UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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Especially considering the fact that Troy, NY, is a very dark city.
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Especially considering the fact that Troy, NY, is a very dark city.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
Hardly.
The only blacks where I live are either in college or incarcerated.
The only blacks where I live are either in college or incarcerated.
BigUnionGuy
Got the T-Shirt
"While national news media continue to focus on race in Ferguson, Missouri, where a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed black teenager, they apparently don’t think a similar case in Utah with the races reversed is that newsworthy."
http://www.wnd.com/2014/08/black-cop-kills-white-man-media-hide-race/
http://www.wnd.com/2014/08/black-cop-kills-white-man-media-hide-race/
DriveInDriveOut
Inordinately Right
That's a really piss poor article on the shooting in Utah.
You should do some research on it and you'll start to understand how different the two shootings are. The shooting in Utah sadly is an all too common occurrence, and in general lacks the kind of controversy the Ferguson shooting does.
Not to mention the cop in Utah was wearing a body camera and I doubt the media wants to come out speculating on what happened and look like idiots when the video is released.
oldngray
nowhere special
As compared to the media speculating about Ferguson and looking like idiots there?
DriveInDriveOut
Inordinately Right
There is a body camera video of the shooting in the Utah case. It hasn't been released yet. They can speculate all day long about the Ferguson case because we won't ever know what really happened there.
oldngray
nowhere special
It is still unethical for media to make wild speculations about what happened at Ferguson without knowing the facts. The investigation is still underway and while there isn't a body camera recording the other evidence can still be pieced together to figure out what probably did or didn't happen. It just takes time so it is wrong for media to immediately jump to conclusions.
DriveInDriveOut
Inordinately Right
But there's so much commercial time to be sold....
I'd say only about 5% of what you see on cable tv news is actually real news. So in that sense they've created a pretty big grey area when it comes to what is and isn't ethical.
Babagounj
Strength through joy
You mean that the MSM has been lying all these years ?
DriveInDriveOut
Inordinately Right
Depends on your point of view.You mean that the MSM has been lying all these years ?
I see people like Bill O'reilly and Rachel Maddow as entertainment, and I do find them entertaining occasionally. However, there are a lot of viewers who think watching those shows equates to getting the news. Have they been lied to? Maybe yes, maybe no.... but probably yes.
realbrown1
Annoy a liberal today. Hit them with facts.
The White Side of the Story of Negroes
Finally...It is Said Publicly. I have never seen the white side explained better!
Pat Buchanan had the guts to say it. It is about time!!BUCHANAN TO OBAMABy Patrick J. Buchanan
Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America .. Fair enough. But this time, it has to be a two-way conversation. White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to... This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances,and demands heard. And among them are these:
First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known. Jeremiah Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.
Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have been spent since the '60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream. Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks -- with affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas -- to advance black applicants over white applicants. Churches, foundations, civic groups, schools and individuals all over America have donated their time and money to support soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirement and nursing homes for blacks. We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude?Barack talks about new 'ladders of opportunity' for blacks. Let him go to Altoona and Johnstown, and ask the white kids in Catholic schools how many were visited lately by Ivy League recruiters handing out scholarships for 'deserving' white kids? Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime and incarceration rates for African-Americans are seven times those of white America ? Is it really white America 's fault that illegitimacy in the African-American community has hit 70 percent and the black dropout rate from high schools in some cities has reached 50 percent?Is that the fault of white America or, first and foremost, a failure of the black community itself?
As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial crime, and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack Obama aware that while white criminals choose black victims 3 percent of the time, black criminals choose white victims 45 percent of the time?Is Barack aware that black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse, that black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the first three years of this decade as the reverse?We have all heard ad nauseam from the Rev. Al about Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena . And all turned out to be hoaxes. But about the epidemic of black assaults on whites that are real, we hear nothing.
Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago. This needs to be passed around because, this is a message everyone needs to hear!OK, will you pass it on? I did but will you? Because I'm for a better AmericaI amNot racist, Not violent, Just not silent anymore.
Finally...It is Said Publicly. I have never seen the white side explained better!
Pat Buchanan had the guts to say it. It is about time!!BUCHANAN TO OBAMABy Patrick J. Buchanan
Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America .. Fair enough. But this time, it has to be a two-way conversation. White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to... This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances,and demands heard. And among them are these:
First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known. Jeremiah Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.
Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have been spent since the '60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream. Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks -- with affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas -- to advance black applicants over white applicants. Churches, foundations, civic groups, schools and individuals all over America have donated their time and money to support soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirement and nursing homes for blacks. We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude?Barack talks about new 'ladders of opportunity' for blacks. Let him go to Altoona and Johnstown, and ask the white kids in Catholic schools how many were visited lately by Ivy League recruiters handing out scholarships for 'deserving' white kids? Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime and incarceration rates for African-Americans are seven times those of white America ? Is it really white America 's fault that illegitimacy in the African-American community has hit 70 percent and the black dropout rate from high schools in some cities has reached 50 percent?Is that the fault of white America or, first and foremost, a failure of the black community itself?
As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial crime, and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack Obama aware that while white criminals choose black victims 3 percent of the time, black criminals choose white victims 45 percent of the time?Is Barack aware that black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse, that black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the first three years of this decade as the reverse?We have all heard ad nauseam from the Rev. Al about Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena . And all turned out to be hoaxes. But about the epidemic of black assaults on whites that are real, we hear nothing.
Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago. This needs to be passed around because, this is a message everyone needs to hear!OK, will you pass it on? I did but will you? Because I'm for a better AmericaI amNot racist, Not violent, Just not silent anymore.
Babagounj
Strength through joy
But I always thought Walter Cronkite was being truthful .
oldngray
nowhere special
Michael Brown was never found delinquent of the juvenile equivalents of any Class A or B felony charges, and was not facing any at the time he died, a court official said this morning at a hearing on whether his juvenile records should be released.
It is not known whether Brown had ever been accused of lesser offenses; any record of those would be part of a confidential family court file.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...cle_43c9bbbb-356f-5ea6-b9e2-7dde7e3e5c83.html
It is not known whether Brown had ever been accused of lesser offenses; any record of those would be part of a confidential family court file.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...cle_43c9bbbb-356f-5ea6-b9e2-7dde7e3e5c83.html
So your sources were wrong, or are you saying that even having a minor offense meant he should be gunned down in the street?
"It can't be too hard to get a juvenile record in Ferguson, where in 2013 there were 10,000 more arrest warrants issued for nonviolent offenses than there were residents of the town. So you criminalize virtually everyone (or, you know, everyone black or brown or poor), then use their criminal records as your excuse for killing them in the street. It's appalling and shameful, and it's clearly the policy in Ferguson."
oldngray
nowhere special
My sources? All I said was there was a lawsuit to find out information which is exactly what happened.
Looks like you got the story wrong.
oldngray
nowhere special
No I didn't. I never claimed to know what happened. All I said was it was still being investigated. Which is still ongoing.
I believe you used the word 'fact', when it wasn't. You do that a lot.
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