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There is no single answer for this and yet the Korver piece focused only on "white privilege" and that is narrowminded at best. Blacks need to have a conversation with themselves. A real conversation as to how and why they can reduce black crime, specifically violent crime. Blacks in the "athletic community" pressed the issue of police violence against blacks and pretty much rammed it down our throats during the 2017 football season. I did not see anything about black on black crime, however, and in reality, blacks were killed by other blacks in staggering numbers as compared to how many were killed by police. We also witnessed a key member of this social justice movement (Michael Bennett) completely fabricate a story about he was arrested for just being black. It was a total sham. I will even say the Russel Westbrook thing that Korver talks about was overblown because Westbrook saw it as being racial. When one guy tells another to get on his knees that means he blows people and it is an attack on his masculinity. These kinds of things don't help. Neither does the way these social justice warriors amplify their struggles with police without ever acknowledging that blacks make up just over 12% of the population and have committed over 50% of the murders for years and years. If we are truly going to have a productive discussion about race these ugly facts need to be addressed.
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Look. I did not create the numbers. They exist and they are real. If you guys what to blame whties for the condition of African Americans in this country then go on with it. I just don't understand why that you do it. They have the same free will Jews, Asians, Arabs and (ironically) undocumented arrivals have.
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It's also a fact that white people are about 10 times more likely to be a victim of aggravated assault at the hands of a black person as compared to the other way around. If the DOJ and the FBI accumulated those stats are they racist? Or am I racist for citing them? Opine about the root causes all you want. It doesn't change what I just said
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Yet you can state rather assuredly there is some sort of "systemic racism" based off other statistics. Amazing how that works. You really need to tone that junk down because it is too easy on the other end to completely erase it
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Ummm. Do you know the rate blacks kill white as compared to the other way around? Have you actually seen the statistics??
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Black folks accounted for 52% of the murders in this country and they make up 12.5% of our population. What do you make of it? Absent all excuses. Is it safe to say they have more violent tendencies regardless of whatever cause??
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Is this the only BLM "anecdote"??? You cannot think of a single other one where misconduct dominated the scene? OK. Good. I must be nuts.
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This is virtue signaling. While I cannot disagree with you that blacks were enslaved I have to point out that was over 150 years ago. It is time to move forward because there isn't a damn thing that can be done about the past. To keep referring to this is to say there never will be a solution. You are essentially saying that blacks should forever resent whites and use slavery as leverage. I wasn't in on that slavery thing. Neither were any of my ancestors. I don't own slavery and I don't think you do either. It is incredible to me that blacks just a few generations ago exemplified some of the best traits a human could have....strength, resiliency.....now just two or three generations later we have more incarceration, more illegitimacy, more violent crimes, more a lot of bad things. Why is it that before the civil rights movement things weren't this bad? Why did things get a whole lot worse over the last 40 years? It's my fault. It's your fault. Come on, man.
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depends on what you are protesting and how you do it. Those black girls got up in Bernie's junk and pretty much stole the mic. That was awesome, right?
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So we are the only ones who can empower them and prevent the dropout rate for being so high, black on black murder being so high, illegitimatacy being so high, etc??? White people can solve their problems. That notion to me is pretty haughty. White people are just so awesome we can do this? Treat everyone the same. Period.
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There needs to be a two-sided discussion on race. This Korver thing is completely one-sided and he should be prepared to handle rebuttals. But to put him aside there needs to be a conversation about the notion was police will killing blacks for no reason in big numbers. The fact is over ten times as many blacks were killed by other blacks as compared to those killed by police. Blaming white people is not going to solve that. And that's about all for now.
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WHEN did I say the underlined? Never. As far as my statement on systemic racism, I don't think it exists. I provided the Clinton example to show another example of how democrats have screwed blacks. We can go back to the "Great Society" where Lyndon Johnson set back blacks with social programs that have done nothing but create a culture of entitlement. As far as facts go, we can discuss some data provided by the FBI on crime by race. Not sure anyone here is game for that, although it does serve to explain a large part of the reason why blacks are incarcerated at such a high rate. These are the statistics Kyle Korver should present to his teammates if he is going to truly be even about race. I don't like his "article" To me it was self-serving and it was the easiest thing he could have done. He can take all the bows he wants, but it doesn't seem as if he wants to have a discussion. He wants his words to be followed AND he wants to play race cop.
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Well, no you are just talking about something else to misdirect from what actually went down. The post was more about the way Black Lives Matter conduct themselves. They infiltrated and obstructed a forum for democratic candidates to speak about their platform. They wanted to shout down the discourse and for what reason? I guess they can do that....because they are disadvantaged minorities? I don't want anyone doing that. White, black, brown, yellow.
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I'll get back to you tomorrow, Brock. I promise. I'm out and I'm having a beer watching ballgame. You're just gonna need to wait. Good day sir
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I think it's necessary for all speaking on it to define "systemic racism"
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Clinton conceived that plan with a racist agenda. You know for sure it was planned out specifically to encarcerate blacks? I abhor Clinton and I don't believe it for a second.
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Sorry but I can't post from my phone at a pub. Let's continue this tomorrow
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now you endorse my larger point that the Democratic Party has done more damage to African Americans they most here can begin to comprehend And Brock, BLM wasn't simply speaking their mind. The upstaged political rallies, shouted down candidates and disrupted traffic. If they had a different approach your characterization would be better. You completely ignore the pertinent details regarding their methods and disrespectful conduct
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Why should they be quieted? He had the mic he paid for the space to speak. Anyone can scream whatever when a presidential candidate speaks? What about all the people who came to hear what he had to say? BLM gets a pass, right Whatever. Later guys
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And SABR, your boy Bernie got shouted down by BLM in Seartle. I guess they thought he was your typical white liberal feed blacks a line. Good for them!
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Brock, I cited a statement made by Martin O'Malley. A democratic candidate for president in the last election. He felt the need to apologize for saying "all lives matter" when BLM was shouting over him while was speaking. HE had to apologize. I find that troubling. What could be more fair and rational than "all lives matter"
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I don't know people. Seems as if Korver wrote 100% truth and gospel to everyone here, but me. There several points he made worst questioning/challenging Seems like that's not wanted. Sorry if I upset anyone
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Explain to me your best example of systemic racism
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SABR, what does Black Lives Matter suggest if candidate for felt compelled to apologize formally for saying "all lives matter"?? https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2015/07/18/politics/martin-omalley-all-lives-matter/index.html The reasoning was the context made it seem offensive. I think some people are dying to be offended
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Aside from treating everyone the same way upon meeting them there isn't much more I'm going to do. I'm not about to act differently because I'm in the presence of a black person. This seems to be what's being suggested here and I believe that kind of thinking patronizing and totally misguided.