What is "Black Lives Matter"?

[oze]

Bah!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MO6Sa8ANMdY

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[foszoe]

There's no other context? they are literally just standing there? Either one greasy or holding tools or anything? Are they dressed exactly the same?

I guess our company is mandating diversity training. One of the videos shows a white guy and black guy standing beside each other. Another white guy walks up and asks the other white guy to help him to fit a part on a car. The video ends and you are asked to define what type of racism this is. Intentional or unintentional.

 

[paintman]

That’s it. The entire video is basically telling you why everything you do is racist even if it’s not. It even tells you that it’s perceived racism simply because the black guy may have felt you didn’t choose him for being black.

 

[foszoe]

So I guess the "right" answer is you are supposed to walk up and ask if either one of them knows anything about cars.

That’s it. The entire video is basically telling you why everything you do is racist even if it’s not. It even tells you that it’s perceived racism simply because the black guy may have felt you didn’t choose him for being black.

 

[churchmouse]

That’s it. The entire video is basically telling you why everything you do is racist even if it’s not. It even tells you that it’s perceived racism simply because the black guy may have felt you didn’t choose him for being black.

How many in the thread have ever been picked last for team sports in Phys. Ed.
Life is hard. There is no level playing field so get the hell over it.

 

[Robert Richardson]

BLM = JOKE

 

[BigRed]

Walter Willams asks, "Is Racism Responsible for Today's Black Problems?"

The link to the article is below along with the text.



https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/07...racism-responsible-for-todays-black-problems/

I doubt whether any American would defend the police treatment of George Floyd that led to his death. But many Americans are supporting some of the responses to Floyd’s death — rioting, looting, wanton property destruction, assaults on police and other kinds of mayhem by both whites and blacks.

The pretense is that police conduct stands as the root of black problems. According to the NAACP, from 1882-1968, there were 3,446 black people lynched at the hands of whites. Today, being murdered by whites or policemen should be the least of black worries. In recent times, there is an average of 9,252 black-on-black murders every year. Over the past 35 years, that translates into nearly 324,000 blacks murdered at the hands of other blacks. Only a tiny percentage of blacks are killed by police. For example, in Chicago this year, there were 414 homicides, with a total of 2,078 people shot. So far in 2020, three people have been killed by police and four were shot. Manhattan Institute scholar Heather Mac Donald reports that “a police officer is 181/2 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer.” Crime is a major problem for many black communities, but how much of it can be attributed to causes such as institutional racism, systemic racism and white privilege?

The most devastating problem is the very weak black family structure. Less than a third of black children live in two-parent households and illegitimacy stands at 75%. The “legacy of slavery” is often blamed. Such an explanation turns out to be sheer nonsense when one examines black history. Even during slavery, where marriage was forbidden, most black children lived in biological two-parent families. Professor Herbert G. Gutman’s research in “The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom 1750-1925” found that in three-fourths of 19th-century slave families, all the children had the same mother and father. In New York City, in 1925, 85% of black households were two-parent. In fact, “Five in six children under the age of six lived with both parents.” During slavery and as late as 1920, a black teenage girl raising a child without a man present was a rarity.

An 1880 study of family structure in Philadelphia shows that three-quarters of all black families were nuclear families. There were only slight differences in family structure between racial groups. The percentages of nuclear families were: black (75.2%), Irish (82.2%), German (84.5%) and native white Americans (73.1%). Only one-quarter of black families were female-headed. Female-headed families among Irish, German and native white Americans averaged 11%. According to the 1938 Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, only 11% of black children and 3% of white children were born to unwed mothers. As Thomas Sowell reported: “Going back a hundred years, when blacks were just one generation out of slavery, we find that census data of that era showed that a slightly higher percentage of black adults had married than white adults. This fact remained true in every census from 1890 to 1940.”

The absence of a father in the home predisposes children, especially boys, to academic failure, criminal behavior and economic hardship, not to mention an intergenerational repeating of handicaps. If today’s weak family structure is a legacy of slavery, then the people who make such a claim must tell us how it has managed to skip nearly five generations to have an effect.

There are problems such as grossly poor education, economic stagnation and poverty that impact the black community heavily. I would like someone to explain how tearing down statues of Christopher Columbus, Thomas Jefferson and Confederate generals help the black cause. Destruction of symbols of American history might help relieve the frustrations of all those white college students and their professors frustrated by the 2016 election of President Donald Trump. Problems that black people face give white leftists cover for their anti-American agenda.

With the above in mind, let's take a look at the following from the "What We Believe" section of the Black Lives Matter website:

https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/

We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable

One might assert that if Black Lives Matters is successful in their disruption, folks will suffer for it based on the Williams article above. Perhaps lives do not really matter to Black Lives Matter at all. Perhaps they simply see folks as useful pawns in establishing their Marxist utopia.

Black Lives Matter can go straight to Hell.

 

[Cameramonkey]

Tearing down statues makes as much sense as a pimp punching his whore in the face. It REALLY doesnt help anything, but it sure makes him feel better. In fact, that literal black eye he gave her actually HURTS him in the short term because she is probably less likely to service as many johns with her formerly pretty face now jacked up.

 

[Hatin Since 87]

Tearing down statues makes as much sense as a pimp punching his whore in the face. It REALLY doesnt help anything, but it sure makes him feel better. In fact, that literal black eye he gave her actually HURTS him in the short term because she is probably less likely to service as many johns with her formerly pretty face now jacked up.

Keep your pimp hand strong.

 

[El Conquistador]

Keep your pimp hand strong.

It ain't easy being a pimp.

 

[Alpo]

The "study" doesn't seem to acknowledge the cause of family disruption.

I have my own conclusions on why that happened.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

The "study" doesn't seem to acknowledge the cause of family disruption.

I have my own conclusions on why that happened.

Are the initials LBJ?

 

[Alpo]

No. I'm thinking more along the lines of the War on Drugs.

 

[BugI02]

No. I'm thinking more along the lines of the War on Drugs.

Uhhh, that appears to be cumulative. How do you distinguish the effects of longer sentences from more arrests in those circumstances

 

[DoggyDaddy]

No. I'm thinking more along the lines of the War on Drugs.

I think that was secondary to the incentivizing of single parenthood by the welfare system. I don't think the guys being jailed for drugs were exactly model husbands and fathers before they got busted.

 

[Alpo]

Uhhh, that appears to be cumulative. How do you distinguish the effects of longer sentences from more arrests in those circumstances

As to your first point, nope.

As to the second point....well beyond the observational parameters. You are free to dive as deeply as you wish, however.

 

[Alpo]

I think that was secondary to the incentivizing of single parenthood by the welfare system. I don't think the guys being jailed for drugs were exactly model husbands and fathers before they got busted.

When the curve has a knee, it is often worthwhile to study the change dynamics. Welfare had been around before. True, family disruption is often multi-generational.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

When the curve has a knee, it is often worthwhile to study the change dynamics. Welfare had been around before. True, family disruption is often multi-generational.

I have my own plan for welfare, especially when it comes to child support. Single parent with one child gets $X per month. That support goes down with each additional child until you reach a point where you get zero support. And it should reach zero quite rapidly. And absolutely no financial support for abortions. All the free prophylactics you want though. And I'd be okay with funding voluntary sterilization for both males and females. Please note that I make no distinction with regard to race.

 

[BugI02]

Uhhh, that appears to be cumulative. How do you distinguish the effects of longer sentences from more arrests in those circumstances

As to your first point, nope.

As to the second point....well beyond the observational parameters. You are free to dive as deeply as you wish, however.

Wrong again, sport

Your graph comes from wikipedia and indeed is labeled as showing total US incarceration

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incar...edia/File:US_incarceration_timeline-clean.svg

Cross check is this chart that shows rate of incarceration in numbers per 100000. 2008 was the peak of the charted time range, so using that ithe second graph shows 500 per 100000 population (pro tip: use the red line)

Census bureau says 2008 population was 304.1 million, so 2008 rate of incarceration was (500 x 3041) = 1520500 or 1.52 million. Your graph shows about 2.4 million

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._incarceration_rates_1925_onwards.png

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[KLB]

Wrong again, sport

Your graph comes from wikipedia and indeed is labeled as showing total US incarceration

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incar...edia/File:US_incarceration_timeline-clean.svg

Cross check is this chart that shows rate of incarceration in numbers per 100000. 2008 was the peak of the charted time range, so using that ithe second graph shows 500 per 100000 population (pro tip: use the red line)

Census bureau says 2008 population was 304.1 million, so 2008 rate of incarceration was (500 x 3041) = 1520500 or 1.52 million. Your graph shows about 2.4 million

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._incarceration_rates_1925_onwards.png

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Are you arguing the total vs rate of incarceration or the affect of the drug war on incarcerations?