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To: Brumar89 who wrote (944805)	7/5/2016 11:50:45 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1574017

Correcting Jesse Williams: ... “What we’ve been doing,” said Williams, “is looking at the data and we know that police somehow manage to de-escalate, disarm and not kill white people everyday.” The problem is that the “data” say the opposite. The police do kill whites everyday. ....... The “data” from the Centers for Disease Control shows that in 2014, the latest year data are available, 131 blacks and 261 whites were killed by cops. From 1999 to 2013, the totals were 1,724 black and 3,160 white. ......... The top preventable cause of death for young white men is car accidents. For young black men it’s homicide -- almost always by other young blacks. Nearly 50 percent of all homicides are black-on-black. As to Williams’ implied clam of anti-black racial profiling, a 2013 report by the DOJ’s National Institute of Justice found that any racial differences in traffic stops can be ascribed to "differences in offending": blacks are more likely to commit traffic offenses -- speeding, no license, no child restraint, DUI, headlights out, expired tags and so on. .......... Williams said: “I don’t want to hear anymore about how far we’ve come when paid public servants can pull a drive-by on 12-year-old playing alone in a park in broad daylight, killing him on television and then going home to make a sandwich. Tell Rekia Boyd how it’s so much better to live in 2012 than it is to live in 1612 or 1712. Tell that to Eric Garner. Tell that to Sandra Bland. Tell that to Dorian Hunt.” *What does it say that Obama's Department of Justice has not* filed civil rights charges against any of the officers involved in the death of the blacks Williams cited?** [ Of course not. There's no case to be made. ] Not everything Williams said was incoherent or factually wrong, At the beginning of his speech he actually put his finger on the real problem in the black community. He said, “For the black women in particular who have spent their lifetimes dedicated to nurturing everyone before themselves -- we can and will do better for you,” He appeared to be urging black fathers to step up. Seventy-one percent of black children were born to unmarried mothers in 2014, as opposed to 25 percent in 1965. Obama said, “Children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime, nine times more likely to drop out of schools and 20 times more likely to end up in prison.” In an interview with Kweisi Mfume, then the president of the NAACP, I asked, “As to the presence of white racism or the absence of black fathers, which poses the bigger threat to the black community?” Without hesitation, Mfume said, “The absence of black fathers.” Rant about that, Mr. Williams. http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263405/twisted-fantasy-world-jesse-williams-larry-elder

To: Brumar89 who wrote (944805)	7/5/2016 2:56:42 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574017

For example, liberals DO think free abortions should be the most important constitutional right and everyone who doesn't agree with them about that is an evil person who wants women to die on the floor. Liberals do despise America's founding fathers and wish they'd failed. Provide even a shred of evidence to support this........

To: Brumar89 who wrote (944805)	7/5/2016 5:29:13 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574017

America, raped by the rich since 1776.....Now, to be accurate staying within bounds of historical reality, America started being really raped by republicans starting with President Grant tenure. Truth & Reality, such a simple thing for most, except for the right wing but common knowledge the Republicans have always been the party of big business, wall street & monopoly. Let's refer to history, the great Whiskey Ring Scandal of 1875 under Grant a republican, was the true beginning of the long line of raping the American republic by the new greed -based Republican Party, post Civil War. ( for as you know greed tends to attract greed) Whiskey Ring Scandal The Whiskey Ring was seen by many as a sign of corruption under the Republican governments that took power across the nation following the American Civil War. In the United States, the Whiskey Ring was a scandal, exposed in 1875, involving diversion of tax revenues in a conspiracy among government agents, politicians, whiskey distillers, and distributors. The Whiskey Ring began in St. Louis but was also organized in Chicago, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Peoria. Before they were caught, a group of politicians were able to siphon off millions of dollars in federal taxes on liquor; the scheme involved an extensive network of bribes involving distillers, rectifiers, gaugers, storekeepers, and internal revenue agents. The Whiskey Ring was seen by many as a sign of corruption under the Republican governments that took power across the nation following the American Civil War. General Orville E. Babcock, the private secretary to the President, was indicted as a member of the ring — for this reason, President Ulysses S. Grant, although not directly involved in the ring, came to be seen as emblematic of Republican corruption, and later scandals involving his Secretary of War William W. Belknap only confirmed that perception. The Whiskey Ring scandal, along with other alleged abuses of power by the Republican party, contributed to national weariness of Reconstruction, which ended after Grant's presidency with the Compromise of 1877.