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originally posted by: pointessa
"I just read the mental illness goes hand in hand with racism and white supremacy and with recent racial tensions in Oakland how can we rule out white supremacy entirely? " Quote from InTHe Light
So now you are going to insult the mentally ill and insinuate that mental illness goes hand in hand with racism and white supremacy? Quote your source!!!! You think you are on the side of justice and you have just made a cruel, sweeping and inaccurate statement of horrible taste about those that are mentally ill.
Every statement you make supports my points in this thread to the tee.
originally posted by: InTheLight
We are talking specifically about this incident with an ex-con, mentally ill white man in Oakland. Whether or not BLM are acting out of frustration and fighting injustice as opposed to racism I don't know, do you know?
originally posted by: Necrobile
originally posted by: InTheLight
We are talking specifically about this incident with an ex-con, mentally ill white man in Oakland. Whether or not BLM are acting out of frustration and fighting injustice as opposed to racism I don't know, do you know?
www.theroot.com...
When it comes to this case, I only know what I've read. What I've read is that there is no connection to this incident being racially charged, but if you read the article I posted, as well as the comments, many black people believe it was racist. Why?? Because everything that happens to them is racist.
The guy was mentally unstable. He doesn't need a reason to do what he did, so why does everyone have to assume racism?? The women were actually very pretty, maybe that's what drew him to them in the first place. Maybe he's sexist, rather than racist. Maybe they were just in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Unless he actually comes out and says why, we won't ever know.
Doesn't matter why he did it, though, they're going to claim racism because that's what they've been taught since they were young. Minority families love teaching their children that everything bad happening is because of racism. I grew up in a minority family, and I grew up around minority families, they're all taught that. In some cases they are right, but in many, they are wrong. Until people stop labeling everything as racist, then this will never go away.
White Americans (including White Hispanics) constitute the majority, with a total of about 246,660,710, or 77.35% of the population as of 2014. Non-Hispanic whites totaled about 197,870,516, or 62.06% of the U.S. population.
There were 37,144,530 non-Hispanic blacks, which comprised 12.1% of the population. This number increased to 42 million according to the 2010 United States Census, when including Multiracial African Americans, making up 14% of the total U.S. population.
originally posted by: SaturnFX
originally posted by: Middleoftheroad
13% of Americans are black, yet they commit 52% of the homicides here in the US.
Why?
What would lead the average person to murder?
What percentage of those murdering were men?
originally posted by: InTheLight
originally posted by: pointessa
"I just read the mental illness goes hand in hand with racism and white supremacy and with recent racial tensions in Oakland how can we rule out white supremacy entirely? " Quote from InTHe Light
So now you are going to insult the mentally ill and insinuate that mental illness goes hand in hand with racism and white supremacy? Quote your source!!!! You think you are on the side of justice and you have just made a cruel, sweeping and inaccurate statement of horrible taste about those that are mentally ill.
Every statement you make supports my points in this thread to the tee.
You can google it yourself just enter 'racism and mental illness', there are too many sources to post.
originally posted by: InTheLight
Let's wait to see what the investigation reveals, obviously the police department there would not conduct an investigation if they had evidence that racism did not play a part.
originally posted by: SaturnFX
originally posted by: Middleoftheroad
13% of Americans are black, yet they commit 52% of the homicides here in the US.
Why?
What would lead the average person to murder?
What percentage of those murdering were men?
originally posted by: Necrobile
originally posted by: InTheLight
We are talking specifically about this incident with an ex-con, mentally ill white man in Oakland. Whether or not BLM are acting out of frustration and fighting injustice as opposed to racism I don't know, do you know?
www.theroot.com...
When it comes to this case, I only know what I've read. What I've read is that there is no connection to this incident being racially charged, but if you read the article I posted, as well as the comments, many black people believe it was racist. Why?? Because everything that happens to them is racist.
The guy was mentally unstable. He doesn't need a reason to do what he did, so why does everyone have to assume racism?? The women were actually very pretty, maybe that's what drew him to them in the first place. Maybe he's sexist, rather than racist. Maybe they were just in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Unless he actually comes out and says why, we won't ever know.
Doesn't matter why he did it, though, they're going to claim racism because that's what they've been taught since they were young. Minority families love teaching their children that everything bad happening is because of racism. I grew up in a minority family, and I grew up around minority families, they're all taught that. In some cases they are right, but in many, they are wrong. Until people stop labeling everything as racist, then this will never go away.
After 1991, the offending rate for blacks declined until it reached 24 per 100,000 in 2004. The rate has since fluctuated, increasing to 28.4 offenders per 100,000 in 2006 before falling again to 24.7 offenders per 100,000 in 2008.
originally posted by: pointessa
originally posted by: InTheLight
originally posted by: pointessa
"I just read the mental illness goes hand in hand with racism and white supremacy and with recent racial tensions in Oakland how can we rule out white supremacy entirely? " Quote from InTHe Light
So now you are going to insult the mentally ill and insinuate that mental illness goes hand in hand with racism and white supremacy? Quote your source!!!! You think you are on the side of justice and you have just made a cruel, sweeping and inaccurate statement of horrible taste about those that are mentally ill.
Every statement you make supports my points in this thread to the tee.
You can google it yourself just enter 'racism and mental illness', there are too many sources to post.
You can go ahead and post some of your best sources, you made this sweeping statement, now defend it.
originally posted by: eletheia
originally posted by: Words
When you think and speak in racial terms like Hathaway, you’re a racist, plain and simple.
A bit like inverted snobbery?
When the *colour* is the importance rather than the *murder*
originally posted by: Words
originally posted by: eletheia
originally posted by: Words
When you think and speak in racial terms like Hathaway, you’re a racist, plain and simple.
A bit like inverted snobbery?
When the *colour* is the importance rather than the *murder*
The term “racist” used to mean someone who believed in the concept of race. So long as one thinks in terms of race, uses the concept for classification purposes, and talks about it in these terms, they are racist. That’s the purest definition of “racist” as far as I can tell.
In the 1980s and 1990s, community organizations started new efforts to influence and encourage local governments to explore how to undo the legacy of institutionalized racism. In Oakland, PolicyLink, the Green Lining Institute and the Center for Racial Justice Innovation (Race Forward) amongst others led these efforts. By the early 2000s racial equity initiatives and tools began to be used by local government staff and elected government officials to figure out how to change the inequities in outcomes impacting communities of color in multiple cities across the country. In 2016 the City of Oakland launched its own Department of Race and Equity to advance equity change action in the City government here. A growing number of institutions are realizing the need to measure and account for their progress towards equity and to embrace their responsibility to ensure that their programs serve all populations. Using disparity data to evaluate the impact of activities, set equity outcome goals and do racial equity impact analyses is critical to advancing equitable outcomes for communities of color (6).