Returning the favour. Would you rather I didn't listen to you? Don't lead me into temptation.
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Apparently crooks from as far as California and New York are exploiting the situation. So we went from bad to worse to even worse.
If you limited your visits to ''listening'' that would be fine, but you could never do that. You are not here to listen and learn, but to accuse and you have done so immediately.
Spend enough time knocking around and you'll meet all sorts of people with attitudes and methodologies that cover a fairly wide range. We have agnostics, atheists, Catholics, a Buddhist or two and, of course, a wide assortment of Protestants. There are hostile, bias blind voices in all of the camps and reasonable, considered folks as well. No real surprise.I join a Christian forum and I stumble into this on the first thread? Hopefully it doesn't set the tone going forward.
I accuse you of that which you openly admit and defend. Do not deceive yourself into believing it was a gamble.
If you limited your visits to ''listening'' that would be fine, but you could never do that. You are not here to listen and learn, but to accuse and you have done so immediately.
Do *you* limit yourself to listening and learning?
I sense a limit, I've yet to establish which.
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I agree that economic abuse and inequity have more to do with this whole mess than race does. Yet this is America, and we have a problem with racism (and bigotry of other kinds), too, that is always intertwined with and fueled by economic abuse.I think it's more about poverty than race, though in a way it makes it about race due to the extreme inequity where blacks are concerned.
I'm not the type to hastily blame the police, I've watched many videos where the police act far too kindly and the video gets shared (with obvious lack of context) and they all hound the decent police chap in the video.
One has to be careful. And one must avoid the cliché of relating it to past riots, it's the first thing even the most average mind will do.
Regarding the OP, I wouldn't fret about what the BBC says about riots - they've demonstrated they know nothing about the topic, even if said riot is... in their back AND frontyard.
Dial it back a bit please.
Ferguson, MO. is not a ghetto. Most of the people living there have jobs. But now days even the working class is being 'ghettoized' by the rise of a global plutocracy that does whatever it pleases, and is being sponsored and supported at every turn by the United States government.
Brown may or may not have paid for the merchandise.
Brown may or may not have initiated the altercation with the clerk.
Brown was called in and described by a customer as a potential perpetrator.
Brown was walking in the street and refused simple police instruction according to the law.
Brown did fit the description of the police dispatch alert.
Brown did initiate an aggressive altercation with the officer in the cruiser.
Brown did walk away and then turned to "bumrush" the assaulted officer in aggression.
Brown did not raise his hands in surrender.
If this were a white teen in one of these many events that gets no media scrutiny, this wouldn't even be a blip on anyone's radar. Nobody would care. Amazing how everyone cares when it's one of many that never see the light of day in mass media.
As tragic as this is, it's just more pawn-fodder for the agenda of agitating class warfare by and for the oligarchy.
That part of the tape isn't new. He stole the cigars.
The robbery had nothing to do with him being stopped. He got stopped for walking in the street. You know, like we all do.
I don't think there's much that'll happen that will clear up exactly what happened after he was stopped, and it's obvious Wilson will get off. Just my meaningless speculation.
If this were a white teen in one of these many events that gets no media scrutiny, this wouldn't even be a blip on anyone's radar. Nobody would care.
As tragic as this is, it's just more pawn-fodder for the agenda of agitating class warfare by and for the oligarchy.
The response of the police is, I think, one of the biggest reasons this story's blown up. The reaction was simply not appropriate and in fact seemed to have escalated the situation. Remember: The Ferguson police militarized before there were any reports of looting or criminal activity. That's how they responded to peaceful, lawful protests. And the war zone in Ferguson and the fascism on display should be major news.
Yes, when it is a white kid gunned down by the police, national media does not care. It does not help the class warfare agenda.
Actually, I looked up the crime statistics for Ferguson Mo., and you will be surprised to know that the violent crime rate there is lower than the state's average. And that's saying something considering that Ferguson Mo. is a suburb of a major city. So it turns out that all those black men in Ferguson are actually LESS inclined to commit violent crimes than all those white men living around the rest of Missouri.Ferguson is the worst part of St. Louis County. The 1st and 2nd Precincts are rough. 30 years ago it was a thriving middle class suburb that was predominantly white and full of small businesses. Now it is 80 percent black and a train wreck.
Well, therein lies the problem, which is what I was saying. This whole mess is not so much about racism as it's about a racist economy that is continuing to squeeze out the poor and the poorer working classes, who invariably will tend to be black, and male, in this country.It may not be as bad as East St. Louis, but getting there fast. More than half of the black males there under 30 are unemployed …
If Micheal Brown had been selling drugs, he would have had the money to buy those cigars. Drug dealers don't steal stuff. They just kill each other over money, turf, and ego.... unless you include illegal drug trade.