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originally posted by: Mikeultra
a reply to: dreamingawake
Yes I read on another site that the statistics on Google Search were 14,700,000 for Mike Brown and 4300 for Dillon Taylor. Dillon was killed 2 days after Mike Brown. That's a staggering difference. The arrogance of the chief of police in Salt Lake City is nauseating. Those numbers are rounded off. I don't know how to get those numbers, I just read it on a website that I'd rather not link to.
As protesters and police in Ferguson, Missouri continued to clash over the death of Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager shot to death by a police officer on August 9, Rep. Lacy Clay (D-Mo.) called on federal investigators to secure "equal justice under the law" for Brown's family.
Controversy The following year, Sharpton became embroiled in the Tawana Brawley case—a case that would haunt him for years. Brawley, an African American teenager, claimed that she was raped by a group of white men—some of whom were allegedly police officers. The case was later dismissed by a grand jury, which reportedly concluded that the teenager had made up the story. But this came after months of media frenzy around the case, largely encouraged by Sharpton. He was even sued by the district attorney working the case for making slanderous remarks. Sharpton was found guilty and fined for his comments. His reputation damaged, Sharpton faced more charges in 1990. He was tried and acquitted of stealing from the NYM. No matter what problems he encountered, he remained dedicated to his activism, arranging protests and giving press conferences. During one such protest in Brooklyn's Bensonhurst neighborhood in 1991, a man stabbed Sharpton in the chest. Rushed to the hospital, he had surgery to repair the damage and made a full recovery. In April 2014, the Smoking Gun web site reported that Sharpton had been a paid FBI informant during the 1980s and had been a key player in taking down the Genovese crime family. In defending his work law enforcement, he said, “Rats are usually people that were with other rats. I was not and am not a rat, because I wasn’t with the rats. I’m a cat. I chased rats.”
Maybe the Judge read my thread?
I would advise against making statements like that, since it makes you look a ignoramus who's out-of-touch with the problems of Black Americans.
originally posted by: wanderingconfusion
REAL RACISM is practiced by liberals that feel black people in 2014 are still not smart enough or good enough to make it on a level playing field and need special privileges and this is holding black people back.
originally posted by: wanderingconfusion
originally posted by: MALBOSIA
I know what your saying but there is a difference. Blacks in America really are classified as sub-citizen. Not legally or anything but it is quite clear unless your blind that blacks in America live in another world than the whites. Exceptions of course, both ways. Whether they bring it on themselves or there is an agenda will never be answered outright but here we are, still.
Slavery was abhorrent and so were Jim Crow Laws but that ended in 1964.
REAL RACISM is practiced by liberals that feel black people in 2014 are still not smart enough or good enough to make it on a level playing field and need special privileges and this is holding black people back.
It is time for Black people to take charge of themselves and their behavior as a group.
At some point they cannot keep blaming others.
Nobody disputes the injustices of the past but it is time to move on.
Also it starts in the home with the parent/s taking the time to invest in their children instead of throwing money at them not caring if they are in the streets or that the streets are raising them.
It is all a mindset.
I am not blind to the racism that exists on ALL sides of isle.
I have stated here many times that I am white and my husband is black.
We came from identical backgrounds - being extremely poor and single mothers raising us with no child support.
Children mimic their parents and are taught by experience.
IMHO.
ETA: I am neither Dem or Rep.
UNIONVILLE, NY is a middle class predominately Black community in the suburbs of New York City. The average family income is $76,553, which makes the town one of the most flourishing African-American cities in the United States.
HILLCREST, NY is another middle-class Black community in New York. The median family income is $76,960, securing Hillcrest a spot on the list as one of the most prosperous African-American communities in the United States
FRIENDLY, MD is a upper-middle-class Black community in Prince George’s County, Md. Landing in at the eighth spot, Friendly’s average family income is $82,827, solidifying its place as an affluent African-American community in the United States.
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originally posted by: Onslaught2996
a reply to: whitewave
White people who kill black people in 'Stand Your Ground' states are 354% more likely to be cleared of murder
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Stand your ground laws are made for people being attacked, robbed or their houses broken into. Are you saying that whites are 354% more likely to be attacked, robbed or have their homes broken into by blacks?
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Here is some proof of above article.
Black Shooter of White Victim in Florida Claimed "Stand Your Ground", still Arrested & Tried
originally posted by: whitewave
originally posted by: Onslaught2996
a reply to: whitewave
White people who kill black people in 'Stand Your Ground' states are 354% more likely to be cleared of murder
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Stand your ground laws are made for people being attacked, robbed or their houses broken into. Are you saying that whites are 354% more likely to be attacked, robbed or have their homes broken into by blacks?
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Here is some proof of above article.
Black Shooter of White Victim in Florida Claimed "Stand Your Ground", still Arrested & Tried
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This is a terrible example of you trying to prove your point. In this case the shooter (black) and the victim (white) had been arguing off and on for months. The shooter came to the basketball court ARMED on the day the victim was known to schedule his time on the neighborhood basketball court (shows premeditation). The shooter began harassing some kid who was skateboarding on the court and the victim stood up for the kid and was shot in front of his 8 year old daughter for telling the grumpy armed guy to leave the kid alone. I don't think "stand your ground" applies here. Granted, I'm not a lawyer.
**************************************************************************************************************************************************** Honestly, this whole (non-)issue of race is only an issue if we let it be one. The Ferguson thing should've calmed down and not gotten so out of control to start with. The kid was a thief and the cops overreacted. Both sides are to blame. The rioters have lost the moral high ground by rioting. I don't see how smashing the windows of neighborhood businesses and stealing 50 pairs of Air Jordans and a 6-pack conveys ones righteous indignation to a grieving community over the loss of one of their own. Conversely, I don't see how bringing in tanks and SWAT teams are supposed to assuage the anger of an upset and tantrum-throwing community, either.
I've can't comment to the Utah shooting because I've not heard as much about it which only serves to highlight the OP's point, if I understand it correctly.
originally posted by: Mikeultra
a reply to: whitewave
Excellent post! You understand perfectly the point I'm making with the original post. The media always jumps on the blacks as victim of white racism. Never the other way around! Being that there are posters talking about white racism going way back to the sixties, I thought it would be fair to show some horrible black racism against whites from the early 1970's that was not national news although it should have been. It involved the San Francisco branch of the Nation of Islam. They went on a serial killing spree targeting "white devils". That was contained to local news only. I recommend that everyone on both sides of this issue read this book. It might educate you on racism being a 2 way street.
Zebra: The True Account of 179 Days of Terror in San Francisco
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