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| Why Milwaukee Burns |
| 2016-08-16 |
| [City Journal Online] The war on cops, ideological and sometimes lethal, may be expanding into a broader race war, in which only one side fights. The thugs who torched businesses and police cars, assaulted cops, and shot at firemen in northwestern Milwaukee on Saturday night went after "white bitches," among other targets. (The riots were inspired by the fatal police shooting of Sylville K. Smith, a black man. Smith, who had an extensive arrest record, including for a shooting, fled from officers after a traffic stop while carrying a stolen handgun; he refused commands to drop the gun. Wisconsin governor Scott Walker has activated the state’s National Guard and declared a state of emergency, but violence continued into Sunday night, with four officers injured, three squad cars damaged, and multiple businesses burned down.) The Black Lives Matter-inspired assassin who murdered five police officers in Dallas in July 2016 said that he wanted to kill white people, as well as white cops. The vitriol that officers working in urban areas now encounter on a daily basis is inflected with racism. And if the war on cops escalates into more frequent attacks on whites and their perceived interests, the elite establishment will bear much of the blame. For the last two years, President Barack Obama has seized every opportunity to advise blacks that they are the victims of a racist criminal justice system. We should not be surprised when that belief, so constantly inflamed, erupts into violence. Even in his remarks at the memorial service for the five murdered Dallas cops, Obama had the gall to trot out his usual racial vendetta against the police, even though he was fully on notice that cops were being killed because of it: When African-Americans from all walks of life, from different communities across the country, voice a growing despair over what they perceive to be unequal treatment; when study after study shows that whites and people of color experience the criminal justice system differently, so that if you’re black, you’re more likely to be pulled over or searched or arrested, more likely to get longer sentences, more likely to get the death penalty for the same crime; when mothers and fathers raise their kids right and have "the talk" about how to respond if stopped by a police officer--"yes, sir," "no, sir"--but still fear that something terrible may happen when their child walks out the door, still fear that kids being stupid and not quite doing things right might end in tragedy--when all this takes place more than 50 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, we cannot simply turn away and dismiss those in peaceful protest as troublemakers or paranoid. Obama’s indictment ignored, as usual, the astronomically higher rates of black crime that fully explain racial disparities in the criminal justice system. Meanwhile, Obama hasn’t uttered a word in condemnation of the lawless behavior in Milwaukee, two days into the events. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #14 Well stated Mullah. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2016-08-16 23:42 |
| #13 As the great Professor Reynolds once stated - "The government decides to try to increase the middle class by subsidizing things that middle class people have: If middle-class people go to college and own homes, then surely if more people go to college and own homes, we’ll have more middle-class people. But homeownership and college aren’t causes of middle-class status, they’re markers for possessing the kinds of traits — self-discipline, the ability to defer gratification, etc. — that let you enter, and stay, in the middle class. Subsidizing the markers doesn’t produce the traits; if anything, it undermines them." |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard somewhere else 2016-08-16 21:39 |
| #12 Raj, so it was white privilege, then. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2016-08-16 21:13 |
| #11 Ship - that's my white privilege kicking in; it had nothing to do with 300+ hours spent in the Sloan MIT and UMass-Boston libraries studying and taking old CPA exams. I wasn't taking that exam a second time. |
| Posted by: Raj 2016-08-16 21:03 |
| #10 So Raj, you were a born CPA? :) |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-08-16 20:16 |
| #9 ...we cannot simply turn away and dismiss those in peaceful protest as troublemakers or paranoid. 1) It doesn't look to me like the Ferguson, Baltimore or Milwaukee 'protests' were peaceful. What fucking planet is this guy on? 2) I have / had an extensive juvenile police record. At some point it dawned on me that I will not accomplish anything meaningful in life if I kept acting like the rest of my family, so I stopped shoplifting, stealing bikes, selling weed, vandalizing property and hiking school, got into college and out of my hometown. If these 'peaceful protestors' lack the ability to do the proverbial soul search and change their behavior, I don't have too much sympathy for them. |
| Posted by: Raj 2016-08-16 18:38 |
| #8 What has surprised me is the number of African-Americans (at least the ones willing to say so on video) that seem to think crime is some kind of right. "Why'd she have to shoot him? How else is he going to get stuff." |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-08-16 18:01 |
| #7 Urbanism has failed. If you don't have to go work in a big city, it's worth your while to locate somewhere outside the big urban areas' "tax event horizons...." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2016-08-16 16:42 |
| #6 " we cannot simply turn away and dismiss those in peaceful protest as troublemakers or paranoid" Sure we can. I've been hearing the same claims since the 2001 riots in Cincinnati -- and all but two of the cases those riots "championed" were clear-cut self-defense. The exceptions saw the officers charged and tried. The problem is blacks don't think they need to obey the law. Then that attitude piles up into a career of crime, or being so drug-addled they couldn't work if they tried, and THEN comes some wannabe-Hitler who tells them it's all whiteys fault, because slavery. Because people who have never harmed them have the same skin color as someone who abused an ancestor 150 years ago, those people owe them everything. Sorry, no. I'll listen to claims about police abuse, but most of the claims fall apart rather quickly. And then it seems like the more violent and abusive the thug, the more anger his death causes. For God's sake, if half as much anger was shown towards the thugs whose random shots kill little kids... |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2016-08-16 14:53 |
| #5 The power of the race card is the unwillingness of most Americans to risk being called racist, even when is clearly untrue. It is factually accurate that blacks are disproportionately represented in criminal justice statistics and the incarcerated population in America. The answer Foe this in the most simplistic form is either that the system is racist or they are more criminal in their behavior. Since few dare to assert the obvious it must be the system. The consequences of paternalistic public policy by predominantly democrat politicians has produced the inner city plantations of welfare moms and feral youths. Lacking any real understanding of the way the world works beyond their little tribal enclaves they sense they have been robbed by white people of what should come naturally to them. This is a recipe for disaster and to win Hilda seems to use it. It will flare badly .... |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2016-08-16 14:50 |
| #4 In the interest of accuracy, this paragraph is from a memorial service speech by our Glorious Leader, Barack Obama, Calmer of Oceans, Healer of Nations: When African-Americans from all walks of life, from different communities across the country, voice a growing despair over what they perceive to be unequal treatment; when study after study shows that whites and people of color experience the criminal justice system differently, so that if you’re black, you’re more likely to be pulled over or searched or arrested, more likely to get longer sentences, more likely to get the death penalty for the same crime; when mothers and fathers raise their kids right and have "the talk" about how to respond if stopped by a police officer--"yes, sir," "no, sir"--but still fear that something terrible may happen when their child walks out the door, still fear that kids being stupid and not quite doing things right might end in tragedy--when all this takes place more than 50 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, we cannot simply turn away and dismiss those in peaceful protest as troublemakers or paranoid. The author of the piece, Heather Mac Donald, has a much different viewpoint and a much deeper understanding of the underlying problem. tl;dr: Obama’s indictment ignored, as usual, the astronomically higher rates of black crime that fully explain racial disparities in the criminal justice system. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2016-08-16 13:13 |
| #3 These Black are racists. No better than the Klan, powered by hat and seeing only skin color. |
| Posted by: Flaise Turkeyneck6393 2016-08-16 11:25 |
| #2 Talks about mothers and fathers raising their children. Right there you know the writer doesn't mean the Democratically controlled, welfare state of the black community. They's just players and hos. |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2016-08-16 10:59 |
| #1 Not to worry; Prez Hildabeest will put out the fires! Lower the oceans! Cool the planet! A chicken in every pot! And a pony. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2016-08-16 10:46 |