re: Eric Reid joined Kaep

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I'm black as a preteen I experienced the first of many times. I was simply walking home broad daylight basketball apparel with a basketball in hand. White cop pulls in front of me and says "hey boy where are you headed". My remake "home sir". Cop "oh your a smart arse huh?" While getting out of his vehicle. Cop says "get your black arse over here" while slamming me face first into his cruiser. Is this right? This happens very often. Not saying that everyone is innocnet. But my taxes pay for cops to protect and serve me. Not beat my arse because you feel like it and get away with it unpunished. That's one of the many things Kap is talking about.

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Did you call and report these cops?

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You have no idea what youre talking about. If you dont think systemic racism exist youre crazy.

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what are some examples? Honestly curious.

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what are some examples? Honestly curious.

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Blacks are 18% more likely to be tried as an adult for the same crime a white person commits.
Blacks and whites use drugs at the same rate yet blacks are far more likely to be arrested for it.
Black college graduates are twice as likely to be unemployed as other graduates.
Black students are 3 times more likely to be suspended or expelled from school.
Black drivers are 30% more likely to be pulled over.
During traffic stops blacks are 40 % more likely to get searched.



Just go look up the police statistics of Ferguson ,Missouri. Its mind blowing.

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Reid is now dead to me. He has committed an almost unpardonable act. I suppose if he made a public apology for his mistake, I could forgive him. Until then, he can rot for all I care. It just goes to show how one mistake can eradicate a lifetime of goodwill. Never really cared for the 49ers, but now will pull for their annihilation week in and week out. God Bless America!!!

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Wow. Reid really gives a damn what you think. Come out of your trailer (or your hood). Their is a real world out here. Its okay. We are waiting you.

Folks may I add something here. I am a veteran law enforcement officer of 10 years as well as a veteran who just retired from the military after 24 years. I come from a law enforcement and military family. Patriotism runs deep in our family as does the Purple and Gold of LSU.

What bothers me is when I see people protesting by standing on and burning our flag. Just the same when Colin Kaepernick didn't stand for the National Anthem as a protest for something he feels strongly in, it bothered me. Now Eric Reid and another player have decided to join Kaepernick. I'm sure there will be others. I don't think what they are doing is the correct way to go about things, but I have to respect their rights that guys like me have fought for. Trust me it hurts like hell to say that.

In the military when I was in combat I didn't care the color of my brothers in arms skin. I didn't care what their ethnicity was. We were a team fighting for our country and we were all each other had over there in Iraq and Afghanistan among other places. I also worked off the coast of Africa doing Counter Piracy with my teams as well.

What I'm saying is I'm patriotic and have no racist bones in my body. Yet I know racism exits in all walks of life in our country. It was bad way back years ago. We all know history. Things have gotten much better. We all must admit that. Well they had gotten much better, but this current President has pushed an agenda that has driven a stake in between the races and has set back racial tensions 60 years at the very least. And lord knows I don't want to get political here. Not my intention.

As a police officer I enforced the laws impartially. I arrested based off their crime not based of the color of a mans skin. I had a good working relationship with the black community leaders in the Parish I worked in. Never did I profile stop anyone nor did I ever abuse anyone. Did I bust some peoples arse that hit me, hell yes, but after I took them down and handcuffed them they were never mistreated. During my years as a policeman did I ever witness some of the things black that are protesting are complaining about. Lets see.

I never knew of one policeman that came to work and had the mindset of let me see if I can kill a black. Did some say or do things I felt were inappropriate to blacks. Yes, I heard some things and witnessed some things. Some would get frustrated by all the calls we had in the black community. Many times on traffic stops the most violent or dangerous stops involved blacks, but we had whites and Hispanics too that gave us problems. In general we had more blacks committing crimes. That holds true in major cities across this country. Look at all major cities and think about this. The problems exists because its the way it was intended to work if you believe in history and what a former President, Lyndon Johnson did. That's another story in and of itself.

I am not black so I don't know what its like to walk in a black man's shoes. I hear from blacks that I know and some I don't know that have been successful in life and being black did not hold them back. Equality is spread out evenly as far as I can see. Then again like I said I'm not black and haven't walked in a black mans shoes. I just know that I treat all men and women equally because that is how I was raised. That is how I policed. And trust me there are far more policemen across this great country that feel the same way as I do.

We have to do a better job of screening police officers prior to hiring and must learn to know when to weed out officers that suffer from burnout. A burned out officer that is forced to work certain areas all the time such as in bigger cities is more likely to develop hatred for a particular race because he is forced to deal with them everyday he works. When you are forced to police people no matter their color day in and day out and it wears on some they have the potential to go bad. Some develop prejudices and even start to stereotype everyone of a certain color. That particular officer can become over bearing and even influence other officers by his/her actions and then you have a problem. That happens today. Not as bad as one would have you think. Departments need to know their officers and know to look for the burnout signs. Preventative measures to safeguard against an officer going bad is necessary. Bottom line policemen are people too. They bleed, they cry, the have to eat, drink, sleep and use the bathroom. They are not perfect.

Black leaders such as my friend Col. Allen West who I value his opinion as much as my own fathers is very well educated and served our country honorably is called an Uncle Tom or a coon by some blacks. These blacks that hate on their own people are usually those that have hate and are racists. Those who support race baiters such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton and this Black Lives Matter group are racist. Let me tell you Al Sharpton with all his millions does not go out and donate money to aid blacks in need. Was Al Sharpton in Louisiana during this most recent flood to help blacks. No. Where was BLM? Not present. Where was Jesse? No where to be found. Who helped...the people of Louisiana helped. Everyone pulled together. No one cared what race someone was. It was people caring about people. That is why I love the people of Louisiana.
You all showed the nation how it is done.

In closing and I apologize that it was long. I don't hate Colin Kaepernick or Eric Reid for protesting. Its their right. I don't agree with how they are going about it, but when I served on active duty I saw many times military people hiding in buildings or running for cover so they didn't have to stand at attention for the morning colors. That upset me. Naturally I took pride in standing at attention. I could be in a building and would go outside to stand at attention and salute my flag as it was raised while the National Anthem was played. We must pull together and stop the hate, stop the racism and respect law enforcement, respect our flag and learn to protest in different ways. I fought and bled for our freedoms. I lost brothers in combat over the last 15 years fighting for these rights we so freely use. Please do not let in be in vain. Please do not disrespect the flag that means so very much to us. Please stop committing stupid crimes and blaming the police when you are dealt with. And for the police if you are burnt out please go find another profession.

God Bless you all Tiger Nation and Louisiana. I will stand by now and wait for my berating. Just remember I shed blood for each and everyone of you.

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Blacks are 18% more likely to be tried as an adult for the same crime a white person commits.
Blacks and whites use drugs at the same rate yet blacks are far more likely to be arrested for it.
Black college graduates are twice as likely to be unemployed as other graduates.
Black students are 3 times more likely to be suspended or expelled from school.
Black drivers are 30% more likely to be pulled over.
During traffic stops blacks are 40 % more likely to get searched.

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You like stats too? I have some for you.
LINK

FACT 1. Over 1,400 more black Americans murdered other blacks in two years than were lynched from 1882 to 1968.

According to FBI data, 4,906 black people murdered other blacks in 2010 and 2011. That is 1,460 more black Americans killed by other blacks in two years than were lynched from 1882 to 1968, according to the Tuskegee Institute.

FACT 2. Black People (mostly men) commit a grossly disproportionate amount of crime.

In 2012, white males were 38 percent of the population and committed 4,582 murders. That same year, black males were just 6.6 percent of the population but committed a staggering 5,531 murders.

In other words: black people–at just a fifth of the size–committed almost 1,000 more murders than their white counterparts.

The figures above highlight a horrific truth that black racialists and white liberals routinely ignore: Lawbreaking black Americans, young black males particularly, put themselves in close proximity to (mostly white male) police officers at rates sometimes five to 10 times higher than whites. This is a recipe for disaster. Thusly….

FACT 3. Despite making up just 13% of the population, blacks committed half of homicides in the United States for nearly 30 years.

DOJ statistics show that between 1980 and 2008, black people committed 52% of homicides.

In 2013, black criminals committed 38% of the murders. Whites accounted for just 31 percent.

There are five times fewer black people than white people in America and, yet, they consistently carry out a larger share of the crimes? Given this rate, it’s no wonder that there aren’t more assistances where cops kill black criminals.

FACT 4. Chicago’s death toll is almost equal to that of both wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, combined.

There have been almost as many deaths in one American city as there have been in the two major wars carried out by the U.S. military this century.

Chicago’s death toll from 2001–November, 26 2015 stands at 7,401. The combined total deaths during Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003-2015: 4,815) and Operation Enduring Freedom/Afghanistan (2001-2015: 3,506), total 8,321.

FACT 5. It would take cops 40 years to kill as many black men as have died at the hands of others black men in 2012 alone.

University of Toledo criminologist Dr. Richard R. Johnson examined the latest crime data from the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Reports and Centers for Disease Control and found that an average of 4,472 black men were killed by other black men annually between Jan. 1, 2009, and Dec. 31, 2012.

Professor Johnson’s research further concluded that 112 black men died from both justified and unjustified police-involved killings annually during this same period.

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the national anthem is much less important than the pledge

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Is not the song he's against. It's the flag. Think he'd stand for the pledge?

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nofear67

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So it's ok for him to disrespect the nation that others have died defending, but it's not ok for me to disrespect him?

How about you go fuch yourself you liberal pussy. I'm so goddamn fed up with this white shaming bullshite.

You know that's not what we're talking about right?