Hate Crime?

**Caution: This post contains vulgar language, and hate filled racist rhetoric**

(beginning of rant)
Muslims around the world are outraged over the killing of three muslims in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, it has to be a hate crime according to them. Why does it have to be, because they kill everyday because of their hate of everyone that is not a muzzie like them? If I sound like I have a little anger on this subject, that is because I do. They are killing thousands of people everyday around the world simply because they don’t follow the ramblings of their pedophile, goat fucking prophet mo-ham-head. But that’s different because their evil koran tells them it’s ok.

Their profit, mo-ham-head.

So ya, considering the situation, I do have serious issues with any muslim crying about hate, their very existence is a pox on the world. If you believe there are peaceful muslims, you are fooling yourself. Let me ask a simple question, why don’t (or won’t) the so-called peaceful ones (muslims) take a stand against the radical muslims? Because they support everything they do, that is why they don’t speak out.

According to what I have read, there are 1.8 billion (approximately) muslims in the world, but only 25% are radical muslims. So that means there is a paltry 4,500,000 crazy fuckers out there that want to kill us, simply because we don’t follow their pedophile.

It’s very clear from the evidence that the situation in Chapel Hill was about parking spaces, but the muzzies have to try and use it as propaganda to bolster their position as a victim class in the U.S. If you do a little reading, you will find out that there is almost zero attacks on muslims in the United States. Every time there is one (very rare) they go off like it is a daily occurrence and they live in constant fear. It’s called propaganda, they learned from the gays how to play the victim card really well.

Of course the muslim P.O.S in the white house rushed to condemn the murders and the feds are going out of their way to see if he violated any federal laws. I wish the fuck he would stand up like that when a muzzie kills an American. What about Fort Hood, just work place violence, right, bullshit! obama is clearly a fuckin muzzie himself, actions speak louder then words, and his actions are screaming loudly!

The muzzies are right about one thing, there is an anti-muslim bias from some people in the U.S., I am proudly part of that group. They come to our country, refuse to assimilate on purpose. Assault our values and morals and try to change our traditions and laws to suit them and their fucking half-assed sharia law. But that shouldn’t create any bias, all they are doing is insulting everything we stand for and believe in.

If their so-called religion and sharia law is so great then ask yourself why they came here. Every thing they believe in existed in the country they came from, why move to a country that may be hostile to that? So what is their real purpose? They have told us straight out what they want, for islam to dominate the world, it’s not a fuckin secret people!

The best thing we can do for America is put their asses back on a plane (without enough fuel) to where ever they came from. We need to stop believing their lies, taqiyya is what it is called, that is where their religion allows them to be dis-honest and lie and mis-lead people. What kind of religion can it be to have a built-in deception device in it? Like the muzzie girl in Texas that just made up a story about being threatened by a guy with a gun, wearing camo of course (http://dailycaller.com/2015/02/14/muslim-student-made-up-story-about-a-man-in-a-truck-wearing-camo-threatening-her-with-a-gun/). Wake the fuck up people before it’s someone your know that is killed by a crazy nut job muzzie practicing work place violence!

(end of rant)

 

Turning the Thin Blue Line Black

There is a lot going on in America concerning law enforcement lately. From the grand jury decisions in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases to the use of the federal 1033 program to militarize local law enforcement agencies, there is much to be concerned about. Of major concern is the unbelievable and drastic rise in the use of Swat style raids, even for minor infractions of the law. Though it’s not readily apparent, it is all connected in my opinion. Some of you may think I need to put on my tin foil hat here, but I believe my theory is more real then conspiracy. How many of you have heard obama’s remarks about wanting his own national police force equipped just like the military?
Listen for yourself:

Let me list a few things here, and then I will connect the dots between them and the formation of a national police force, under the thumb of the Washington elites.

• Federal government agencies (DOJ, FBI, etc…) tasked with enforcing the law, protecting the criminals over the victims.
• Fusion Centers – http://www.dhs.gov/state-and-major-urban-area-fusion-centers
• Federal 1033 Program: Supplying local law enforcement with military weapons and equipment. http://www.dispositionservices.dla.mil/leso/pages/jointhe1033program.aspx

The federal government can have a big affect on state and local law enforcement agencies through the policies and actions of the DOJ, FBI, HLS and ICE at the federal level, and they can cause a lot of frustration and anger by using the courts at all levels. Look at the affect of illegal immigration, or the release of violent felons (illegals) that were released back into the general public. Local police threatened if they detain or arrest many of these people.

The people that want a national police force understand one important factor that must considered. In this whole equation, the rank and file majority of law enforcement officers across the country would have to join in the effort to create this force, for it to work. There are approximately 12,500 police departments with approximately 500,000 employees in the United States. Each one of these departments have their own unique chain of command, internal politics, rules and standards that vary by department size and type. Over coming the problems created by trying to merge all of these people into one organization would be almost impossible.

The answer to this problem is to create a want and perceived need at each level of law enforcement. This is where the federal 1033 program comes in, this is the first taste of what could be. And it is easy to draw the prey (officers) into the trap, they offer all of these new toys to play with at no charge. Military grade weapons and equipment will be needed down the road, so in this manner they get the officers to learn the weapons and equipment voluntarily. Due to the nature of their job it is easy to convince officers that they need this equipment, step one accomplished.

Now we start phasing in these fusion centers, you need to click the link here to read the stated purpose of these centers: http://www.dhs.gov/state-and-major-urban-area-fusion-centers.

This is step two, bring together different law enforcement agencies under one roof, start giving them a little bigger taste of what could be, still at no charge of course (it’s on us, the taxpayer). One of the other purposes is to start trying to standardize the procedures by which all law enforcement agencies operate, new procedures will of course be called suggestions to streamline operational objectives and goals (get everyone on the same page). And promote higher levels of inter-agency co-operation.

Many of us are concerned about the drastic increase in two important developments in law enforcement, those are the rise from several thousand Swat type raids each year to over 40,000 each year currently. The other development is the increased use of force as a first reaction by many officers, the main excuse is officer safety. It is clear from video and eye witness accounts that much of this force was not justified in many cases. The government is encouraging the Swat type raids through the issuance of high levels of military hardware (1033 program), once they have the equipment they will want to use it. They want as many officers experienced in these types of home entry as possible, possible future gun confiscations will require large numbers of officers to be skilled in these tactics. By encouraging tactics like this, officers in both urban and rural departments are all learning standardized methods.

Another major concern is the court approved hiring of less qualified individuals, lower I.Q. applicants being accepted over more intelligent ones. The excuse being that more intelligent people would lose interest in the job and move on to a new career, thus wasting training time and money. The reality is quite different I believe, in truth the purpose is to fill the ranks with people that will question less and simply follow orders as instructed. The obvious problem of constantly hiring people with lower intelligence is the upper ranks will eventually fill with these people through promotions. This will not be an issue if the shots are being called by a group of people say in Washington maybe, instead of at a local level.

I mentioned creating a want earlier in this article. Look at what a lot of state and local governments and police departments seem to be doing with policies and attitudes that are dramatically affecting officer moral. They are being aided by the media in this also, consider how quickly the media shut up about the lack of use of the national Guard in the Ferguson situation. The media brought it up, but quickly dropped it because their masters told them to. How was officer moral affected knowing no one had their back in that situation. By slowly breaking down moral over time they are creating a problem that they will promote later as being solved by consolidating police departments on a national level. Demoralized officers will have interest in this because they will be shown how it will benefit them, of course officer safety will be promoted highly as one of the greatest benefits involved. Step three accomplished, how many officers will  volunteer because they have been convinced it is in their best interest? Because one department with common goals will better protect them, not just on the job but in retirement also. Creating the us against them environment, where the public is the enemy is also aiding in creating the “want” that will help push police officers towards the one department idea.

Ask yourself who really benefits from the protests against the police that are happening around the country. What do they do to officer moral? They clearly give the impression to police officers that bigger is better when it comes to dealing with protests and possible civil unrest. Who can offer bigger and better then a coordinated federal police force.

Just something to think about…

 

A Different Focus, Current Dangers, Future Crises…

I have tried to look at many different issues from across the political and social spectrum over time. The problem is there are so many important issues facing our society right now, no one person or blog could cover them all and do justice to them. So I have decided for the current and near future I am going to focus on three or four main issues, they are “our 2nd Amendment rights”, “the muslim problem”, “the militarization of the growing police state” and “financial collapse and/or civil unrest”. I want to focus on these issues because they have the potential, at some point in the future (near future), to become actual physical conflicts. There are other issues that could lead us into a physical conflict also, I will touch on them as they will relate to other issues. So much of what is happening in our country is the cause or affect of something else.

Of course I sound like a conspiracy nut when I start talking about physical conflicts on the streets of America. Too many people have convinced themselves that it can’t happen here, not in a million years. Unless things change considerably in the near future (couple of years), I believe that it can and will happen. Even without looking at any specific issues or situations, ask yourself why the federal government has been, and continues to, purchase large amounts of weapons and ammunition. Weapons and ammunition for departments and agencies that have no real need for them, nor any enforcement powers that would allow them to utilize these weapons. Couple that with the sheer volume of military hardware being given to federal, state and local law enforcement agencies under the DOD’s 1033 program. Initially authorized under the NDAA in 1990, the programs scope was strictly authorized as a new tool in the “war on drugs”. The program was expanded considerably a few years later to include material that could be used in “the execution of law enforcement activities”. That’s pretty dam vague isn’t it? Then of course 9/11 and the Patriot Act helped to expand the program and the distribution of even more equipment and weaponry.

Now add into the mix the new Fusion Centers being set up, these centers bring together federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, under one roof. My biggest concern with these centers is how they are being used. Information has come out already that shows that they are more concerned with watching and labeling patriotic Americans as a terrorist threat, then they are concerning true terrorist activity. Their list of dangerous people includes the Tea Party, Oathkeepers, Three Percenters and basically anyone that believes in their Constitutional Rights and Freedoms.

So far we have not even looked at any real issues, only at the past and present behavior of the federal government. It leaves you questioning and wondering what they are preparing for in the future, near or far. No other administration in our history has felt the need to arm every government agency in the executive branch. Nor have any previous administrations attempted to bring together federal, state and local law enforcement, while at the same time choosing which laws to enforce and which to ignore. At the same time intentionally breaking the laws concerning immigration and the security of our national borders.

I am going to start presenting articles focused primarily around the four issues I listed above. While you are waiting, consider what I have brought up concerning the federal government, and start doing your own research. You may realize I am not as much of a conspiracy nut as I may have first appeared to be.

Three Percent of What? Mr. Government Agent…

I read an article that left me with several questions. I have always thought the purpose of writing an informative news article was to in fact “inform” your readers. The author never seemed to see the basic flaw in the article, or was helping to promote propaganda and negative word association from the government.  The article in question by Chris Eger, is from June 2014 and was posted on Guns.com, here is a link:
http://www.guns.com/2014/06/10/chicago-police-atf-form-intelligence-center-to-fight-three-percenters-video/

Some background is required here or you may not see the flaw either, depending on your level of knowledge concerning history, and current events also. The opening paragraph of the article is as follows:
“The Chicago Police Department, working with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and FBI, has opened the Crime Gun Intelligence Center to crackdown on illegal guns from what they call “three-percenters.”

It continues farther down:
“The target of this Crime Gun Intelligence Center: a group the ATF is referring to as “three-percenters.”

And even farther down in the article:
“It remains constant from year to year that about 40 percent of the crime guns recovered in the City of Chicago come from Illinois, and about 20 percent come from Indiana,” Carl Vasilko, ATF Special Agent in Charge, told WGN. “The core mission of the Crime Gun Center is to identify these shooters, or these ‘three percenters,’ and the traffickers that sell them guns and get them off our streets.”

In all three of these sections of the article they make sure to mention (with emphasis) what they are referring to as “Three Percenters”. They cast them in a very evil light, yet they never validate or qualify, if you will, what or who exactly is a “three percenter”. This is not by accident, this was not a simple omission in an article, by where an author later says “oh crap” I forgot to define who or what a “three percenter” is, or what behavior or actions qualifies them to be a “three percenter”.

This is a simple negative word association game being played by the federal government to give a negative, even criminal connotation to the name “three percenter”. For those of you unfamiliar with the term “three percenter”, you have to travel back to the American revolution. During the American Revolution, the active fighting forces in the field against the crown, never amounted to more than 3% of the population of the colonies.

In today’s society there are different groups of people that refer to themselves as “three percenters”, in reference to the original colonists that were fighting the tyranny of the king. The people in these 3% groups are basically just like Tea Party members, pro-constitution, pro 2nd amendment, etc… Of course the government sees them as a threat, so they are trying to make the negative association through articles such as the one I reference here. If you read the whole article at the link above, no place in there does it says what or why they are using the term “three percenters”. Quite clearly they are trying to build a negative association in the mind of the reader.

Of course the Anti-defamation league and the southern poverty law center have listed the 3%’ers since 2009 and 2010 as a radical right wing organization. But then again the SPLC lists anyone that is even mildly conservative as a radical right wing extremist. They basically are a propaganda organization, nothing more.

It is the state and federal government that bother me with their classification of the 3%’ers as an extremist organization. They know full well that they are spreading outright lies, but this administration is the most dis-honest in American history. The 3%’ers, of which I am a member, have very valid reasons to mistrust our current government, we are all aware of the NSA spying on innocent citizens who simply believe in their constitutional rights and freedoms. There is an old joke that unfortunately is not a joke with this administration, how can you tell obama is lying, his lips are moving. This used to be a joke, but the obama administration is filled with true scumbags and liars, on a scale unprecedented in our history.

Three Percenters are true Patriots concerned with the present and the future of America. We support the Constitution and the Bill of Rights as they are written, not as the liberal scumbags wish to interpret them. We believe in freedom for all Americans and understand that personal responsibility as citizens and fiscal responsibility by the government are two of the key measures needed to bring America back to it’s former glory. We are not anti-government as many wish to portray us, we support the government as a responsible entity, not in it’s current incarnation. The administration hates us as they hate any true American that can see who they really are.

I like most 3%er’s are military veterans, we took an oath, to fight all enemies foreign and domestic, my oath expires with my death, not before. As long as I breath I will bleed for America, for you, your family and your freedom!

Here is a youtube video that will help you understand what a 3%er really is!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqjlfIZLmsE&sns=fb

 

Baseline Budgeting; Washington’s Bait and Switch

The beginning of the article gives you some background on how we came to have our current budget process, leading up to the advent of baseline budgeting. You can skip the history if you like, scroll to where it says “Baseline Budgeting” and start reading from there.

Negotiating in good faith for the people.

How many of you have ever heard of Baseline Budgeting? It’s an accounting method the U.S. Government uses in a kind of a bait and switch move. It’s used primarily by the democrats, the republicans have tried to point out it’s use. It gives the democrats propaganda they can use with the voters back home. It allows them to claim they implemented or helped to implement budget cuts to benefit everyone.

Before the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921was passed, there were many departments in the Executive and Legislative branches of government that all had individual budgets that needed to be passed. The main objective of the bill was to consolidate the budgets of those departments in both branches into a single government budget. The act also created the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), their purpose was to facilitate the consolidation of multiple departmental budgets among both branches. They also assist the President in assembling the budget for presentation to and consideration by Congress.

Just as the act created the OMB in the Executive Branch, it also created the Government Accountability Office (GAO) in the Legislative Branch. It’s main purpose was to be a non-partisan audit, evaluation and investigative unit for Congress. It fulfilled part of it’s mission by submitting to Congress, upon request, reports detailing the specific costs of government programs or bills brought before Congress. They also supply annual reports on the financial condition of the government.

No real significant changes came about in the budget process until they passed the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974. The passage of this act was necessitated due to actions taken by then President Richard M. Nixon, who with held nearly 12 million dollars in funds already appropriated by Congress. The main purpose in passing this act was to give Congress a stronger and more central role in the budget process. With a secondary purpose of reducing the Presidents impoundment authority, the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921placed to much power over the budget process in the hands of the President.

The side effect of the 1974 act, was to set the stage for eventual baseline budgeting. It required the OMB to set projections of federal spending for the next fiscal year. Section II of the act also created the Congressional Budget office (CBO), it also brought about the creation of separate house and senate budget committees. The CBO was tasked with giving 5 year budget projections, which has now been extended out to 10 years.

Baseline Budgeting

Initially they start the budget process with a baseline budget, which is the budget of the current fiscal year as a starting point, with out any new legislation or spending added.

I will use the Department of Education for my example. The current budget for that department is 78 billion (real number unfortunately), the democrats will propose to hike the budget by 10%, knowing they actually want a 7% budget increase. The bill they propose will have the 10% increase in it.

Publicly and in the media they (the democrats) will boast about how they need the increased funding because they care so much about the children and education. If the republicans can’t see that, they must want to deprive the children, especially low income (liberal keyword for minorities) children from receiving a proper education.

They put up a fight over the 10% increase (with insults flying of course), but in the end they settle for a 7% increase. Now this is where the story gets interesting, because they tell the voters back home that they fought for their children and got a 7% increase for education. And, at the same time will say they are working to keep the deficit under control by cutting 3% from it. What they are not saying is they did not cut a dime. They still have an increase overall from last years budget. They cut the percentage of the increase, not the actual budget, that is the basis of baseline budgeting and politics.

They don’t actual cut the budget, they cut the percentage of the increase to the budget. So what happens is the original figure of 78 billion is increased by 5.46 billion to 83.46 billion. Then the following year the baseline budget for the Department of education will be 83.46 billion, and it starts all over again.

Bringing Ebola Patients Here? WTF

The obama administration wants to bring ebola patients to the U.S. for treatment. Apparently it did not spread as they hoped from the returning medical personnel, so they have to jump start it. I know you are wondering why the administration would want to do this, spread ebola I mean. I am not sure if I buy into all the new world order ideas out there. But so many of his actions are so questionable on many different levels, you do have to wonder. He is either totally incompetent or some else is pulling the strings. In my opinion bringing ebola patients here is endangering American lives, and is treasonous at the very least.

The administration says they won’t bring ebola patients here, yet they release this document stating the exact opposite. So what is up here? Here is a link to the state department memo.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/interactive/2014/10/28/state-department-memo-on-ebola-policies/

Charles Barkley, Barks and Bites

If people like Charles Barkley are considered hero’s in the black community, what if any will the affect be of his statement about some black people being “black enough”. Will it be ignored, ridiculed, written off because of his wealth and position, he must be out of touch with “the hood”.

Here is what he said:

”Unfortunately, as I tell my white friends, we as black people, we’re never going to be successful, not because of you white people, but because of other black people. When you’re black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people. It’s a dirty, dark secret; I’m glad it’s coming out.”

Barkley said that young black men who do well in school are accused of “acting white” by their peers. “One of the reasons we’re never going to be successful as a whole, because of other black people. And for some reason we are brainwashed to think, if you’re not a thug or an idiot, you’re not black enough. If you go to school, make good grades, speak intelligent, and don’t break the law, you’re not a good black person. And it’s a dirty, dark secret.”

“There are a lot of black people who are unintelligent, who don’t have success,” he continued. “It’s best to knock a successful black person down because they’re intelligent, they speak well, they do well in school, and they’re successful…”

“We’re the only ethnic group who say, ‘Hey, if you go to jail, it gives you street cred.’ It’s just typical BS that goes on when you’re black, man.”

Does he become an “uncle tom”? For those of you unfamiliar with the term, the urban dictionary defines it as:

• A term used by black people to insinuate that black people that speak proper English, are mature, have a good job, good education, work ethic and-or if they hang out with white people that makes you a sell out.
• A black man who will do anything to stay in good standing with “the white man” including betray his own people.
• A black person that is a white man’s bitch.

If we judge by the trend in music and movies popular in the black community since the 1980’s, his statement seems to be dead on accurate. The glorifying of the thug life, drug dealing and use, misogyny on a grand scale. He speaks of the victimization of the black community, by the black community. Obviously if a white person said the same thing that Charles Barkley did, the response from the main stream media and the black community would be swift and vicious.

Consider the statistics, what they mean, the root cause and most importantly the short and long terms affects on the black community.

• 72% of black children are born into a single parent family.
• High school graduation rates for black males vary between 53% and 69% depending on the particular study you read.
• Incarceration rates of black versus white, the figures varied so widely here I could not cite a specific percentage accurately. The numbers appear to be agenda driven in many cases, though it is clearly higher for black males.

Contrast what Charles Barkley said with the numbers and it is easy to believe a certain amount of what he said is quite true. Other black community leaders have made statements also in the past concerning the causes of the break down in the black community. They have been similar in nature and scope, pointing to the overall attitude of many in the black community. So Charles Barkley is not alone in his sentiments, though he is in a minority in this.

I have made a statement before, as have others, about many of the problems in the black community, can only be solved within the community. Parents must put more importance on education, monitor their children’s homework and it’s completion, and promote educational goals.

Most importantly (and most studies support this conclusion) is the break down of the family unit. This is an issue in the white community also, but appears to be much more prevalent in the black community. The cause is not one single issue, but multiple issues, many feeding on each other. Poverty is a problem in itself, it feeds into low self-esteem, lack of goals or dreams for the future, depression, etc…

What does it do to a young black child that hears day after day growing up, that they can never be anybody, their life will always be what they see in “the hood”. I can’t understand what it would be like, but I can understand the compound effect of not having a father figure, and the lack of family and community support in creating a future for yourself. I grew up without a father in my life, but I had family and community support pushing me towards getting an education. I saw those around me achieving goals, it allowed me the opportunity to see that opportunities were there.

Being white I can’t even guess what many in the black community go through. I do know what it was like growing up with out a father, and no goals, no dreams and hopes. I became a juvenile delinquent, dropped out of school, did the petty criminal thing, the drugs and alcohol. As I got older the messages I got as a youth slowly kicked in and I straightened out my life. What if I never received those positive messages as a kid, I would have nothing to build my life on later, as I grew mentally and emotionally.

So many people are trying to create division between the races. This only makes it harder for us to talk about a subject that seems to be taboo to begin with. Until both the black and white communities can be honest with themselves and each other, nothing will change. There are many in the white community that would like to help the black community. They can’t until the black community stops acting as a community and starts seeing itself as families and individuals. Each with different ideas and goals and dreams. Until everyone stops talking about color and starts talking about community, one community, too many dreams will remain missing and shattered.

I’m sorry if I rambled on so much on this, I have always felt passionate about this subject. For 30 or so years I have seen this problem as one of individuals, not as black and white. Over that time I have also seen the two communities drift father apart. I don’t have any solutions to offer, but to say without dialogue we will continue to drift even farther apart.

The Fine Print on the Race Card (part 1)

At first I was torn about writing this article, or should I say about this subject matter. I think too many people shy away from the subject for the same reasons I wanted to. Because, no matter how you approach it, bringing up racial issues still seems to be taboo in our country. Oh it gets the courtesy nod every once in awhile in a public forum, that’s about it though. I think a lot of it is our politically correct loud mouth liberal minority scaring people with the label of racist. An important part of it I think is many people black and white, just simply don’t know what to say.

I know there are a lot of good people in the black community, I know this because I have met them. There are also a lot of bad people in the black community, I have met many of them also. Yes, there are a lot of bad people in the white community also, I am not trying to single out any group. If we are going to have the discussion on this, we need to be honest about it. As honest as I can be from my perspective as a middle aged white guy. See, now that I put that last sentence in here, it just changed the whole dynamic for some people. Well, I might as jump in and see where it leads us.

The Fine Print on the Race Card: Part 1 – Noticing the Issue…

You keep hearing about the race card being played, you hear it in different places. Sometimes it’s on a TV program, newspaper article or a snippet of a conversation someplace. You don’t give it much thought, you’re the average white person living in a majority white neighborhood. You don’t really care about someone’s skin color, mainly because it’s not something that comes up daily. Your parents taught you growing up that everyone is the same, and you haven’t found a lot of reasons to think other wise. And because the few black people you have met at work or church or on a rare social occasion seemed to be pretty nice people. You don’t have time to worry about it, it doesn’t normally touch your busy schedule anyways.

One day though you were taking a break and just surfing online, and there was an article on your favorite news site. It’s your favorite site only because their articles lean politically in the same direction you do. You don’t know how accurate their facts are, but they fill your need at the moment. Since they reinforce your current position on most of the issues, you don’t question the veracity of their information.

You read an article about a young black kid killed by a white police officer, the police department is backing the officer as being in self defense. The facts in the article are not the same as what you heard that lone black guy at work saying. He’s usually pretty laid back, but he was really worked up about what had happened, saying something about cold-blooded murder.  You get interested because this is the second time you have heard about a situation like this causing rioting and looting in the community. Ya, you scratch your head a little at that, wondering why people of any color would tear up their own neighborhood.

The article is pretty much centered around statements from the family about how he was a good kid who had problems in the past, but was just turning his life around. And how he didn’t deserve to be killed, that the officer could have used less than lethal means to subdue him. The community has rallied around the family, supporting their position on the killing of this young man. The community of course is calling for the officer to be charged with murder, even though all of the facts are not being released to the public yet. I can sympathize with the family for their loss, but like most of the people I know, we are waiting for all the facts before we decide who was right or wrong.

Al Sharpton was there with what I understand to be his usual rhetoric about white America keeping the black man down. And how police and security guards are killing too many black youth. You’ve heard the white guy at work complain about Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson before. So you didn’t pay much attention because the guy is one of those Tea Party conservative types. You don’t really follow politics (who has the time), besides your favorite news site has warned you about the Tea Party being bad people.

Your curiosity is kinda peaked though, and since it is a hot topic at work, you decide to read into it a little further. You do remember that Tea Party guy saying something about Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson just being race hustlers though. He said they didn’t really care about the black community but they were getting rich off of playing the race card. You usually tuned him out after that because he would go off on one of his rants about everything wrong with the country. Constitution this, Bill of Rights that, illegal aliens, over regulation from the feds and so on, you know the type.

Your not sure what to think because your google search has turned up over one million results in less then a second, the number of results is not the problem. It’s the contradicting  titles of all the different articles, you didn’t realize the issue was so divisive, and all you have read so far are the search results. Though it’s totally out of character for you, and you find political issues as exciting as watching paint dry, the issue speaks to you because you have teenage children yourself. You can’t imagine what it would be like to lose one of them, especially at the hands of the police. So you start clicking and reading…

Next: The Fine Print on the Race Card: Part 2 – Realization…

 

 

 

 

A Different Reality

Through many hours of reading, research and looking at my own experiences I have come to a different conclusion then I expected to. I have come to realize most of the problems in the black community cannot be solved by anyone but the black community.

With a high school drop-out rate near 50% in most inner city schools for black children, who can change that? The parents of the children in that community are the ones that have the largest chance to make a difference. Let me point out also that those very parents are the ones that are responsible for their children. Society can offer an education to these children, but the parents must support their children’s pursuit of it. My mother raised 5 of us kids on her own, she spent many hours working to support us. But the difference is she always pushed us to get a good education and do our homework, etc…

Approximately 70% of children in the inner city are born out of wedlock. As someone who lived the experience of a single parent family, I can tell you that it changes everything in your life. Each parent contributes something different to your development and growth through your life. Even a caring and supportive parent like my mother could only make up for some of what was missing in my life.

Look at the level of crime in the inner city, the drugs, the gangs and most importantly the murder rates. Some of this can be blamed on the lack of opportunities. What is the real root cause though? Common sense would tell us that the lack of fathers in the home, and a lack of education almost certainly have a huge impact on the community. What options would you feel that you have growing up with the feeling no one really cares about you. And you are not pushed to get an education, which is your one real ticket out.

You now have several generations of people in the black community that are raising children who themselves came from a broken home or did not get a good education, or both. The leaders in the black community have to stand up and be honest about the issues facing the community. The causes and the solutions are both beyond the control of those outside of the community.

I have met very few white people that are actually prejudiced. Many I have known have held a low opinion of the black community. They did not have any outright hatred towards black people though, as the liberal media would have you believe. Consider the reason for this, what exposure do many in the white community have to black people. What do they see on the news, which for some is the only knowledge they have about the situation.

One group of people that had a chance to possibly have an impact on the situation is the main stream media. For reasons we can only speculate on they have chosen to report a different narrative then the reality that exists. Instead of helping to bring the issues into focus for everyone to try and understand, they have put their own spin on it. Or in many cases ignored the reality all together. We can only speculate that they are helping the liberals to keep the black community where they are currently. For no logical reason the black community seems to stand behind the democrats and liberals no matter the cost to them.

Until the black community takes more control over their own lives and futures nothing will change for them. An important first step would be to stop being the black community and start being Americans again. It appears from the outside that black people are going out of their way to purposefully be as different from white people as they can. When I was younger (back in the 60’s and 70’s) the two cultures did not seem that different, we had shared values and ideas. Today it seems we can’t find any common ground to even use to start a dialogue between ourselves.

Stop Opening the Door for Terror to Enter!

Boehner calls NSA leaker a traitor! The traitors are the people that put this program into operation!!!!! The power hungry children, I call them that because they have not the means to control their emotional maturity enough to overcome their own wants and needs. Telling us these programs are needed to combat a threat of terrorism, a threat the president was just recently telling us was gone. So which is it?

Look around the world, you don’t even need to be educated to see who the terrorists are. They are all muslims! Common sense would tell us then to stop letting muslims into our country if they are the threat. But our so called leaders are accelerating the numbers of muslims coming in to America. It is as though they want a constant threat to hold over our heads as an excuse to continue to erode our rights and freedoms.

Exercise a little common sense here and ask yourself about the situation. If all the people doing this are muslims then you only need to monitor them for the most part. And the court would surely authorize wiretaps and such as needed for the individual situation. So why the need for everything the current government is doing? If you are stupid enough to believe they don’t have their own motives with everything that has come out, you truly are stupid. I am not going to ask when Americans are going to wake up, I have been asking that for 20 years or more, I’m done asking. I am not done trying to fulfill my responsibility as an American, but I am waiting for the majority to start fulfilling theirs!