Race in America - Riots Explode in Chicago

[jhu72]

What a country. And the dems are doing so well with it.

Minneapolis Police informed residents of the city’s embattled 3rd Precinct to prepare for the giving up of their personal belongings to potential robbers and advised them to do as criminals say for their own safety.

According to a July 28 email the Minneapolis Police Department offered “prevention tips” to residents hoping to avoid being a victim of the skyrocketing cases of robbery and carjacking that have plagued the city since George Floyd’s death in May.

“Robberies and Carjacking’s [sic] have increased in our Precinct,” the email begins. “Cell phones, purses, and vehicles are being targeted. Some victims have been maced, dragged, assaulted, and some threatened with a gun. Most of these crimes have occurred north of 42nd St. E. 100 Robberies and 20 Carjackings have been reported to 3rd Precinct Police in July alone. Downtown and Southwest Minneapolis have seen an increase as well. We want those who live and work here to be safe!”

The email goes on to list several tips that citizens can supposedly use to protect themselves, which includes letting criminals have what they want:

Do not walk alone
Be hyper-aware of your surroundings at all times – pay attention!
Carry only items you need, and carry less cash
Be prepared to give up your cell phone and purse/wallet
Have keys already in your hand as you approach your car
Despite all our efforts, robberies may still occur! Do not argue or fight with the criminal. Do as they say. Your safety is most important!

… like these warnings are something new. Never happened before, anywhere , anytime, and certainly not in a city with a republican major.

... more republican dumb ass-ism.

You know, JHU72, as you belittle the heightened dangers of cities now as Democrat mayors side with anarchists, untold number of people who need to get to work, who like to work, no longer feel safe getting to work. More often than not, these are young ladies of color, of faith, honest people, scared to travel because the cities they live in are no longer safe. This is the real life results you diminish because Orange Man Bad. Disgusting.

YAWN. More blowhard bloviation.

What else is the liberal progressive bloviator going to do but reduce dangerous civil unrest, violence, 100's millions in small business losses, and rising criminality—due to negligence of liberal progressive mayors and governors—to republican dumbass-ism.

Minneapolis looks like Beirut in the 70's. Good on you dems.

The muslims living in minneapolis wanted it to seem more like home I guess.

Racist, ignorant, bigoted post by 6ftstick.

Anyone disagree?

DocBarrister

i think it depends on what definition of racism you are using. are lebanese whites exempt.

at least the ones in California are.

says who? the lebanese in California. https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me- ... rica-race/

https://www.brooklinema.gov/DocumentCen ... ion?bidId=

What “white” means has its roots in what freedoms and liberties are extended to you (global use of the word “you”. Not personal). The defining term originated in the late 1690s for the sole purpose of extending freedoms and liberties for one group and restrictions for the other. There is lot of case law as to what defines “white” or colored, negro or black etc. it wasn’t something people came out with of the air. It was a legal construct.



EDIT: I “steelded it” from the post below.

Yup.

[CU77]

On july 16, 2019, the House bitterly debated the resolution to rebuke Trump for his racist tweets against the four congresswomen of color. The four were members of the most diverse class of Democrats in American history, which had retaken the House in a midterm repudiation of the president.

“Every single member of this institution, Democratic and Republican, should join us in condemning the president’s racist tweets,” Speaker Pelosi said from the House floor. Republicans sounded off in protest. Pelosi turned to them, voice rising, and added: “To do anything less would be a shocking rejection of our values and a shameful abdication of our oath of office to protect the American people.”

Republicans claimed that Pelosi had violated a House rule by characterizing an action as “racist.” They moved to have the word struck from the Congressional Record.

The motion to strike racist from the record failed along party lines. “I know racism when I see it, I know racism when I feel it, and at the highest level of government, there’s no room for racism,” Representative John Lewis, the civil-rights icon, said during the debate.

One after another, Republicans rose to defend their president. “What has really happened here is that the president and his supporters have been forced to endure months of allegations of racism,” said Representative Dan Meuser of Pennsylvania. “This ridiculous slander does a disservice to our nation.”

In the end, only four Republicans and the House’s lone independent voted with all the Democrats to condemn the president of the United States. That means 187 House Republicans, or 98 percent of the caucus, denied that telling four congresswomen of color to go back to their countries was racist. They believed, as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said, that “the president’s not a racist.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ar ... al/614194/

[jhu72]

On july 16, 2019, the House bitterly debated the resolution to rebuke Trump for his racist tweets against the four congresswomen of color. The four were members of the most diverse class of Democrats in American history, which had retaken the House in a midterm repudiation of the president.

“Every single member of this institution, Democratic and Republican, should join us in condemning the president’s racist tweets,” Speaker Pelosi said from the House floor. Republicans sounded off in protest. Pelosi turned to them, voice rising, and added: “To do anything less would be a shocking rejection of our values and a shameful abdication of our oath of office to protect the American people.”

Republicans claimed that Pelosi had violated a House rule by characterizing an action as “racist.” They moved to have the word struck from the Congressional Record.

The motion to strike racist from the record failed along party lines. “I know racism when I see it, I know racism when I feel it, and at the highest level of government, there’s no room for racism,” Representative John Lewis, the civil-rights icon, said during the debate.

One after another, Republicans rose to defend their president. “What has really happened here is that the president and his supporters have been forced to endure months of allegations of racism,” said Representative Dan Meuser of Pennsylvania. “This ridiculous slander does a disservice to our nation.”

In the end, only four Republicans and the House’s lone independent voted with all the Democrats to condemn the president of the United States. That means 187 House Republicans, or 98 percent of the caucus, denied that telling four congresswomen of color to go back to their countries was racist. They believed, as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said, that “the president’s not a racist.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ar ... al/614194/

… you know as well as I do what this is all about. Today's republican party is overrun with racism. They recognize the country is turning against them, and are now trying to normalize racism. As if it were any normal benign human preference; favorite TV program, favorite baseball team, just a harmless preference. No big deal.

[CU77]

Well I don't think it's anything new for them. Read the whole article for more historical perspective.

[jhu72]

Well I don't think it's anything new for them. Read the whole article for more historical perspective.

Most certainly not new. They just hid it better from the general public.

[Peter Brown]

On july 16, 2019, the House bitterly debated the resolution to rebuke Trump for his racist tweets against the four congresswomen of color. The four were members of the most diverse class of Democrats in American history, which had retaken the House in a midterm repudiation of the president.

“Every single member of this institution, Democratic and Republican, should join us in condemning the president’s racist tweets,” Speaker Pelosi said from the House floor. Republicans sounded off in protest. Pelosi turned to them, voice rising, and added: “To do anything less would be a shocking rejection of our values and a shameful abdication of our oath of office to protect the American people.”

Republicans claimed that Pelosi had violated a House rule by characterizing an action as “racist.” They moved to have the word struck from the Congressional Record.

The motion to strike racist from the record failed along party lines. “I know racism when I see it, I know racism when I feel it, and at the highest level of government, there’s no room for racism,” Representative John Lewis, the civil-rights icon, said during the debate.

One after another, Republicans rose to defend their president. “What has really happened here is that the president and his supporters have been forced to endure months of allegations of racism,” said Representative Dan Meuser of Pennsylvania. “This ridiculous slander does a disservice to our nation.”

In the end, only four Republicans and the House’s lone independent voted with all the Democrats to condemn the president of the United States. That means 187 House Republicans, or 98 percent of the caucus, denied that telling four congresswomen of color to go back to their countries was racist. They believed, as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said, that “the president’s not a racist.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ar ... al/614194/

… you know as well as I do what this is all about. Today's republican party is overrun with racism. They recognize the country is turning against them, and are now trying to normalize racism. As if it were any normal benign human preference; favorite TV program, favorite baseball team, just a harmless preference. No big deal.

November 4th will be the funniest day in all of our lives.

Also, Riots on the whole provoke a hostile right-wing response.

http://www.omarwasow.com/Protests_on_Voting.pdf

Please keep burning down stores! America loves that!

[jhu72]

Well I don't think it's anything new for them. Read the whole article for more historical perspective.

Good read.

It would be easy to see these shifts as the direct result of the horrifying events that have unfolded in 2020: a pandemic that has had a disproportionate effect on people of color; the video of George Floyd dying beneath the knee of an impassive Minneapolis police officer; the ghastly killing of Breonna Taylor, shot to death in her own home.

Yet fundamental shifts in American views of race were already under way before the COVID-19 disparities became clear and before these latest examples of police violence surfaced. The percentage of Americans who told Monmouth pollsters that racial and ethnic discrimination is a big problem made a greater leap from January 2015 (51 percent) to July 2016 (68 percent) than from July 2016 to June 2020 (76 percent). What we are witnessing right now is the culmination of a longer process—a process that tracks closely with the political career of Donald Trump.

Yup, the attitudes have certainly changed in recent years.

[a fan]

November 4th will be the funniest day in all of our lives.

Also, Riots on the whole provoke a hostile right-wing response.

http://www.omarwasow.com/Protests_on_Voting.pdf

Please keep burning down stores! America loves that!

Good luck with your sales pitch, Pete.

Trump: "these cities burned on my watch. Vote for me if you'd like more of that".

[cradleandshoot]

November 4th will be the funniest day in all of our lives.

Also, Riots on the whole provoke a hostile right-wing response.

http://www.omarwasow.com/Protests_on_Voting.pdf

Please keep burning down stores! America loves that!

Good luck with your sales pitch, Pete.

Trump: "these cities burned on my watch. Vote for me if you'd like more of that".

None of that matters a Fan if most Americans 401Ks are in the black come November. I don't know alot about politics. I do know there are many Americans more concerned with how their 401Ks are doing that who the R or D is that is running for POTUS. If your 401K is still growing you could care less what is on fire.

[a fan]

November 4th will be the funniest day in all of our lives.

Also, Riots on the whole provoke a hostile right-wing response.

http://www.omarwasow.com/Protests_on_Voting.pdf

Please keep burning down stores! America loves that!

Good luck with your sales pitch, Pete.

Trump: "these cities burned on my watch. Vote for me if you'd like more of that".

None of that matters a Fan if most Americans 401Ks are in the black come November. I don't know alot about politics. I do know there are many Americans more concerned with how their 401Ks are doing that who the R or D is that is running for POTUS. If your 401K is still growing you could care less what is on fire.

Not this election.

This election is about virus outbreaks in school. Guess what parents across the country will think if Trump and other Governors (both parties) send their kids to school------and we get outbreaks? And a few kids die, as they have in Florida?

And then what happens to the economy if that all schools are shut?

Virus. "It's the virus, stupid" is the mantra of this election.

[cradleandshoot]

November 4th will be the funniest day in all of our lives.

Also, Riots on the whole provoke a hostile right-wing response.

http://www.omarwasow.com/Protests_on_Voting.pdf

Please keep burning down stores! America loves that!

Good luck with your sales pitch, Pete.

Trump: "these cities burned on my watch. Vote for me if you'd like more of that".

None of that matters a Fan if most Americans 401Ks are in the black come November. I don't know alot about politics. I do know there are many Americans more concerned with how their 401Ks are doing that who the R or D is that is running for POTUS. If your 401K is still growing you could care less what is on fire.

Not this election.

This election is about virus outbreaks in school. Guess what parents across the country will think if Trump and other Governors (both parties) send their kids to school------and we get outbreaks? And a few kids die, as they have in Florida?

And then what happens to the economy if that all schools are shut?

Virus. "It's the virus, stupid" is the mantra of this election.

There are umpteen thousands of school districts in all 57 states. The governors are the ones dictating the rules about reopening. I watch my local news every morning and watch in bewilderment at the mass confusion in my state about how they open schools. That discussion will be ongoing and everchanging. If the parents are watching their 401Ks keep on growing, they have control over what they have invested. They have no control over how schools should reopen.

[Typical Lax Dad]

November 4th will be the funniest day in all of our lives.

Also, Riots on the whole provoke a hostile right-wing response.

http://www.omarwasow.com/Protests_on_Voting.pdf

Please keep burning down stores! America loves that!

Good luck with your sales pitch, Pete.

Trump: "these cities burned on my watch. Vote for me if you'd like more of that".

None of that matters a Fan if most Americans 401Ks are in the black come November. I don't know alot about politics. I do know there are many Americans more concerned with how their 401Ks are doing that who the R or D is that is running for POTUS. If your 401K is still growing you could care less what is on fire.

Not this election.

This election is about virus outbreaks in school. Guess what parents across the country will think if Trump and other Governors (both parties) send their kids to school------and we get outbreaks? And a few kids die, as they have in Florida?

And then what happens to the economy if that all schools are shut?

Virus. "It's the virus, stupid" is the mantra of this election.

There are umpteen thousands of school districts in all 57 states. The governors are the ones dictating the rules about reopening. I watch my local news every morning and watch in bewilderment at the mass confusion in my state about how they open schools. That discussion will be ongoing and everchanging. If the parents are watching their 401Ks keep on growing, they have control over what they have invested. They have no control over how schools should reopen.

401ks grew by a greater % under Obama but it didn’t help the Democrats during the last election.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/266807/per ... stock.aspx

[jhu72]

Most voters don't care about 401Ks when it comes to their children's health.

[a fan]

There are umpteen thousands of school districts in all 57 states. The governors are the ones dictating the rules about reopening. I watch my local news every morning and watch in bewilderment at the mass confusion in my state about how they open schools. That discussion will be ongoing and everchanging. If the parents are watching their 401Ks keep on growing, they have control over what they have invested. They have no control over how schools should reopen.

Yes. Mass confusion. And who will the people blame for the mess in this country? Someone running for office, or the people that are actually in office generating all this confusion?

Now add in how "all-in" Republicans have been that this virus is a hoax, no big deal.....and Trump's "it is what it is" soundbyte about Corona deaths.

I have a difficult time believing that many incumbents will fare well this fall, regardless of party.

[Peter Brown]

If any of you yo-yo’s want to be educated on race in less than 60 seconds, this video is worth your time. Big Dave knows better than any Fanlax Dem.

https://twitter.com/bigdave21420668/sta ... 78018?s=21

Turn it up.

[youthathletics]

There are umpteen thousands of school districts in all 57 states. The governors are the ones dictating the rules about reopening. I watch my local news every morning and watch in bewilderment at the mass confusion in my state about how they open schools. That discussion will be ongoing and everchanging. If the parents are watching their 401Ks keep on growing, they have control over what they have invested. They have no control over how schools should reopen.

Yes. Mass confusion. And who will the people blame for the mess in this country? Someone running for office, or the people that are actually in office generating all this confusion?

Now add in how "all-in" Republicans have been that this virus is a hoax, no big deal.....and Trump's "it is what it is" soundbyte about Corona deaths.

I have a difficult time believing that many incumbents will fare well this fall, regardless of party.

We've agreed he is a democrat, and has been giving them damned near everything they want...probably even the next election. Trump is gettin' paid to under the table by the left...and will for a long time post presidency.

[Matnum PI]

If any of you yo-yo’s want to be educated on race in less than 60 seconds, this video is worth your time. Big Dave knows better than any Fanlax Dem.
https://twitter.com/bigdave21420668/sta ... 78018?s=21
Turn it up.

Wow. PB, if you believe this, that is awful.

[Matnum PI]

If any of you yo-yo’s want to be educated on race in less than 60 seconds, this video is worth your time. Big Dave knows better than any Fanlax Dem.
https://twitter.com/bigdave21420668/sta ... 78018?s=21
Turn it up.

Wow. PB, if you believe this, that is awful.

[jhu72]

There are umpteen thousands of school districts in all 57 states. The governors are the ones dictating the rules about reopening. I watch my local news every morning and watch in bewilderment at the mass confusion in my state about how they open schools. That discussion will be ongoing and everchanging. If the parents are watching their 401Ks keep on growing, they have control over what they have invested. They have no control over how schools should reopen.

Yes. Mass confusion. And who will the people blame for the mess in this country? Someone running for office, or the people that are actually in office generating all this confusion?

Now add in how "all-in" Republicans have been that this virus is a hoax, no big deal.....and Trump's "it is what it is" soundbyte about Corona deaths.

I have a difficult time believing that many incumbents will fare well this fall, regardless of party.

We've agreed he is a democrat, and has been giving them damned near everything they want...probably even the next election. Trump is gettin' paid to under the table by the left...and will for a long time post presidency.

[Peter Brown]

If any of you yo-yo’s want to be educated on race in less than 60 seconds, this video is worth your time. Big Dave knows better than any Fanlax Dem.
https://twitter.com/bigdave21420668/sta ... 78018?s=21
Turn it up.

Wow. PB, if you believe this, that is awful.

It’s awful that I believe a black guy?

Is it awful you don’t?