I mean, they tried with the protests several times during the Barry Obama administration, but couldn’t get the momentum to succeed.
Not so today though. Seems that there are enough crazy people in power that they might get another step forward.
“Justice for George Floyd”
To
“Defund the police”
Interesting.
I think these folks might not like the result if the Police were “defunded” and there was no police presence in their home neighborhoods.
Especially in the areas where the anger among the denizens is the greatest.
Saw this seven times yesterday on the television. All white spokespeople giving us the message about white racism and/or racist cops. “We need to face the issue of racism before we can fix it”
They are correct. These are issues that need to be addressed. Police accountability and “Qualified Immunity” are a big issue.
But no one, not one person, is pointing out the fact that there is another issue:
Black crime.
Wanna stop of greatly reduce the issue? Fully half of the issue is that a segment of our black population refuses to follow the laws. Are unwilling to behave according to the rules of society. Not bad people, perhaps, by their own moral standard, but still, can’t follow the rules of society. And that just plays up to the stereotype that many have about black people. Some (white) folks just can’t see past the extra melanin. But the high crime, the fact that any excuse to loot amongst many inner city people…. that doesn’t help either. Stereotypes exist for a reason, you know. Black people kill each other at a much higher rate than whites kill them. And cops arrest them when they break the law.
Does white racism exist? Absolutely. And yes, we need to do something to stop it. Lots of work to be done there.
Do we also get to do something ,….face the other issue….about thievery, robbery, and the fact that black people commit crimes (both major and minor) at a rate 4 or more times higher than their fellow races? Let’s face that fact as well, and fix that too. (and, lets face it, it isn’t ALL black people, but only a small subset that is the issue…and that group has the issues with police interactions). Fact is that most people interacting with the police have interacted with them more than once in the past, be they white or black or another race.
Could that fact have something to do with the perceived racism of cops? Of white people? The fact that (some) black people won’t obey the rules of society? (there is a small portion of whites and Hispanics and other races that have the same issue with police…and oddly, they get treated the same way…and killed when they resist)
Do we get to simply face and deal with the fact that a significant portion of the black population (more than most people are comfortable to admit) especially men, can’t seem to obey the law? And therefore, since cops are supposed to enforce the law, this brings them into conflict.
Forget the fact that cops cause the deaths of significantly more white criminals than black criminals (by overall number)….The perception is that cops kill more blacks than whites…which is simply not true.
But the best way to get killed by a cop is to start with the interaction with them:
First rule: don’t break the law.
Second rule: When confronted for a crime you have committed, don’t be an asshole.
Third rule: When yer gonna be arrested, do’t fight back, or things might get somewhat kinetic.
Fourth rule, when given a ticket or a fine, deal with it, don’t ignore it…deal with it. Pay the fine, show up for court…..otherwise, when the cops run your file, yer gonna get….arrested…..Which puts you in the hot seat….which leads to rules two and three (especially three)
But stop being criminals. (Note: I am NOT saying all black people are criminals…but a higher percentage are. I know many folks who are not criminals, are, in fact, decent law abiding citizens, wonderful human beings…and they abhor the issues with their race and culture as much as I do)
Mr Floyd had a long criminal record…which led to his last interaction with the police. He was intoxicated with meth and fentanyl at the time of his attempted arrest and subsequent death…he had been charged with and convicted of both robbery and theft in the past….He’d been in jail several times…..not unknown to the police… He was not the paragon of virtue as we were told he was by the media. Hardly a choirboy, as it were….
Lets face that issue as well…Black Crime…..While we are facing the issue of racism.
Both need to be fixed.
If I lived in Minneapolis, I think I’d move as soon as possible.
In an ideal world, we would not need police.
Sadly, we don’t live in a perfect world.
Some areas are less perfect than others.
I’m betting that it was a lot of white folks…racist though we are.
Dude seems like a nice man, and has, according to sources, a decent family.
Got screwed by a rioting mob. I doubt that they care.
I donated.
Dude has nearly a half million dollars to make a second start. I bet he doesn’t do it in the same neighborhood.
That is all out the window now.
What possible excuse is there for any city to keep barber shops, dine-in restaurants, nail salons, gyms, churches, gatherings of more than 10 people, etc., closed or severely restricted?
Why should we continue the (poorly) enforced “social distancing? Hundreds if not thousands, of people have gathered in very close proximity in many municipalities to protest the death of a man they did not know, whose history they knew nothing about, whose death they only know about from an edited cell phone video, yet the government authorities stood by and did nothing. Watched as they marched hand in hand, shoulder to shoulder, in protest, violating every “Social Distancing” protocol.
I fully expect that every city and state restriction will soon be lifted, as we have now seen that supposed public health precautions can be overriddeden by Social Justice politics.
Any mayor or governor who does otherwise is a hypocrite.
We ahve the surveillance video of him being removed from the car and walked towards the building. where he seems to be somewhat intoxicated and, if not fighting back or resisting arres, not terribly cooperative.
THen we get the cell phone video showing him being restrained, and eventually passing away after shouting loudly “Officer, I can’t breathe”. (oddly, he can get enough air to shout that).
But what about the in-between? What happened that 4 cops chose to dogpile the dude?
Enquiring minds and all that.
Yep, all of us are. You can tell. All those white people that are marching (but, oddly, not looting black businesses or breaking windows, or setting fires to black neighborhoods or general mayhem) that outnumber those poor downtrodden black people in the peaceful marches.
That country that is so racist that they (*the whites mostly) have paid Billions and Billions of dollars every year…used to help the black community….essentially feeding them, housing them, educating them. The country that was so worried about past sins that they forced large companies in the ’70’s through the early 2000’s to hire a greater percentage of black people than the local community had per capita….to the point where those companies hired black people that were incompetent in the field (and those same companies tried to teach them how to DO the job competently) to the detriment of well qualified whites and asians.
The country that hires an overwhelmingly large number ( almost 2 times the per capita percentage) of black people for Government jobs….gives preference to them, in fact, and won’t fire them, no matter how unproductive they are….Mostly because they are “black”, and therefore a protected segment of society.
The “Racist” government that gives special consideration and advantages to black businesses for construction projects, supplies for offices, other contracting positions….to the detriment of white owned businesses that can do the job for a lower cost…..”Set asides” for that special, protected class, based on race.
The country that gives a great number of scholarships (paid for by mostly WHITE people) to nearly any black kids that can read, write, has a high school diploma and can bother to show up (even though black kids fall out of college at a 3 times higher rate than Whites or Asians or Hispanics….).
Yeah, we are all racist (except black people, of course). Racist ’cause we expect people to follow the laws. Expect them to pay fines and show up for court when they don’t. Expect them to not do criminal acts. Expects them to follow the rules in the society in which they live…the rules of the society that pays for their kids housing, education, food, and medical care when they are “poor”…Often “Poor” because of a series of bad decisions those same black people make over and over and over.
And when they choose not to, our “racist” society then has police arrest, and prosecutors prosecute, them for failing to abide by the rules of society. When they fail to go quietly, and have to be forced to submit to those officers so they can have their day in court, we are then “Bad People” for expecting them to behave…..And forcing them when they won’t.
Yeah, that “Racist America”.
Waiting for the time to start, to run ashore against a hail of bullets from a beached transport to find cover on a sandy beach.
Sitting there, waiting.
Hoping that the plan was good, and that they would survive the night.
On this day, most of western europe should get down on their knees and thank God for these men, for their countries are free thanks to them.
Remember those men, of the US, Britain, Canada who invaded on D-Day 76 years ago.
Sure, that statue of a long dead man inspires then of thousands of white police officers to go out every day to make the lives of black me miserable…Yep, I believe that.
Does the statue also inspire the black men to break the law at a rate that is 4 x higher than any other racial group? Do the statues force them to fail to show up for court dates at a rate that is 7 times higher than the other demographic? Fail to graduate high school at a rate that is 5 times greater than their fellow citizens who have different ancestors? Enter adulthood with felonies at a rate that is 9.8 times greater than their fellow citizens who are lighter skinned (I include hispanics and middle easterners in the lighter skinned group)…?
It is amazing how those statues are such an enemy.
Or there could be something else in play and the media is just using the current unrest as a vehicle….