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If you took the time to read the whole thread, you'd see upthread a variety of politically themed comments that have no relevance to the issue in question.
and this is why, i laugh at yall. in other threads, yall sit here saying "why does race matter?" then the moment you can paint black people in a negative light, all of a sudden, you see bright vivid colors.
All those critical race theory threads where yall act like you want the concept of race eliminated, then when there's a fight somewhere halfway across the country in another city...."RACE!".
LOL
"Y'all"????? That is an example of deliberate attempts to ignore assimilation and to be perceived differently. We use "y'all" in conversation in the south, but do not write that way.
Violence in America IS ABOUT RACE when 6% of the population commits over 60% of the violent crime.
Black people are the ones "portraying themselves in a negative light". If you want to be perceived differently, then blacks should stop committing so many crimes.
When encountering someone you do not know (and will not have time to know), one must rely on some information about the value, benefit, and safety of the encounter. If all the statistics suggest "danger/violent" then only a fool would behave differently.
Do you react differently when you encounter a kitten vs a tiger? Why?
"Y'all"????? That is an example of deliberate attempts to ignore assimilation and to be perceived differently. We use "y'all" in conversation in the south, but do not write that way.
Violence in America IS ABOUT RACE when 6% of the population commits over 60% of the violent crime.
Black people are the ones "portraying themselves in a negative light". If you want to be perceived differently, then blacks should stop committing so many crimes.
When encountering someone you do not know (and will not have time to know), one must rely on some information about the value, benefit, and safety of the encounter. If all the statistics suggest "danger/violent" then only a fool would behave differently.
Do you react differently when you encounter a kitten vs a tiger? Why?
my point stands...YALL say you don't see race until you can paint black people in a negative light. You didn't attack what i said. When it's black history month YALL cry about "why does race matter?...we're all just american"...when there's a fight video all of a sudden race matters. It's that simple.
I'm absolutely serious about that because it does seem to be true that there are very few threads about whites being involved in violent actions unless it is one-on-one crime -- something like a white man murdering his wife, for example, or a white person killing someone trying to break into their home.
And maybe some more threads about white women having multiple children that they can't afford would be good, too.
I get so tired of reading so many posts that seem to perpetuate the idea that it is mostly non-whites who are responsible for all the violence and that seem to imply that it is only (or mainly) non-white women who have a half-dozen children they can't afford.
So you post a video from 1968. A year that was complete madness (except for maybe at Disneyland).
1968 sure was a peaceful and idyllic year in America. Perfect day to attend Disneyland with your nuclear family or to assassinate a civil rights icon or perhaps a progressive politician running for president. Bobby didn’t get to attend the Convention in Chicago, but it was memorable nonetheless. What a year!
1968 was also great year to send young American men to die in Vietnam. It’s the year of the Tet Offensive. I wonder how many of the 58,220 American soldiers killed in Vietnam died in good ole ‘68. Doesn’t really matter now. Nixon was elected that year and he campaigned on ending the war. I don’t know if he was successful, but he did start a new war. In America this time. The good ole War on Drugs. What did his chief policy advisor on domestic affairs say about the War on Drugs years later? Something like: “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people…You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities."
1968. What a time to be alive!
I could go on like this because 1968 was one of the most tumultuous years in American history. It’s amazing what nostalgia does to people. It makes them remember only the good and they forget all the bad like it never existed.
So many on here want to shine a spotlight on crime committed by black men, but don’t bother to learn about redlining, housing covenants, the building of the suburbs, deindustrialization, or the building of the housing projects in cities across America. This is supposed to be a website about cities, dominated by American members who post mostly about American cities, but people here don’t seem to even know the recent history of the American city and how poor black neighborhoods became blighted and violent. Most people aren’t here to learn something new. They’re here to have what they already believe validated by the like-minded.
If you took the time to read the whole thread, you'd see upthread a variety of politically themed comments that have no relevance to the issue in question.
I did take the time to read the whole thread ( ), and i could not possibly care less about those comments that trouble you so.
they have nothing to do with my post.
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A year that was complete madness (except for maybe at Disneyland). 
), and i could not possibly care less about those comments that trouble you so.
