The whole race war scene on social media is absolutely erroneous. In fact, the whole “Black Lives Matter” movement, is off the mark in a big way. It’s sad all the wasted energy spent on a millenial version of a weak Black Panthers, circa 1971, movement. Been there, done that, is what many Americans over 60 think. But history repeats itself, and these Black Lives Matter folks take very seriously their victimhood.
One such participant, Blake Simons, sees himself as the new (one of many) Malcolm X, and he has proclaimed his proclamation to the US-“A New Constitution Or The Bullet”. Of course writing from his Berkeley dorm room or apartment off campus, reaping an education that many caucasian kids may have lost due to their race, Simons feels “hopeless”.
Again its sad. For the over $60,000 a year going into his education, all he can produce is a manifesto of sorts, which has no credence in fact. The fact is, blacks kill blacks 93% of the time. That 7% can’t be all white boogey men cops.
Maybe taking on your own community, taking on the violence the rap stars glorify, taking on the films like “Straight Outta Compton” that chronicles thug rap stars getting rich and getting out of the ghetto-maybe Simons and his other wanna be Malcolm X’s should stop blaming their lives and deaths on white cops. Take your energy and education (Black Studies is his major) and make a real difference.
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Ignorance on parade
The fact is that over 6,000 blacks die of homicide each year. That is more than white and Hispanic homicide victims combined, even though blacks are 13 percent of the nation’s population. And the reason they are dying of homicide at a rate six times higher than whites and Hispanics combined is because they commit homicide at eight times the rate higher than whites and Hispanics combined. And that type of crime disparity means that when the police are trying to save lives, they are in minority neighborhoods confronting people engaged in drive‑by shootings, killing children.
Let’s talk about cop killings. Over the last decade, black males made up 40 percent of all cop killers, even though they’re six percent of the population. It turns out, that a police officer is 18-and-a-half times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is likely to be killed by a police officer.
I think that when the Black Lives Matter movement has been allowed to thrive by a deliberate ignorance — cultivated ignorance — about the problem of black crime, that you cannot understand police activity without understanding patterns of crime. And the media has basically suppressed any knowledge about how bad things are in inner cities. So I would start by giving the data on black crime that explains why officers are in inner-city neighborhoods trying to save lives. We need to get the black community to stand up aginst all crime and bring back the family, make it a focus of the community.
Blacks “commit 75 percent of all shootings, 70 percent of all robberies, and 66 percent of all violent crime” in New York City, even though they consist of 23 percent of the city’s population.
“The black violent crime rate would actually predict that more than 26 percent of police victims would be black,” . “Officer use of force will occur where the police interact most often with violent criminals, armed suspects, and those resisting arrest, and that is in black neighborhoods.”
12 percent of white and Hispanic homicide deaths were due to police officers, while only four percent of black homicide deaths were the result of police officers.
Black and Hispanic police officers are more likely to fire a gun at blacks than white officers. University of Pennsylvania studies determined black cops were 3.3 times more likely to fire a gun than other cops at a crime scene.
Blacks are more likely to kill cops than be killed by cops. FBI data, which also found that 40 percent of cop killers are black.
The reason turning police brutality and excessive force into a racial thing is bad is that it takes the focus away from doing more about policing the police. Two thirds of the people killed in the line of duty by the police are white people. The number of killings that are “bad shoots” is way too high. Police are up against a real dilemma. Their own lives are in real danger every day. When they find themselves in a dangerous situation, if they react wrongly they may get killed or kill someone. Don’t take that for granted. If you are being questioned or arrested, let the officer manage things. Don’t try to put up a scuffle and do not make any sudden moves. Ask the officer if you may get something from your pocket or back pack or would they rather you be still and they get it for you. Be patient. Don’t argue. Keep your hands in plain view at all times. There will still be incidents of wrongful shootings by police. Don’t make your situation one of those. And stop protesting every time a policeman kills a black person if you are never going to protest when a white person is killed in the same circumstance. People that are like that are racists themselves
I stand and defend against all Muslim hate groups…………
Brother you won’t be standing alone.
Idiot. 12% of the peopulation? Good luck.
you want to die bring it on dumb asses
obay the law an you live you want to carry guns you die
These are domestic terrorists!!! Let them go to the Middle East and fight Isis for their own caliphate!
NO…..we will never change our Constitution….
Lol, kind of hard to change the Constitution when you comprise a very small fringe minority. Unless you plan to throw democracy out the window.