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  Racial Insensitivity

  by Coded Logic in

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  "blue" lives matter!

  - sheriff david clarke at the rnc.

  this bs really makes my blood boil.

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  Whoever thinks that's is a fallacy black men are getting killed left and right, and that this country isn't full of racism and hate, lives like an ostrich.

  Blacks may be killed left and right, but it's not by white cops. This is a small percentage. What is killing blacks left and right indirectly is their black leaders who have failed to address their biggest problems. Namely crime rates, school dropouts, fatherless homes.

  Racism exist and it's still a problem, but nothing compared to 4 decades ago. it has diminished greatly. Iit may be going up again, but this time is fueled by the inability of both sides to have an honest talk. The white side often condescending, the black side often crying wolf.
  
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  Racial Insensitivity

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  "blue" lives matter!

  - sheriff david clarke at the rnc.

  this bs really makes my blood boil.

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  Thank you Slim.

  Better. We still have the unsubstantiated claim of an individual with a big title. The strange thing is that Coded logic gave us statistics with lots of details that refute the claim in your quote. Who do we believe?

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  I read the article and have to correct myself. We have statistics available, but not from police documents. Got it! By the way, I read the article and I feel is quite bias. It offers shocking numbers, but provides no context or the proper analysis of those numbers. Example: "Blacks are shot at twice the rate as whites", but crime rates of either group are ignored.
  
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  Racial Insensitivity

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  "blue" lives matter!

  - sheriff david clarke at the rnc.

  this bs really makes my blood boil.

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  Just fine,

  You may be right. I thought of being singled out based on my looks because on that particular day I was the only Hispanic (dark skin and Middle Eastern looks) in the crowd of passengers. But as I said before, I don't mind profiling based on cold data... and yes... my looks definitely correlate with airplane hijacking.
  
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  Racial Insensitivity

  by Coded Logic in

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  "blue" lives matter!

  - sheriff david clarke at the rnc.

  this bs really makes my blood boil.

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  never a jw

  heard on the radio that in the United States they do not collect official statistics on the number of unarmed people killed by police.

  I seriously doubt that. Radio is a very vague word
  
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  Hello from the other side

  by Theburstbubble in

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  well it's been 18 months since i left the witnesses.

  my goodness what can i say?

  well let's start from the beginning.... 1) i am happy, yes i am (i know im not meant to be as the jw's would like to believe).

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  never a jw

  Excellent advice, excellent example, excellent reasoning. Glad you like Satan's world.
  
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  Racial Insensitivity

  by Coded Logic in

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  "blue" lives matter!

  - sheriff david clarke at the rnc.

  this bs really makes my blood boil.

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  So please tell me what he did wrong to get shot? Please explain it away...

  From the scenes available, there was no reason to shoot him. However, the shooting scene is missing. Big question mark there. Regardless, if this man has a case against the police, go for it. Sue them, teach them a lesson and get the police officer punished. You got my support (after I see the actual scene of the shooting confirming an unjustified action). Just don't extrapolate this case to conclude that white police officers who shoot on black people are unjustified and racist. Each case is different. Even this case may be a case of incompetence more than racial animosity. Not sufficient evidence yet.
  
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  Racial Insensitivity

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  "blue" lives matter!

  - sheriff david clarke at the rnc.

  this bs really makes my blood boil.

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  I believe you're referring to Sam Harris. Who argues for racial profiling.

  You are right Simon. I think I mixed two different comments from opposite sides of the argument. In this case the comments of a Homeland Security Secretary whose name I can't remember and comments can't find, with Sam Harris' comments..

  This reminds me of actually being a victim of racial profiling in the Salt Lake City airport about 8 years ago. I was singled out for an in depth screening while the big number of very white Mormons around me were given a pass. I didn't mind. I happen to have the Middle Eastern look, very much like the guys of the 911 attacks.

  Yes, I hope the TSA officers screen me and guys who look like me more often than they screen Betty White. I would feel safer.
  
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  Racial Insensitivity

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  "blue" lives matter!

  - sheriff david clarke at the rnc.

  this bs really makes my blood boil.

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  silentbudha,

  Why do you continue living there?

  Confederate flags? the South? Yeah, I have heard that some people there still hold values and ideas that were popular many decades, even centuries ago. Just like old guard JW's, those racists are dying out. The rest of the country is doing much better.

  Time to move to another community.
  
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  Racial Insensitivity

  by Coded Logic in

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  "blue" lives matter!

  - sheriff david clarke at the rnc.

  this bs really makes my blood boil.

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  not individually, but as a whole, the black race have brought the trouble onto themselves.

  Not that simple. I would trace the problem to slavery, to civil rights violations, and even more recently, to social policies that reward irresponsible behavior. All these factors have contributed to get young blacks in an inescapable cycle of poverty and crime. I have no problem finding who is at fault. That's easy: male humans and their innate desire for domination. However, we are past that stage of finding the culprits. The big task in front of us is how to go about solving the problem. Ultimately, is up to black leaders to carry the burden to get young people out of their cycle of poverty and crime. The political system and the majority of non-blacks are quite willing to help, but they need to see cooperation from the other side.
  
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  Racial Insensitivity

  by Coded Logic in

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  "blue" lives matter!

  - sheriff david clarke at the rnc.

  this bs really makes my blood boil.

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  Coded logic,

  Very interesting information. Allow me to use the numbers in your link

  White people killed by police: 494

  Black people killed by police: 258

  Total killed: 990

  White percentage 50 %

  Black percentage 26 %

  Conclusion (using Coded Logic methodology and the numbers from his posted link)

  A white person is almost twice as likely to be shot by police than a black person is.

  Is this a good summary of the big picture? Of course not. Many pieces are missing. But I get the hunch that these numbers, if properly analyzed, ultimately would reveal that there is no evidence that police shootings of black people are often racially motivated, as Coded logic and others have suggested. The truth regarding this subject is hard to find, unless we can dig into the brains of every police officer doing the shooting, and that is impossible.