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Players looking for new ways to disrespect the ceremonies
Oh, well, since there's also twice as many white people in the country as black people I guess that's a totally fair ratio.
.....wait.
It's a totally fair ratio when you look at violent crime statistics in regards to the race of the offender. Black people commit more than 23% of the violent crime in this country.
"Miami played pretty damn good today and still got their ass kicked."
It's a totally fair ratio when you look at violent crime statistics in regards to the race of the offender. Black people commit more than 23% of the violent crime in this country.
No, black people are arrested/convicted for 23% of the violent crime. There's a difference.
No, black people are arrested/convicted for 23% of the violent crime. There's a difference.
It's actually far higher than that, and it's all not b/c of a racist judicial system, despite what idealists like yourself like to think. Here's an actual FBI stat on killings between police officers and black people:
"Contrary to the Black Lives Matter narrative, the police have much more to fear from black males than black males have to fear from the police. In 2015, a police officer was 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male was to be killed by a police officer.
Black males have made up 42 percent of all cop-killers over the last decade, though they are only 6 percent of the population."
The FBI released its official crime tally for 2016 on Monday, and the data flies in the face of the rhetoric that professional athletes rehearsed in revived Black Lives Matter protests over the wee…
"Miami played pretty damn good today and still got their ass kicked."
Then tell these so-called "unarmed" black men to stop a) committing crimes, and more importantly b) acting like idiots when confronted by the police. To hear some people, it's like random black people are being shot by white policemen.
Eric Garner. Heard of him?
If not, I'll get you over a 100 links so you can learn. I'm pretty sure situations like that are what's being protested. Happens over and over and over again by entitled-feeling police officers (who are 98% Caucasian).
It's actually far higher than that, and it's all not b/c of a racist judicial system, despite what idealists like yourself like to think. Here's an actual FBI stat on killings between police officers and black people:
"Contrary to the Black Lives Matter narrative, the police have much more to fear from black males than black males have to fear from the police. In 2015, a police officer was 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male was to be killed by a police officer.
Black males have made up 42 percent of all cop-killers over the last decade, though they are only 6 percent of the population."
The FBI released its official crime tally for 2016 on Monday, and the data flies in the face of the rhetoric that professional athletes rehearsed in revived Black Lives Matter protests over the wee…
LOL @ NY Post. You think just because you read it on the internet it is true? Here you go. Sobering:
Final total of people killed by US police officers in 2015 shows rate of death for young black men was five times higher than white men of the same age
Despite making up only 2% of the total US population, African American males between the ages of 15 and 34 comprised more than 15% of all deaths logged this year by an ongoing investigation into the use of deadly force by police. Their rate of police-involved deaths was five times higher than for white men of the same age.
Paired with official government mortality data, this new finding indicates that about one in every 65 deaths of a young African American man in the US is a killing by police.
“This epidemic is disproportionately affecting black people,” said Brittany Packnett, an activist and member of the White House taskforce on policing. “We are wasting so many promising young lives by continuing to allow this to happen.”
We have millionaires complaining to billionaires, so do they want everyone to tune out the games ?? One ups-man ship for who can be the biggest douche team next week is hitting a new high. Maybe we can have Best disrespect of the flag awards or best way to ruin a paying customers day besides losing award. These spoiled-brats don’t get that we as fans don’t pay to watch their protests, we watch to escape our problems. They want to dump their problems on us, money not being their problem.
The FBI released its official crime tally for 2016 on Monday, and the data flies in the face of the rhetoric that professional athletes rehearsed in revived Black Lives Matter protests over the wee…
Yeah, but, people like IC, don't care about cops and their families. It doesn't fit into their agenda.
Wow. Talk about going to extremes. So caring about our boys in blue, that are trying to do a good job, getting killed in the line of duty= "kill all the blacks"? Daryl Pierson was a Rochester police officer that was chasing a fleeing black man,Thomas Johnson III. Pierson didn't use his gun. but, Johnson did. Do we care about about Pierson? Or the two young kids he left behind? Of course not. He was a member of the EVIL police so he deserved to die. And he two kids were born "white privileged" so we don't care about them either.
Wow. Talk about going to extremes. So caring about our boys in blue, that are trying to do a good job, getting killed in the line of duty= "kill all the blacks"? Daryl Pierson was a Rochester police officer that was chasing a fleeing black man,Thomas Johnson III. Pierson didn't use his gun. but, Johnson did. Do we care about about Pierson? Or the two young kids he left behind? Of course not. He was a member of the EVIL police so he deserved to die. And he two kids were born "white privileged" so we don't care about them either.
My post was an absurd extreme to call out the absurd extreme you posted. That's all. You can not like ICRokets (I don't much myself), but let's not get out of hand.
"We" should care about all people that die in these skirmishes. How about we melt all the firearms unless person can prove he's actually using it to hunt legally?
See, I don't give a rat's @$$ about the NRA. And I'm smart enough to know that the average person does NOT need a pistol in the nightstand for "protection." That is the stupidest idea floating around this country. NYC still sees problems with people running guns from from the southern states. Until Georgia has stricter firearm laws NY State will suffer. We need stricter federal laws. And it's not that difficult to do.
Re: Players looking for new ways to disrespect the ceremonies
I've never owned a firearm and I never will. So I don't disagree with your rant about the average person and guns. But, that really not what we've been talking about, is it? We are talking about cops and guns (which I can't see anyway around, right now) and the targeting of blacks (which I don't believe is happening). BLM is quick to point out that African Americans only make up 12% of the population, but, 26% of the people killed by the police. But, when you factor in the blacks are responsible for 28% of all crimes, around 40% of a violent crimes and half of all homicides. The number of blacks killed by the police doesn't look out of proportion. Now IC points out a few examples of blacks that didn't deserve to be killed. My question is are there any examples of white people (which makes up half of the people killed by the police) that were similar situations? We don't know, because the media never reports on that. That's not the HOT TOPIC. Now, law enforcement is like every other job. Some people are at it and some people aren't. As shown by Daryl Pierson, they are in "life and death" situations. My thoughts are the people who's lives are unjustly taken by the police has more to do with cops that are not prepared to be in that situation, then racism. What do we do about this? Well, what's going on right now, is not helping us get police officers who are more qualified. Why would anyone want to be a cop now? Life and death and hated by a large group of Americans. And as far as my response to IC being an "absurd extreme"? I haven't seen him deny it. I think there is some people in this movement, that don't care about the lives of law enforcement or what they face day in and day out.
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