Posted on 04/20/2002 6:46:46 AM PDT by KeyLargo
The story you related may be true. But ask yourself, when was the last time whites burned down almost an entire major city, and cause the brutal deaths of over 65 human beings, and all because they didn't like a verdict or a decision. I guess, murdering people, looting stores, and burning them to the ground made everything all right.
Oh, and be advised, minority criminal gangs all across this nation, routinely brutally murder approximately 6000 people a year. That's 6000 souls. And this number does not reflect the injured in the wake of their insanity.
Do you know if any people from outside the area offered help protecting the neighborhoods under threat during the LA riots?
Interesting side note - I started a new consulting gig last Monday. On the way to the break area, there's a cubicle labeled "Rodney King", and he's on the org chart. Man, did I do a double take!
Any race other than black would not be supportive of this criminality.When the white criminals I speak of are caught,the white race does not jump on the bandstand to defend their actions.Most whites would be happy to put their own races scum in the ground,they certainly don't defend them.
Too many blacks try to find a reason for it to be OK for blacks to commit any atrocity and not be responsible for their actions.In fact they blame the victims of their crimes.
I'm still probably not being clear.Bad day.To simplify-There is no excuse,they don't deserve to live,kill them all before they harm anyone in any way.
The only thing these rioters deserve can be delivered with a fully automatic weapon.
BTW, you are talking to a person who has been married to a black man, lived in a poor urban black community (the projects), stayed and visited in black in law's houses down south, almost lost my identity as a white person (see any maury, ricky lake, jerry program and you will see white women who have gotten involved in the black community; even their syntax is 'black urban')
i have also worked with the "poor" as a gov't subsidized housing worker. i can tell you for a fact: we have some of the richest "poor" people in the world. i have also moved out of a horrid community once i saw that blacks would not accept me nor did they accept my bi-racial child (he was not "black" enough because i taught him to behave himself and speak proper english).
my white daughter was cursed at by hispanic people for trying to learn spanish ("that's OUR language,not yours"). after my kids were repeatedly beaten up, stabbed with needles, pushed into busy streets, AND, after getting into a confrontation with a 12 year old kid's mother after telling him not to publicly pee on my front yard (her response was her kid can pee anywhere he wants and "if whitey don't like it, she can F-ing move")
so, unless you have actually LIVED in these situations and EXPERIENCED these things, all your suppositions and hypothesis don't amount to much.
We're not neighbors, are we? Just kidding, but your experiences sound familiar. You mind telling me in what city you endured the worst? (I'm in NYC.)
The next day, there were so many businesses and buildings on fires that it could be seen 100 miles away. The entire event was something many wont forget.
There was no excuse for what transpired, yet many so-called community leaders stood in line, making excuses and attempting to justify what occured.
I remember how it was. It was like following a war that had just broken out, but which, unlike 911, wasn't on TV (at least I saw little or none of it in NYC).
Interesting side note - I started a new consulting gig last Monday. On the way to the break area, there's a cubicle labeled "Rodney King", and he's on the org chart. Man, did I do a double take!
LOL
funny, how none of the minority community from other states showed up to help. that oughta tell ya something.
i think instead of sociology 101 textbook analogies, you should get out there and conduct these experiments yourself. and i know JUST the place to do it. say at the corner of joseph ave and ave D in good ol' rochester ny. no matter what persuasion you are, you would be mugged and on the ground (or worse) before you could say "social norms and mores"
not even the last of the decent, law-abiding minority community would dare venture into that territory.
Nobody does."
Not true, this is just another sterling example of the permanent victim class of unaccountable criminals who use the color of their skin to make war on another class of citizens who are too stupid to arm themselves. The "authorities" have been cowed by the likes of the biggest so-called victim, Jesse (show-me-the-money) Jackson and his prince in waiting Al (rent-a-mob R us) Sharpton.
So as society continues to break down, the poor "I never get a break" criminals continue to run amok and innocent sheep let themselves be victimized one can just about smell the anarchy in the air.
I was thinking along the lines of white citizens that lived far enough away from the trouble not to have to worry about their own neighborhoods,showing up to help the at risk white neighborhoods.
I believe when law enforcement can't get the job done it's time for the people to take action to aid each other.
Well, blow me away! And here I thought that Rochester was some kind of sleepy, squeaky clean, middle-class city. Of course, my impresssion was surely influenced by this girl I was friends with in college 25 years ago. She was pale, petite, and beautiful, in this virginal way (like an actress in a feminine spray ad), and had these exquisitely unpretentious yet aristocratic manners. And that, for me, was Rochester.
The town you're describing, sounds more like the model for the rustbelt city in the shortlived but brilliant CBS drama, E-Z Streets. (I thought the inspiration might be Buffalo, because of the proximity to Canada.)
P.S. Don't listen to the lady from The Bronx. Some places might be as bad as the Bronx, but nowhere in America is worse than the South Bronx. In The Bronx, people have told me, in broad daylight, that I didn't have the right to sit down in the subway, and threatened me with death for doing so.
In NYC, no reporter from a major media outlet goes ANYWHERE without a "crew," including a photographer and driver, and sometimes (like when WABC-TV's Diana Williams does her "24 hours on the subway" shtick), a bodyguard. The exception, is when a print journalist does a ride-along with cops, which is obviously a safe situation. Hence, reporters know less than civilians do about street reality.
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