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Ferguson decision: A call to end criminalization of black youths: guest opinion
The Birmingham News ^ | December 26, 2014 | Ebony Howard, Sr. Staff Attorney, Southern Poverty Law Center

Posted on 12/26/2014 2:14:40 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 12/26/2014 2:14:40 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Eff the SPLC.


2 posted on 12/26/2014 2:17:36 PM PST by TomServo
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And this fear of black boys remains woven within the American fabric. We are reminded of it every time there is a headline reporting the death of yet another unarmed black youth.

I'm reminded of it every time I read of another 'knockout game' incident committed by an unarmed black yute.

3 posted on 12/26/2014 2:18:46 PM PST by pa_dweller
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Blacks learn - (1) to hate whites; (2) that success in school is a ‘white thing’ that should not be valued (back to #1); that they can have a ‘career’ in Food Stamps, Welfare, any criminal undertaking, and be paid by We the People to do so.

Does this give them the satisfaction of a life well lived? No, so they blame others.

just my two-bits.


4 posted on 12/26/2014 2:19:08 PM PST by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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A call to end criminalization of black youths

they can rob ,assault ,rape and kill people and Police with nothing happening to them ?


5 posted on 12/26/2014 2:19:12 PM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

IF they are CRIMINALS they should be CRIMINALIZED? Isn’t this a no-brainer?


6 posted on 12/26/2014 2:19:36 PM PST by madison10
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How bout a call to end black criminals?

Maybe THAT should be the focus.


7 posted on 12/26/2014 2:20:42 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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Ebony seems to not have mastered the difference between cause and effect.

One wonders how she managed to get through High School, much less Law School.


8 posted on 12/26/2014 2:22:50 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: TomServo
Eff the SPLC.

Recall that the SPLC's extremist rhetoric incited a nutjob/SPLC intern (ok, is that redundant?) to attempt the mass murder of Family Research Council staff at FRC HQ in DC.
9 posted on 12/26/2014 2:23:08 PM PST by tanknetter
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What it really shows is blacks with an attitude are not studying and paying attention in school. They get left behind by the Asians and whites and then get in trouble 3 times as often as a result.


10 posted on 12/26/2014 2:23:10 PM PST by spawn44 (MOO)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If they followed the straight and narrow path (see the 10 Commandments) they’d not have that problem.


11 posted on 12/26/2014 2:23:32 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else need s said?)
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Why don't we simply criminalize criminals?

Oh wait... we do...

Got any other suggestions?

12 posted on 12/26/2014 2:23:43 PM PST by Cementjungle
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Nobody is to blame for “rap” culture except those who embrace it.


13 posted on 12/26/2014 2:24:14 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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...many people are asking a heart-wrenching question: "Why don't black lives matter?"

Why doesn't the law matter? Why doesn't the truth matter? Why doesn't reason matter? Why doesn't common sense matter?

14 posted on 12/26/2014 2:24:26 PM PST by Jagdgewehr (It will take blood.)
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Morris Dees and the Montgomery, Alabama based SPLC are the worst of the worst.
15 posted on 12/26/2014 2:24:33 PM PST by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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What a surprise that a shyster from SPLC would write this. /sarc


16 posted on 12/26/2014 2:26:07 PM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin)
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Just learned of a classmate of my son’s being attacked by 3 black youths on campus..the knockout game..Concussion and fractured eye socket. Luckily caught on campus film


17 posted on 12/26/2014 2:27:20 PM PST by rocketmag
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

To overcome the criminalizing of black youth the youth must be decriminalized in their behavior and attitudes. It does not avail a solution to simply treat young thugs as angels when they are in fact thugs. Celebrating healthy minded youth of color and aggressively condemning thuggery are essential.
There are countless wonderful young men and women of color who need society’s approval. Celebrating criminal thuggery with music, demonstrations and violence is idiotic.
Raising up youth who are striving to achieve a healthy, strong life of honor and dignity and refusing to dignify ignorance and vulgarity are the proper means of solving this cultural problem.


18 posted on 12/26/2014 2:27:23 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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19 posted on 12/26/2014 2:28:01 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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My high school-aged daughter was asked to select a topic from a list of current events-related issues and write a couple of paragraphs about them. She chose "White Privilege," and wrote about the ghetto-trash thug ethic (which she has experienced first-hand in her school).

The teach wrote a short comment suggesting that my daughter's response seemed to be leaning a bit towards "victim blaming."

I told my daughter she should write back to caution the teacher against engaging "thug enabling."

The leftists in this country have to make everyone a victim so they can justify greater government control.

Black Americans have been taught by self-serving leftists that because there was once slavery in parts of the U.S., there is no such thing as liberty.

The truth is, Progressive Leftists are opposed to individual liberty as defined in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The only real complaint they have about chattel slavery in America two hundred years ago is that the slaves were privately owned.

But they get orgasmic over the idea of slavery to the state.

Democrats never pass up on opportunity to tell us why enslavement by the state is for our own protection and our own safety, because life under the anarchy that conservatives want to impose is just too risky and dangerous. We can't have any of that inhumane "on-your-own economics" that conservatives advocate.

Thereby proving that you no longer have to be black to be an Uncle Tom.

20 posted on 12/26/2014 2:29:09 PM PST by Maceman
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