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tod
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BLM - can one make a solution without identifying the problem?
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Jul 7 16:51 UTC 2020 |
Terry Crews is pointing out the hypocrisy and racism of BLM while Don
Lemon refuses to acknowledge what Terry is conveying.
The statement is simple: Black Lives Matter and need to be saved from
ALL violence. The BLM narrative only wants to point at white people
as perpetrators.
Terry makes a good analogy about the pilots in the 1970's who couldn't
be questioned as many commercial airliners were crashing.
DUI flight was one of the major contributors, btw.
In this case, urban neighborhoods have violent criminals who are
black but get a 'free pass' - in Don Lemon's approach.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=lzR8x_jlGaI&feature=emb_lo
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cross
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response 1 of 13:
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Jul 8 14:16 UTC 2020 |
This is a silly argument.
Yes, black on black crime exceeds white-on-black crime, but that's
rather beside the point: the question is, rightly, WHY is the crime
rate higher in the black community? The answer is that it's the
direct result of YEARS of anti-Black discrimination and segregation,
ghettoization, etc, that have created economic and social conditions
that lead to and perpetuate the current state of affairs. White
society has conveniently ignored its part in setting the current
conditions by systematically relegating the black community to
secondary status. Case in point: black kids are more likely to
face disproportionate punishment for the same crime than a white
kid.
It's easy to point fingers at the black community and point out all
its problems. It's much harder to dig a little and ask WHY those
problems exist at all in the first place.
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tod
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Jul 8 16:54 UTC 2020 |
re #1
WHY is the crime
rate higher in the black community?
The crime rate is higher in lower income communities. Lower law enforcement
budgets and less opportunities for income are a formula for crime.
Disproportionate punishment again falls on the lower income community
having less qualified public defense and less than desirable recruitment
of its law enforcement. It's a money thing.
A racist thing? That's a symptom but as Terry Crews points out there is
plenty of finger pointing to go around on cause/perpetrator.
I believe lower income communities are underserved and illserved by their
local elected officials creating a larger impact than peripheral
racial intent by those outside its community. This is from experience
growing up in Detroit where it was dog eat dog politics. The school board
and city council DO NOT CARE. People don't vote logically.
How to fix that? Get thee the hell out of urban decay and poor mental
attitude society. Changing one's democraphic surroundings is literally
the most direct way to change things. Flint MI is a prison, an
institution, and a cancer. It'd be hard to blame it on racism as much
as it has to do with organized crime controlling government.
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papa
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response 3 of 13:
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Jul 8 23:40 UTC 2020 |
resp:2 tod is exactly right.
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tod
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response 4 of 13:
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Jul 9 03:00 UTC 2020 |
Conversely, I think it is a sign of short sightedness when people
reply to BLM with "All Lives Matter". It's ok to reaffirm support
to the Black community - just as support for the queer community or
to the Jewish community or any other group. "All Lives Matter" is
passive aggressive to the discussion.
That said, I think the BLM movement is led by charlatans who are
an embarrassment to the Black community.
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