Posted on 05/13/2024 7:16:20 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
“We had 20 people shot at that parade, and not one of them dies?” said Detective Rob Hurst, Hart’s partner at the scene. “If that’s not a miracle, you tell me what is.”
Hovering near death, Cotton somehow dictated a statement from the intensive care unit that a close friend delivered to a hastily called New Orleans City Council hearing. “Do you know what it takes to be so disconnected in your heart that you walk out into a gathering of hundreds of people who look just like you and begin firing?” she asked. Alluding to the bleak circumstances facing many young Black men in New Orleans—parents absent or impoverished, abysmal schools, rampant gang and police violence, few job possibilities beyond menial labor or drug dealing—she said, “These young men have been separated from us by so much trauma.”
Cotton was fully aware of the violence Black people had long endured from trigger-happy police and white vigilantes: Her activism over the past eight years had focused on reforming the notoriously corrupt and violent New Orleans Police Department, a mission embraced by Obama’s Department of Justice, which had placed the NOPD under a federal consent decree four months before the Mother’s Day shooting. But the evils of systemic racism were much broader than police brutality, she believed, their reach more insidious and pervasive.
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To Cotton, Black lives mattered even if a Black person had done something reprehensible, like shooting into a peaceful crowd, because, she later told me, “racism can kill Black people even when a Black finger pulls the trigger.” The gunman seen firing into the crowd in the Mother’s Day video “clearly made horrible choices that have ruined his life,” she continued. “But he didn’t do that in a vacuum. This city and this country created that vacuum.”
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Blackie kills blackie.
Whitey’s fault!
Not a miracle. Really bad aim. Possibly drug-addled.
[Not a miracle. Really bad aim. Possibly drug-addled.]
At point blank range, one cop scored 14 hits out of 33 rounds against a mostly stationary target. The principal difference between them is he kept moving, whereas his opponent did not.
NO is an example of the fruition of national Democrat policy to maintain a permanent underclass as its base.
“The gunman seen firing into the crowd in the Mother’s Day video “clearly made horrible choices that have ruined his life, but it’s still white man’s fault.”
prejudice comes from experience...that's all I'm saying...when you have so many violent offenders in one group you get aware really fast...
trouble with these non whites is that they grow up in chaotic homes, with in and out parents especially daddy, no rules, no set bedtimes, no family dinners and there is absolutely no attempt to get some people to speak properly....
you can't get a job if your speech tells everyone that you are a stupid person....
socialization does matter for all of us.
I am White, and I refuse to be blamed for the twerking craze.
In some regard, it is. White liberals. Until black Americans understand this truth, nothing gets fixed. And white liberals don't want anything fixed for black Americans, regardless of what they state publicly.
What a steaming pant load. But it IS The Nation, after all.
The Racist Mouthpiece of the Racist Democrat Party, founders of the KKK.
[In some regard, it is. White liberals. Until black Americans understand this truth, nothing gets fixed. And white liberals don’t want anything fixed for black Americans, regardless of what they state publicly.]
Although black people are, on average, more conservative than white liberals, a significant break among black voters from the Democratic Party should be unlikely, because the Democratic Party treats black people collectively as an interest group it services, and the GOP does not.
Giving stuff to and doing stuff for black people is one of the main things the Democratic Party is about. Central to its messaging is that they do things for black people. That is why Joe Biden promised to nominate a black Supreme Court justice, and Gavin Newsom promised to fill a Senate vacancy with a black appointee.
The Republican Party’s messaging to white people isn’t as explicit, but the subtext is clear. They’re saying that the Democrats want to take stuff from “you,” their prospective voter who is probably white, and give it to “somebody else” who is probably black or an immigrant.
For black voters to switch in large numbers from the party that promises to give stuff to black people to the party that opposes giving stuff to black people, the Democrats have to err spectacularly. Basically, black people have to hate the stuff the Democrats are giving them.
One major thing the Democrats have been giving black people since 2020 is the Black Lives Matter agenda: Less policing, less traffic enforcement, less pretrial detention, less imprisonment, fewer police interactions with black men in areas where a lot of black people live.
It is possible that a lot of black people actually hate the Black Lives Matter agenda. It is possible that they are upset that people are driving sixty miles an hour down the street where their kids play. It is possible they blame Democrats for the rise in crime and disorder.
Black people bear the brunt of rising crime much more than white people do, so when white liberals believe crime is a conservative bogeyman, they think they’re being antiracist, but they’re actually dismissing the concerns of black people who are experiencing rising crime acutely.
The other thing that might be happening is that the GOP message that the Democrats are taking something from “you” and giving it to “somebody else” is appealing to black voters more than it has in previous cycles, because this time, the “somebody else” is migrants.
A lot of black voters live in large cities and a lot of migrants have flowed into those cities in the last couple of years, and black people in those cities are experiencing more negative impact from this than white liberals are.
The school gymnasium or the community center in a black neighborhood may have been turned into a shelter for migrants, or migrants may be congregating in a park in a predominantly black neighborhood. City programs that historically benefited black residents may be cut to defer funds to migrant services.
White liberals experience the migrants as, like, an unlicensed vendor selling cut mango in front of the art museum, and black voters experience the migrants as MS-13 selling fentanyl on their block.
I still have a hard time imagining that a lot of black voters are going to support Donald Trump, who, for better or worse, has successfully been tagged as a racist. But if black people are really fleeing Joe Biden, then it reveals a stunning disconnect, because the Biden administration has been more dedicated to “stuff for black people” than any Democratic administration in my lifetime.
If Biden is losing the support of black voters, then that means that crime and immigration are more important to black people than the BLM agenda, the appointment of black judges and executive branch officials, affirmative action and diversity policies, and student loan forgiveness.
So sick of these race hustling demons. Move to Haiti where whitey won’t bother you.
“Do you know what it takes to be so disconnected in your heart that you walk out into a gathering of hundreds of people who look just like you and begin firing?”
Would it have been OK had they NOT looked just like him?
Is he trying to imply that shooting people of a different race (who "don't look like you") would be somehow better?!
Regards,
Actually, the majority are fatherless bastards, abandoned by their sperm-donors.
And "Whitey" is at fault for that?!
Regards,
[Whitey’s fault!]
Well, Whitey’s on the Moon!
(complain, complain, complain until everything is free)
“Racism Can Kill Black People Even When a Black Finger Pulls the Trigger”
Fingers don’t pull triggers like that all by themselves and “n-word” is a state of mind.
Racism is like climate change- anything the left doesn’t like or disagrees with is the fault of either....or both!!
-——a lot of black voters-—
There is the fallacy in your thoughts.
If only a few of the Afro Heritage Black Minority-Majority vote for Trump and become part of the black Afro Heritage Minority-Minority, the difference will decide the election.
The Black vote decides the domination of the City States over the States. If a few Black minority-majority voters change their traditional irrational votes to rational black minority-minority the City STate is lost. The Democrat party is lost.
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