vincentML -> RE: Milwaukee Burning (8/20/2016 7:43:29 AM)
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Vince we all have the same feet... that was and is a bullshit argument... Racism can be very easily quantified. If they can show racism I am all for stamping it out. Butch, this Salon article i posted earlier is an opinion piece in which the writer makes a case for changing our thinking over the "causes" of the reactions in the black streets. Yeah, there are grievances about education, poverty, and jobs. Trump made the claim last night for about 50+% unemployment among black youth. Surprising to me. The writer, DeVega, says that those grievances, while valid, are not the main issue, that the MSM by framing those grievances within a "white" thought process have obfuscated black rage at police tactics, mass incarceration, and incidents of disrespect. From time to time they explode like the man in the open window in some movie screaming, "I'm fed up and I'm not going to take this anymore." I am not sure I can do justice to DeVega's point but I think he sums it up well in this paragraph: It is easy for the mainstream news media to opine and lecture about “pathological” black communities that are supposedly plagued by “bad culture.” It is far more difficult to talk about America’s broken police and its culture of violence and disrespect toward non-whites and poor people that led to the killing of Freddie Gray in Baltimore, and so many other black men and women across the United States of America. Just last November an unarmed black man was shot dead by Milwaukee police. And Like many other major cities, Minneapolis police have paid out millions in lawsuits over police conduct in recent years. In October, the city settled a lawsuit for $122,000 regarding a 2012 incident in which police allegedly assaulted a black man over a gun he was legally permitted to carry. “This is a part of a pattern of police abuse that’s been going on for decades in the city of Minneapolis,” said Nekima Levy-Pounds, a civil rights lawyer and the president of the Minneapolis chapter of the NAACP, in an interview with MintPress News on Monday. She also highlighted the cases of Terrance Franklin and Tycel Nelson as other high-profile examples of what she called “execution-style killings” by police. source Yes, more black families have "moved on up" and there have been well-meaning programs and legislation to assist people of color but racism is not history in America; it continues in the attitudes of many whites and in the activities of the "Rodney King Squads."
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