Racism is alive and well, Thanks Trump and his supporters!

[joan1984]

  Not true, of course. If you have evidence, of intentional difference by law and practice, something written, please provide a link. TY.

The level of violence of the police entry was calibrated up based on the race of those known/suspected to be inside.  If white people were known to be inside it would have gone differently up to and including a decreased level of police violence and an occupant firing back bringing any charges.

Oh, and joan is a racist piece of shit.

[Shiela_M]

How systemic racism entangles all police officers — even black cops

Neill Franklin is a black man. But he'll admit that after decades of working at the Baltimore Police Department and Maryland State Police, he harbored a strong bias against young black men.

https://www.vox.com/2015/5/7/8562077/police-racism-implicit-bias

[Jed_]

You've got that right Jed.

Racist!

If the couple in the apartment were white, joan would be talking about ‘good guy with a gun’ defending his home from overzealous police.  Because gun rights only apply to white people with guns.  Black people with guns are all criminals.

[joan1984]

  "Systemic Racism", made popular by Stokley Charmichael, I believe, is a HOAX.

  There is plenty of personal, individual racism to go around, for everyone to find a way to deal with it, personally, individually, and we need no 'get out of jail free, it's not my fault' card to avoid dealing with our own demons.

  Individual responsibilty, for most everything, is the solution to nearly all the problems human beings encounter. Lack of such must be abhored by everyone, and called out when it shows.

  Plenty of existing law for anything left beyond individual responsibility.

[joan1984]

[eater]

we all know that anything in this climate of hate and lawlessness will be used as an excuse to go out and burn, loot and kill.
the real victims are those whos deaths are used as an excuse by media and rioters and the poor families that have to watch all the crimes committed in the name of their dearly departed when they should be grieving.
mature civilized people wait for the facts and investigation and following charges against the guilty before expressing revenge filled rage.
now 2 police are dead who had NOTHING to do with this and their families are without fathers,uncles,brothers,sons.
do you think their "LIVES MATTER" ?

[Lois]

Far-Right Activists Charged Over Robocalls That Allegedly Targeted Minority Voters
October 1, 2020

Michigan's attorney general filed felony charges Thursday against two far-right activists who allegedly coordinated a series of racist robocalls that discouraged voters in Detroit and other cities from participating in the November election.

Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl are each being charged with four felony counts, including intimidating voters and conspiracy to commit an election law violation.

The robocalls came from a nonexistent group called the "1599 project" and falsely warned recipients that voting by mail would result in being "finessed into giving your private information to the man."

Burkman and Wohl are known far-right conspiracy theorists who promote disinformation online and have made attempts to frame public figures such as Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Kamala Harris and Dr. Anthony Fauci for various made-up scandals.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said in a press release that the calls were made in August to almost 12,000 residents with phone numbers from the 313 area code that covers Detroit. An investigation found that attorneys general in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois received complaints about similar phone calls being placed to cities with large minority populations.

"Any effort to interfere with, intimidate or intentionally mislead Michigan voters will be met with swift and severe consequences," Nessel wrote in a statement. "This effort specifically targeted minority voters in an attempt to deter them from voting in the November election."

In the calls, the robocaller told recipients to "beware of vote by mail" and falsely said that doing so would feed personal information into a database accessible to the police pursuing warrants, credit card companies collecting debts and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention aiming to track people for mandatory vaccines.

All of these claims are false, and the caller provides no evidence to back them. There is no evidence of widespread fraud associated with voting by mail.

Still, President Trump continues to sow doubts about voting by mail, without evidence.

Democrats are concerned about voter intimidation amid Republican efforts to dispatch tens of thousands of poll watchers across the country.

Until 2018, the Republican National Committee had been under a 1980s-era consent decree after a federal judge found Republicans had stationed off-duty police officers in some minority precincts and sent targeted mailings to minority voters warning about penalties for violating election laws.

That consent decree has now expired, allowing Republicans to organize poll watching and other "ballot-security" efforts.

Neither Burkman nor Wohl's attorney immediately responded to NPR's request for comment.

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/01/919309649/far-right-activists-charged-over-robocalls-that-allegedly-targeted-minority-vote

[eater]

you make it so obvious you hate the white race while you mouth off about racism...

you use the word empathy while joking about our president and his wife getting covid..

i am almost positive you are fat have a nose ring and purple hair..

[joan1984]

"...That consent decree has now expired, allowing Republicans to organize poll watching and other "ballot-security" efforts..."

  Now Republicans have the identical rights as do Democrats, eh?

[eater]

I removed a Non Sequitur political meme posted by eater.  Unless the meme is specifically related to the discussion please keep them in the mindless political meme thread.

[Lois]

"...That consent decree has now expired, allowing Republicans to organize poll watching and other "ballot-security" efforts..."

  Now Republicans have the identical rights as do Democrats, eh?

At least until Republicans abuse these rights again by attempting to intimidate people at the polls again, like tRump is encouraging them to do.

[Jed_]

i am almost positive you are fat have a nose ring and purple hair..

Been meaning to reply to this.  She has red hair.  Don’t you see it in her avatar?

Red hair upstairs and down.  I’ve seen her naked and liked what I saw.   

[eater]

"...That consent decree has now expired, allowing Republicans to organize poll watching and other "ballot-security" efforts..."

  Now Republicans have the identical rights as do Democrats, eh?

attempting to intimidate people at the polls again, like tRump is encouraging them to do.

why do you say such baseless crap?


i could just as well say biden is working hard with blm and antifa to intimidate people at polls.

[Jed_]

Just google ‘Trump poll watchers’ numbnuts, it’s on every news site except Fox.  Don Jr was promoting a website to recruit these people.

Voter intimidation is illegal, so I hope a lot of Trump supporters are jailed for this.

[eater]

Just google ‘Trump poll watchers’ numbnuts, it’s on every news site except Fox.  Don Jr was promoting a website to recruit these people.

Voter intimidation is illegal, so I hope a lot of Trump supporters are jailed for this.

so its on every news site except the ONE you disagree with..woiw I'm shocked..lol

jailed?...numbnuts.

[Jed_]

The more indignantly people claim they’re not racist, the less I believe them.

We’re all racists, or more broadly, bigots.  We all make assumptions about other people based on their appearance, their skin color, their race, their nationality. . . ancestral, previous or current, their gender, their various religions or lack of, their orientations and affiliations, and other superficial perceptions we have about them.

The question really becomes, to what degree to you make those prejudicial assumptions, and to what degree do recognize yourself doing it, and to what degree do you do anything positive about it?

At 59 years old, I’m still a work in progress on these matters and really everything else in my life.  We all should be striving to be better people, to be more knowledgeable, to be more compassionate, to be more forgiving, and to be more accepting of people as they are.

Every human should look upon themselves and self-reflect on these matters.  But so many do not, and revel and wallow in their prejudices, racism and bigotry, like that’s an end in and of itself, something to be proud of and not to correct?

I’m a work in progress.  Fuck you if you’re not.

[Jed_]

The more indignantly people claim they’re not racist, the less I believe them.

We’re all racists, or more broadly, bigots.  We all make assumptions about other people based on their appearance, their skin color, their race, their nationality. . . ancestral, previous or current, their gender, their various religions or lack of, their orientations and affiliations, and other superficial perceptions we have about them.

The question really becomes, to what degree to you make those prejudicial assumptions, and to what degree do recognize yourself doing it, and to what degree do you do anything positive about it?

At 59 years old, I’m still a work in progress on these matters and really everything else in my life.  We all should be striving to be better people, to be more knowledgeable, to be more compassionate, to be more forgiving, and to be more accepting of people as they are.

Every human should look upon themselves and self-reflect on these matters.  But so many do not, and revel and wallow in their prejudices, racism and bigotry, like that’s an end in and of itself, something to be proud of and not to correct?

I’m a work in progress.  Fuck you if you’re not.

I remember being in college, which is now almost ancient history.  Asian students on campus were protesting discrimination and prejudice.  In my naivety I wondered what were the issues?  My black friends were fighting against stereotypes and prejudices that they were lazy, stupid, violent criminals (but they can sing and dance), and your stereotypes are that you are really really smart (but don’t drive so well)?

Turns out, it’s a bit more they were and are dealing with than I thought.

These days some white people like myself seem to think they are an oppressed minority.  News flash, we’re not.  I interact with a diverse number of people, so how often do I encounter an anti-white prejudice (and it can happen), oh probably once every several years if not decades apart.  I’ve only had glimpses of what my minority friends have to deal with, but it’s often daily if not multiple times daily.

I’m a work in progress.  Why aren’t we all?

[Lois]

Self-reflection is the most important thing any person can do.

[_priapism]

[_priapism]