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heaven05

(18,124 posts)
29. your response
Wed May 13, 2015, 11:27 AM
May 2015

is typical of those....who want to spread the Conservative perception, that black people, in general, are violent thugs. A simple, obvious attempt, like yours, at painting a violent picture of living in what I presume, are black neighborhoods does a continuing disservice to the AA race. First, I want to be clear on this especially. The violence that you are pointing out to prove, to yourself and other like minded progressives and liberal on this board/OP, that being black means being prone to violence is VERY transparent and that I abhor black on black violence/crime and that I speak up on the subject whenever and wherever it comes up.

Despair, poverty, racism does create a climate such as some people have to live in as you are obviously trying to point out. I know this for fact as most thinking people do. Your attempt at broad brushing a whole race here is understandable seeing as it, I presume, is coming from one that has never had to face living in america as a person of the AA race.

The words published here, in the link, describing a night in bmore cannot begin to cover the harm done to a whole race of people by others who live in a society with all privileges granted without restriction based on their skin color . This attempt at painting black people as violent does not paint a fair picture overall of black society in general or the black community specifically. WE DO NOT hear of white violence because it is not published. Period. There is white on white violence everyday, zimpig and his stalker the other day is one good example. Only because of zimpigs infamous murder of Trayvon Martin dd it make it into the press.

White people have perpetuated violence from their very first generation in this country, against the First americans, but that is never talked about much in 'polite company'. Is it? That the white race tacitly, implicitly and religiously approved, in great numbers, of the american slavery institution and of the marginalization of POC, pre and post Civil War, is fact. That historic and verifiable marginalization, economically and racially, of POC continues, even today, in 2015. And there is no excuse for it other than racist ideology being so firmly rooted in american culture that many have come believe the truth of the unreasoning hate and lies of racist white culture.

Why are black people so angry? I hear this time and again. I usually don't answer when that answer is pretty obvious. I know that hate breeds violence and that if that hate comes from outside the community, it continues creating the age old self hate that ALL black people must deal with at some time in their lives. Some are lucky enough as children to have parents, caregivers, whomever, that will show them their worth early enough that one respects ones self and others. Yet many others are lost in a cycle of psychological, economic and sociological despair and frustration that keep the violence perpetuated.

Your post is obvious in it's intent and I cannot, will not, allow you to continue to push the Conservative meme you're trying to perpetuate. It is a sad attempt at disparaging a whole race of people, yet is typical. It is a continued distraction from root causes of black despair and violence and borderline......., I feel.

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It might be 'lawful', but that doesn't make it right. Erich Bloodaxe BSN May 2015 #1
Yes. n/t Jefferson23 May 2015 #2
So, those of us upset about yet another police execution Borchkins May 2015 #3
It was an execution heaven05 May 2015 #4
"just wanted another notch on his gun"? brooklynite May 2015 #5
so you say heaven05 May 2015 #6
Indeed I do... brooklynite May 2015 #7
The truth speaks for itself heaven05 May 2015 #9
10 Shot 3 killed in Baltimore thursday night snooper2 May 2015 #28
your response heaven05 May 2015 #29
Why is "violent" in quotes Travis_0004 May 2015 #12
oh, didn't you know???? heaven05 May 2015 #26
Thats nice, but nobody is disputing that he assaulted somebody. Travis_0004 May 2015 #30
condescension heaven05 May 2015 #31
Why on earth do cops carry tasers? This was exactly the type of situation where it would have Flatulo May 2015 #8
So how do the fucking cops in Britain control people high on drugs or alcohol without killing them? Union Label May 2015 #10
Do you mean these British police cstanleytech May 2015 #11
Yes, the British police alfredo May 2015 #14
Actually, 50 police were killed by guns last year, not 30. 7962 May 2015 #20
well that took care of that heaven05 May 2015 #27
There aren't hundreds of millions of guns in the hands of the British population George II May 2015 #13
George II Diclotican May 2015 #16
Maybe its also time to look at crime in Iceland compared to the US. 7962 May 2015 #21
7962 Diclotican May 2015 #23
well heaven05 May 2015 #24
brooklynite Diclotican May 2015 #15
+1000 heaven05 May 2015 #25
Message auto-removed Name removed May 2015 #17
I'd go with whatever mom said PatrynXX May 2015 #18
So does Madison burn tonight??? nt greytdemocrat May 2015 #19
No. This is Madison. Lefta Dissenter May 2015 #22
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