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The intra-Palestinian meeting in Moscow has precedent
— Hanna Notte (@HannaNotte) February 29, 2024
Russia's hosted such meetings in the past, most recently Feb 2019
Russia has long lamented the US' "monopolization" of the peace process & tried to carve out a niche for itself: mediating among the disunited Palestinians/2
Here's what I told them: https://halginsberg.com/vote-for-jill-stein-again/
Controversial Brazil law curbing Indigenous rights comes into force https://t.co/pCoDg05irX
— Gareth Harris (@garethharr) December 28, 2023
Location: U.S. Embassy and residential compounds
Events: Heavy gunfire is occuring around the area of the U.S. Embassy and residential compounds adjacent to the Trutier area of Tabarre. All Embassy personnel have been instructed to remain indoors and shelter-in-place until further notice. All others should avoid the area.
Actions to take:
- Avoid the area;
- Avoid demonstrations and any large gatherings of people;
- Do not attempt to drive through roadblocks; and
- If you encounter a roadblock, turn around and get to a safe area.
By The Editorial Board @ Bloomberg.com, December 8, 2023
A mass expulsion of Afghan migrants could destabilize the region and fuel radicalization. The West should pressure Islamabad to change course.
All eyes on #Chad right now
Chad has two internet trunks coming into the country: One from the Red Sea via Sudan; the other from Cameroon. Not possible for the totality of the country's internet network to be shut unless done centrally. A lot of rumors swirling; few facts. https://t.co/N6bDJZ2ixO
BREAKING: Three loss prevention employees in Macy’s across the street from Philadelphia City Hall stabbed, one of them has died from stab wounds, @PhillyPolice sources tell me. Police converged on the store as the three workers were rushed to Jefferson Hospital. pic.twitter.com/4U1eKycL4W
Former US Ambassador Arrested, Charged With Working As Secret Agent For Cuba https://t.co/LDwo4ZJI1K
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) December 4, 2023
[Chapter I news is HERE, Oct. 7 til today]
You don’t get it.
— George Deek (@GeorgeDeek) December 2, 2023
It’s not about an UNRWA teacher who held an Israeli kid hostage in his house.
It’s all about how for 75 years you have destroyed the future of generations of Palestinians, including my family.
My cousins in Arab countries are still not citizens - not even the… https://t.co/nv6anubGhc
Note 'Community Notes' attached to UNWRA's statement.
Imperialism for me but not for thee?
It's wild that Venezuela is now holding a vote on whether 2/3 of Guyana actually belongs to them! Analysts suggest that Modoru may want military action to pump up his sinking popularity.
Could we have a war in South America?!?
"The people who live in Essequibo are largely… pic.twitter.com/QvMEjkkgwy
The lack of a cohesive delegation has allowed attention-seeking lawmakers to act on their own.
McCarthy: “You have [Rep. Matt] Gaetz, who belongs in jail…”
Gaetz: “Tough words from a guy who sucker punches people in the back. The only assault I committed was against Kevin’s fragile ego.”https://t.co/LctPuz6Pcf
By Martinn Pengelly in Washington DC for TheGuardian.com, Nov. 30
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells Ryan Grim life in Congress ‘completely transformed’ after Democratic leader stepped down
"Both the AU and the intl community place more weight on whether elections are held than whether they are free and fair. Sanctions/expulsions occur when there is a coup but not necessarily when elections are rigged or if an “institutional coup” occurs." https://t.co/m9dNimJP0D
— Cameron Hudson (@_hudsonc) November 28, 2023
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For some reason neither the URL or the post published from myiPad
Here is the link
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/why-are-white-men-stockpiling-guns/
Here is the post
A new study in the Scientific American adds to data suggesting white men stockpile guns because they fear a takeover of the country by racial minorities. Stockpilers tend to be undereducated and in financial distress. As a group, they tend to be Republican but not very religious. As noted before, 3% of gun owners possess 50% of the weapons.
https://www.theroot.com/report-white-men-stockpile-guns-because-they-re-afraid-182377921
Interestingly, Black people are more likely to have had a gun pointed at them or been shot than whites, but whites express a higher need to own a gun, according to a Pew study.
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2017/06/22/guns-and-daily-life-identity-experiences-activities-and-involvement/
Racial fear plays a significant role in the resistance to gun control.
by rmrd0000 on Thu, 03/15/2018 - 11:35am
All I know is that one cannot make people less afraid by attacking them for being afraid. Fear is the key word here. They are not trying to sublimate anyone, they do not feel they have power or privilege, rather: they are afraid. They need guns to give them a feeling of power over a situation that they feel they have no control over, they feel sublimated without them.
Edit to add: it is virtually the same psyche of all mass shootings whether it's public places or "gone postal" at a workplace.Even most domestic violence is about the acting out of a feeling of lost power/control over one's life, this is why those with history of abuse shouldn't be allowed guns.
by artappraiser on Thu, 03/15/2018 - 6:00pm
There is nothing that I can do to make the 3% who own 50% of the weapons less afraid. I am not making them any more afraid by pointing to a study that suggests they buy guns out of fear of people who look like me. They will be afraid if I am silent. They will be afraid if I speak. Remaining silent will not prevent the next Dylan Roof from trying to start a race war by slaughtering black churchgoers. Silence will not stop the next guy who believes that Hillary has a child porn ring in a D.C.pizzeria from shooting up the place. People who are afraid do insane things.
I am not responsible for their irrational fears. The NRA, Tucker Carlson, Hannity, and the Republican Party feed their fears. I take zero responsibility for their irrationality. The worse thing that we can do is pretend that they don’t exist. Fear and racism will not go away if we don’t talk about it. Ignoring it will lead to disaster. Lynching stopped because of confrontation.
Ill stop speaking out when they stop using people who look like me as scapegoats for their fears. Until then, screw them.
by rmrd0000 on Thu, 03/15/2018 - 6:29pm
Russians shit disturbing after 2016 Milwaukee shooting - "Black Lives Matter targeting white people for a beat down"
Keep 'em afraid...
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 03/16/2018 - 7:21am
There is a subgroup that is willing to believe roaming hordes of armed black people are just around the corner. Conservatives in America profit by feeding their fears. Russians take advantage. Blacks cannot change the minds of the fearful. LaPierre and Loesch can help by failing the rhetoric down, but that would decrease gun sales and make the NRA less profitable.
The Russians got some blacks to stay home. Everybody has to be aware that we are being played by Russia.
by rmrd0000 on Fri, 03/16/2018 - 7:53am
I can see it working better there than lots of places elsewhere though they don't need it because there is a lot of virulent conservative talk radio in the metropolitan area for decades. Except for a small liberal downtown and the college-affected "East Side" next to it where the real estate remains nice and expensive, the city always was very segregated.
White flight happened decades ago to the suburbs. (There's a geographic problem that affected that, a once-industrial valley, and the city's growth was by chain migration from Germans to Poles to Hispanics and the ethnic nature of the neighborhoods remain.)
White flight just grows worse because there is a severe black on black crime problem in the "inner city." The inner city has grown much larger and so has the crime problem. White flight and segregation continues as parents not wanting to have their children bused to poor inner city Milwaukee schools with a lot of kids with the typical inner city problems. The city itself is now only 36 % white, 39% black, 18% Hispanic. The suburbs are white.
The black-on-black crime problem in the city is severe. The suburbs have low crime. There are plenty of black cops assigned to the inner city, and they are always trying to get more. It's not easy when so many of the kids don't have a college education and/or have a criminal record. I imagine the Russians just following ex-Sheriff David Clarke's precedent in fanning flames. His position was county-wide,which includes white suburbs.
As to the city, the local paper just published WHY DO CRIME REDUCTION SOLUTIONS THAT WORK IN OTHER CITIES – SOLUTIONS SOMETIMES CREATED IN MILWAUKEE – KEEP FALLING SHORT HERE?
by artappraiser on Fri, 03/16/2018 - 12:03pm
Police departments have histories of racism. When blacks are told they the departments have “reformed”, there is no reason to believe them. Blacks can find better job opportunities elsewhere. Blacks are not going to blindly join a newly reformed police department.
https://www.npr.org/2014/12/10/369865012/why-police-departments-have-a-hard-time-recruiting-blacks
by rmrd0000 on Fri, 03/16/2018 - 2:51pm
from your link:
by artappraiser on Fri, 03/16/2018 - 3:34pm
Why would you think blacks would rush to join a police force when the police they knew had a history of harassment? Our links taken as a whole note that even black police officers aren’t trusted. There were black police involved in the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore. A Black police officer was convicted of crimes like planting guns and drugs on citizens in Baltimore.
Freddie Gray
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/freddie-gray/bs-md-ci-miller-pretrial-motions-20160727-story.html
Black Officer conviction
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-police-corruption-next-steps-20180208-story.html
Recruitment is a problem because police as a whole are tainted
by rmrd0000 on Fri, 03/16/2018 - 3:51pm
So do you think all black cops are "racist"? Especially if they apply/use profiling by physical appearance?
by artappraiser on Fri, 03/16/2018 - 3:55pm
Camden, NJ is one of the places that I think turned the problem around. They disbanded the whole damn mess and started anew, and
Unfortunately, Milwaukee can't seem to get it's act together with its policing, as the current Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel article l linked to above explains.
I note with interest that the NYPD just recently seems to be aggressively going after a Camden style model with their "build the block" campaign. I even hear ads playing on local tv and radio stations and the like. Recruitment advertising started already in 2016 like this: NYPD wants new recruits to 'bring who you are,' stresses 'compassionate' policing
by artappraiser on Fri, 03/16/2018 - 4:16pm
I don’t know why this so hard for you. Racial bias exists. Blacks are more likely to have a bad encounter with police. Black police have harassed black citizens. In an article on the NYPD trying to address racial bias, the Implicit Association Test is mentioned. The IAT assesses racial bias. In simulated encounters with black people, police were more likely to use deadly force on blacks. Importantly, the tendency to use force was independent of the race of the officer.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/science/bias-reduction-programs.html
The IAT shows that some blacks have a pro-black bias, others have a pro-white bias.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/12/black-on-black-racism-the-hazards-of-implicit-bias/384028/
In answer to you question whether a black officer can have the same racial bias as a white officer, the answer is Yes. We have all been raised in a society where white supremacy is valued. Minorities and women are taking steps towards equality, but we are not there. Blacks tend to be more aware of racial bias, because it is part of the Tojo’s we need to survive in society. Just because an officer is black does not mean that he/she is on your side. One of the shootings in one of your links was of a black officer shooting a black man.
by rmrd0000 on Fri, 03/16/2018 - 4:48pm
It's not hard for me at all. I just think you tend to make statements as if everyone with black skin is the same and you speak for them all. To me, that borders on racism. And is insulting to the community here on dagblog, as if we all stupid dumb whites lost in white privilege who don't get blacks,need to be informed of what all blacks think and rmrd can tell us what they all think and instruct us on Afro-American sub culture.
You stoke that all black people in this country think alike and that all white people don't get it.
And I think that the more you stoke the division between color of skin, and the more you presume anonymous people on websites are white and and are stupid about "the black community", and don't understand, the worse you make the situation. It is encouraging segregation by race into separate cultures. And you thereby stoke the "fear of the other" for those who aren't so informed.
IE. Nuance! I fully understand the fear of black parents for their black male teenagers when they go out on the streets, no matter which economic class they are in. What I don't understand is why it is rarely addressed that they don't have the same fear for their female black teenagers....
Post news links is fine. It's the way you are always trying to spin them.
by artappraiser on Fri, 03/16/2018 - 5:08pm
I am not spinning. I am not saying that I speak for all blacks. I responded to your question of whether I think black police are racist. I posted an article from the NYT that noted that not only whites had pro-white bias. I linked to an article noting a person’s personal experience finding out his bias on the IAT. I’m not stoking any division. There is a subset of whites who are stockpiling guns, Racial fear plays a role in the stockpiling.
I get the sense that you think pointing out that people are stockpiling weapons will somehow make them more fearful. I think that ignoring the obvious is dangerous. Wayne LaPierre, Dana Loesch, etc. are stoking the division, not me. In the case of Trump, calling out his racism and that of people in his cabinet like Sessions has made some whites reassess their vote for Trump. I think that speaking out about police abuse has made people more aware of black concerns.
Donald Trump is pushing to separate the races. Republicans are trying to suppress minority votes. You are angry at the wrong person. People who have been speaking out are causing Trump and the Republicans to lose power.
Most people think that Trump is a racist, so I am not an outlier
https://apnews.com/9961ee5b3c3b42d29aebdee837c17a11/AP-NORC-Poll:-Most-Americans-say-Trump-is-racist?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP&ex_cid=SigDig
We simply disagree on how to address the issue of race.
by rmrd0000 on Fri, 03/16/2018 - 5:47pm
In a thread about whites being irrationally afraid of blacks, and it's pointed out that violent crime remains a problem in black areas, but we then have an obligatory argument about racism in police forces rather than how the fuck can we make black areas less dangerous/black society as a whole less self-destructive.
I mean, show me a black inner city where the crime rate closer reflects that of white areas, and let's copy that to other cities. Or if there isn't one, let's talk less about the police and more about how to get people's shit together.
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 03/16/2018 - 6:36pm
Jobs and education. Education and jobs.
People should not have to fear the police.
We can accomplish all of the above.
It is not a zero sum game.
by rmrd0000 on Fri, 03/16/2018 - 10:17pm
There are poor uneducated people around the world who don't necessarily engage in internecine warfare or drug themselves into oblivion. Personal responsibility seemed to be strong in the black community 100 years ago if not much later - the last X I recall a litany of always blaming the government and racism or calling dubious self-defeating practices like having babies out of wedlock "personal choice" and "empowering".
And while education is nice, lots of dropouts figure out how to make it - including those who don't have rich parents. Big success is much more about enterprise and wealth management, not about the job, even though jobs across a swath of population is key as a public policy/economicy rejuvenator.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 03/17/2018 - 12:49am
Chasing down a good education despite the DC school system: survival tactics... https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5aa2cd35e4b01b9b0a3b2133
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 03/17/2018 - 1:00am
Also yesterday in the Milwaukee paper.This high school is the major big one that has always been smack dab in the center of the inner city,with like a 1,000 students, since the 1960's; my underlining:
Borsuk: A Milwaukee high school is one of the lowest performing in the U.S. Is help on the way?
By Alan J. Borsuk Updated 4:26 p.m. CT March 16, 2018
etc.
Vehement arguments about vouchers for private schools and charter schools were a huge topic when I left the city in the early 80's. The inner city community was divided on that when I was there partly because: the property tax does not bring in enough to rectify the problems....I see it's the same old same old...same with the police dept., if you read the article, it talks about how they start programs that other cities have copied with success but then the funding dries up too soon. White flight is a killer in more ways than the simplistic one, precisely because the property tax values and dollars are taken to other jurisdictions. Vice versa in other cities: gentrification,which some people loathe,does eventually bring raised property values and more money for schools and police.
by artappraiser on Sat, 03/17/2018 - 7:03am
Are you and AA arguing that fixing education is hopeless? Is there data to show dropouts do well?
The Moynihan Report noted a high rate of pregnancy among black women
The unwed pregnancy rate has been falling for decades
NYT 1993
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/01/us/birth-rate-falls-to-40-year-low-among-unwed-black-women.html
Coates in the Atlantic in 2013
https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/06/understanding-out-of-wedlock-births-in-black-america/277084/
Regarding jobs, the white middle class was built by government programs geared to help whites. Whites took advantage of those programs. Jobs programs can reinvigorate black communities.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/dedrick-muhammad/african-american-economic_b_12747222.html
If crime is considered part of personal responsibility, violent crime among blacks has decreased dramatically
From Demos 2013
http://www.demos.org/blog/7/29/13/myth-black-black-crime-epidemic
Atlantic 2016
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/04/what-caused-the-crime-decline/477408/
NYT 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/opinion/sunday/two-lessons-of-the-urban-crime-decline.html
There are cities where crime has not decreased. If we look at Conservative target Chicago, we find a suggestion that police abuse may increase violent crime rates. Police abuse has to be a part of the discussion.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/benjamin-wallace-wells/crime-in-chicago-and-americas-policing-crisis
by rmrd0000 on Sat, 03/17/2018 - 9:45am
Congrats to Ta-Nehisi for shifting the topic to something confusing and/or irrelevant.
More than 3/4 of black babies are born to unwed mothers, meaning roughly 3/4 of black children don't have the various benefits of 2 parents, which among other things increases the chance of poverty, plus education starts at home, not at school - conversations, activities, examples. One parent usually equals less quality time.
And I'm sure less supervision and creative activities increases chance of time. Yes, the decrease in black crime reflects personal repsponsibility, though from Maslow it's at the security level, not higher in self-actuation - achieving what you want to achieve, including but not just money.
As for crime rates, they're going back up.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 03/17/2018 - 1:10pm
The increased crime rate is well below historical highs
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/dec/04/jeff-sessions/violent-crime-some-still-well-historical-highs/
The black unwed pregnancy rate is decreased so the number of single family black children is decreasing
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/04/29/why-is-the-teen-birth-rate-falling/
by rmrd0000 on Sat, 03/17/2018 - 1:49pm
But the *%* of black children born to unwed mothers is not declining, indicating a huge disadvantage from birth on. Granted a 50% drop in black teen birthrate helps remove many of the least viable mothers (90% unmarried, unlike the 15% in 1960). Black teen birth rates are twice that of whites, but that's better than 4x.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 03/17/2018 - 2:39pm
There has been improvement. That is my point.
by rmrd0000 on Sat, 03/17/2018 - 4:49pm
It's all location,location, location. You constantly talk as if all of black America is one homogenous mass that all think alike and the same as those who still live in ghetto-ized old style inner cities. I think this is detrimental to your supposed cause of ameloriating racial animosity, instead you stoke the old differences that do not exist everywhere in this country.
For example, Harlem has gentrified a lot, nobody has to fear going or living there. It has become much more middle class and even upper class while maintaining many aspects of Afro-American culture. Young hip white people fight over being able to rent there, there are few slots open to them because none of the Harlemites who have rent stabilized apartments will ever give them up.
No white Manhattanites or older black people,for matter, fear young black males on the subway anymore like they used to, because they are mostly little wannabe Obama's. Black NYC kids wear preppie clothes these days and don't listen to gangsta rap. The latter is popular with the white bridge-and-tunnel kids who dress like the NYC blacks did 15 years ago.
I, as an older white widow living in the North Bronx have zero fear of driving into the South Bronx at night and parking there for an arts function. Zero. Even though it is still extremely low income, it is mixed race, with a lot of Hispanics, blacks and immigrants from all over, including quite a few from Africa.
.It is much much more dangerous for me to be anywhere near the inner city of Milwaukee when I visit now,it's like stepping into early 80's NYC. In my youth, in the late 70's I actually spent many evenings hanging out visiting friends (a minor drug dealer) right in the deepest part of the inner city in Milwaukee. While one did things like lock the car doors, it was relatively safe, not like the NYC I moved to in the early 80's. It's like the two have switched.
Just now I looked up the situation of the very popular free charter schools in Harlem. It seems to me from that like there are two kinds of parents there: the majority, those who care enough to try to get their kids away from the remaining riff raff into the charter schools,and the old style minority who don't or can't give a damn because they are too tired or too wacked out or too young or bad parent(s) or have criminal records and no education or whatever:
This is actuality similar to the whole "white flight" problem in more retrograde cities! The parents trying to get their kids into charter schools do not want their kids going to school with the losers.
This is less about race than class, class involving ghettoes where everyone is poor and crime ridden. Of course good parents of all colors who want their children to have a better life want to get away from that!
I think you stoking that it's all about race is detrimental to your cause. It's about class and it's about poor ghettoes which feed crime and joblessness.
The police problem is totally different.
There is indeed a problem across the nation in many, even most, areas, with police profiling males of minority skin color, no regular news reader that's not a propagandized winger would disagree.There are two different problems operating there,and each is a different debate:
1) the stupidity or wisdom of profiling by physical appearance
2) the proper treatment of suspects once approached
I don't have an resolved opinion on either and am not interested in debating it because I am not an expert,it is a waste of my time. I would rather read and consider what experts think.
In the meantime, I strongly feel that stoking differences between supposed black and white cultures just according to skin color, as if they are homogenous groups is totally totally counterproductive.
Just because some Trumpies stoke racial themes doesn't mean people of color have to play into it. All blacks do not think alike.All blacks are not poor ghetto denizens. All black do not like hip hop! All blacks do not fear homosexuals. Plenty of drag queens are people of color, same with trans sexuals. All white working class are not gun owners, all white working class are not Trump voters, all Trump voters are not racist, all gun owners are not Trump votes.STOP FEEDING THE STEREOTYPES, LEARN TO TOLERATE THE "OTHER" as hateful as they might be, by getting into some nuance. Walk an inch in their shoes. Fear begets fear and you have nothing to fear but fear itself. The worst thing you can do is to feed a racist troll.
The police problem needs the proper kind of protest to get results. I have zero suggestions or ideas, protest is not my forte. One thing I am sure of: I don't see a lot of benefit to racializing protests if the police department already has a significant number of the same race on the force, that just makes it look stupid.
by artappraiser on Sat, 03/17/2018 - 4:34pm
I provided data that points out black police can be just as biased as white police. Black officers abuse black citizens. Why is that so difficult to understand?
Regarding charter schools, you are unaware that in some schools both public and Carter schools are housed together. The 3% who are charter school students can eat up the resources of the other 97% of students.
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/charter-school-debate-new-york
Just because your child is not in a charter school does not mean that you are lazy. That is a horrible thing to say.
by rmrd0000 on Sat, 03/17/2018 - 5:05pm
Just because your child is not in a charter school does not mean that you are lazy. That is a horrible thing to say.
Location,location,location! I was referencing Harlem only, looking at the Harlem situation only! And it was just reaching out with an analysis point.
It's starting to look like the only kind of thinking you like is stereotyping. And that all you want to do on this stie is, just like Hal, PREACH and push a single advocacy point and then get into debate on it, advocate vs. advocate.
And when people won't take up the opposing advocate role, you have a need to turn them into a strawman to debate with you. I've seen you do this too many times now.
I am not interested in wasting time on stupid adversarial debate where each side plays the other as an enemy and each side leaves out the idea of doubt and each side finds 'truth" in cherry picking facts to fit their narrative.
I am interested in sharing trying to figure out what's going on, sharing analysis, sharing all facts as many as we can find in a group, discussing possiblities for solutions for problems and especially AND NOT PREACHING TO ONE ANOTHER.
Done with this thread. I refuse to be your strawman. I feel like a dupe falling for it again! I spent a lot of time on providing nuance, you reply with an insult to a straw man. WHAT A WASTE OF TIME!
by artappraiser on Sat, 03/17/2018 - 5:19pm
Good riddance. The Harlem charter situation is a lottery. It should be open to all. People are in despair because they can’t get their children into the system. I am not preaching I am countering your argument.
by rmrd0000 on Sat, 03/17/2018 - 5:33pm
It's not really a waste of time AA. I may not have anything to add or say but I, and I'm sure others, found your piece to be interesting and informative. I know how much time and effort it takes to write a long nuanced comment like that and I understand how one can be disappointed when the only reply is an argument that only shows they didn't understand the comment or are deliberately misstating to further their ideological position. But your writing here is much appreciated by me and many I'm sure.
by ocean-kat on Sat, 03/17/2018 - 6:12pm
thanks, kat; the feeling is mutual; have often gotten useful thoughts from your comments whether I agree or not, going way back to TPMCafe days.
by artappraiser on Sat, 03/17/2018 - 8:08pm
Why is that so difficult to understand?
IT'S NOT! I AGREED! WHY ARE YOU MAKING ME INTO A STRAWMAN?
You seem to have some kind of warped desire to find a "stupid white person" to argue with and teach them about all kinds of stuff everyone on this website already knows. It's very insulting.
by artappraiser on Sat, 03/17/2018 - 5:24pm
My comment about black police was a direct response to your comment
Black police can be biased.
by rmrd0000 on Sat, 03/17/2018 - 5:35pm
P.S. Atlanta, which I have visited several times (for both business and personal a family wedding, in point,where white skin color filled a half of a pew) is another example not fitting all these stereotypes.In the deep South, a very modern city with blacks of all classes and all kinds of neighborhoods and sub-cultures. The crime rate has risen lately, but not for the same old same old reasons, even Forbes agrees Atlanta's position as an ideal drug transit point helps keep it high on the list of the most dangerous cities. The violent crime rate rose 6% last year, driven mostly by robbery and assault.
Further simplistics would label Georgia a red state, might even think of it as a state filled with hillbilly rednecks because it:
has voted Republican in the last six presidential elections.
but
there is a new movement to turn the red state blue, led by women speaking up for the first time.Apr 28, 2017
Can Georgia's dedicated liberal women turn red state blue? - CBS News
I am thinking that depending too much on this too much might be the stereotyping problem too.
I am thinking more like: was Jimmy Carter a racist? He was a red neck from rural Georgia. An evangelical who was in the Navy, pro-defense in a big way....
by artappraiser on Sat, 03/17/2018 - 5:07pm
Opiate for the people of some kind or another has often seemed to be what is used throughout history to avoid violence. (My "baby" brother, a Gen X-er, who happens to still be living back in hometown Milwaukee, emailed me this to mark today). Is apropos to the thread, I think:
by artappraiser on Sat, 03/17/2018 - 4:12am
oops, originally put in wrong video link, have edited the correct one in now.It's only 1:26 minutes, and is quite profound, I think.
by artappraiser on Sat, 03/17/2018 - 4:14am