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The invisible racism: What critics of the Ferguson protests are missing
The Bangor Daily News ^ | December 23, 2014 | Professor Michael Rocque, Bates College

Posted on 12/23/2014 5:07:59 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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Professor Rocque

1 posted on 12/23/2014 5:07:59 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

LOL


2 posted on 12/23/2014 5:10:58 PM PST by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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Michael Rocque is an assistant professor of sociology at Bates College.

That's all I need to know...

3 posted on 12/23/2014 5:12:27 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Simply because overt racial prejudice has declined .....does not mean that racism itself has also declined in our society.”

logical impossibilities abound in the “thinking” of such people


4 posted on 12/23/2014 5:14:04 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

they commit more crimes, and more violent crimes, that’s why they’re arrested and jailed.


5 posted on 12/23/2014 5:14:16 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

People have to break the law in order to be involved in the justice system — Is in fact the bottom line, professor.

Now knock off your navel gazing and get a real job.


6 posted on 12/23/2014 5:14:30 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Uh, Perfesser? A punch to the back of your head because of the color of your skin has nothing to do with “The System” and everything to do with a punk thug. The System that needs reform is the one that’s glorifying him.


7 posted on 12/23/2014 5:14:39 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Says a guy who lives in the whitest state in the USA.

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8 posted on 12/23/2014 5:15:50 PM PST by Mears
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What is he? Twelve years old with a bad beard?


9 posted on 12/23/2014 5:16:48 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It was not that long ago that Bates had the highest tuition of any college in America. You cannot imagine a more out of touch ivy tower environment.
It’s stuck out in rural Maine.


10 posted on 12/23/2014 5:17:36 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (This is known as "bad luck". - Robert A. Heinlein)
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The problem with these statistics is that
OSTENSIBLY,
people have to break the law
in order to be involved in the justice system.

It is deemed racist to suggest that an identifiable 13% of the population has evolved a culture in which crime is considered normal. Whether the abnormalities within this community, such as endemic crime, illegitimacy, illiteracy, etc. are correctable using the means now employed is the real question.

Half of the above quote is accurate:

....people have to break the law
in order to be involved
in the justice system.

Add the following:

In the overwhelming majority of cases

11 posted on 12/23/2014 5:25:58 PM PST by Kenny Bunk (The fate of the Republic rests in the hands of the '15 -16 Congress. God help us.)
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To: Mears

That’s what I thought exactly. Quit Bates and move to Mississippi and teach in the public schools. Talk about a northern racist.


12 posted on 12/23/2014 5:30:10 PM PST by Kozy
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To: miss marmelstein
LOL!

I just stalked his Twitter account. It's a mix of garden-variety leftwing politics, mild atheism, and sports.

I suppose he'll get some blip of publicity with this article, but he's minor league material.

Just a doofus.

13 posted on 12/23/2014 5:31:21 PM PST by TontoKowalski
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You’d have to be dumb as a Rocque to not know that punching a cop in the head and grappling for his gun will very likely end with you being shot.


14 posted on 12/23/2014 5:34:03 PM PST by Ray76 (Who gave the stand down order in Ferguson? Who gave the stand down order in Benghazi?)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

Bates College.
That’s the institution that teaches motel management.


15 posted on 12/23/2014 5:34:09 PM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhhTb4SoaaU


16 posted on 12/23/2014 5:37:39 PM PST by dfwgator
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” Talk about a northern racist.”

I live in MA and Vermont is more hypocritical than any state in the union.

Hard core libs,very white, postcard pretty state full of crunchy granola types.

They love racial minorities though,as long as they stay away.

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17 posted on 12/23/2014 5:39:38 PM PST by Mears
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Armed Forces Network had Tom Joyner’s radio show in the afternoon on AFN Europe. He had a segment where callers would report “hidden racism.”

One woman called in about the corner drug store keeping “black people’s” pantyhose behind the counter but white folks were in a display near the checkout.

I remember thinking the management wouldn’t waste the space behind the counter if not for a history of shoplifting.


18 posted on 12/23/2014 5:40:29 PM PST by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He knows all about racism, being a white boy.


19 posted on 12/23/2014 5:44:24 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: Secret Agent Man; All

This race war crap was started for one reason and this was ;

As opposition to Obama’s abuse of his constitutional authority and talk of “impeachment” began to arise and his polling numbers fell.

What Obama needed, worked for, and got , by separating and isolating his solid group of supporters the blacks through creating out of whole cloth stories of “victimization”.

Using circumstances where lawless black youths wound up dead in felonious struggles over guns held by figures of authority. Obama used his “Bully Pulpit to reinforce that “victim” agenda in Florida and Missouri. In both cases he portrayed authority as the agressors and the perpetrators as the “victims”

In Florida’s case success was indicated by the number of incidents where members of other races were attacked severly injured or murdered by black youths committing these assults in the name of the so called “victim” All the while Obama neither commented on nor condemed such activity.

In Missouri he met with and issued a “stay the course” order to the Ferguson protesters. They in turn coordinated by the usual suspects organized nationwide protests. Their purpose and result was a successful demonstration of what would happen if congress ever moved on any constitutional efforts to restrain or even remove Obama including“Impeachment”..

Once the regime measured its unexpected success why not continue ?

Expand it to war on law enforcement. Get more cops refuse to respond or get killed if they do. or hesitate to defend themselves while attempting to confront “afro-americans” engaged in felonious assults while fleeing or are engaged in criminal activity resisting arrests.

Attack the Grand Jury system investigating police mal practice. It’s not after the facts. It’s after “payback”to those poor hypenated Americans known as “Afro” who because of their financial situation are forced to pillage, kill, and rape. And are entitled to do so.

Exploit innocent interchanges between “afros” and different races make them (the afros) believe it’s racist. Create uneeded tension between them and other groups so that those groups not only view them with aprehension but feral creatures unable to know right from wrong

All because the regime must be protected from being questioned in its exercize and abuse of power.

Then bring in another completely alien group which they believe are easier to manipulate which will furthur isolate the “afro” who will get thrown to the wolves once they’re politically no longer “usefull”.

All made possible by the agenda driven socialist products from academia running the alphabet soup venues controlling the visual and print media . Competing with each other protecting their beneficiairies financial interests. As well as the leadership of the political opposition. Who see the benefits of “working together” expanding government. As the happless voter having never to get their day of reckoning and their children’s children’s children pay the bills living in a culture their forebeaerers wouldn’t ever recognize..


20 posted on 12/23/2014 5:46:19 PM PST by mosesdapoet (Serious contribution pause.Please continue onto meaningless venting no one reads.)
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