A nine year old African American boy was shot in the head possibly out of retaliation against some of his relatives by a rival gang. Yet I didn't see a massive protest from the Black Lives Matter movement.
Emily Miller, Director of Policy and Advocacy for the group Voice For Illinois Children, told Chicago’s WLS radio that Republican Governor Bruce Rauner and the Democrat-led Illinois legislature are at fault for the boy’s death because the two parties haven’t come together to pass a state budget that pays for after school programs.
Miller, though, admitted that she had no idea if Tyshawn Lee was ever enrolled in any such programs or if there were even any offered at Joplin Elementary School where he attended.
Blame was directed at the government, mainly Republicans, for not providing after school care for the Chicago minors, so basically the taxpayers are at fault for not paying more. But I don't see anybody directing any blame at gangs, the drug trade that demands such violence, or the people who actually pointed and pulled the trigger. Why is that? I can only conclude it is because people who actually did this are not white nor are they police officers.
Do black lives matter? Apparently they only matter when someone who is not black can be held responsible for their loss.
And when the confederates saw Jackson standing fearless as a stone wall the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
This is a typical, cynical response to any grass roots movement directed at some flavor of injustice. People get to pick the causes they want to pursue. The fact that there are multiple causes of injustice doesn't mean there is anything wrong with people picking one and attempting to address it.
A better title for your post: White bigot criticizes black folks for not thinking like he does.
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
People get to pick the causes they want to pursue.
Really? Do taxpayers get to pick whether or not they should be held responsible for this tragedy and the future tragedies that come after it, since 8 hours/day of free daycare isn't enough? Do lawful gun owners in rural America get to choose to keep their 2nd amendment rights when a burgeoning inner city population is seeking to disarm them?
The fact that there are multiple causes of injustice doesn't mean there is anything wrong with people picking one and attempting to address it.
Except that the causes they pick always seem to be about what outside groups or different races are somehow responsible for rather than taking any responsibility on themselves and their own community. The same people effected by the violence in the drug trade are undoubtedly the same people who blame the government for having and enforcing drug laws.
A better title for your post: White bigot criticizes black folks for not thinking like he does.
You mean, man is defamed as a white bigot for having the audacity to demand that other races be held to the same level of accountability and responsibility as his is.
And when the confederates saw Jackson standing fearless as a stone wall the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
Yes, really. If you want to protest treatment of taxpayers and gun owners, you get to chose those as your causes. We might argue on whether those causes are justified or worth the time and effort. But it isn't a valid criticism to point to some other injustice and bitch about you not addressing that instead of the causes you promote.
Are you really arguing that no black people try to address drug problems in their communities? You know how to take the violence out of the drug trade, right? Locking up a greater percentage of our citizens than almost every other country in the world (and a shocking percentage of black men) hasn't done it.
It ain't defamation if it's true, ajax. You demonstrate your racism in almost every post. You and faqs are obsessed with finding any example of black folks doing something you think is wrong or outrageous and posting it here. I don't think I've ever encountered two people who are more obsessed with race than the two of you.
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
Are you really arguing that no black people try to address drug problems in their communities?
The ones that do are usually shouted down and disparaged as "Uncle Toms," when they do.
And when the confederates saw Jackson standing fearless as a stone wall the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
