Ferguson / Staten Island Decisions -- No Indictments

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/08/black-people-are-not-ignoring-black-on-black-crime/378629/

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/04/why-dont-black-people-protest-black-on-black-violence/255329/

 

No, they shouldn't. But those cops, as much training as they had by 1991 standards, couldn't resist human nature.

 

And I think that you equivocate civilian killings with police killings either shows a profound lack of respect for law enforcement or something more sinister.

 

Show me how I have equivocated them. Just the same it appears that you are downgrading
the civilian killings.

 

http://www.vox.com/2014/8/21/6053811/white-on-white-murder

 

We keep repeating this as if it should come as some kind of shock that 90 percent of black homicide victims are the result of black assailants. "What can we DO about this!?!?!?"

But then, well over 80 percent of while homicide victims are the result of white assailants.

Obviously, people tend to kill the people they happen to be around, in the neighborhoods they happen to be around. Is this really surprising to anyone?

 

Re: Ferguson Decision -- No Indictment

The tax collector for the welfare state will not be denied.

 

I don't think it's about the percentage of killings by one race against the same race. It's more about how there are more killings by members of one particular race that is out of proportion to the percentage of their race that is the total country's population.

 

The killer in me is the killer in you.

 

Well, they have until five seconds to break the hold.

 

I think we have to look at the breakdown of the family in the African-American community as a contributing factor in these deaths.

Did these young men not have a father or step-father who, in the aftermath of the Trayvon Martin death, was able to sit down with them and have the "Conversation"?

Jonathan Capehart had the "Conversation" with his mother:

Reading about Trayvon reminded me of the list of the “don’ts” I received after my sheltered existence in Hazlet, N.J., was replaced with the reality of Newark when my mother remarried in the 1980s.

“Don’t run in public.” Lest someone think you’re suspicious.

“Don’t run while carrying anything in your hands.” Lest someone think you stole something.

“Don’t talk back to the police.” Lest you give them a reason to take you to jail or worse

There was also being mindful that you are being watched in stores. Watched turned to followed as I got older. To this day, if a sales person is overly attentive to what I might be looking for I leave the store. Never to return. And then there was keeping a distance of deniability from white women when walking on the street. Lest you be accused of any number of offenses, from trying to snatch her purse to sexual assault.

http://wapo.st/1yScewc


And Mayor de Blasio and his wife had the "Conversation" with their son Dante:

“Chirlane and I have had to talk to Date for years about the dangers that he may face,” Mr. de Blasio said, even as a law-abiding young man. “We have to literally train him, as families have all over this city for decades, in how to take special care in any encounter he has with the police officers who are there to protect him.”

http://bit.ly/1vOTHyX

 

It is almost sociopathic to blame this on the victims.