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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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To: MeshugeMikey
logical impossibilities abound in the “thinking” of such people

His brain must look like one of those mirrored fun rooms at the carnival.

21 posted on 12/23/2014 5:50:13 PM PST by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: MeshugeMikey
logical impossibilities abound

100% correct.

in the “thinking” of such people

...and I found the problem.
22 posted on 12/23/2014 5:54:40 PM PST by 98ZJ USMC
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
It began with slavery

Slavery, began with a black man enslaving another black man. Study up, douchebag.
23 posted on 12/23/2014 5:57:50 PM PST by 98ZJ USMC
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Haven’t these people ever heard of Occam’s razor?

Their explanation is magical-paradoxical structural racism that exists without existing and that gets worse as things get better. Ours is to point out that life is harder for those who behave badly and make bad decisions.

Guess who’s probably right?


24 posted on 12/23/2014 6:00:37 PM PST by Yardstick
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To: 17th Miss Regt

Professor Rocque, please allow me to explain it to you.

Anyone who didn’t see this one coming just wasn’t looking, as one look at world history will show you that no country with a diverse population of different races, languages, and religion has long survived.

Countries don’t naturally form with diverse populations, and when in the past they’ve occurred it’s usually been as a result of armed conquest. These unnaturally formed countries have either melded together into a single population made up of one mixed race with one language and one religion or they’ve come apart, and they’ve usually come apart with extreme violence. The longer these diverse populations are forced to coexist with one another without mixing and becoming one, the more the hatred grows among them and the more violently they break apart, but break apart they will, or genocide will settle the issue once and for all.

Why is this and why can’t we all just get along? The truth of the matter is that we (the human race) just aren’t as civilized as we would like to think we are. Our species, Homo-sapiens-sapiens, isn’t that long “out of the trees” and the veneer of civilization is very thin, to non-existent, upon us all. We’re all carrying the genes that got us here and some of those genes carry a very basic survival instinct that has allowed us to survive thus far.

This most basic of all survival instincts is self-preservation and it’s the one that warns us to be very wary of those who are different than us, our family, and our tribe. Those who possessed this survival instinct survived and reproduced, and those who had no fear/distrust of strangers didn’t survive. Over the years, this survival instinct has been referred to as tribalism, nationalism, ethnocentrism, racism, and various other isms, but it’s an inborn instinct carried in our genes whether we like it or not.


25 posted on 12/23/2014 6:03:05 PM PST by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Black lives matter – except for the 93% of black murder victims who are killed by other blacks!


26 posted on 12/23/2014 6:09:08 PM PST by BillT (If you can not stand behind our military, you might as well stand in front of them!)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

Ha! I read in the title: Professor Bates College and stopped reading.


27 posted on 12/23/2014 6:12:02 PM PST by Batman11 (Obama is not American.. he has no clue what it is to be American.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Are negative feelings about blacks based solely on the color of their skin?


28 posted on 12/23/2014 6:16:07 PM PST by umgud (I couldn't understand why the ball kept getting bigger......... then it hit me.)
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To: Batman11

But occasionally you might want to see if they have a new twist to their thinking. Sometimes it is worth a laugh.


29 posted on 12/23/2014 6:18:53 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I have to laugh!!! I live 1 hour from this moonbat , guess what the demographics are here in the GREAT State of Maine? Over 98 % caucasion. The crime rate is virtually nil’ ...I have never had to lock my door since I moved up here from the socialist Massachusetts . You really have to be an idiot to end up dealing with a police officer here...it’s pretty simple do the speed limit, keep your vehicle up to the standards and you can pretty much do what you want. For all of you fellow freepers not familiar with the Bangor Daily News, try to keep in mind that it is a leftist moonbat rag...nothing in it is worth the .50 cents they charge for it. my mother in law saves them for me so my pappilion / Pomeranian can pee and poop on them when we are away for to long...that’s about all this rag is good for. I digress, seems funny such an opinion comes from a guy who lives in one of the whitest states in our republic.


30 posted on 12/23/2014 6:19:44 PM PST by mythenjoseph (Separation of powers)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

African Americans are disproportionately arrested and incarcerated for numerous crimes... because they commit a disproportionate number of crimes.

Math ain’t hard, Professor Rocque.


31 posted on 12/23/2014 6:24:27 PM PST by Two Kids' Dad (((( ))))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Rocque needs to have a conversation with this liberal lawyer

http://www.amren.com/features/2014/05/confessions-of-a-public-defender/


32 posted on 12/23/2014 6:26:13 PM PST by Two Kids' Dad (((( ))))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Liberals believe ours is a racist society and blacks are the victims - not the true racists as they actually are in life.

They believe what needs to be done is to coddle and appease our domestic terrorists and punish the police for going after them.

America is at fault when its community organizers seek to burn it down and kill cops. We do have a race problem and we do have a civilizational crisis on our hands.

Unfortunately, they have nothing at all do with liberals’ blinkered, politically correct view of them.


33 posted on 12/23/2014 6:26:48 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Black’s commit murder at a rate more than seven times greater, than whites, according to published statistics by Holder’s Justice Dept.

Mostly they kill other blacks.

So you tell me professor: Is the “violent black man” a myth or a truth?


34 posted on 12/23/2014 6:33:51 PM PST by truth_seeker
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1

Not one tattered shred of data or other objective evidence to support his position. Only the “self-evident” nature of his claims. This whole movement is based on anecdotes in spite of any evidence.


35 posted on 12/23/2014 6:35:43 PM PST by Chaguito
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To: 17th Miss Regt

Next door to the Bates Motel.


36 posted on 12/23/2014 6:38:15 PM PST by Dan(9698)
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To: Travis McGee

Hey Travis - do you have that homicide graphic? This post is screaming for it..


37 posted on 12/23/2014 6:41:18 PM PST by GOPJ (Someone once said that civilization is a thin crust over a volcano. Thomas Sowell)
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To: oldbrowser

Yes....a “member” of the Surreal-American-Community


38 posted on 12/23/2014 6:43:44 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
You failed to place a barf alert in the title.

The elephant in the room no one is talking about, especially dweebs like this author:

The black on black murder and murder victimization rates tell most of what you need to know. If you won't discuss that, first and foremost, you aren't getting at the root of the problem. That isn't caused by whites.

39 posted on 12/23/2014 6:44:04 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sociology professors, welfare recipients, trust fund brats...usually liberal.

Auto mechanics, plumbers, electricians, restaurant owners, doctors...usually conservative.

Guess which group I find more useful? And it ain’t a close call.


40 posted on 12/23/2014 6:44:31 PM PST by Our man in washington
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