gunsnewing wrote:NardDogNation wrote:gunsnewing wrote:nixluva wrote:gunsnewing wrote:Voted Obama last time. Will be voting for Jeb Bush this time. I am open minded and don't like to be labeled. Just like I am with the Knicks. I just want the best. Really soured on Obama's lack of leadership and ability to unify the nation after the Mike Brown ruling. Race relations is a big thing for me in 2015. I feel like we've been set back 150yrs
150 yrs??? You went too far back. I still have relatives living who went thru all of the Jim Crow era crap. My grandparents and father and mother are still alive. Heck my wife's grandmother died recently at 94. The recent issues are not Obama's fault. That's white backlash and the system this country has had since it started enslaving people. They started with the Slave Catchers who policed the Slaves as they moved through town and that just continued to be the stance towards Blacks. To control them and subjugate them and maintain White Supremacy. Nothing has changed in all this time. My family has been here since the 1750's and for most of our time in this country we've been mistreated. If not for the fact that we escaped poverty and got educated, we might still be falling victim to the full force of this racist system. We still deal with it, but not the full force of it like some do.
yea im gonna take your word. Things aren't perfect.
However you must've missed the hipocracy of the whole thing all over the country. Saw it first hand here in NYC
What hippocrisy are you talking about? The one where unarmed Black men get killed by the police but the victims are somehow portrayed as the villains of the story? It's always ironic to me how people can justify that but never acknowledge how gun-totting, mass murderers who are Caucasian manage to get captured alive (see John Holmes).
Which news outlet produced that fancy graphic?
Come together as a community. Teach kids right from wrong at an early age. Be a positive influence. Lower crime in cities so fewer cops and resources are needed(I live in Newark and many days kids leaving school are caught in crossfires & killed). So cops don't have to fear losing their lives everyday making them more quick to pull the trigger. It not like these cops who risk their lives everyday set out to kill a certain group of people. But thats what the media and some money grabbers will have you believing depending on where you get your news. Sure there are bad cops. Just like their are bad humans. NYU students marching on their parents dime instead of working or studying or kids wanting to be seen on news cameras and "protest" against cops are not focusing on how to make things better.
It was a great opportunity for someone like Obama to take the bull by the horn and really help change things by being a leader and positive influence. In this case he did the opposite or didn't do enough. He somewhat divided a big portion of the nation intentionally or unintentionally but the lack of awareness from our leader really turned me off. Chances are other presidents would've made the same mistake so I don't begrudge him. I'm still waiting for a real presidential leader to come aboard and really make changes for the better. Someone who is so remarkable that he unifies the nation, gets rid of labels like Democratic/Republican, Black/White and we talk about his greatness 200 years later. Democratic, Republican, Alien, whatever
What you're saying is well-intentioned and sounds lovely on paper but it simply isn't reality. The world has never been that and never will be the utopia you describe. So to fault any one man for not doing anything to change this is beyond ridiculous.
Do you honestly expect Jeb Bush to be that man? Besides, a legislators mark is made through legislation...not to delve too deeply into social issues/causes. That has been the expectation of every President before Obama; for some reason though people have expected him to be a Dr.King, which is unfair.
And does it matter what news outlet produced the graphic? The reality is that it accurately portrays a trend in our country where unarmed Black people are frequently dealt with lethal force (because they are ever-so menacing). But somehow a white man like James Holmes, carrying 7000 rounds (some of which killed 12 people) are routinely captured alive. When double standards like that are pointed out, the reverse racism card is dealt and minorities get accused of being overly sensitive and hypocritical. But I suppose they are "setting (the country) back 150 years".
2/27/2015 10:12 PM