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Yep, me too. One third of the people I work with are black. No problems.
People need to enter the real world. Turn off TV and walk away from the computer.
How can people enter the real world when it is only filled with "I this, I that, I have blacks friends therefore no racism exists"?
That is the problem with you people. Yes, I call my people savages, the low IQ ones, but that doesn't mean that pre-judgment does not occur. Or that white officers, who have been exposed to violence and crime in these cities, don't turn into delinquents themselves. The city doesn't care for them so they don't care for the communities they police..
You my friend, are not living the real world... You are probably the type to say that you "see no color". And that all cultures are the same and that nobody has any distinct character traits, traditions, customs, or values.... Yeah, I see no color my A...
13% of the entire population in the USA, will be overwhelmed quickly, if they want to make it a race war.
a very small % within only 13% of the population causes 69% of all violent crimes in the USA.
If it is racist for white people to fix it, then I highly suggest you fix it and fix it quick within your race. Because once white people have had enough, they will solve the problem and it will not be pretty.
Awful situation. No justification for what happened. But it still begs the question:
BLACK cop shoots BLACK man. Blame white people? And indeed, why isn't the headline, "Black police officer shoots unarmed black man?" If a white police officer did it, that most certainly would have been the headline.
Studies have shown that while indeed, police in general appear to use more "non-lethal force" against black people.... in terms of actual "people getting killed by police".... there actually is no demonstrable bias of black vs. white in terms of chances of getting killed by police.... justifiable or non.
Especially when factoring in % of encounters, per capita.
I don't believe any race war is coming. I think the violence, protests, and riots will be reaching its peak soon. Everyone is getting sick of this happening. It's very evident in the black community, that they are getting sick of this. We've seen black people making lines in front of police officers to protect them too. The problem is, the good people are not going to be at these riots, they are at home watching the YouTube videos or tv, wondering what is wrong with these rioters.
These rioters aren't part of the black community, or any community, they shun society and then don't understand why they are not accepted.
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I think race relations are better than they've ever been in history. The culture of consumerism, money, business, and capitalism has brought so many people together. America is truly a mono-culture.
A lot of people on these forums live in insular bubbles, where they only interact with their own race, and their entire narrative about race is based on the media.
For many many years I was a competitive gamer. I use to travel around the country and attend tournaments. There were people from so many different races, cultures, and backgrounds together just to compete in games. There would be gaming crews that were super racially diverse. The crew I use to train with had 2 hispanic guys, a white guy, 3 black guys, and 2 Asians. Still keep in contact with them.
when I go to conferences for my career, I see many people of various races talking about technology, their work environment, and challenges in providing solutions. No one ever thinks racially.
Among a certain income bracket, people really don't think racially. People just interact based on common interest, and most people don't immediately think they have things in common just because of race.
With that said, the race war talk is mostly from fringe white and black nationalist group. I call them "racialist", as they have a very "race first" mentality. And they feel worldview is centered around race, when it's not.
I wish you guys were right but I think you are very naive. We now have a permanent underclass and very little hope to change that.Obama was a senator from chicago and he certainly has done very little for chicago during his presidency. Most people know race relations are getting worse https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...645_story.html
Yes among a certain income bracket there is probably alot of daydreaming and obliviousness about how good race relations are, you ask people less sheltered to all the social problems and closer to lower income people like police officers and they will you race relations arent good at all
It won't be much of a race war if people who aren't Black start to fight back considering Blacks only make up about 12 percent of the population in this country. It'll be more like Black mass suicide.
Because of my very interesting German/Japanese heritage (background), I have to say that I understand where white people and black people are coming from. I have to say the biggest human tragedy is black/white in America cannot get along.
We study history for a number of reasons, not the least of which is to understand how it effects our present. The past is not going to effect us all equally.
You cannot expect every white person to pay for slavery, just like you cannot expect every Japanese/Germans to pay for the war crimes God knows who committed.
At the same time, you cannot only point fingers at black community for their violence without looking at yourself in the mirror.
Look, you ask every Japanese in Japan, "who are Americans?" They are going to tell you, black and white people. LOL They are not being racist or are trying to throw people from other ethnic or racial backgrounds under the bus. They are telling the truth to a certain degree.
American history doesn't doesn't make me feel ashamed to be white/Japanese mixed, it makes me proud to be an American, to be inspired by the overcoming of great adversity.
White people, and black people, are brothers and sisters, they are Americans. United, not divided.
Only blacks in the inner cities would rise up. The rest of black America, you know real Americans like the rest of us that work, pay taxes, want the best for their families and love their country would not be involved. My wife and her family for example, they could never relate to the lowlives like we saw in Charlotte the past 2 nights. Same way I have nothing to do with white meth addicts in trailer parks, I couldn't care less about them
So if this so called "race war" ever happens, have at it. It would end in a slaughter of epic proportions. Inner cities would burn, infighting would occur and before you know it, it's over. Boring.
It started in earnest back in 2010 and continued until roughly 2012. Remember when all the "flash mob" events were happening? All the black teens organizing and then rushing into a store to rob it blind? All the large groups of black people attacking white people in the streets? Whale hunting?
Omar Thornton? Then Dylan Roof?
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