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originally posted by: scorpio84
a reply to: THEatsking
Did you read the entire article I wrote, including links, or are you just commenting on the thread title?
The government is solely responsible for blacks being in poverty with no access to real jobs or real education until what, 50 or so years ago?
They aren't racist in any way, they're a marginalized group of people working hard to call attention to enormous systematic discrepancies.
There have been, according to this data, 490 people killed by police this year as of this writing, 138 of whom were African-American. That’s close to 30 percent, a disproportionate number considering blacks make up 12 percent of the U.S. population.
Races of the 333 exonerees:
206 African Americans
101 Caucasians
24 Latinos
2 Asian American
In fact, the whole idea that whites are racists holding down the black man, as this website obviously purports, is not very well supported by the statistic that blacks commit 39x more crimes against whites than vice-versa.
Metapedia was founded as a mirror project to Wikipedia, but with an extreme right-wing and white supremacist slant. Officially, it's there to provide a "fair and balanced image of the European cultural struggle".
Don’t be fooled by this movement – it is a liberal attempt to divide us as a nation, specifically along racial lines.
originally posted by: THEatsking
The system works against those that grow up in poverty. That is an issue.
People on here, such as yourself OP, have the nerve to make the excuse "oh blacks are violent and commit most offences anyway" to explain away the brutality and the disproportionate unlawful arrests, shootings, against them. And we wonder why racism persists?
The only people missing the point of Black Lives Matter are the people, mainly on rightwing, attacking them.
We have a problem with police brutality in this country, and unfortunately blacks get the worst end of it:
People on here, such as yourself OP, have the nerve to make the excuse "oh blacks are violent and commit most offences anyway" to explain away the brutality and the disproportionate unlawful arrests, shootings, against them. And we wonder why racism persists?
As for those in Black Lives Matter who have an angst against whites or whatever, in every group there will be an extreme wing.
Why are you frequenting and referencing racist websites to make a point against the BLM? Your source Metapedia isn't impartial at all on this matter:
You talk about a 'liberal attempt' to divide the nation, yet you excuse brutality against blacks over the fact 'they commit crimes anyway' and then you have the nerve to use a racist website as a source for a false statistic, which is wrong by the way:
Blacks were disproportionately likely to commit homicide and to be the victims. In 2008 the offending rate for blacks was seven times higher than for whites and the victimisation rate was six times higher.
As we found yesterday, 93 per cent of black victims were killed by blacks and 84 per cent of white victims were killed by whites.
So who's dividing the nation? You're certainly helping to divide it OP. Look in the mirror.
They say they are fighting for equality for blacks, but in reality all they are doing is making things worse.
I agree that there's a problem with police brutality, but there is nothing to suggest racism plays a major role.
The fact is - and your opinion of the fact is irrelevant - not cooperating with police and running away are far more common among blacks than any other racial group.
I gave a website for you to look at in the OP, but here it is again.
No I think they're just making people like you uncomfortable with exposing police brutality, in particular against blacks, around the country. In your opinion they should just shut up and pretend racism doesn't exist, and that all this brutality is happening because, as you've so nicely put it, blacks are up to no good anyway.
not cooperating with police and running away are far more common among blacks than any other racial group
Racism is still major issue in this country whether you choose to accept it or not.
Your fellow americans are getting shot right front and center for unjust reasons and all you can do is turn the other cheek and pretend there's no issue.
Answer me this.
Is it acceptable for a police officer to shoot an unarmed person in the back for trying to run away from them? Should they be afforded the power to do so?
You want to help break the divisions between fellow americans? Start by listening to them, going through impartial sources, participating in reasonable debate. All you've done in your OP is:
1. Argue that blacks are up to no good anyway so they probably deserve it.
2. Source a false statistic from white supremacist website. (No, blacks are not 39 times likely to commit a crime)
3. Insist racism isn't a major issue because, well, yea.... it's all 'coincidence'.
And this kind of thinking here creates more of an "us vs them" mentality.
theyve been able to get normal jobs and go to school for what? 25 years...maybe 30?
The blacks still have to bust their ass
Aid is designed to keep them down.