Zonie63
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ORIGINAL: kdsub
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
I can understand one's frustration over crime in one's area. We have our share of violent crime in southern Arizona, in addition to being close to the border which is another source of frustration for many here. The type of violent criminal behavior you're describing here can actually be found among all races.
One thing that should not be overlooked is that a lot of these cities were, at least at one time, ruled by organized crime which was aided and abetted by the local police and government. After generations of turning the blind eye to organized crime, it shouldn't be too surprising that some of these cities end up as they do. Popular culture and the entertainment media have glorified organized crime as well. If whites don't like what's happening in these cities, then they never should have allowed organized crime to become so powerful in the first place. At least if we're willing to recognize this, then it might put us on a road towards a solution.
So, in order to rein in all the delinquent "little fish," society still has to take a more direct and forthright approach against all the "big fish" who have been calling the shots and allowing situations like this to fester for as long as they have. That's not to mitigate or excuse any crimes the "little fish" are committing out there, but we should at least try to put this in an honest and realistic perspective. That's the main problem with issues like this, since society only really wants to deal with symptoms without making any honest effort to seek out the root cause.
It's much the same with our problems here along the border, the cartel and gang wars and so forth. There's a strong police presence, a lot of Border Patrol, yet all they ever do is go after the small fry. That tells me that the powers that be are not really interested in solving the problem, they're full of shit, and they're nothing more than wanton hypocrites who mock the very ideals they pretend to uphold. When viewed from that perspective, the police force becomes nothing more than just another criminal gang in the eyes of many people. I know that many who see the police differently might take offense at comparisons like this, but at least we should be realistic enough to acknowledge that such perceptions exist for a reason. And no, they don't exist in a vacuum either.
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