Science If you think you agree with this cartoon, please explain it to me

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  1. Further

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    damn, I responded before reading this poignant post. Huzza
     
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    it's every weekend. From murder, not cigs
     
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    but pure body count has cigs way in the lead.
    Cigs = 443,000, Murders in C-town = 762

    The thread was about that cartoon that was making a point that people are consumed with "statues" when murders are happening in Chicago. my point is that one has nothing to do with the other. I can be irate about the alt-right, I can be pissed about the Cavs trade and I can be distraught by the smoking epidemic in America and the toll it takes on our young and on the healthcare system. Saying one thing is bad so we can't discuss anything that isn't up to that level is buffoonery
     
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    sure
     
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    yep
     
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    We do? Who is we?
     
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    white people. You know, the almighty evil race. Black people aren't guilty for anything because we did everything therefor they can pull the card out even more so today than ever because of stupid ass white people who go with it
     
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    Well for one someone who has cancer didn't have a choice. Those that murder others do???
     
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    Democrats. Duh
     
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    Sure they do. Many lung cancer sufferers smoked. Many liver cancer sufferers drank. Skin cancer caused by suntanning. Pancreatic cancer--probably ate too much sugar. Cervical cancer--bet you regret that unprotected sex now. Breast cancer--shouldn't have chosen to be a woman.

    Can't believe you have so much sympathy for these people and their self-inflicted maladies. And don't even get me started on heart disease...
     
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    I lived in Chicago for 25 years. The city is racially divided, north and south. It's one of the most racially divided cities I've ever seen, in general. There are entire neighborhoods for the various ethnicities: greek, italian, etc.

    There was a mass migration of blacks to Chicago in the 50's and 60's. During that time, whites resented it and did all sorts of things to their new neighbors. From where toxic waste dumps were zoned to denial of services to diversion of education funding from the schools that black kids attended. The north side was rich, the south side not so much. Many of the whites who lived in the south side moved away, taking their wealth with them.

    They built "projects" to house blacks, then built freeways around them as a sort of prison wall. It was difficult to have any economic success in those conditions. The amount of crime was talked up to scare people from going into those neighborhoods.

    Add in that the police have brutalized young black men over the decades and have harassed the people in their neighborhoods, and you've got a lot of not so happy people. Understandably.

    When the city ran its first black mayor (as a democrat), 2/3 of the democrats voted against him in the primaries (he won in a 3 way race with a plurality of about 1/3), and then about 1/2 of them voted against him in the general. Democrats typically win the mayoral race there with 70% or more of the vote.

    I moved away a year after that. About that time, the news on WGN was all about house fires and community events. A year later, the news on WGN was all about body bags.

    I don't claim to know everything, but I do know you really need to treat people as human beings.
     
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    How long now has the city been run by Democrats?
     
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    Ah! No me in we.
     
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    Since the '20s?
     
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    I was being vague on purpose
     
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    It's bullshit.
     
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    OK, ok! Keep your shirt on! Please!!!:cool2:
     
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    Cute?
     
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    The cartoon is more whitesplaining to black people about what we "need to focus on instead since it's a bigger problem".
    White folk talk about black on black crime and then throw out percentages of us murdering our "own kind" at a 93% clip.
    All the while never mentioning the fact that whites kill their own at an 84% clip with no mention of "white on white" crime.

    It's cartoons like this and made up constructs like "black on black" crime that separate us instead of bringing us together.
     
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    There should be a clue in that record.
     
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