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Michael Brown jury: putting a value on a black life in the United States
The Manchester Guardian ^ | October 10, 2014 | Gary Younge

Posted on 10/12/2014 1:19:35 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 10/12/2014 1:19:35 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Figures!


2 posted on 10/12/2014 1:22:15 AM PDT by Empireoftheatom48 (God help the Republic but will he?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

... And, if there is no basis to indict Darren Wilson, what then? Who then is the lynch mob, whites, or blacks?


3 posted on 10/12/2014 1:29:37 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Black live has exactly the value the ‘Black’ attaches to it. Just as White life has exactly the value the ‘White’ attaches to theirs.

When you attack an armed person, cop or not, you place the value of your life at Zero. Regardless of color. Thus, Brown was paid the full value of his life as he priced it. As did Sainted Trayvon. As did thousands of blacks. As have thousands of whites.


4 posted on 10/12/2014 1:32:18 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

Grrr...””Black live “ should be Black LIFE


5 posted on 10/12/2014 1:33:39 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

IOWs white police officers and little Indian shopkeepers have no value to their lives.


6 posted on 10/12/2014 1:35:23 AM PDT by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I am so sick and tired of the black victim-hood/entitlement society. If they look in the mirror, they would see the true cause of their problems, but they choose to blame whitey. If they took responsibility for their own actions, there probably wouldn’t be too many problems, but they refuse and the libs feed that line to them. They can call us all racists, but they will not like the outcome of “Cowboys and ferals”


7 posted on 10/12/2014 1:42:13 AM PDT by mikefive (RLTW)
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While in the Air Force....I came to work with a guy who grew up in 1960s New Orleans. Bad environment, even then. Around age sixteen...his mom got an uncle who was in the Air Force to come and talk to him long and hard about going into the service. Around mid-70s....he joins and leaves New Orleans.

In the early 90s when we were chatting over this episode in his life, he admits that he occasionally goes back to New Orleans, and finds that almost all of the guys he grew up with....are either in prison, accustomed to weekly stays in the county jail, or making a marginal income at some local job. Half had a serious drug issue....most had serious drinking issues.

His outlook on life was that these couple of hours that the uncle spent on leaving New Orleans and joining the military....were well spent, and made him into the success he was. Military paid for his education....he had a two-year degree. He had an occupation that was going to pay off as he retired. He had no bills. And he had avoided the whole drug trail that existed in New Orleans.

This is virtually the only path left these days to escape the urban maze of dead-ends. If you stay....you end up a loser.


8 posted on 10/12/2014 1:59:02 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How can the author pretend to make a reasoned argument when he simply omits every inconvenient fact?

Michael Brown robbed a store and beat a police officer and was coming back to finish the job.

Vonderitt Myers Jr. Fired three shots at a police officer and was trying to clear his weapon to fire more.

Either of these will get you killed. Both of these young men are dead because they were stupid, not because they were black.


9 posted on 10/12/2014 2:07:35 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (Health Care Haiku: If You Have a Right / To the Labor I Provide / I Must Be Your Slave)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The author. Now, how did I figure that out in two nano seconds?


10 posted on 10/12/2014 2:08:41 AM PDT by Mark17 (So we tanned his hide when he died Clyde and that's it hanging on the shed. Altogether now)
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It’s a 50/50 shot. Either as shown or a self loathing White liberal trying to ‘check their privilege’.


11 posted on 10/12/2014 2:10:46 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

For some reason, other races must put a high value on black life, while blacks actively show contempt they have for other races. Not just whites, either.


12 posted on 10/12/2014 2:35:35 AM PDT by Politicalkiddo (Power always thinks.. that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. -John Adams)
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or a self loathing White liberal trying to ‘check their privilege’

I think I despise them even more.

13 posted on 10/12/2014 2:43:33 AM PDT by Mark17 (So we tanned his hide when he died Clyde and that's it hanging on the shed. Altogether now)
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To: Empireoftheatom48

SUMMARILY ?


14 posted on 10/12/2014 2:48:22 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: Mark17

Oh I do as well. I also sleep well knowing that when the collapse hits, they will be the first peoples the ferals enslave, since they will run to them apologizing.

Think Thunderdome and ‘fuel workers’.


15 posted on 10/12/2014 2:53:55 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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16 posted on 10/12/2014 2:54:58 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Obola)
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Human garbage. Regardless of their color.


17 posted on 10/12/2014 3:09:01 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: TigersEye

“IOWs white police officers and little Indian shopkeepers have no value to their lives.”

Most shopkeepers and employees are told to turn over the register and not confront a gunman. The exception comes when they are armed as well...and of course the policeman is armed, trained and usually wears a vest. So I believe they value their lives!


19 posted on 10/12/2014 3:47:26 AM PDT by Roamin53 (Islamists kill more people each year in the name of religion than the Inquisition did in 350 years!)
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To: Joe Boucher

What farmer would hire one of these things to pick anything? I always gave farmers credit for horse sense. No way would most want this working for them.

They serve only one purpose. Cannon fodder for the liberal agenda. No self pride, no sense of self worth and a sense of entitlement that should get them awarded by Guinness for the world record.

I feel terrible for the decent people anywhere that have to live with this next to them. Black, white or otherwise.


20 posted on 10/12/2014 3:49:17 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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