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re: Baton Rouge: 6 officers shot: 3 dead, one fighting for life
Posted on 7/18/16 at 11:54 am to tke857
Posted on 7/18/16 at 11:54 am to tke857
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things like this have happened before in our countrys history. look at the 60s and 70s.
Correct, it has that feel.
Of course, millions of people were unaffected by it and pretended it didn't exist then too.
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Posted on 7/18/16 at 11:54 am to dukke v
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And that's in Choctaw dr. Not the nicest part of town but I won't fear going to work. Nor will I go down plank road after midnight. Sadly any white person that does this is in danger.
bullshite. This is fear mongering if I've ever seen it. this morning, I've had business meetings with 4 different African Americans and several phone calls with them. Not once has any of the actions of yesterday been brought up.
I would have no second thoughts of going dine in a restaurant off Choctaw or Plank today. Got to live your life.
Posted on 7/18/16 at 11:55 am to monkeybutt
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The point is if you go back and live in the 70's, sure you'll avoid the terrorist attacks, but you'd be more likely to be harmed by a more down to earth sort of violence. Like a random armed robbery or the such. Because crime was worse then.
Who's talking about "crime" in general?
Answer this, am I more likely to be murdered strictly for being white, 1970's or today?
Posted on 7/18/16 at 11:57 am to Festus
What does the reason you're murdered matter? If you're more likely to get murdered in the 70's, who gives a shite the reason it happened?
Posted on 7/18/16 at 11:58 am to Festus
Just gotta pay better attention to everything going on around you
Posted on 7/18/16 at 11:59 am to monkeybutt
Just because stats say you are unlikely to be harmed doesn't mean it's not happening or that you can't be affected.
You don't think it will affect you then it happens in your own backyard like yesterday. Or the fact that a Metairie man was shot in the Orlando shooting.
You don't think it will affect you then it happens in your own backyard like yesterday. Or the fact that a Metairie man was shot in the Orlando shooting.
Posted on 7/18/16 at 11:59 am to RogerTheShrubber
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You're living in a bubble if you believe there isn't an unsettled racial environment brewing right now.
I think it's a tiny minority on both sides with zero racial tension between the large silent majorities.
Posted on 7/18/16 at 12:00 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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But people are noticing a heightened racial awareness going on. If you haven't, you're definitely not grounded or live in a socioeconomically stratified area.
I live in the Garden District and work Downtown and interact with and work with, quite literally, people of every racial and socio-economic background every single day. But I should definitely defer to the amount of racial topics posted on the OT and people screaming on facebook to get a real feel for the state of racial relations in America.
Posted on 7/18/16 at 12:00 pm to monkeybutt
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who gives a shite the reason it happened?
The motivation for someone wanting to murder me matters greatly to me. It helps me to alter my behaviors to better protect myself from the murderer.
Believe it or not, we are not all helpless, left to the discretion of statistics. We can lessen the chance dramatically of whether or not we are murdered by the behavior of which we engage.
For that reason alone, the reason matters. A lot.
Posted on 7/18/16 at 12:01 pm to Lester Earl
I never said I can't be affected by some sort of crime. The fact is, it was more likely back then that I would have been affected. You can't argue numbers man.
Posted on 7/18/16 at 12:02 pm to lsu2006
Why are you acting like we are saying there aren't people getting along with each other? Just curious. That seems to be the crutch of your argument and it has no legs, cause no one has said that.
We get it, you work with people of color & get along fine. Hey, so do I. I'm not worried about these people committing crimes either.
We get it, you work with people of color & get along fine. Hey, so do I. I'm not worried about these people committing crimes either.
Posted on 7/18/16 at 12:02 pm to Motorboat
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Got to live your life.
amen
the wheels of commerce grind on...even in war-torn BR
Posted on 7/18/16 at 12:03 pm to monkeybutt
Ok. I don't really care about the 70's tbh.
Posted on 7/18/16 at 12:03 pm to bmy
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I think it's a tiny minority on both sides with zero racial tension between the large silent majorities.
LINK
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A vast 83 percent of Americans say the next president should place an “especially major” focus on trying to improve race relations – which, following the Dallas police killings and high-profile shootings of blacks by police, majorities see as bad and getting worse.
Sixty-three percent in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll say race relations generally are bad and 55 percent say they’re worsening, sharply more negative views than just two months ago. Only a third say relations are good and just one in 10 say they’re getting better.
Posted on 7/18/16 at 12:04 pm to bmy
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I think it's a tiny minority on both sides with zero racial tension between the large silent majorities.
I generally agree with you here. The problem is, that tiny minority is willing to indiscriminately murder to make a point when circumstances, including the media, works them up into a frenzy. And at the moment, they seem to be primarily targeting police and whites, regardless of whether their victims are culpable in any way.
Unfortunately, the majority seems to remain silent, so as not to get into the path or target of these murdering racists.
Posted on 7/18/16 at 12:04 pm to dukke v
~130 road way workers are killed yearly. Drunk driving is a far bigger problem than terrorism.
Thankfully we have the police to help with DUIs
Thankfully we have the police to help with DUIs
Posted on 7/18/16 at 12:04 pm to Motorboat
I do volunteer work on plank rd and the group I meet with tell me not to come out at night because the thugs in that neighborhood are wolves. Their words. Not mine.
Posted on 7/18/16 at 12:05 pm to Lester Earl
Well this all started with you laughing at someone who pointed out America was more violent in the past than now. So stop crawfishing here.
Posted on 7/18/16 at 12:05 pm to lsu2006
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I live in the Garden District and work Downtown and interact with and work with, quite literally, people of every racial and socio-economic background every single day. But I should definitely defer to the amount of racial topics posted on the OT and people screaming on facebook to get a real feel for the state of racial relations in America.
See the link I posted. Your anecdotal evidence is proof that you are shielded from the realities of most of the country.
Posted on 7/18/16 at 12:05 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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A vast 83 percent of Americans say the next president should place an “especially major” focus on trying to improve race relations – which, following the Dallas police killings and high-profile shootings of blacks by police, majorities see as bad and getting worse.
Sixty-three percent in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll say race relations generally are bad and 55 percent say they’re worsening, sharply more negative views than just two months ago. Only a third say relations are good and just one in 10 say they’re getting better.
So the media has done their job of instilling fear and division in us all. Great.
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