BLM? Read this opinion piece from 2015
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What we see now is the real issue of police brutality being used to overwhelm the real, core problems in the inner city black communities. Athletes. Media. Celebrities. All demand change - on the terms the leftists demand.
It’s a delusional cult of leftist blame and guilt, one that coerces compliance by intimidation.
Of course, those real, core problems lead to what we saw in Chicago a couple of weekends ago. Black deaths. 18 murders in Chicago in 24 hours. You’ll see the color of the victims’ skin. And one of course knows the color of the perpetrators’ skin. But that isn’t comfortable. It goes against the grain of everything the leftist believes.
But this link is just a small, small sample.
The opinion piece by Orlando Patterson below should be read by all. But, as we know, the leftists can’t handle the truth.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/opinion/sunday/the-real-problem-with-americas-inner-cities.html
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The recent unrest in Baltimore raises complex and confounding questions, and in response many people have attempted to define the problem solely in terms of insurgent American racism and violent police behavior.
But that is a gross oversimplification. America is not reverting to earlier racist patterns, and calling for a national conversation on race is a cliché that evades the real problem we now face: on one hand, a vicious tangle of concentrated poverty, disconnected youth and a culture of violence among a small but destructive minority in the inner cities; and, on the other hand, of out-of-control law-enforcement practices abetted by a police culture that prioritizes racial profiling and violent constraint.
First, we need a more realistic understanding of America’s inner cities. They are socially and culturally heterogeneous, and a great majority of residents are law-abiding, God-fearing and often socially conservative.
According to recent surveys, between 20 and 25 percent of their permanent residents are middle class; roughly 60 percent are solidly working class or working poor who labor incredibly hard, advocate fundamental American values and aspire to the American dream for their children. Their youth share their parents’ values, expend considerable social energy avoiding the violence around them and consume far fewer drugs than their white working- and middle-class counterparts, despite their disproportionate arrest and incarceration rates.
In all inner-city neighborhoods, however, there is a problem minority that varies between about 12.1 percent (in San Diego, for example) and 28 percent (in Phoenix) that comes largely from the disconnected youth between ages 16 and 24. Most are not in school and are chronically out of work, though their numbers are supplemented by working- and middle-class dropouts. With few skills and a contempt for low-wage jobs, they subsist through the underground economy of illicit trading and crime. Many belong to gangs.
Their street or thug culture is real, with a configuration of norms, values and habits that are, disturbingly, rooted in a ghetto brand of core American mainstream values: hypermasculinity, the aggressive assertion and defense of respect, extreme individualism, materialism and a reverence for the gun, all inflected with a threatening vision of blackness openly embraced as the thug life.
Such street culture is simply the black urban version of one of America’s most iconic traditions: the Wild West. America’s first gangsta thugs were Billy the Kid and Jesse James. In the youth thug cultures of both the Wild West and the inner cities, America sees inverted images of its own most iconic values, one through rose-tinted glass, the other through a glass, darkly.
While there is some continuity between the old Western and thug cultures learned through extensive exposure to the media, that of the urban streets originated more in reaction to the long centuries of institutionalized violence against blacks during slavery and Jim Crow. The historian Roger Lane has traced the roots of Philadelphia’s black “criminal subculture” all the way back to the mid-1800s; W. E. B. Du Bois found it thoroughly entrenched in his own study of Philadelphia in the 1890s.
This culture is reinforced by contemporary conditions like poverty, racial discrimination, chronic unemployment, single parenting and a chemically toxic, neurologically injurious environment, like the lead paint that poisoned Freddie Gray.
Its intersection with overly aggressive law enforcement was not random or inevitable, but rooted in a historical irony. As the political scientist Michael Javen Fortner documents in his forthcoming work “Black Silent Majority,” when Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York introduced draconian new drug laws in the early 1970s to combat the increasingly violent street life of New York City, he did so with the full support of black leaders, who felt they had no choice — their lives and communities were being destroyed by the minority street gangs and drug addicts.
But it was not long before the dark side of this intervention emerged: Soon all black youth, not just the delinquent minority, were being profiled as criminals, all ghetto residents were being viewed and treated with disrespect and, increasingly, police tactics relied on the use of violence as a first resort. And yet it didn’t work, at least in one important respect: Although the black homicide rate has declined substantially, it still remains catastrophic, with blacks being murdered at eight times the national rate — and, among teens, it has been rising again since 2002.
In tackling the present crisis, it is thus a clear mistake to focus only on police brutality, and it is fatuous to attribute it all to white racism. Black policemen were involved in both the South Carolina and Baltimore killings. Coming from the inner-city majority terrorized by the thug culture minority, they are, sadly, as likely to be brutal in their policing as white officers.
We see this in stark detail in the chronic violence of New York’s Rikers Island correction officers, the leadership and majority of whom are black. We see it also in the maternal rage of Toya Graham, the Baltimore single mom whose abusive reprimand of her son, a video of which quickly went viral, reflects both her fear of losing him to the street and her desperate, though counterproductive, mode of rearing her fatherless son.
WHAT is to be done? On the police side of the crisis, there should be immediate implementation of the sensible recommendations of President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing, including more community policing; making the use of violence a last resort; greater transparency and independent investigation of all police killings; an end to racial profiling; the use of body cameras; reduced use of the police in school disputes; and fundamental changes in officer training aimed at greater knowledge of, and respect for, inner-city neighborhoods.
Accompanying this should be a drastic reduction in the youth incarceration rate, which President Obama can make a dent in immediately by pardoning the many thousands of nonviolent youths who have been unfairly imprisoned and whose incarceration merely increases their likelihood of becoming violent.
In regard to black youth, the government must begin the chemical detoxification of ghetto neighborhoods in light of the now well-documented relation between toxic exposure and youth criminality. Further, there should be an immediate scaling up of the many federal and state programs for children and youth that have been shown to work: child care from the prenatal to pre-K stages, such as Head Start and the nurse-family partnership program; after-school programs to keep boys from the lure of the street and to provide educational enrichment as well as badly needed male role models; community-based programs that focus on enhancing life skills and providing short-term, entry-level employment; and continued expansion of successful charter school systems.
The president’s My Brother’s Keeper program, now a year old, is an excellent and timely initiative that has already begun the coordination and upscaling of such successful programs, as well as the integration of the private sector in their development.
And finally, there is one long-term, fundamental change that can come only from within the black community: a reduction in the number of kids born to single, usually poor, women, which now stands at 72 percent. Its consequences are grim: greatly increased risk of prolonged poverty, child abuse, educational failure and youth delinquency and violence, especially among boys, whose main reason for joining gangs is to find a family and male role models.
As one gang member told an interviewer working for the sociologist Deanna Wilkinson: “I grew up as looking for somebody to love me in the streets. You know, my mother was always working, my father used to be doing his thing. So I was by myself. I’m here looking for some love. I ain’t got nobody to give me love, so I went to the streets to find love.”
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Hmmm. Nearly on queue. https://fox4kc.com/news/after-5-shot-18th-and-vine-business-owners-want-to-see-change-to-help-stop-crime/
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — As the community rallies behind the Black Lives Matter movement, some city leaders are hoping this momentum carries over to other issues.
“When you talk about the totality of preserving black lives in the community, we have to find our lives more valuable than the lives of those who are willing to destroy what we’re seeking to do,” 3rd District At-Large Councilman Brandon Ellington said.
Ellington is responding to a shooting that happened over the weekend in the 18th & Vine District that left one person dead and four people injured.
Business owners like Anita Moore are upset that police don’t have a big presence in the area.
“It would be nice to know that we have presence in the district. I mean, it’s an entertainment district. It’s historical. We just need support,” said Moore, the owner of Soiree Steak & Oyster House.
As protesters take to the streets, nearly two weeks after the death of George Floyd, many are demanding police reform. Community leaders are hoping to find some common ground.
“I think it’s more emotional for everybody because of the heightened of the racial tension and the racism and the things that are happening and the conversations that a lot of our leaders should be having,” Black Excellence KC Founder Kiona Sinks said.
Ellington said work is already being done to curb violence. He’s launched the “No More Excuses Coalition,” focusing on eliminating crime.
“We have to get to a point where if you’re not here to enjoy yourself and you’re here to cause harm, we can’t consider you family or a brother,” Ellington said.
This is absolutely incredible. Read it.
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I’d love to have the conversation.
Let’s solve one problem at a time.
If fewer single parent households means a better community, why won’t conservatives fund birth control?
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@Kcmatt7 said in BLM? Read this opinion piece from 2015:
I’d love to have the conversation.
Let’s solve one problem at a time.
If fewer single parent households means a better community, why won’t conservatives fund birth control?
Those dastardly conservatives checks notes and their… ummm… draconian Title X cuts which resulted in the non-ARRA record under the BCA signed by that right winger… Obama…? https://www.hhs.gov/opa/title-x-family-planning/about-title-x-grants/funding-history/index.html
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@FarmerJayhawk said in BLM? Read this opinion piece from 2015:
@Kcmatt7 said in BLM? Read this opinion piece from 2015:
I’d love to have the conversation.
Let’s solve one problem at a time.
If fewer single parent households means a better community, why won’t conservatives fund birth control?
Those dastardly conservatives checks notes and their… ummm… draconian Title X cuts which resulted in the non-ARRA record under the BCA signed by that right winger… Obama…? https://www.hhs.gov/opa/title-x-family-planning/about-title-x-grants/funding-history/index.html
Fair.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/1402941001
Also this would be a nice in my face too.
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@Kcmatt7 Here’s a helpful hints on which side is typically responsible for block legislation. If it deals with stripping away privacy, it’s usually the right that’s responsible. If it deals with trying to screw people out of money, it’s probably the left responsible for it.
Considering the right is historically in favor of economic deregulation, them supporting making birth control an OTC drug makes sense because it helps deregulate big pharma.
One of the few times I agree with AOC on policy.
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@Kcmatt7 said in BLM? Read this opinion piece from 2015:
@FarmerJayhawk said in BLM? Read this opinion piece from 2015:
@Kcmatt7 said in BLM? Read this opinion piece from 2015:
I’d love to have the conversation.
Let’s solve one problem at a time.
If fewer single parent households means a better community, why won’t conservatives fund birth control?
Those dastardly conservatives checks notes and their… ummm… draconian Title X cuts which resulted in the non-ARRA record under the BCA signed by that right winger… Obama…? https://www.hhs.gov/opa/title-x-family-planning/about-title-x-grants/funding-history/index.html
Fair.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/1402941001
Also this would be a nice in my face too.
Yep, the GOP has been on this for awhile. Jindal started speaking about it 12, and notably Sen. Gardner ran on it in 14.
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Make birth control over counter and it solves a ton of issues. The dems shot it down https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/06/11/i-am-a-conservative-i-agree-with-aoc-on-over-the-counter-birth-control-column/1402941001/ https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/244448-senate-dems-rebuke-gops-over-the-counter-birth-control-bill The common denominator in the inner city ghetto that I lived in was single parents.
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@kjayhawks Right, the obvious common denominator. And before we get the normal leftist chime in, no, it’s not all. It’s just that in single parent households, risks factors increase - lack of supervision, lack of money, lack of family structure, etc. I saw where children in single parent households that result from death vs. out of wedlock birth or divorce, do better than the latter group. It is undeniable.
And jackass Richard Sherman, burned of course by Sammy Watkins in SB LIV, invokes the “everyone must line up with our thought process” in targeting another team’s owner.
The left is fascism. Don’t agree? We’ll destroy you. We’ll threaten. We’ll intimidate. That’s the m.o. Just a tiny sampling.
https://nypost.com/2020/06/10/ucla-suspends-professor-for-refusing-leniency-for-black-students/
And if you check a bit deeper, the guy has received threats and is under police protection.
Of course, a Sacramento Kings announcer tweets, “All Lives Matter … Every Single One” and he’s fired. “Tone deaf” is what I heard a few black folks and liberal media types say – right, not in lockstep with the delusion cult.
But murder a terrific man? Oh, collateral damage, right. David Dorn was murdered. Murdered. No different that George Floyd.
This man’s life is just as valuable as George Floyd. And I’m guessing this man didn’t have fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system as the upstanding Mr. Floyd did. In fact, this man (Mr. Dorn) by all accounts was an incredible man.
But do you hear sh** head athletes stand up for him? The media cry over his death? The celebrities condemn the (black) animals and thugs that do this stuff regularly? Of course not.
MR. DORN WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY LOOTERS, we hear. I heard this. But odd, when I heard the reports for a few days I didn’t hear he was killed by “black looters.”
No, they want folks fired for saying “all lives matter.”
Look at the lovely “victim” of oppression that of course can’t be a perpetrator because he “has a foot on his neck” or whatever bullsh** I’ve seen here and from others. This is the nightly perp walk around this county.
Oh, and we can’t get the inner cities under control because of who? Conservatives? Every major inner city has been run by democrats and largely black city councils for decades. Heck, even the this nasty leftist understands that.
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Interesting. Anyone guess why Walmart locked up these multicultural hair products to begin with? Is it racism if the actions are a reaction to damage to your business, i.e., theft? Right, “Like other retailers, the cases were put in place to deter shoplifters from some products such as electronics, automotive, cosmetics and other personal care products,” a Walmart spokesperson said in a statement.
If multicultural hair products are stolen at a much higher rate than “white” products, it’s asinine to suggest that it is systemic racism. But par for the course for leftist fools.
IT MUST BE WHITE PRIVILEGE THAT THE STORES AROUND MY NEIGHBORHOODS DON’T HAVE BARS ON THE WINDOWS AND THOSE IN INNER CITY BLACK NEIGHBORHOODS DO, RIGHT?
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/walmart-multicultural-hair-products-cases
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@HighEliteMajor said in BLM? Read this opinion piece from 2015:
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/walmart-multicultural-hair-products-cases
lol in 12 of almost 5000 stores. v edgy
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Are these people really that insecure? That illogically focused on things that have no impact on their lives?
Perhaps they should simply say THANK YOU to Washington and Jefferson for helping fight and establish the greatest nation on the face of the planet that they are PRIVILEGED to reside in.
It seems quite a bit better to be an African-American vs. just an African. But perhaps my opinion there is off …
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At least 12M slaves were ripped from their own homes, and 2M of them died. ON THE WAY OVER. That doesn’t include how many were literally murdered once here. The torture they suffered. The rape they endured.
This was the Holocaust, and you basically just said Jews should have been happy about it. They could still be in Israel instead.
I mean Christ man.
Germany, as far as I know, doesn’t have a single nazi emblem in the entire country anymore except for museums and a single statue, built by the Russians, that depicted it poorly. They didn’t erase their history. They quit celebrating it. Why we are so damn stubborn we want to keep monuments to our holocaust around blows my mind.
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@HighEliteMajor said in BLM? Read this opinion piece from 2015:
Interesting. Anyone guess why Walmart locked up these multicultural hair products to begin with? Is it racism if the actions are a reaction to damage to your business, i.e., theft? Right, “Like other retailers, the cases were put in place to deter shoplifters from some products such as electronics, automotive, cosmetics and other personal care products,” a Walmart spokesperson said in a statement.
If multicultural hair products are stolen at a much higher rate than “white” products, it’s asinine to suggest that it is systemic racism. But par for the course for leftist fools.
IT MUST BE WHITE PRIVILEGE THAT THE STORES AROUND MY NEIGHBORHOODS DON’T HAVE BARS ON THE WINDOWS AND THOSE IN INNER CITY BLACK NEIGHBORHOODS DO, RIGHT?
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/walmart-multicultural-hair-products-cases
Just say it HEM. You want to. Come on. Tell us how you really feel about black people.
You probably don’t believe socioeconomics have anything to do with it right?
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You know how I feel about black people. I want to preserve their lives. I don’t want them killed. This is the ultimate statement of whether black lives matter, or if they do not. This quote from above, from a black councilman in KC summarizes my thoughts perfectly:
“When you talk about the totality of preserving black lives in the community, we have to find our lives more valuable than the lives of those who are willing to destroy what we’re seeking to do,” 3rd District At-Large Councilman Brandon Ellington said.
Yet small, shallow minds like yours – ones that have an agenda to align with one monolithic thought process – purposefully, dishonestly, and viciously distort to fit your narrative. I don’t know how much more clear I can be. Try being honest. Try having some character. But, that’s not the left, is it?
We are America. We have freedom. We have nothing to do with a country like Germany, that has plunged the world into two horrific world wars. We should invite dissenting opinions, uncomfortable symbols, and all that is freedom.
From a freedom perspective, we should allow horrible and offensive speech. We ain’t Germany.
Whether it be Nazis, Communists, BLM, or whatever group on spectrum, we should draw the line when they attack and hurt people and property. Quite simple. My view. And I think the Constitution’s view, as well.
Stupid question, by the way. About as stupid as they come. You ask the question as if you are making some point. Yet it’s comical and ironic that leftists like you simply ignore facts. As if they don’t exist. Because they make you feel comfortable and good about yourself.
I have told you what I think about the black folks that are consumed by the violent inner city culture that robs, kills, and maims, thousands upon thousands every year. Heck, every WEEK.
Yet, interestingly, a MAJORITY of black folks in the inner city don’t take that path.
And the sick leftists attack the police when the police are the only ones stopping the inner city mobs from overwhelming the MAJORITY that is the good black folks that reside there.
I would offer that the leftists really don’t care one bit about the MAJORITY that is the good black folks that reside in the inner city.
As mentioned, the left has been in control of all facets of the inner cities for decades.
And more foolishness – true or untrue, blacks in America are better off than blacks in Africa? Undeniable. Turn that however you want. The point is sometimes that your reach a place in history, and most times through tragedy, that places the next generation in a better position that the prior generation. The Japanese and Germans, through tragedy, propelled America and our nation to a place that would not have been achieved without such tragedy. Do we wish it wouldn’t have occurred? Sure. Of course. But are we, our generation, in a better position because of it? Definitely.
But it’s easier to react with faux shock and not think about it a little bit. Allows for one to sleep better, you know, scolding others for their insensitivity.
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Yes. The left is the only one telling themselves things to make them sleep easy at night lol.
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Of course, I didn’t say that. So lol as much as makes you happy – just don’t let facts get in your way.
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@Kcmatt7 said in BLM? Read this opinion piece from 2015:
Yes. The left is the only one telling themselves things to make them sleep easy at night lol.
Sounds more like something Trump supporters would do while he tries to tweet law and order into existence.
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Imagine thinking cancel culture only exists on one side of the aisle.
- Dixie Chicks (who is the most ironic because now Trump is running on an anti-war “bring our troops home” platform)
- Kaepernick
- Shep Smith
- Nike as a whole
- A&E as recent as yesterday
- HBO as recent as yesterday
But just the sick leftists doing it
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More distracting from facts. It’s really pathetic. It’s the leftist playbook … take actions that amount to a tremor and compare them to an earthquake, just so you can say, “see, you they do it too.” SF is in ruins from a 8.5 earthquake and you’d be in OK saying, hey, but we had an earthquake too.
Is debating this stuff really this easy?
A&E cancels Live PD. Why? Too many black criminals – er, people of color. Never mind truth. Never mind facts. Never mind that it’s REALITY show.
And guess what, Live PD is pretty damn boring in Johnson County.
Truth and facts.
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For a look at the left, just go look at Seattle. That’s the left.
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@HighEliteMajor said:
We should invite dissenting opinions, uncomfortable symbols, and all that is freedom.
Absolutely. The problem I’m having with free speech these days is the amplifying and bias that comes from social media consciously and unconsciously via machine learning algorithms.
For example, Facebook changing their platform to foster a sense of community inadvertently leading toward the large scale growth of Q Anon supporters.
Throwing in big media and a president promoting conspiracy theories and it’s a mess.
There’s nothing wrong with freedom of speech (and a lot right!), but public figures and corporations fostering disinformation for personal benefit, society be damned, is a problem.
It’s not so different than your concerns about thug culture being glorified.
Freedom of speech needs to be protected. But it also can be a threat to itself.
