What's your solution good people???

[AprilT]

I suggest that you read Daniel Patrick Moynihan's The ***** Family: The Case For National Action Moynihan was a Democrat & Sociologist

There's a lot more reading I could suggest for you, but, I realize how mute that would be.

 

[Carla]

I fully support the right of people to peacefully protest, but when the rioting, looting and burning starts, I quickly lose sympathy for those involved. I cannot understand this Black Lives Matter thing...when the vast majority of Black shooting victims are shot my members of their own race. It seems to me that when the police shoot one of these people, quite often the victim has a history of criminal offenses, or is confrontational with the police. Perhaps if these victims obeyed the law, and didn't start sassing the cop, they might still be alive.

I think racial relations have taken a turn for the worse in recent years, and I lay a good part of the blame at the Obama doorstep. He identifies as being Black, when in reality he is only half black. He seems to sympathize with only the Blacks...going back as far as his "beer summit" some years back. He seems to idolized his Black father...who abandoned him as a young child, yet I can't recall him ever saying anything positive about his White mother, or the White grandparents who raised him. By his words and actions, he seems to set the tone that is leading to many of these current issues.

Don, I have heard on many occasion, President Obama speak very affectionately of his single white mother and the grandparents who raised him. He has never condoned actions of violence, either by the thugs or by the police. He is against racial profiling and prejudice as we all should be and yes, often times blacks are treated differently. If we don't acknowledge this, it can't get fixed and things can get even worse. We need to stop with the generalities and recognize there are many more good, hardworking, tax paying blacks in our society that should be treated with respect and in the same way any of us would be treated in a traffic stop. They should not have to fear the police or teach their children they will be treated differently because of their skin color. I somehow find that very sad. How can they teach their children to do the right thing and be respectful when it won't be extended to them?

 

[Lon]

HEY Let's be honest and look at the facts. Blacks commit murder & crimes disproportionate to their percentage of the population.
Of course there are good Black Families & good black neighborhoods, but prisons still contain a higher percentage of black men than other minorities. Black men commit more than half the murders in this country & unfortunately it is generally black on black.

 

[AprilT]

HEY Let's be honest and look at the facts. Blacks commit murder & crimes disproportionate to their percentage of the population.
Of course there are good Black Families & good black neighborhoods, but prisons still contain a higher percentage of black men than other minorities. Black men commit more than half the murders in this country & unfortunately it is generally black on black.

I could talk about all the old drunks, non-blacks, who beat their wives till their faces were unrecognizable, abandoned their kids and families going back ages where there weren't any stats to report. Priest and others forced some of those families then and now to stay together. Many many black and other minority, white women included raped by non-black men, these men sired children who were abandon by, so called upstanding white males who have morals and codes of ethics only when it's convenient. The many Catholic charities were born out of necessity to care for a whole lot of abandoned white children.

Black on black crime, yes it exist disproportionately in poor communities, there are reasons beyond the surface rhetoric that accounts for much of it. I could pull up all kinds of information, to pick people of any ethnicity apart if I wanted to, but, it doesn't bring me the joy it brings some of you folks, so, I rather look for the real truth, not the ones that support only my closed minded views to keep me pointing a finger at others all the time. I could say generally where white people go, war and mayhem is sure to follow and the raping of the earth, stealing the land wiping out the natives, as well, but, I don't say things like that because I don't go around having thoughts like that.