Posted on 08/21/2016 6:32:07 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
This is peppered with typical Chris Rock foul language, but still funny:
Chris Rock ~ How Not To Get Your A** Kicked By The Police
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igQDvYOt_iA
As you can tell, I’ve seen that movie too ....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grYBKcuWowM&list=PL836BA82F617FBA83&index=8
fist bump! :^)
You beat me to it. I am unsurprised. FReepers are *quick*!
Boom!
The legal system sucks for EVERYONE on the receiving end.
Courts suck, bail sucks, fines suck, traffic tickets suck. It drains you of your money under penalty of getting your life ruined.
I have to see a Magistrate tomorrow about an expired inspection sticker. Missed day of work, and that damned sticker wound up costing me $350. The ticket was issued for $25. The rest are fees. Oh, and I received a letter that there is a bench warrant for me because I didn’t respond in time too. So that’s another $98.
The legal system will keep a poor person poor if you keep stepping in it. It’s like social quick sand. Doesn’t matter if you’re white, black, brown or purple. Unless you’re a friend with a cop, or having coffee with some cops, everytime you talk to a cop shit gets really unfair really quickly.
Interesting statistic.
Funny, isn't it, just how much is fixed by the right amount of money paid?
In some countries, it's just called what it is, bribery and extortion.
What a racket.
Okay, that made me laugh out loud.
Not precisely — it’s easy to forget that both sides have their own supplies of whitewash (pardon the term, maybe it should be called blackwash for the BLM crowd).
And the majority of black crime today? Could it possibly be things that were not even illegal, however frowned upon socially, in the 1800s?
1- The legal system, while imperfect, is certainly better than most. Stepping in it, as you say, can be avoided.
2-I get calls every day with similar complaints and it continues to astound me how very few of these callers have any clue what their case number, specific charge, possible punishment or even background record is. They want miracles performed for very little money spent on the case they “caught” this week. Heavens, they cant even ackowledge they were arrested for breaking the law. This charge just suddenly fell out of the sky on their dumb unlucky ass!
3- Legal work, if you can get it, has excellent job security.
And so isn’t that just loading in a might-makes-right philosophy at a different door?
Some modern black social philosophers feel resentful, rather than thankful, that their forebears taught fear of Whitey. They believed that this should not have been necessary, but somehow ordinary social good conduct was not sufficient to get along in Whitey’s world.
This is no excuse for not trying to bring it in line with humaneness.
And why are you lambasting people for not understanding a system that was crafted for lawyers, not for John Q. Doe?
I don’t understand what you mean. I think he was just saying that if he disobeyed his grandmother, she was tougher than the police.
Which implies might-makes-right. You would understand if you stopped to ponder.
The point is, that such stories did not stand alone. They also stood together with a widespread ethos that mere ordinary social good behavior was not enough to get along in Whitey’s world. That one had to kiss up to Whitey. And so the grandmother was teaching fear of Whitey, internalizing Whitey’s wrath. The result not even being God centered but selfishness centered, where the selfishness of Whitey was running the show.
Pendulums do what pendulums do — they swing. The bad behavior of today — an over reaction to the excesses of the past — does not exist without context. And neither will any real remedy.
People both white and black (and any other color) are going to have to learn to care about God and His desires even more than they do about the powers of earth, before they can even put the powers of earth into proper context.
The Man who calmed the sea can calm hearts, not through being a bully, but through mercy in what really counts.
Might-makes-right will, if not curbed, eventually melt down into self centered temper tantrums.
If people will not be humane to one another, from whence will they learn to be humane even when what they face is not humane. The answer is nowhere, except from miraculous divine intervention, which in fact is the story of Christ. It ought to be huge, huge news instead of being kept to mumblings in buildings every Sunday morning.
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