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Is Ferguson happening in a vacuum - 12/4/2014 12:14:22 PM

kdsub

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There has been much said about the unrest in Ferguson Missouri not happening in a vacuum. This insinuates that even if the incidents that set off the violence and protests were lawful there are other valid reasons African Americans are protesting.

Will this goes both ways… there are also happenings that are not in a vacuum that have molded non-blacks response and attitudes to the protests in the St. Louis area.

These attitudes may be particular to our immediate area and have good reason behind them. St. Louis is often given the moniker as one of the most racists cities in America… Well here is why:

Let me give you a few examples… the vast majority of crime is committed by blacks in St. Louis and St. Louis county.

Just yesterday three black men enter a bar in St. Louis… they shoot in the air then grab a white woman…put a gun to her head and blow her brains out. The idea is to scare the rest of the patrons into submission. It was a mistake as a retired policeman had a gun and shot two of the men… they managed to also shoot four other people before he shot one in the eye and the other in the butt… the third got away. Two days before this a white man was beaten to death by black men with hammers demanding money. This death was protested by whites in a demonstration in the streets… bet you never heard of that demonstration.The week before a white woman walked along the street in St. Louis when a group of black female teens beat her up because she would not give them money. The week before that a group of black teens demanded money from a white man who refused and was beaten to within an inch of his life. A few months before a white girl setting in her car at an intersection in St. Louis was murdered by a black man because she would not give him her cell phone… she was talking to her mother at the time. Or the grandmother walking her two grandchildren home from school and was shot in the head by drive by blacks in a gang war… Lets not forget the 12 and 8 year old boys shot or the man killed in his bed asleep… all in the last few weeks. Don’t forget the knockout game originated in St. Louis… It started with a 70 year old white man beaten to death for fun… you know the game where blacks see who can hit a white man with one sucker punch and knock him or her out.

I could go on and on and on and on and on and on and on listing the violent crime committed by blacks… and my God the crime they commit against each other is even worse… just check out the number of blacks killing blacks in St Louis… we are talking hundreds of murders in a year. In my little sub of St Louis in the last 5 years two police officers have been murdered by blacks… our Mayor…our public works director and two councilmen have been murdered by blacks.

So forgive the whites, and me, who have little sympathy for a petty criminal getting shot for attacking a police officer or the punk that took three shots at a police officer who then shot back and killed the bastard.

It is tough to be honest and I do find myself in conflict with what I know is the right way to think and what feelings burn deep in my stomach. Just as we in my area are supposed to overlook these isolated, although not real isolated, incidents and not think of all blacks as criminals so should blacks not think all cops are killers... yes there are reasons we feel the way we do... even if wrong.

Butch

< Message edited by kdsub -- 12/4/2014 12:55:10 PM >

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