Weird News
Blacks Should Be More Afraid Of Other Blacks Than Cops
Rudy Giuliani joined Fox and Friends to trash Mayor de Blasio and decree that Black men should be more afraid of other Black men than of his cop buddies murdering black men with racist intent.
Echoing Trump’s “law and order” idiocy and hatred of the Black Lives Movement, Giuliani gave his unfettered support to law enforcement, and decreed that he has always been the true savior of New York.
Me: What can I say? The facts do not support Giuliani. He lies like Trumop does.
Digsby: Bret Baier remarked that as a matter of tradition, past presidents “stayed away from overt campaign rhetoric from the Rose Garden or the White House.”
Not Trump!
“Trump managed to work himself up to deliver one of his patented incoherent rally performances as if the audience in front of him weren’t a bunch of masked-up, socially distanced reporters, who were undoubtedly confused as to why they had been summoned to the Rose Garden to act as props for Trump’s stump speech.
After all was said and done, ‘To be fair, if President Obama had given a speech like this in the White House, Republicans on Capitol Hill would have been up in arms.’ Indeed, if Obama had done anything like that, Republican heads would have swiveled on their shoulders and their mouths would have erupted with green bile like Linda Blair in ‘The Exorcist.’ After all, they had a full-blown hissy fit when Obama wore a tan suit to the White House briefing room one day.”
Me: More noise from the White House.
Video Catches Five NJ Cops Wrestling Black Man To Ground Over Open Beer
Five New Jersey police officers are being accused of using excessive force after they were seen wrestling a Black man to the ground for allegedly having a open beer at a beach.
Video of the incident, which was said to have occurred at Point Pleasant, was shared on social media. Typically, a ticket is issued rather than an arrest.
Me: They still have not learned Black Americans are people!
Navarro Attacks Dr. Fauci Today In Op-Ed Piece
Navarro’s op-ed, titled “Anthony Fauci has been wrong about everything I have interacted with him on,” represented his most brazen effort yet to dress down the widely respected immunologist and veteran director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
When I was working feverishly on behalf of the president in February to help engineer the fastest industrial mobilization of the health care sector in our history, Fauci was still telling the public the China virus was low risk.
When we were building new mask capacity in record time, Fauci was flip-flopping on the use of masks.
Me: This was a supply chain problem. The issue was where to allocate the limited supply of face masks. Give to healthcare workers or allow citizens to hoard them? Fauci made the right decision and lied.
Navarro and trump’s son-in-law could not plan their way out of a paper bag. They should not have had to build capacity. Dumb statement by Navarro.
New Postmaster Orders Workers To Slow Down First-Class Mail Delivery
The new head of the U.S. Postal Service established major operational changes Monday that could slow down mail delivery, warning employees the agency would not survive unless it made “difficult” changes to cut costs. But critics say such a philosophical change would sacrifice operational efficiency and cede its competitive edge to UPS, FedEx and other private-sector rivals.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told employees to leave mail behind at distribution centers if it delayed letter carriers from their routes, according to internal USPS documents obtained by The Washington Post and verified by the American Postal Workers Union and three people with knowledge of their contents, but who spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid retribution.
Me: That will “really” help mail-in ballots! Suggest one week for all mail to be delivered locally. Post Office should incorporate intelligent bar coding also to track ballots.
More white people’ are killed by Police
Me: “More” Trump Lies
Trump’s claim about more white people being killed by police in the US is misleading.
The Guardian’s investigative project The Counted in 2015-2016 that set out to record all people in the US killed by police showed that Black people in America were more than twice as likely to be killed by the police than white people.
And in 2016 Black men ages 15-34 were nine times more likely than other Americans to be killed by law enforcement officers, and they were killed at four times the rate of young white men.
A similar 2016 analysis by the Washington Post also found that African Americans are 2.5 times as likely to be shot and killed by police offers as white Americans.
Another study published in the American Journal of Public Health in 2018 found that African Americans are 3.5 times as likely to be killed by police compared to white people.
There is one crime category relevant to LEO perceptions of criminal racial demographics, “Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter,” judging from FBI Table 43 Arrests by Race and Ethnicity, 2017. Relative to overall criminal behavior this is a very small category (9,468 – 4,188 white and 5,025 black – violent offenders out of an overall 8,162,849 – 5,626,140 white and 2,221,697 black – criminal offenders), but relative to the danger represented to LEOs then it is a major category.
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-2017/tables/table-43
This is not to say that there is not systemic racism in the US. Rather we are focusing upon just one of the more profound effects of systemic racism in the US and treating it as if it were the cause. For the cause then we should be looking at the tax system bias that leads to the tragedy of the commons as well as the class (pun intended) bias of the public pedagogy institutionalized by elites to keep us all in our places on the factory assembly lines and in the military. Take away those factories and shrink the military and what do ignorant whites have left other than racial animus? We are acting like blacks are not as ignorant as whites, when in reality blacks are just as ignorant as whites.
P.S., and yes our POTUS is an ignorant ass in chief. What would you expect from a nation of mostly ignorant asses?
I’d like to see us get past this lying with numbers phase and get to a point when we can speak to the core issues.
“Rather we are focusing upon just one of the more profound effects of systemic racism in the US and treating it as if it were the cause. ”
The videos of Rayshard Brooks show a man not afraid of interacting with police officers, but deathly afraid of being put into the justice system. When we focus on police brutality and defunding the police, we are missing an important part of the systemic problem.
Even expanding our view to how the rule of law is applied is not enough. I am not sure quite what “For the cause then we should be looking at the tax system bias that leads to the tragedy of the commons” means, but it resonates with my belief that solving our racial issues requires addressing economic issues.
The real progress we have made in racial equality has been in spite of rising plutocracy.
Arne,
“…my belief that solving our racial issues requires addressing economic issues…”
[Your belief is one of my facts. That fact was discovered by MLK in his last year with us.]
Ken,
“…get to a point when we can speak to the core issues…”
[Forget the numbers then and just look at our moronic ideas. Local LEOs are taken from the pool of candidates either dumb enough or sociopathic enough to risk their lives for mediocre pay. This is America. Those who can do and those that can’t do either teach or shoot people. ]
Coming soon.
Stop using ‘black-on-black’ crime to deflect away from police brutality
Troy L. Smith – Cleveland.com – June 14
CLEVELAND, Ohio — “Why aren’t we talking about black on black crime?”
If you’ve expressed support for Black Lives Matter, spoken out against police brutality, or written modest column in the past few weeks, you’ve probably been asked (or chastised) for not mentioning how many more black people kill other black people compared to the police.
There are answers to the question, “Why aren’t we talking about black on black crime?” But critics of Black Lives Matter don’t want to hear them.
If they cared, they’d be asking about crime within the African American community year-round, as many black activists and neighborhood leaders do. But as Doughboy told Tre in 1991’s “Boyz N the Hood” (and it’s still true today), “Either they don’t know, don’t show, or don’t care about what’s going on in the hood.”
When an opponent of Black Lives Matters talks about “blacks killing blacks” it’s almost always to deflect attention away from police brutality. As if one issue makes the other more acceptable.
When someone commits an act of terrorism against in the United States, which rightfully leads to anger and sadness, no one asks, “Well what about how many Americans kill other Americans each year?” Because that would crazy, now wouldn’t it?
But, by all means, let’s talk about “black on black crime.” You’ve probably heard a statistic like this before – The majority of black people murdered are killed by other black people. That’s true, but also misleading. The overwhelming majority of white murder victims each year are killed by white assailants. So, when’s the last time you heard the term “white on white crime?”
As shocking as it may be for some to hear, people generally commit crimes against people they know or live near. If you want to have a real discussion about crime, let’s talk about the factors that contribute to it happening in the first place.
White supremacists have attributed the fact that crime rates are higher among African Americans than whites to people of color being biologically more prone to violence. In reality, crime is directly linked more to poverty than race or any other factor.
According to the Bureau for Justice Statistics, People living in households with income below the federal poverty threshold are twice as likely to commit a violent crime than people in high-income households, regardless of race.
We live in a country where the poverty rate is more than twice as high among black Americans than white. And that has as much to do with 400 years of systematic racism than anything else.
White supremacists will tell you slavery was abolished more than 150 years ago. So, get over it. Yet, just as that was a hard sell to African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, it’s equally hard to accept 30 years after Rodney King and the L.A. Riots and weeks removed from the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.
Thomas Abt, a senior research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, writes:
“Racial disparities in crime and punishment are real, but they have been produced in large part by a sustained campaign of persecution by whites against disempowered minorities, particularly African Americans. Officially, that effort has ended; overt racial discrimination has been prohibited by law for decades. Nevertheless, the brutal legacy of that campaign — racism, segregation, concentrated poverty, and violence — remains.”
None of this necessarily means a black person being killed by another black person is more or less significant than if they were killed by a police officer. Death is death and murder is murder.
Yet, what if it were captured on video? Could a victim’s family take solace in knowing evidence exists for that person to be prosecuted? That’s usually the case. But that may not matter for George Floyd. It certainly didn’t matter in the cases of Eric Garner or Tamir Rice.
What is someone supposed to do when you can be murdered legally? When police can harass you and then choke you out because you’re selling loose cigarettes or when a cop can kneel on your neck as you cry out “I can’t breathe” while his colleagues stand by and watch.
That’s why police brutality is its own unique horror. And African Americans are two and half times more likely than whites to be killed by law enforcement.
When you step outside every day knowing you’re twice as likely to be killed by someone sworn to protect you just because of the color of your skin, you’re dealing with a different type of fear. Don’t let statistics, ignorance or flat out racism cloud that.
Bleeding Out
The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence
–and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets
by Thomas Abt
This Man Says His Anti-violence Plan Would Save 12,000 Lives
The Atlantic – Sept 11, 2019
The crime researcher Thomas Abt believes he knows what works to reduce gun violence—but steering cities toward evidence-based policing is another story. …
“it’s almost always to deflect attention away from police brutality”
I have to question the ‘almost always’ part of this. Many people repeating this simply aren’t able to think about more than one thing at a time. The sound bite mentality of the media reinforces this. It really does take an event which brings out protesters for days on end to break into the bubble.
Destroying the postal service needs to get wider attention too.
One of my quarterly bills never came. Informed delivery said it would be delivered, on two different days in fact, but it has never shown up. Lost in the mail. First time since 92 when we bought the place.
Just in time for vote by mail. What a coincidence.
Jane:
In Michigan, one of the centers for the collection and distribution of mail was hit hard by Covid hence delays in delivery. It is rare to no receive mail for us also. I use informed delivery which allows tracking of mail.
Trump lies? Lol. It’s white liberals who offer those words…..because it’s true. The Washington post study was bunk. The data is the data. Especially the fact blacks make up more of the total prime age population than 50 years ago.
You just don’t get it or frankly, want to.
Bert:
WaPo started to track all shooting deaths in the nation due to police departments not reporting shootings to the FBI. The 2015-2016 information on shooting and Black Americans is accumulated by The Guardian. In another “The Guardian” article:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/08/fbi-chief-says-ridiculous-guardian-washington-post-better-information-police-shootings
https://journalistsresource.org/studies/government/criminal-justice/killed-police-black-men-likely-white-men/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326496341_Risk_of_Police-Involved_Death_by_RaceEthnicity_and_Place_United_States_2012-2018
AB is not for everyone. If you do not like it here, you can always leave. Your comment is wrong
“If you do not like it here, you can always leave.”
Thinking he should not have that choice. Besides making things up, he is batshit crazy.
Asking BS to leave because he repeats spin is counterproductive. You need to be able to respond to spin.
It is not a lie that more whites are killed by police. It is spin. There are twice as many whites as blacks killed by police in the according to the report Run linked. There are 5 times as many whites as blacks in the population. The rate is higher for blacks, but the gross number is higher for whites.
I think you should assume there are more readers than commenters and that some of them need to know why what BS is saying is stupid even if it is not actually wrong.