Posted on 11/25/2015 4:17:27 PM PST by TigerClaws
The common defense to criticisms of racial disparities in police use of force takes the form of a question: "But what about black-on-black crime?" The conservative argument is that black people are disproportionately killed by gun violence in their own communities, so perhaps they should worry about that before they worry about what police are doing.
On Tuesday night, Fox News's Mike Tobin put the black-on-black crime question to a protester in Chicago, Brendan Glover, after the release of a video showing the police shooting of Laquan McDonald. Here's how it played out, as shown in the video above posted by Media Matters:
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According to Jeremiah Wright, this is a cultural thang. People of color cannot conform to the norms of Western Civilization. (His words. Not mine.)
Conclusion, we need new laws that people of color can follow. (We can see the results in Third World civilization. IMHO)
I agree. Though Puff Ho ostensibly allows comments, as a Facebook refusenik I am unable to do battle with the brain dead libtards that infest the comment section.
It’s run by Ezra Klein. That’s refutation enough.
The guy I saw said it was OK for blacks to kill each other, but not for the cops to kill blacks. Leftist logic at its best.
Hell I’m about white as you can get and I’m scared to call the cops, 911 is for fools, 1911 is for protection.
SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.. . . so we can grant, in a limited way, that a murder by the police is worse than a murder by an ordinary citizen. But that is not an unlimited point, because the extent to which government should attempt to use flawed men (there being no other kind) in an attempt to “promote . . . our happiness . . . NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices” is a prudential question. Granted that a police murder is worse than a black-on-black non police murder, when you get past a thousand non police murders for every police murder, obsessing about the one police murder seems a bit out of proportion.Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. - Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
#BlackDeathsMatter only when they give blacks activists a reason to bitch about whites.
What a shameful subculture.
Because crime is going to happen. Wherever you go, crime happens. And the people that are here to serve and protect are a part of that problem. So it becomes a problem when you can't even call 911 and feel like you're safe — to protect you from people that are committing crimes. That's the point I'm trying to make.
I agree. I've said before, I wish that all other violence and crime would stop, but I don't arm and pay those thugs.
I do arm and pay the police and I expect them to follow the law. They are part of big government and we should keep an eye on them
Yes, bottom line: blacks will never accept responsibility for their problems. Evil Whitey is always to blame.
So ignore the 430 murders by blacks and march on the one by the cop.
Pray America wakes
Vox? Pox.
Little Ezra Klein’s Obama Propaganda website.
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