What About Black Lives Matter?

Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 6 months ago to Culture
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For two years the protest movement called "Black Lives Matter" has caused demonstrations all around the nation. It was triggered by the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO in August of '14. It holds that racist police are the greatest threat to young black men. This has triggered riots, and the murder or attempted murder of police and an attempt to eliminate grand juries when police use lethal force.

The U.S. Justice Department has completely disproven that Brown was merely a Gentle Giant and was shot in cold blood while trying to surrender. Even though it was shown that Brown had just stolen from and intimidated a store owner and was charging at the officer who shot him, and had attempted to get the officer's gun, he is venerated as a martyr.As a result, officers are backing off in the face of the hatred which is relentlessly directed at them on the street and in the media. As a result, violent crime is on the rise. The question becomes do the police pose the greatest threat to young black men? Or is it the far greater threat of black-on-black crime?


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  • Posted by IndianaGary 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I disagree. He was providing historical perspective to the Horst Wessel reference. I +1ed him for the effort. MA: Thanks for the history lesson.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    1% of them do. But then 1% of the general population also 'do.' Then there are the cop haters. 1% again. It's still too damn many but that applies to both factions at the same rate.

    Same source and cite as last time....this is getting soooooo boring but you kept your point. Relieves the boredom so I added done more.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    not sure I understand what the 'true black culture" is. All I see here in Vegas is the entitled welfare enriched black culture with pants hanging down to their knees and playing hip hop.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    and they want us to give up our guns, while they and the bad guys get to keep them. Doesnt make a lot of sense to me !!
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  • Posted by IndianaGary 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Note that the whole concept of "white privilege" is designed to disarm the individual, to inculcate race into any attempt to apply reason, to terminate discourse without having to present a valid argument.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Wow it appears you may have nailed it. But it appears he is just using them because they are there to be used.

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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Two kinds or more just like anywhere and anything else. Those that do and make something of themselves, Those that disrupt classes, impregnate 11 and 12 year olds and personify what they complain about.

    I've used this against the main proponent of racism (and sexism and bigotry to good effect.)

    When you get a goverenment form or some other similar with a laundry list of races, cultures, ethnicities and especially those that are clearly slanted write this over the offending section, "This is a racist/sexist/bigoted or other question. You should be ashamed of yourself for asking and helping to promote racism/sexism, bigotry and that goes for Nazi lovers too.

    I've yet to have it affect anything the form was really about.i have received on three occasions a letter of apology from one of the functionaries explaining it's a requirement of a job which allows me to introduce the idea of independent thinking and responsibility. Two at least have now read AS and one is studying objectivism. the third probably rolled their eyes and said, "oh please." To which I would have politely responded, "Thank you."
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    This may help ... Sorry I posted it under the one of the ignore button group. Yes it does Let me know if you disagree or have more to add on any of the following comments.

    Still a hero of the American Nazi and other Nazi parties Horst Wessel was one of Hitlers earliest supporters.

    This subject keeps cropping up unfortunately this time when the current American Nazi Party first in Illinois then for the USA endorsed Trump after his speech on immigration control. But then apparently George Soros leader of the Secular Progressives appears to have also been donating to Clinton and Kasich to defeat Trump although has close business ties. Hillary is Soro's organizations poster girl for his stated purpose of replacing the republican form of government with a socialist version. Apparently Sanders isn't left wing enough for his taste and like the Republicans he has no control in this battle of the billionaires.

    Keep in mind Nazi's are National Socialists and like International Socialists are not Right Wing except by the skewed definitions of the Left. Placed in their proper perspective they aren't even right wing OF the left but the the two of them National and International Socialists or Nazis and Communists are the extremists of the Left. The International flavor allow no private ownership of anything Marxist Leninist Economics. The national version allow private ownership under heavy and complete control of the Party in some areas. Fascist or State Economics. Both are Fascist in nature.

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    On 14 January 1930, Horst Wessel, a young and ambitious member of the SA was shot at close range at his home in Berlin. Although the crime was never completely solved, the murder was most likely committed by a group of communists with close ties to the city's gangland. Wessel later died from his injuries. Joseph Goebbels, whose attention had already been drawn to Wessel as a possible future Nazi leader, was the first to recognize the propaganda potential of the case. 'A young martyr for the Third Reich' he wrote in his diary on 23 February 1930 immediately after receiving the news of Wessel's death. This was the beginning of the myth-making that transformed an ordinary individual into a masculine role model for an entire generation. Two months later, thousands of people lined the streets for Wessel's funeral parade and Goebbels delivered a graveside eulogy. In the years that followed - and as Nazi power increased - Horst Wessel became the hero of the Nazi movement - with his elaborate memorial quickly becoming a site of pilgrimage.

    The song Die Fahne Hoch for which Wessel had written the lyrics (and which subsequently became popularly known as the Horst Wessel Song) became the official Nazi party anthem and the Berlin district of Friedrichshain, where Wessel was murdered was renamed Horst-Wessel-Stadt in his honour. Numerous biographies and films followed. Using previously unseen material, Daniel Siemens provides a fascinating and gripping account of the background to Horst Wessel's murder and uncovers how and why the Nazis made him a political hero. He examines the Horst Wessel 'cult' which emerged in the aftermath of Wessel's death and the murders of revenge, particularly against Communists, committed by the SA and Gestapo after 1933. At the same time, the story of Horst Wessel provides a portrait of the Nazi propaganda machine at its most effective and most chilling.
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  • Posted by 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    By not caring about PC one has graduated to an important level of individuality. The true Black culture is the American culture as it should be for all Americans.
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  • Posted by 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Tasers are effective in that the ones that don't shoot but are used close contact, will immobilize for at least 5 minutes which gives a person time to get away.
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  • Posted by 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That culture is the same as you get when you have strep and cough into an agar dish. Unfortunately it's not only in LV & SanFran. Our entitlement society makes it almost a badge of honor to be a bum.
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  • Posted by 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I can almost give the uneducated a pass because they can be educated. As to the rest (the evil) all I can say is that the only regret I have is that I don't believe in hell.
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  • Posted by 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I think you may be defining "culture" too narrowly. In this case we are talking of culture as the various forms of advancement or decline of civilization.
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Personally, I call police to report an event and get their report for insurance--or I get stopped on the street for some minor infraction, probably just to be checked out. Any thought that police, even if they wanted to, can protect me on a daily basis is just silly.
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You're correct and that's a major demonstration of the inversion of our legal and judicial system. I believe in self defense and luckily, I'm still capable. For those that believe in their police, they need to worry.
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  • Posted by $ jdg 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You have not demonstrated any connection between this and BLM, nor between this and Trump. You're just a troll.
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  • Posted by Stormi 9 years, 6 months ago
    Black Lives Matter is pushed by radical black racist, and. ministers, along with George Soros. It is not meant to help the black community, rather to stir it up in the fashion of Alinsky;s :"Rules for radicals". The media is part of the problem, buying into the left wing agitation. Black youth are poorly educated in failing US schools, know no real history of their own culture, and rarely even know the history of black educated men like Thomas Sowell or Walter Williams. They listen to Hillary Clinton instead, when she has done nothing but use them. They have no idea of the history of black scientists or the great musicians and actors of the 40s or 50s. All they know, is what they are told to think. They text and rap, but they do not reason. When the radical leaders say, all cops bad, they hit the streets to protest against them. Until the culture is address, from withing black society, it will not change. Read the statistics on Black on Black vs white on Black crime in Imprimus online, under the title "Black Lives Matter." The statistics are there for anyone to read. More Blacks are killed by Blacks than by whites, and it is all on record. Drugs are taking over all communities, but more so the Black communities, and the instigators of of protests are hurting these communities by lying to them.i
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    AKA reverse racists. Watts was the only Representative to honor and uphold the Contract With America provision on voluntary term limits. in my book he ranks with MLK while the other two are bottom feeders.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    +1 I've read that most abortions are black.
    Old dino would like to add that a huge amount of black on black murders (you don't need to just shoot a gun) is also being ignored while BLM screams their I"pigs in a blanket" stuff.
    I've also read that BLM demos and Trump rally disruptions are being bankrolled by socialists like George Soros and MoveOn.org.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    ABSOLUTELY. The biggest thing I like about Trump is that he is willing to be politically incorrect. Since he has started running, I have been much more vocal about what I think. I want him in government because he will tell us all when the emperor has no clothes- and we NEED that in government to help bust up the cronyism that is rampant there.
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