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I don't believe there is system racism. That is correct

Black Live Matter supported a false narrative. Read Eric Holder's report of what went down in Ferguson. All "Black Lives Matter" did was attempt to inflame the issue and that riot was the catalyst for a lot of racial unrest. This idea that Michael Brown was some innocent victim is insane. Black witnesses turned that story around and the ballistics proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that he attacked Wilson. By the way ALL LIVES MATTER, not just black lives.

Fair enough, but I actually did teach as a NY state certfied teacher (have been for almost 2 years) in an inner city public school that was about 80% African American. I worked in two residential treatment facilites in upstate NY where most of the staff and students were African American (for several years). I also lived in Mt. Vernon, NY (just outside of the Bronx for several years when I went to grad school (mostly blacks lived in my apartment and I took public transportation). I hate having to put my "credentials" out there, but you are wrong to assume that I haven't ever been close to it. I was for nearly a decade of my life. All that said, the Korver article loses me when he talks about "quiet racism" "Well….. they sort of wish that everyone would stop making everything “about race” all the time." Sorry, but I feel that way and that would make me racist according to him. This idea that anyone who doesn't agree 100% with what he wrote is part of the problem is troubling to me. There are plenty of things in there to debate and he wants to simply shut it down. I am damn tired of race being front and center. We got it with Covington and it was a whole lot of smoke. Smollett put in out there and that was complete BS. The black dude in Kansas putting up racist graffiti, etc....etc....etc... Then you hear about the NFL players kneeling because there are "bodies in the streets" from cops killing so many black people. The numbers simply don't bear it out and about 2X more blacks were killed by blacks in Chicago along than how many blacks were killed by cops. Michael Bennett went front and center and was able to pretty much lie about what went down in Vegas and when the video came out he lost no credibility. He is still that NFL SJW. I want to have empathy and tend to have empathy in most circumstances until I smell BS. This fluff piece by Korver is all talk and it portrays blacks as victims. This kind of victimology isn't going help them. Nor will it help to be one to just sit, listen and nod our heads when we listen to one side of the issue. There are many sides to the issue and I think that Korver's piece is more self-serving that it is poignant. It is damn hard to watch a sports talk show program without race being heavily injected into the discussion (which is why I never watch) You can buy it lock stock and barrel if you want, but I see problems with the Korver piece

Sorry I'm not moved by the Kyle Korver missive. It might have struck a chord with you because you come from white privlege. I don't so it's not my cross to bear.

I am not going to alter anything I said in the prior post so copy away. You should be aware that Clinton's violent crime bill in 1994 helped to target blacks and is a big reason for the mass incarceration of them. You've only served to fortify my point that white liberals have exploited and sold blacks down the road worse than anyone. Under Trump they have had the lowest unemployment rate ever for the last several months. That racist!

This statement right here The fact that black Americans are more than five times as likely to be incarcerated as white Americans is wrong. This statement about the massive incarceration of blacks seems to suggest that it has less to do with the behaviors of the people being incarcerated and more to do with a system looking to incarcerate black people. If you research the data blacks are far more likely to commit aggravated assault than are whites. They are far more likely to commit murder and rape than are whites. These behaviors and actions land you in jail. A fairly large percentage of young black men have for years talked about "keeping it real", meaning "I'll do what I have to do to get what I need" and that leaves little room for empathy or thoughts of any kind of consequence. If you want to adopt that kind of credo or lifestyle then good luck with that. it is akin to joining the Hells Angels or some other biker gang where you wear a patch, live like an outlaw and outlaw and bask in the glory of that. The only thing is, I don't see bikers who adopt that lifestyle crying about how police are mean to them. it is such a mixed message. Blacks get killed by the hundreds by other blacks in Chicago and other predominantly black areas of the country. Yet police have trouble convicting killers because "snitches get stitches". You have these wild hoaxes and silly lies beginning most notably with Tawana Brawley in the1980s. The gross misrepresentation in Kaepernick's statement about "bodies in the street" because of police officers killing so many blacks, the Michael Bennett lie in Vegas, the "hands up, don't shoot" false narrative that people jumped on, the Jussie Smollett bologna. It goes on and on. And if you question it or bring it up you are whining or a racist. There is a kneejerk reaction by whites to point the finger at other whites like what Korver does in his letter. This Kyle Korver stuff doesn't move me at all. Sounds like he's a white player in the NBA trying make sense of things and I feel sorry for him. Maybe he should look at some statistics before he starts spouting this narrative dripping with white guilt. Maybe his family has been here for 10 generations and they lived in the Jim Crow south or he came from privilege, but that is not my cross to bear. My grandparents on both sides were immigrants who came here with nothing. Quotas were actually instituted to control immigration from the countries my family came from. My father lived in poverty as a child and was the first in his family to attend college and graduate school where he would become an engineer. I don't owe any ethnic or racial group a damn thing. So I don't buy this white privilege stuff. If it applies you then suffer inwardly or take action somehow in your own way. The rest of us don't care about your guilt.

He said the drama wasn't over and I could not agree more. Write a post to nothing because I am heading out for the weekend. Sorry, you will have to wait until Sunday night late (that is if I decide to log on)

Is this an attempt to disprove something I said? Try harder

Moderate democrats need to be the voice of reason and honestly assess what they have. Seems such a waste of time and energy. If the NY Times, the Washington Post and the loudest democratic voices in the senate want to push all their chips in on "there might be information to impeach or censure" then the darn well better be sure. If they fight and lose it will be a beating they inflicted upon themselves

Badsmerf, you pinned it exactly. The drama is never over as far is this democratic house is concerned. They let the wrong people take over and all the whining, kicking and screaming lefties will bring the drama. It's what they do best

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/02/24/opinions/bernie-sanders-glaring-weakness-perry/index.html CNN pretty much outlining my main beef with Sanders. He talks a mean game on policy but can't articulate how it gets done. Young "Occupy ------" leftists love him, but most of them just like that he's proposing free school and that he's from the hippy culture in Vermont. I found Bernie commercials to be annoying. He was going to provide free admission to college by "taxing Wall Street speculation" Real cute stuff. Now explain what the heck that is or go crawl under a rock somewhere

I would love to see a Trump/Sanders debate.

Aside from Bernie Sanders being not racist, or homophobic, or an Islamaophobe or a liar; what draws you to him so much? Why should he be elected president according to PseudoSABR?

Count me as unimpressed with Buxton's effort on that Mondesi HR. He lost track of the ball and never had a shot but it didn't stop him from a comical crash into the wall.

Bernie would set us back a couple of generations. Trump is OLD but Bernie is decrepit. Would be electing a 78-year-old president. He would be a nightmare for us dealing with the Middle East, North Korea and the BRIC nations. Move on from Sanders. He makes zero sense

Bernie Sanders is exactly the cadidate Trump wants. Best the Dems move on from Bernie

Be darn sure it's actually racism before you jump on the wagon I.e. Covington.

The last thing anyone needs is a bunch of white boys going around screaming..... THAT'S SO RACIST! It's such a BS act, in my opinion. It is a way to score points (in their own minds) for what they see as altruism. There is nothing noble about it. If you want to scream about white people being racist or things that are out of balance racially have the guts to do it both ways otherwise I have no use for you

If he doesn't know how to bunt effectively yet then it's probably too late to push it on him now. It's a lost art and guys just don't make that part of their routine. It's been hard enough having him figure out how to hit and now that it looks like he might be there we are going to ask him to bunt? No way. Carlos Gomez felt the need to bunt under the Gardy regime and he was a complete basket case with that. I don't want Buxton thinking "should I bunt here?" No. Go up there thinking about a pitch and drive that thing hard. Would be nice to see him use the right/centerfield gap more but one step at a time. At least he has a few hits and well struck ones at that

Wayyyy too early to got on Rocco. Look at what Gable Kapler did in Philly last year and they were ROASTING him in April

My biggest takeaway are the doubles Buxton has hit, specifically the last one. He had two strikes on him and he SMOKED the ball Enough of this talk about having him bunt and beat the ball on the ground. Hit the hard and often.

Would have been pretty sweet seeing him step on a mound someplace with a MAGA hat

My vote for Reagan in 1984 was the proudest vote I ever cast (You must have been in a coma during the Carter years)

Sorry. I am watching a ballgame. Maybe you should, too

I am in my 50s and I watched your generation smoke pot, grow long hair, listen to the Eagles and join cults. Great job!