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Texas Senator Royce West Poses “Questions From A Black Man” Open Letter
CBSDFW/KRLD ^ | 7/18/2016 | L.P. Phillips

Posted on 07/19/2016 10:00:11 AM PDT by Menehune56

DALLAS (KRLD) – He didn’t write the letter as a lawyer or State Senator….Royce West says he poses questions as a black man in today’s world. West asked the questions in an open letter titled, “Questions from a Black Man.” Questions included “are you afraid of me because of the color of his skin?” West says the questions are what many black Americans feel. For instance, West asked the National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice if they have similar feelings?

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An "Open Letter to America." Beyond pathetic as is the writing in this article.
1 posted on 07/19/2016 10:00:12 AM PDT by Menehune56
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To: Menehune56

Royce West is “beyond pathetic”

A career politician who drinks the chocolate Kool Aid by the gallon and doesn’t have an original thought about anything


2 posted on 07/19/2016 10:04:59 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Legacy Kennedy . .give up YOUR job in the name of "Diversity")
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To: Menehune56

Hey, Royce! Tell your black “bruthas” to quit murdering, raping and robbing. Tell them to quit selling drugs, doing drugs, and glorifying drugs in their ‘music’. You want to see who’s oppressing the “black community”? LOOK IN THE MIRROR!


3 posted on 07/19/2016 10:12:46 AM PDT by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: corrupt unreliable negligent traitor)
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I cannot control what is going on between other people’s ears, how their brain reacts to stimuli based upon their life history.

As an example if I drive through my neighborhood and I see a person I do not recognize and my head turns as I passed them to try and see who they are, and it’s a white guy, he just thinks that guy staring at me.

But if I do the same thing with a black man he is probably going to think that guy staring at me because I’m black and he’s a racist and he assumes I’m a criminal based upon my skin color.

What am I to do if I see a new person in my neighborhood am I supposed to only look at the white guy and wonder if he’s a burglar or the son of one of my neighbors or a door-to-door Salesman? Should I force myself not to look at the black man who I do not recognize as being from my neighborhood?


4 posted on 07/19/2016 10:15:01 AM PDT by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (Trump, effective govt. that will be great for crony "art of the deal" capitalists)
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To: Menehune56

I’m done talking to black whiners.


5 posted on 07/19/2016 10:18:30 AM PDT by The Toll
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“are you afraid of me because of the color of his skin?”

???? Is he an idiot, or is it the reporter, or both?


6 posted on 07/19/2016 10:21:41 AM PDT by cdcdawg
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To: Menehune56

Being afraid of someone because of the color of his skin is stupid. The general appearance and demeanor are more important. Would you be afraid of someone who is acting like a street thug, or someone who is studying math in a library? We don’t care about what your skin looks like. We care about your behavior. When you do what is necessary to eliminate the association in most peoples’ minds of black and dangerous, you won’t have any more problems.


7 posted on 07/19/2016 10:22:50 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: I want the USA back

Saturday morning I was going to go to the drive-in ATM near our house. It was early and there wasn’t much traffic but I saw a group of black teenagers hanging out next to it so I drove on. I guess I’m guilty of profiling but better safe than sorry.


8 posted on 07/19/2016 10:41:41 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Menehune56

Life isn’t fair. People of all ethnicities experience disappointment, and perceived unfairness, but accept such without blaming it on the faults of others. Black people in general will be relegated to the bottom of the social scale until they get over the fact they aren’t going to get everything they want or think they deserve and start taking responsibility for their own lives. Accept that fact and stop blaming failures on others. There isn’t a person walking the Earth that hasn’t been the victim of perception, but most ethnicities don’t define their culture by criminality and grievance.


9 posted on 07/19/2016 10:43:11 AM PDT by Yogafist
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To: Menehune56

The media and their blacks are becoming insufferable. Every time some tragic event occurs we are treated to some black face expressing their worthless opinions. Who says we must listen to some fool who comes out of a race that has done nothing and created nothing but social disaster. They have never created anything but expense both economic and moral. I’m sorry for the rant but I am sick of black mouthing’s, especially when opposed to black deeds of waste and murder. Simply look at cities where corrupt politicians, businessmen and courts have placed them in charge.


10 posted on 07/19/2016 10:46:14 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: Menehune56

John Wiley Price leaned on his brother from a different mother.


11 posted on 07/19/2016 10:46:28 AM PDT by hadaclueonce (This time it is serious.)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

Surely you would not want headline grabbing loud mouth white supremacy bigots to be the measure of all white people would you?

One very interesting potential scandal which somehow never becomes a real scandal, is how white plutocrats profit from, and egg on and encourage and drive, the black ghetto mentality. The reality is, of course, a miserable hell on earth, but they’ve managed to glamorize it. These plutocrats should just go hide their hell-filled heads in a hole.


12 posted on 07/19/2016 10:50:45 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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Better white loud mouth bigots controlling our affairs than having black loud mouth bigots controlling our affairs. You are welcome to move to Chicago. Blacks as a group cannot even control their own lives much less ours.

Ever hear of "The Doctrine of Relative Filth?"

There are people in our society who when faced with black assaults upon us and the police defend, apologize and emote for the black. I'm sick of the black and their apologists and if you do not like that TOO BAD!!!!!!!

13 posted on 07/19/2016 11:01:39 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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If I was a middle aged, over-weight, balding white guy would you be afraid ?

If I was a white, 20 year-old with a swastika tattooed on the back of my head, with 10-20 other similar looking guys making trouble, would you be afraid ?

It must be because of the color of my skin !


14 posted on 07/19/2016 11:37:39 AM PDT by Djester62
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To: Menehune56

I think people fear young men in general who are not in school or working.


15 posted on 07/19/2016 11:39:00 AM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Menehune56

Royce and Tavis Smiley - just wow. Stuck on stupid.


16 posted on 07/19/2016 11:59:54 AM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough)
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To: Menehune56

The flip side:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3450838/posts?page=1


17 posted on 07/19/2016 12:07:23 PM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough)
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To: Menehune56

Blacks commit three times the violent crimed as other groups. One out of 4 black men is in the Criminal Justice System, in jail or in prison at any given time. And NO it’s not for a broken taillights.

Any white person who thinks they are as safe around a black man as around a white man is delusional. Numbers have meaning.

It’s NOT the color of skin - (some folks from India have darker skin than American Blacks) it’s how too many blacks chose to be criminals.


18 posted on 07/19/2016 1:18:34 PM PDT by GOPJ (Diversity was a byproduct of people coming here 'yearning to be free', diversity was NEVER the goal.)
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To: Menehune56

Blacks commit three times the violent crime as other groups. One out of 4 black men is in the Criminal Justice System, in jail or in prison at any given time. And NO it’s not for a broken taillights.

Any white person who thinks they are as safe around a black man as around a white man is delusional. Numbers have meaning.

It’s NOT the color of skin - (some folks from India have darker skin than American Blacks) it’s how too many blacks chose to be criminals.


19 posted on 07/19/2016 1:18:49 PM PDT by GOPJ (Diversity was a byproduct of people coming here 'yearning to be free', diversity was NEVER the goal.)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

May fate deal you the opposite lesson and then maybe you will conclude that evil is evil in any color....


20 posted on 07/19/2016 1:22:51 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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