re: 2 Officers shot in Ferguson...Video in OP

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These morons live by it, and still to this day, refuse to help the cops. They will watch their nephew/son get shot dead, and not say 1 word.

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Cops live by the same credo.


Look at what happened to cops who went against the "Blue Line".

One in New York was committed by his superiors.

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Where was all this gear when fully auto machine guns were allowed on the streets in the 60-80's?

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LOL wut?

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And yet you (likely) vote exclusively for Democrats who want to limit your ability to own a firearm.

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Nice. Way to stereotype. If you've followed my postings here for any amount of time, you'd know that I'm about as GOP as it gets.

Hey, what can I say? I had a 90 percent-plus chance of being right.

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Yes, I can. But what do you think caused all this. I'll give you a hint, well frick it, I'll just tell you. Slavery, segregation, Jim crow laws.

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How many slaves do you know? When was the last time you were told that you weren't welcome in a restaurant because of your skin color?
Everything that was wrong with America 50-200 years ago has been corrected to the point where minorities have MORE opportunity to have a quality life than the majority. What more do you want?

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Are the citizens of Ferguson stepping up to solve the real issues and take a stand against the crime in their town?

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Not that I agree with the handsup don't shoot bull shite, and several other things that certain segments of the Ferguson population are doing... But, they are doing EXACTLY what you say you want them to do. In my opinion, it has been pretty well documented that from the police chief on down, there is a pretty prevalant group of racist cops in the town. Seems to me, there is a pretty vocal group standing up and trying to solve that issue.

Is that the thing you want them to improve? No... because quite honestly, you have no emotional attachment to their value system. They see the police department as a problem. They are wanting change. From your statements, you feel that isn't important. So, why don't you go ahead and tell them what they should feel is important?

It is very easy to make judgements on people that you have absolutely zero in common. The hard part of fostering better race relations is to want to grow that commonality. A large portion of both black and white populations are severely lacking in that category.

In my opinion -- during the 70's and 80's, there was a very strong movement of people wanting to learn more about each other. That feeling was a result of what happened in the 60's and early 70's. The late 90's and 2000's have brought about a more apathetic approach of trying to truly increase the things each race has in common. As a society, we started over using the buzz words with so many corporate diversity programs such as inclusion, acceptance, and diversity which gave everyone warm and fuzzies about all of us being "good people" because "even though my PawPaw used the N-word in public, I don't."

Well guess what those fabulous diversity programs did? They let us not worry about growing commonality as long as we know that people are different. As a result, race relations have actually lessened because we've entered a new era of all sides taking the attitude, "you worry about you. I'll worry about me." I'm sorry, but that does not make a healthy society. (no, I am not Democrat. I'm not advocating Obama cell phones and sharing the wealth. everyone needs to pull their own damn weight. I'm talking on a more holistic view of societal problems)

Right should be right. wrong should be wrong. I've been reading a lot of threads on this site the past few months. There seems to be a lot of people who think this is a "blacks in Ferguson" problem.

Guess what? I think what is happening in Ferguson could just as easily be happening in Shreveport, Minden, Monroe, Bastrop, Alexandria, Leesville, or damn near any other city in the state of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, or Illinois or at least 15 other states that I have spent significant time.

And before the "you have white guilt" crowd starts chiming in... get lost with that bullshite. I feel very confident and proud of who I am as a white man. I am not saying that all the problems with our society is because there are too many racists whites. All parties in this argument have responsibility for the current state of our race relations.

Honestly, I think things aren't nearly as bad as the media portrays. However, social media and entertainment journalism has skewed public perception to following whatever group's social agenda that has the largest twitter followers.

TL;DR. I don't care. I can think in complete sentences and type them quickly. I make no apologies if you can't read above a fifth grade level or have the attention span of a blown out flip flop.

The ones causing most of the issues have no desire to "fit in" in a manner that would lead to bettering their lives and the lives of their families.

1) education isn't valued
2) conforming isn't valued - it seems to be discouraged. What kind of good job can you get with gold teeth, tattoos everywhere (applies to whites too obviously).
3) family unit isn't valued - all the unwed mothers with several fathers and rarely are those fathers involved with raising their children - baby daddy culture
4) respect for authority is seen as a weakness - well, that a good way to get shot and a great way not to get promoted
5) violence is glorified
6) "snitching" to clean up their neighbors is vilified

These are all things that would improve any community but yet those things seem so far out of reach. All this change they want has to come from within first. Do you honestly think that's possible? I think it's too late.

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I'll give you a hint, well frick it, I'll just tell you. Slavery, segregation, Jim crow laws.

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Dude. You just went full retard.

Today's race relation problems have nothing to do with Slavery.

AND QUIT BREAKING THE frickING LAW.

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You want understanding of races from one another? What kind of horse shite is that.

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That's actually a pretty common and human concept accepted in most places world wide.