Another police shooting of a civilian with shifting narratives, another popular uprising, this time in Charlotte, North Carolina. Once again, white Americans are tsk-tsking that African-American rioters are making themselves look bad. The thing is, peaceful protests don’t attract national attention.
At Home With the Whites
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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“They” don’t understand anything except violence.
(Who are “they” in this example? Lookit the subject of the cartoon.)
Ironic coming from a statist.
Can someone please translate that gibberish into English? TIA.
Google is your friend. So are English classes. And dictionaries. And opposition research.
Oh, I know what all the words mean – individually at least . But taken together in what appears to be a sentence, they seem completely and utterly unrelated to my post.
“[Statism is] the political doctrine that the government—the state—has the right to initiate the use of physical force against its citizens.” – Ayn Rand (your hero)
Given that you have repeatedly defended the state’s use of deadly force against its black citizens, you would appear to be much closer to being a statist than I am.
So, yeah, I guess it’s ironic that you would imply that I’m a statist – but I still don’t see how it’s related to my post.
Progressives like you are the last who have any room to pontificate about violence. Government violence is your solution to every perceived social ill in your minds. Tax it, nationalize it, regulate it, prohibit it, fine it. On and on and on.
Somebody in the tyrant/cop-shop realm wants to get a race-war on. This is why they’se chummin’ the waters with constantly streaming chunks of “Negro-murder.” Them J-boots slaughter just as much white-trash too, but hey, that’s all-in-the-family. How easy is it going to be to recruit all them ghetto/cracker trolls to do the slaughtering for the holy .01%?
DanD
Dan – you tend to get upset whenever I call you on your racist BS; so let’s try something a little different this time. Answer a question for me.
You’ve repeatedly been told what’s wrong with this statement: “J-boots slaughter just as much white-trash too” – the problem is that proportionately they slaughter more blacks than whites.
So my question is, “why would a non-racist repeatedly post information he knows to be misleading?”
@ DanD –
I’m having difficulty understanding the gist of your message, so maybe you could expound on it a bit?
Are you equating “Negro-murder” with “white trash [slaughter]”? If so, how does the one justify the other?
This is the obvious conclusion–yet again we see the three Cardinal strategies of TPTB. Misdirection from real issues. Divide and conquer; stoking black resentment of whites. As you note, instead of this being an issue of all unjustified homicides by police, we are to focus only on black deaths. And now that the media has done its work on this narrative, we see blacks poised to riot as soon as a black man is shot even when justified. And finally crisis creation, which allows the government to grab yet more power.
And then you have dunces such as CrazyH, who don’t understand that blacks are disproportionately violent criminals.
In fact, if blacks and whites were shot at the same rate by police *that* would be a problem–how could a group with far lower criminality be targeted as much by police?
To Jack,
I must assume the political blindfolds you have created for yourself might well block even the passage of neutrinos.
You really should take them to the nearest university physics department for testing. You could become famous!
“Misdirection from real issues. Divide and conquer; stoking black resentment of whites.”
It’s so nice of you to help them out, play into their hands, fan the flames etc. And what do you get out of it? Militarized police, race riots, black panthers, etc. Doesn’t that make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside?
“who don’t understand that blacks are disproportionately violent criminals”
How are you coming along with that reading comprehension course, Jack? As I’ve explained on numerous occasions, the real demographic is class, not race. Poor whites with poor prospects are just as prone to violent crime as poor blacks with poor prospects. You don’t see Tiger Woods or Malia Obama running with gang bangers.
You want fewer black criminals: stop discriminating against blacks … .duh? Why *shouldn’t* they rob you at gunpoint after all you’ve done for them? You don’t care if a cop murders an unarmed black man – why do you expect any more consideration from them?
Oppressors always live in fear of the oppressed – with good reason.
You are truly deranged to think that my beliefs harm anybody. You are doubly so to think I merit retribution. But that is just the difference between you and me.
Stoking black resentment of whites? You don’t think you’re doing that yourself with comments like “blacks commit more crime” and other awful white supremacist statements that you make?!
And for your information, the capitalist state has already divided and conquered. I’ll tell you something else, the last thing you want is for poor whites to unite with poor blacks – that would be pretty much by definition a socialist movement, and then bourgies like you would be finished.
If stating facts means white supremacy in your mind, then so be it.
Tell me which black man said this:
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.
«By the way, neoconservatism is Left wing.» Eric Arthur Blair would no doubt have offered our beloved «Jack Heart» a job in MiniTrue, A chance at gainful employment which unfortunately Mr Blair’s death back in 1950 has deprived our hero….
Henri
Man, you ultra-conservatives are always screaming about a race war! In the event of such a thing I don’t think you have much to worry about since you way outnumber and outgun all the black folks.
Jack,
I’m glad you mentioned playing by the same rules and being judged by the same standards. It reminded me of a brief blog entry I wrote some time back:
Here’s a fun fact for all the reactionary white folks throughout the land who continue to deny that there is institutionalized and systemic racism in the U.S. Blacks and Hispanics in this country use marijuana much less than whites, but represent 3 times the number of arrests for marijuana offenses. Whites actually account for 76% of marijuana use. In NYC alone a black male is nine times more likely to be arrested for possession of marijuana and 3 times more likely to serve jail time. We’re not talking about drug dealers here either; approximately 90% of all marijuana related arrests are for simple possession, not intent to distribute.
Source: NORML
That’s just one example that came to mind; another, to be brief, is that white women have benefited far more from affirmative action policies than blacks, especially black males.
How would you like to trade places, if you could, with a black man living in the USA? Not me.
Absolutely – that’s another source of bias in the statistics Jack referenced above.
Blacks get *charged* with crimes far more often than whites for the same infractions. A cop catches a white kid with a baggie, he dumps it out of the ground (I speak from experience, here) But if he catches a black kid with the same baggie, he’ll bust him for dealing.
Moreover, those statistics are themselves biased. The police who murdered Freddy Grey were not charged with a crime, George Zimmerman was found innocent, etc. Whenever an HR rep round files a resume because the name at the top “sounds” black, they have committed a crime although they’re rarely prosecuted. Any time Jack or Dan starts mouthing off about how bad blacks are, they have committed a crime but will never be prosecuted either.
Consider the number of people who have died in the middle east as a result of the wars started by white men – if they were counted, we would see a much different picture.
Consider the original crime against blacks in this country: slavery. That crime is also not counted, nor are the quiet lynchings, beatings etc, that occur on a daily basis.
If you actually tally up all the crimes committed by American whites against people of color, you can only conclude that the blacks are victims in this country.
Jews start the wars.
> Jews start the wars.
Bushes (Christians) started both the Iraq wars. Capitalists and Communists (“Christians” vs. “Atheists”) started the Vietnam and Korean wars. However, according to Hitler and other white supremacist scum, the Jews were, indeed, responsible for WWII.
And trolls start flame wars, so this is my last reply on this topic.
You said white men started the Middle East wars. I find that incendiary, so I corrected you.
Perle, Wolfowitz, Feith, Kissinger, Frum, Kristol, Krauthammer, Bryen, Libby, etc.
By the way, neoconservatism is Left wing.
Ironic coming from a statist.
In the Guardian version of the videos released by the Charlotte, North Carolina police, they are prefaced by a warning to the effect that «Some viewers may find the following footage distressing». Indeed. I should question the mental health of any viewer who did not find the footage distressing ; one would have to be a «Jack Heart» not to do so….
Back to the content of the first (dashcam) video : in the above version, the action takes place to the left of the visual field about 50 s into the video, in which the victim, having just exited his car in accordance with police orders, is walking slowly backwards with his arms at his sides. No gun is visible, nor is he pointing anything at the police. Suddenly shots ring out, and the next scene shows him lying prone and motionless on the pavement, while the police loudly call for handcuffs and are shown placing them on his wrists (note the blood on the victim’s hands)….
Murder by cop ; yet another daily occurrence in that «Shining City on a Hill», which, it is piously hoped, will be a Light unto Nations all over the globe….
Henri
Black on black violence…damn self-hating black cops.
«Black on black violence…damn self-hating black cops.» Roman leaders hired «barbarians» – Germans, Celts, etc, etc, to make war on other Germans, Celts, etc, etc, It is hardly surprising that in the US, black people are hired to work in a police force which is continually engaged in warfare with black people, most of whom are poor, and other poor people, irrespective of their skin pigmentation, nose shape, presence of absence of an epicanthic fold, etc, etc….
Only someone of «Jack Heart’s» ilk could fail to understand – or pretend to fail to understand – what an instrument of oppression the more and more militarised US police are, and why their shooting down of unarmed black men is hardly an example of «black on black violence»….
Henri