is not ignorant or stupid either, their behavior is deliberately intended to advance Democrat policies and ideas because they are owned and operated by Democrats who want to keep the Federal money taps flowing in their direction.
I can’t fully communicate all of my observations, thoughts, or analysis about this issue, within the confines of this medium. I would have to collect them all in a book to say it all. Perhaps when I retire, I finally will.
You and me both brother. You and me both.
There appear to be "Wheels within Wheels", but for me, much of this stuff is starting to converge on a realization.
The major aspect of Liberal power blocks are inherently Malthusian and bent on one of the oldest evil known to man. The love of money.
They will sell us all out so long as they get theirs. They do not care what is the future human cost of their policies and ideas. They are Malthusians, and believing themselves superior and "fitter to survive" than the rest of us.
Wow, so in other words the guardian claims there are:
210,240,000.00 police shootings a year.
And supposedly conservatives are the dim ones.
Well, I may have exaggerated their claim a little bit. But then there are Guardian statistics and then there is reality!
Ok, thanks for letting me know, I was blown away by the number.
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