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What is it about the act of waving a pellet gun that looks like a real gun around in public do people not get? His own neighbor called the police to report it out of concern.
People should be angry at the child's parents not at the police who risked their lives and had no way of knowing the gun was a toy!
Well, there doing these racial justice curriculum in schools. They say that White Americans are responsible for the violence inflicted on black and Latino people.
Going from cities in flames to complaining about ethnic food in the cafeteria is certainly progress.
Complaining about food? No. The younger Black generation today is demanding racial exclusion and separate but equal facilities. What in the hell are their parents teaching them that has resulted in their protesting FOR the reinstatement of Jim Crow practices?
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Race relations have tumbled over the years since 2009. Some people blame President Barack Obama, Rev. Al Sharpton, etc. for the racial divide. What is the future of race relations between whites and blacks?
The path we are on now will lead to a US broken up into several different nations I believe.
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I believe the core thing about race relations is personal experiences with other groups of people. If you are an older White person whose family fled an urban neighborhood for the suburbs after the MLK assassination riots you will probably feel negative towards Black people. If you grew up poor and Black and were constantly stopped by police you will probably feel anger towards Whites. The reality today is fewer Gen X/ Y / Z people had such polarizing experiences. Many of us grew up after the initial problems of school and residential segregation ended. Many of us grew up in safe neighborhoods that had some level of diversity and we personally know someone of another race and / or mixed race through work.
So why do things seem so bad now? First, we all had a false since that the election of Obama would change everything. Whites thought that Black people would live happily ever and Blacks thought the changes they always wanted would come. Neither happened. Whites got fearful when Obama injected himself even a bit into any racial controversy like the Gates arrest or Travon Martin shooting. Blacks felt their lives didn't change at all. The irony these divergent interpretations led to polar opposite movements of Black Lives Matter and Take Back Our Country.
What is it about the act of waving a pellet gun that looks like a real gun around in public do people not get? His own neighbor called the police to report it out of concern.
The first bullet was striking Rice's body before the police car that had pulled up had fully come to a stop! He was dead two seconds after the police arrived. One thousand, two thousand... I don't care if Rice had had an AR-17, as long as it was not a hostage situation, with innocents in danger, he should NOT have been peremptorily executed. Come on. Is that really defensible?! Let's not follow that line of argument. Thank you.
Now, wait, wait, Leisesturm. He said:Twenty years ago isn't far back. That's only 1996, and for sure thirty years after the Civil Rights Act there indeed had been significant strides made in the corporate world at the basic hiring level.
I remember the difference between being black and being hired by a major company in the 60s compared to being black and being hired by a major company in the 90s.
So let's give him that.
Let's give him nothing. I know you mean well but I want to hear from him how many blacks he has hired. I don't care about AA or not AA. I want to know how an openly racist American with the power to hire and fire deals with the fact that the applicants at his company do not know when they are being interviewed that the interviewer thinks blacks are barely human as a collective. He has gone about as far out of his way a person can go to trot out as many negative black stereotypes as he can think of in one thread.
The first bullet was striking Rice's body before the police car that had pulled up had fully come to a stop! He was dead two seconds after the police arrived. One thousand, two thousand... I don't care if Rice had had an AR-17, as long as it was not a hostage situation, with innocents in danger, he should NOT have been peremptorily executed. Come on. Is that really defensible?! Let's not follow that line of argument. Thank you.
1. Shall the police wait until Rice fired at and killed someone?
2. Would you think race has anything to do with this?
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