Grandpa's Spells wrote:Black on white hate crimes most certainly exist. It's just exceedingly rare, and not worth worrying about.
Black on black crime, statistically, is a much bigger problem (a problem your city has a long history of ignoring).
However, it all depends on where you live.
Certain groups may be at higher risk: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/11/12/ ... t-the-jew/
From what I've seen, the risk would seem to be highest in border or transitional (either going up or down) neighborhoods. If you are in one of those neighborhoods, your risk goes way up. Very low rural or suburban risk.
Keep in mind, and imayhave mentioned it already, that neighborhood is the site of the last riots we had here, back in 90 or 91.
Those are some longstanding tensions.
Blaidd Drwg wrote:Disengage from the outcome and do work.
Hey look, 8 more attacks in the past few days in the same neighborhood. But Spells said it wasn't a trend or anything new.
Serious question, why should anyone care about attacks IN THE SAME NEIGHBORHOOD???
If accurate, that is the exact opposite of a significant trend that we should even think twice about. Again, you guys see what you want to see here. Racial paranoia is rampant. I didn't know folks here were so easily controlled.
Hey look, 8 more attacks in the past few days in the same neighborhood. But Spells said it wasn't a trend or anything new.
Serious question, why should anyone care about attacks IN THE SAME NEIGHBORHOOD???
If accurate, that is the exact opposite of a significant trend that we should even think twice about. Again, you guys see what you want to see here. Racial paranoia is rampant. I didn't know folks here were so easily controlled.
Because there has never been a problem in Crown Heights...
"Liberalism is arbitrarily selective in its choice of whose dignity to champion." Adrian Vermeule
On Saturday morning, the National Action Network’s Rev. Al Sharpton addressed the issue of this so called ‘knockout game’ head on. In an address aired live on WLIB radio and streamed over the internet, the Reverend denounced ‘knockout’ as disturbing and despicable.
He said, “This type of behavior is deplorable and must be condemned by all of us.” The Reverend went on to say, “If someone talked about knocking out blacks, we would not be silent, if it is bigotry, violence or assault, we must denounce it.”
The Reverend called upon the black church, black newspapers and publications, community oriented radio broadcasts to start a campaign against ‘knockout.’ Sharpton is the host of “Politics Nation” on MSNBC. In a plea to black families he said, “Parents need to talk to their kids.”
Knowing the power of peer support and celebrity influence, Sharpton called upon the entertainment community to get involved by denouncing this behavior.
“This type of behavior leads to the demise of everybody. We simply cannot have this kind of hysteria and we need to put it in check!” He closed his remarks by saying, “Everybody of influence should get in on it because it is wrong.”
Mao wrote:Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party
Yes. Lefty liberal urban police departments. Police commander points out that the now-famous attack on the teacher in the alley had nothing to do with Knockout.
One of the downsides of the Internet is that it allows like-minded people to form communities, and sometimes those communities are stupid.
Yes. Lefty liberal urban police departments. Police commander points out that the now-famous attack on the teacher in the alley had nothing to do with Knockout.
I wonder what that noted right winger Rev. Al has to say?
Rev. Al Sharpton condemned “knockout” attacks Saturday but stopped short of calling for marches against the brutal hate crimes.
“This kind of behavior is deplorable and must be condemned by all us,” he said at his weekly National Action Network meeting in Harlem. “We would not be silent if it was the other way around. We cannot be silent or in any way reluctant to confront it when it is coming from our own community.”
On Monday, Sharpton and other leaders plan to discuss a “next move.”
“Kids are randomly knocking out people [from] another race — some specifically going at Jewish people,” he said. “This kind of insane thuggery — there is nothing cute about that. There is no game play about knocking somebody out, and it is not a game. It is an assault and is bias, and it is wrong.”
