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Posted on 10/19/17 at 2:17 pm to Draconian Sanctions
Posted on 10/19/17 at 2:17 pm to Draconian Sanctions
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If you actually listened to them you'd know it was about protesting on behalf of those who don't have that platform
That sounds good and all but what they are doing at this point is 100% about them and not the "ones without a voice". It's virtue signaling nothing more. quote:
but at least try to listen and understand what they are actually saying vs what they arent.
Michael Bennett is full of shite over what happened in LV, I could care less what he has to say. Tell me what he does to help those with out a voice? What has he given? How does buying a multi million dollar vacation home in Hawaii help "fight oppression"
As for Kap his original comments about police brutality are valid, there's an issue there but ultimately his rhetoric is counter productive. Which begs the question does he and other player "activists" really want to do something or do they just want "protest" i.e. Virtue signaling cause the awareness has been made, so take some action toward helping otherwise what's the point?
This post was edited on 10/19/17 at 2:19 pm
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Posted on 10/19/17 at 2:23 pm to H-Town Tiger
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As for Kap his original comments about police brutality are valid
These comments were valid? quote:Then he said police officers are modern day slave patrol and posted this picture
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder"
"People of color have been targeted by police. So that's a large part of it and they're government officials. They are put in place by the government.
Posted on 10/19/17 at 2:38 pm to H-Town Tiger
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As for Kap his original comments about police brutality are valid, there's an issue there but ultimately his rhetoric is counter productive. Which begs the question does he and other player "activists" really want to do something or do they just want "protest" i.e. Virtue signaling cause the awareness has been made, so take some action toward helping otherwise what's the point?
No they aren't, and I am a liberal and also understand how statistics work. Blacks are not killed at a higher rate than whites when involved in a police altercation. You can choose to ignore the facts that they commit more crimes, especially black males, as only 6% of the population commits more than 50% of murders. Let that sink in for a minute.
In 2016, there were 8383 arrests for murder with 4379 of those arrested being black. That is 4 times the rate of their representation in the population for both sexes. Whites are less than 1%.
Violent crimes as a whole? 38.7% committed by blacks which is more than 3 times their rate in the population. Whites committed more violent crimes overall, but at 58.4% of all crimes its at 0.8 times their population. Note this includes Hispanics with whites.
In other words, a black person by statistics is more than 3.8 times more likely to commit that crime than a white person.
Now despite that to date in 2017, 782 people have been killed by police so far with 378 of those (50.3%) being white. 183 Blacks have been killed (24.3%). Seeing as blacks are arrested for 28.3% of crimes, they are killed roughly equal to their crime rate.
Hispanic and White are not separated based on the FBI crime stats, so if you include both, they were killed in 528/752 police fatalities (70.2%) with them being responsible for 68.9% of crimes, meaning they are more likely to be killed than blacks with simple statistics.
Note, this is for all crimes which ingores the face that blacks are responsible for much more of violent crime than overall crime when it comes to their proportion.
The fact is that Kap's entire stance is utter bullshite.
This post was edited on 10/19/17 at 2:44 pm
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