tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12265028.post8827600779631427861..comments2024-03-28T06:16:03.231-07:00Comments on China Matters: Dallas Shootings: Don’t Mention the (Race) War! Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12265028.post-64057749651182390832017-01-23T10:55:14.504-08:002017-01-23T10:55:14.504-08:00At Take Free Bitcoin you can claim faucet satoshis...At <a href="http://claim-btc.syntaxlinks.com/r/FreeBitcoin" rel="nofollow"><b>Take Free Bitcoin</b></a> you can claim faucet satoshis. Up to <b>22</b> satoshis every <b>5</b> minutes.Bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07287821785570247118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12265028.post-58790548765708161342016-07-11T20:24:11.953-07:002016-07-11T20:24:11.953-07:00This is an astute assessment, Peter. I'm sadde...This is an astute assessment, Peter. I'm saddened, but most of all frustrated by what's going on. However, I've noticed that most of the media coverage, and the pushback, has turned into either pro- or anti-Black Lives Matter and pro- or anti-police. This framing simply accelerates the conflict, and no one is focusing on what the solutions might be, or at the very least, those who are have been pushed to the fringes of the conversation.<br /><br />Maybe you should take a look at Campaign Zero. As far as I can tell, it's run by an extended seed group of activists who rose out of the Ferguson protests, and who, although the actual line-up differs by one or two people, run a branch network of activism on the issues of inequal treatment of African-Americans either via institutional racism or societal racism. Several of the same people who run Campaign Zero also run what seems to be the parent group, http://www.wetheprotesters.org/.<br /><br />What makes Campaign Zero different from Black Lives Matter is that they carefully lay out, item by item, policy changes that could make a huge difference over time in how the police are trained, the rights of citizens, what things are criminalized or decriminalized, and oversight of police departments. Black Lives Matter is basically an emotional protest that is pushing for justice by having the police officers who murdered African-Americans brought to trial and imprisoned, but they have no coherent suggestions, from what I can see, on their website on what should be done after that.<br /><br />I think Campaign Zero gets no real media recognition because it doesn't have sound bites, it is reasoned and logical, and it doesn't have a big emotional pushback which makes for exciting Us vs Them news coverage. I think they really should be getting more play, as they are suggesting real steps towards solving, or at least reducing the severity of, police violence in America.<br /><br />The website is http://www.joincampaignzero.org/.Patrick Tang-Jun Benesh-Liuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04120205425412218215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12265028.post-36180739466718504002016-07-10T00:40:00.581-07:002016-07-10T00:40:00.581-07:00There needs to be change in America's Judicial...There needs to be change in America's Judicial system...<br /><br />Not all, but some police have murder down to a science. Kill someone, go on a 2 month paid vacation, ( administrative leave ) get a slap on the back by your buddies, get an award, get a new gun with a notch on the handle, and go back out, and kill again because that is what they are being trained to do with their militarized weaponry, and their militarized attitude that it's them, against us. The American people are their only enemy. So we are the them.<br /><br />We in America live in the largest militarized police state in the world; We in America are 4% of the worlds population,( 320 million out of 7.5 billion people worldwide ) but we have 50% of the worlds prisoners if you count probation, and parole. We also have 50% of the worlds military (by money spent) that we use to intimidate the rest of the world with, and we have a much larger militarized local police force then our military, and the militarized police force only have to intimidate us…<br /><br />Something has to change; there are too many wars on the American people by our governments with no reporting in our media to the American people so we can make changes in the voting booths to make our land a better place to live for everyone<br /><br />We need a fairness doctrine, for fair and balanced reporting on our media, instead of the propaganda born out of bigotry fed to America on a daily basis that is dividing, and destroying the values of this country. it couldn't be any clearer.<br /><br />There are way to many distortions in our society to be able to pursue our declaration of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.<br /><br />the deaths by cop isn't even reported to the government, you can find anything at us.gov except the number of Americans killed by cop. the only totals I could find is a guy who added up all the newspaper reports for 2012, his total was 1,300 nationwide deaths by cop. ( 1,300 X 15 = 19,500 killed by cop in 15 years, 6,000 Americans killed in all wars in the last 15 years including 9/11 ) <br /><br />Using the number 6,000 (killed in all wars) / 19,500 (killed by police) so you are 3.25 times more likely to die by cop in the united states in the last 15 years then all Americans killed in all the wars America has been in for the last 15 years....<br /><br />before you put a thumbs down, add it up yourself and tell me I’m wrong, and at least tell me why the thumbs down? I don’t think the math is hard.<br /><br />We have populations of color who rightfully, and statistically feel like pray in their own homes.<br /><br />we all have to find empathy in the knowledge that we are all 99.99% the same with the same wants, hopes, and dreams.<br /><br />we just need to calm it all down, and our bigoted, militarized police need retraining that it's all of us together, not them, and us...<br /><br />please look my numbers up yourself at us.gov, they are as close as I could find them.<br /><br />Look at the numbers given out by the Department of Justice a few months ago at ( us.gov )<br /><br />1) black, and white do the same amount of drugs ( fact ), but blacks are arrested ten times more then whites, and blacks are only 13% of the population... that's a rate of somewhere like 90 blacks to 1 one white if they were 50% of the population.<br /><br />2) black, and whites are confronted by police about the same amount of times, ( fact ) but blacks are killed by the police twenty eight times as much, and they are only 13% of the population... that is a rate of something like 300 blacks to 1 white if they were 50% of the population.<br /><br />( those numbers are just insane to think that is a fair treatment of the American population )<br /><br />Now think about the ratio above of the 300 blacks to 1 white killed by our police, if it was happening in any other country in the world we would be screaming " GENOCIDE " and putting a stop to it now...<br /><br />John C.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03592577596429519052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12265028.post-67693644320886368882016-07-10T00:32:27.185-07:002016-07-10T00:32:27.185-07:00was the taillight really out? he died for it :o(was the taillight really out? he died for it :o(Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03592577596429519052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12265028.post-12439441340770880192016-07-09T21:24:14.884-07:002016-07-09T21:24:14.884-07:00Excellent essay
Takes us back to us
Indict and imp...Excellent essay<br />Takes us back to us<br />Indict and impeach - potus to officersHayjayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14414021777337730870noreply@blogger.com