That would be my guess. I mean why work & earn it when you can just create a situation where you can just steal what you want.
Amen....."To Protect and Serve"......!!! I'm sooo tired of the majority being minorities. So Cal 48% Hispanic, love the culture not the gangs tho'. Me, ye', were 28% majority's who will never see minority status. Hell I don't want it anway.,,,, Where did Chief Wahoo go....?
blacks are shit on by the police so much that when something like this happens its just a boiling over of sorts. i cant speak for fergueson exactly, but ill bet a haypenny the population is overwhelmingly black, and the police force is overwhelmingly white. like it or not, racial tensions still exist in situations like this.
With all due respect & yes as far as race relations go we still need to go a lot further, but recently they posted statistics showing that 72% of prison populations are minorities, so who should the cops be looking at the most? the Chinese? I mean seriously. Not to mention that black on black crimes far out weight any other groups. And if you can be honest you have to admit that race baiting ass-wipes like Sharpton don't help matters.
sharpton helps nobody but himself. statistics show that whites use drugs at around the same level as blacks, yet blacks are many times more likely to go to prison for it. so they should then look for more blacks because they make up most of the prisoners? i understand the concept you are getting at but it doesnt jive, brother. as far as inner city black on black crime goes, in a sense they are are product of their environment (poverty, overpopulation)...i know that most americans want to blame them for that, but the american dream (upward financial mobility) isnt what it used to be. i think we arent even in the top ten. its a complicated issue for sure. if anything could be taken from this, it would be my desire to mirror many of yalls sentiments regarding "officer friendly"...the militarization of the nations police forces is frightening to say the least. "to protect and serve" is long gone. now we have them for the most part protecting and preSERVing their own jobs above all else, and empathy/sympathy as well as common sense seems to have flown the coop.
In the early 70s, I hitchhiked from So. Cal to Atlanta, then thru Fla. all over the state, all the way to the Keys. Only encounter with cops, or state troopers was there in Fla. More than once we got a ride on the outskirts of town, prior to entering the town, and were given a kindly ride to the exit outskirts of town beyond town....great bunch of guys,, didn't wan't to stop in those small towns anyway. Ah the daze of Spring break on the beaches of Fla.
So are you also of the belief that all city & state jobs (police firemen etc) should lower there test scores for minorities just so they could balance the scales a little bit? When you & I both know that all it would REALLY take is to just study a little bit harder like everyone else? On a personal note wouldn't you feel prouder knowing that you achieved something from hard work (earned it) as opposed to just having something given to you? Do yourself a favor & re-read my post #18. Not so much the top part because that's just my taken on a label but the rest of it. The part where I say, "Here's the way things are beginning to look" THAT! my friend is the truth, and if you can't see that then you're not as intelligent as I thought you were. Again, no disrespect meant.
I respectfully agree to disagree......if you were born or were old enough to see the Chicago Democrat Natl Convention, or Memphis burn, Watts, made L.A. riots in 90? look like a temper tantrum. Moreso- if you were old enough to see the massacre in Ohio.....KENT STATE....then please yield to your elders, yet your input is more than Welcome. "Tin Soldiers and Nixon's coming, were finally on our own. This summer I hear the drumming 4 dead in Ohio'......take a look at the next thread, tell me how many African americans you see......?
[video]http://thrasherswheat.org/fot/ohio.htm[/video] What race or sociological group are these innocent Kids? If you weren't of age during Nixon, then you ain't seen nothing yet..!!!
...and again, if this were a story about a black cop shooting a white kid the coverage would be different.
I had a feeling I wasn't going to get a response from this. But that's okay. Truth can be painful sometimes.
Nice input Rick as always......"the shit these eyes have seen" which could tell a story long enough to be a novel. Some peeps just have not the experiences in life, history of our Nation to know what the f'k is really going on..! I like your post, your thoughts right on the mark.
If this post were a fastball, curve or slider, off speed is more like it: then you'd both (Rick and 59) - , You'd both hit that ball a country mile, "downtown Charlie brown".....800 footer and counting til it lands on the Expressway....!!!!
As a black friend of mine likes to say, he can thank his peers for the profile that cops project onto him. Similar comments from a Persian friend when he talks about the TSA. Cops didn't go looking to pick on black men disproportionately, actions yield consequences. How do whites keep out of trouble more effectively, simple. We police our own so to speak. I have kicked quite a few friends asses for being fuck ups and drawing too much attention. We also understand the concept of triage...you save what you can save and don't waste time. The american dream exists, but it requires hard work, humility and integrity. False pride, victimhood and selfishness isn't gonna get you out of the hood. Ask any legal immigrant, it only takes one generation to create success. How can a bunch of pakastani's or Vietnamese do this within benefit of language or the culture...yet inner city blacks can't?
