Ferguson

[TheFinnFan]

Au contraire. He has a point.

It isn't REALLY about black people vs white people, that's just how it plays out in the United States. It's minority vs majority.

Minorities should learn to behave. Maybe then you dont get shot.

 

[SerenityNigh]

Minorities should learn to behave. Maybe then you dont get shot.

 

[TheFinnFan]

Ultimate man dat. Botox n all

 

[L4Everton]

Minorities should learn to behave. Maybe then you dont get shot.

Agreed, minorities should behave much better than me and my friends & family, minorities should be happy to be allowed to live and work (or not) around people like me. Thats their reward for being minorities.

 

[TheFinnFan]

Agreed, minorities should behave much better than me and my friends & family, minorities should be happy to be allowed to live and work (or not) around people like me. Thats their reward for being minorities.

Pretty much this.

 

[L4Everton]

Pretty much this.

Glad your with me, it's an awful shame to waste good bullets on them, you reckon we could get the ones that don't behave and round them up first? Make them clean their act up? First stop the shower cubicles?

 

[Garrick]

Minorities should learn to behave. Maybe then you dont get shot.

The state I live in, Wisconsin, has a population of around 5.7 million. Pretty comparable to your Finland at 5.5 million.

Finland has around 3,000 incarcerated people, currently. Wisconsin has 22,000 in prison. Tell me that isn't a problem.

12.8% of all black men in Wisconsin are behind bars. White men? 0.46%.

Would you like to continue blaming the victim?

 

[peteblue]

I don't disagree that kids shouldn't commit crime. But we also need to address the fact that our police reaction to it varies based on race.

They should be taken in and charged with shoplifting. Not shot.

It would be much better if everyone were treated the same, all shoplifters of whatever colour should be shot..........

 

[johnnydawg68]

I wrote a very long, angry post but deleted it. I feel like I need to express myself, but I'm not sure what good it will do. I can't say for sure what happened that day. What I can tell you is my eyes have been opened the barely disguised racism of people I previously thought of as friends or at least friendly acquaintances. I can't tolerate it. I don't need it in my life and I don't need them in my life and they should at least have the balls to put on a white hood and go out in public and quit pretending they aren't racists because they were friendly to a black guy at work.

 

[johnnydawg68]

I wrote a very long, angry post but deleted it. I feel like I need to express myself, but I'm not sure what good it will do. I can't say for sure what happened that day. What I can tell you is my eyes have been opened the barely disguised racism of people I previously thought of as friends or at least friendly acquaintances. I can't tolerate it. I don't need it in my life and I don't need them in my life and they should at least have the balls to put on a white hood and go out in public and quit pretending they aren't racists because they were friendly to a black guy at work.

And saw a tweet that summed it up best. If Americans loved actual black people as much as they love black culture we wouldn't have a problem in this country.

 

[Minimeister]

I wrote a very long, angry post but deleted it. I feel like I need to express myself, but I'm not sure what good it will do. I can't say for sure what happened that day. What I can tell you is my eyes have been opened the barely disguised racism of people I previously thought of as friends or at least friendly acquaintances. I can't tolerate it. I don't need it in my life and I don't need them in my life and they should at least have the balls to put on a white hood and go out in public and quit pretending they aren't racists because they were friendly to a black guy at work.

Do you play for Wigan mate?

 

[peteblue]

The media picked up and ran with Ferguson because it fit the narrative they want to push. Didn't bother to look into the facts of what happened or wait for an investigation to be completed. The final result was all they needed. They ramped this up.

The same week the Ferguson incident happened a black cop in Salt Lake City shot a white teenager. Not much was made about that. why is that?

From this fun site on strict Gun Control Chicago...

While the events down in Ferguson play out, back in Chicagoland the same old bullspit continues day in and day out with nary a peep. In the 107 days since officer Darren Wilson shot and killed 18 year old Michael Brown – 12:03pm, Saturday, August 9th – the following stupidity has taken place in Chicago:

• 155 homicides (74% black males)
• 725 shot & wounded
• Six (6) 18 year olds killed: Kawantis Montgomery, Kamaal Burton, Tony McIntos, Alexandra Burgos, Rayvon Little, Johnathan Cartwright
• 59 18 year olds shot & wounded
• 29 teenagers (13-19) killed
• 244 teenagers (13-19) shot and wounded
• 10 shot (5 killed) by the CPD
• 2 teens – 17yo Laquan McDonald & 19yo Roshad McIntosh – shot & killed by the CPD
• 9yo Antonio Smith was executed by 4 jagoffs
• 3yo Donnell Coakley killed by his mother

Brutal, yet incredibly asinine and absurd to say the least.

So what is it about these stats that hasn’t caused people to lose their collective spit?

After all, there have been plenty of opportunities to march, chant, throw spit, break stuff, come up with a hashtag, etc… in the past few months, not only in Chicago, but all over the nation. So where is the national media? The cable news talking heads? The race pimpin’ super duo of Jesse and Al? The professional agitators and social justice warriors? The exploiting politicians? Almost 900 shootings and homicides in the past three months and not one is worthy of their attention.

Someone from ‘round these parts once said “never let a crisis go to waste”. Apparently these stats aren’t crisis-y enough.


Race of Victim/Attacker


Race
Victim Attacker
Black 319 94
Hispanic 56 16
White/Other 27 12
Police- 15
As of 11/24/14

(edited to reconstruct table)


The author makes a great point. THAT is where outrage should be directed. THAT is the problem. THAT is ignored. THAT is ignored because it would be un-PC to discuss it. So in stead PC warriors and the outrage brigade by focusing on specific events and ignoring the common tacitly support the continuation of this massacre.

That's an amazing post...........

 

[roydo]

And saw a tweet that summed it up best. If Americans loved actual black people as much as they love black culture we wouldn't have a problem in this country.

It would appear that the value of a black mans life isnt valued in the same way that a white mans would be. Which in parts of the US must still be a hangover from whole civil rights movement. An ingrained trait that a change in laws will never eradicate.

There was a black professor of something on the radio today. He said that the public prosecutor in this story has never ever allowed a prosecution of a cop who had shot a black man to even get to court. Astonishing.

 

[donalmclean]

They're not going to get shot because of the colour of their skin. The cops don't just walk around indiscriminately shooting black kids.

The state I live in, Wisconsin, has a population of around 5.7 million. Pretty comparable to your Finland at 5.5 million.

Finland has around 3,000 incarcerated people, currently. Wisconsin has 22,000 in prison. Tell me that isn't a problem.

12.8% of all black men in Wisconsin are behind bars. White men? 0.46%.

Would you like to continue blaming the victim?

Is that because more black people have committed crime?

 

[RaleighBlue]

Is that because more black people have committed crime?

Often not:

Here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gabriel-sayegh/new-york-marijuana-arrests_b_2910102.html

And even though young whites use marijuana at higher rates, over 85 percent of the people arrested and jailed for marijuana possession are black and Latino