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[oldguy]

Stop. And. Frisk.

No win for the police. Using NYC for example, 96% of shooting victims are black and latino people. 97% of all shooting suspects are black or latino.

The cops can stop and search the population that is doing all of the very worst violent crimes, from whom people of all colors want to be protected, and be assholes for profiling. Or, they can make sure they search white people (who aren't committing these crimes) 50% of the stops, and not protect the people who need protection.

Actually, I wonder if blacks and latinos in NYC, given a chance to vote, would support stop and search. They are the ones being killed by these guys. Being a white guy, I can't speak for them about whether more safety is worth more searches of innocent minorities. I would guess that younger people would say no, and older folks would feel better about more protection.

The problem, imo, is less about the police (though they have their piece of it) and more about a small percentage of asshole black and latino people fucking things up for their own races.

I get it that it's easy for me to say submit to profiling, given that I'm not the one that is being harrassed. I just don't see it as such a black and white answer.

Go Blazers

 

[MarAzul]

No win for the police. Using NYC for example, 96% of shooting victims are black and latino people. 97% of all shooting suspects are black or latino.

The cops can stop and search the population that is doing all of the very worst violent crimes, from whom people of all colors want to be protected, and be assholes for profiling. Or, they can make sure they search white people (who aren't committing these crimes) 50% of the stops, and not protect the people who need protection.

Actually, I wonder if blacks and latinos in NYC, given a chance to vote, would support stop and search. They are the ones being killed by these guys. Being a white guy, I can't speak for them about whether more safety is worth more searches of innocent minorities. I would guess that younger people would say no, and older folks would feel better about more protection.

The problem, imo, is less about the police (though they have their piece of it) and more about a small percentage of asshole black and latino people fucking things up for their own races.

I get it that it's easy for me to say submit to profiling, given that I'm not the one that is being harrassed. I just don't see it as such a black and white answer.

Go Blazers

Actually I don't get it what all the fuss is about in Chicago. If you want to live where you can play war continually, then you stay where the action is. If you have better things to do with your life
then you can move the hell out a there, any place will be better.

NYC with its' stop and search is another matter, to me it is a gross violation of the 2nd amendment no matter what race is targeted. Another very good reason to move the hell outa there.

 

[oldguy]

Actually I don't get it what all the fuss is about in Chicago. If you want to live where you can play war continually, then you stay where the action is. If you have better things to do with your life
then you can move the hell out a there, any place will be better.

NYC with its' stop and search is another matter, to me it is a gross violation of the 2nd amendment no matter what race is targeted. Another very good reason to move the hell outa there.

What seems lost in the Chicago fuss is that they already have some of the most restrictive gun laws in the nation. Yet, bad shit happens. Giving up your guns doesn't keep bad shit from happening.

Go Blazers

 

[magnifier661]

So hundreds of thousands of white guys dying to end slavery doesn't mean anything? Would the slaves have been better off if those guys just stayed out of it because they couldn't change the mindset of the entire nation with their actions?

Go Blazers

No it means that that war you talked about had nothing to do with those deaths, since blacks were already free when put to death.

 

[oldguy]

Ok, to be clear, the Union soldiers died ending slavery, not racism.

That doesn't take away from the fact that a lot of the race that enslaved black people died ending that deplorable practice.

Go Blazers

 

[MARIS61]

Best place to ask would IMO not be here - I think this board is pretty white. For a bunch of white folks to answer that would IMO be like all these men mansplaining rape on this board. Like offensive as hell.

Frankly, in America, men know more about being rape victims than women do. Why wouldn't you be interested in their opinion?

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/feb/21/us-more-men-raped-than-women

Is the US the only country where more men are raped than women?

In January, prodded in part by outrage over a series of articles in the New York Review of Books, the Justice Department finally released an estimate of the prevalence of sexual abuse in penitentiaries. The reliance on filed complaints appeared to understate the problem. For 2008, for example, the government had previously tallied 935 confirmed instances of sexual abuse. After asking around, and performing some calculations, the Justice Department came up with a new number: 216,000. That’s 216,000 victims, not instances. These victims are often assaulted multiple times over the course of the year. The Justice Department now seems to be saying that prison rape accounted for the majority of all rapes committed in the US in 2008, likely making the United States the first country in the history of the world to count more rapes for men than for women.


http://nplusonemag.com/raise-the-crime-rate

 

[TradeNurkicNow]

Frankly, in America, men know more about being rape victims than women do. Why wouldn't you be interested in their opinion?

Little bit of a difference, don't you think?

 

[MARIS61]

I know that I was born after the Nazi Holocaust, as were the vast majority of Jews now living. And it affects us. And that did not happen in my country. So I don't find it hard to imagine that lynchings still impact African-Americans, especially when, sadly, racial profiling is still very much an issue, and has led to killing of innocents.

I've never met anyone who complained about their lot in life except those who really have nothing to complain about.

My father's father fled Yugoslavia at age 18 to escape some horrific ethnic cleansing being performed there. Never saw what was left of his family again. He loved America, loved being a Real American, and never spoke of his childhood terror and certainly never used it as a crutch.

The past is past, especially for those born after it has already passed.

Lazy, self-pitying losers dwell in the past, but usually not in their own past since it's so much like the past of all their peers and nothing to pity. If someone wants to throw a pity party, don't invite me.

Meanwhile, RIGHT NOW IN OUR DAILY LIVES (not yet in our history books) young black men murder 14 times more than young white men. Overall, blacks commit murder at 9 times the white rate.

When do WE get a website chronicling these heinous, racially-motivated atrocities?

http://topconservativenews.com/2013...y-14-times-the-rate-young-whites-did-in-2010/

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6227a1.htm?s_cid=mm6227a1_w

 

[magnifier661]

Little bit of a difference, don't you think?

I don't know how this applies to this thread, but I don't see it any different at all. Sometimes I think a boy being raped by a man is pretty fucking traumatic. Hell I was raped by my babysitter when I was 8.

 

[MARIS61]

Little bit of a difference, don't you think?

No. Except that same-sex rape is probably more traumatic and certainly more injurious physically.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Little bit of a difference, don't you think?

It's a pain in the ass telling the difference.

 

[magnifier661]

It's a pain in the ass telling the difference.

Ouch

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Ouch

I thought rape jokes were okay on this site because everyone is hard as motherfuck and hated the PC crap. Or is this shit only ok when it doesn't affect you?

 

[MarAzul]

It's a pain in the ass telling the difference.

I am surprise hoopjack didn't already know.

But you did get a chuckle here.

 

[MarAzul]

I don't know how this applies to this thread, but I don't see it any different at all. Sometimes I think a boy being raped by a man is pretty fucking traumatic. Hell I was raped by my babysitter when I was 8.

Geez!

I guess I am lucky, I can't recall any bad shit happening to me.
Sometime it took a little effort to make sure it happened to the other guy but hard to do at eight.

 

[MARIS61]

And again, you're thinking small level, not big level. I could be hurt walking in the wrong part of town, just because that part of town is bad (code for black part of town).

I'm talking institutional racism, you're talking individual. This is a country that made it legal to own people, make them not count as a whole person, and legal to discriminate against them basically up until the 60's. That had a long term impact on people and our prejudices and beliefs about people. (Unless they are younger than MARIS61, and it's just something they read in a history book)

But the point is WHY are they disproportionately pulled over/frisked? Why are they targeted, despite the #'s suggesting they shouldn't be? (The numbers suggest they are not pulled over and frisked enough: In New York from January to June 2008, 83 percent of all gun assailants were black, according to witnesses and victims, though blacks were only 24 percent of the population. Blacks and Hispanics together accounted for 98 percent of all gun assailants. Forty-nine of every 50 muggings and murders in the Big Apple were the work of black or Hispanic criminals.

New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly confirms Mac Donald’s facts. Blacks and Hispanics commit 96 percent of all crimes in the city, he says, but only 85 percent of the stop-and-frisks are of blacks and Hispanics.)

Why does what happened 100 years ago have an impact today? If it doesn't, why isn't, then, the south completely free of racism? why isn't Portland free of racism?

(The comments in the above quote in bold are mine)

Why is there air? Racism will always exist in everyone at some level, even if only subconsciously. It is ingrained in our survival instinct and to some degree protects us from harm.

The only impact bad things in history have on today is making us feel better, and smarter, and more compassionate than our predecessors. It's called EVOLUTION.

It's got nothing to do with America. It's the same anywhere you go. Their ancestors were all assholes too. Name one time in history when the ruling class wasn't barbaric, slaughtering the masses for pleasure and profit.

Like today. 1%er's are gassing Syrians to set the stage for their next big moneymaker. Don't know if you care about Syrians but they've got more to complain about than any American I know, of any race.

 

[MARIS61]

Don't even get me started on Atlanta.

http://www.atlantapd.org/uniformcrimereports.aspx

In Atlanta, African-Americans are 54 percent of the population, but are responsible for 100 percent of homicide, 95 percent of rape, 94 percent of robbery, 84 percent of aggravated assault, and 93 percent of burglary.
Source: APD Uniform Crime Reports, Apr 2011 to Apr 2012

The silver lining here is it seems nearly all people of all races other than black (46% of the population) are really very law-abiding citizens.

 

[magnifier661]

I thought rape jokes were okay on this site because everyone is hard as motherfuck and hated the PC crap. Or is this shit only ok when it doesn't affect you?

Simmer down son. The ouch reference was a joke. Like ouch my ass hurts! Get it?!

 

[magnifier661]

Geez!

I guess I am lucky, I can't recall any bad shit happening to me.
Sometime it took a little effort to make sure it happened to the other guy but hard to do at eight.

My rape was from a teenage girl, so I'm not as unlucky as the boys getting raped by men. But it was still really hard to cope with. I could only imagine what it could be like for a boy getting sodomized.