Black Lives Matter, Racism: A Conservative Perspective (Larry Elder Interview)

[Merrytooth 5,748]

How about Police Brutality against pet dogs?

http://okcfox.com/news/fox-25-investigates/police-kill-family-dog-at-childs-birthday-party

#alldogsmatter

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

How about Police Brutality against pet dogs?

http://okcfox.com/news/fox-25-investigates/police-kill-family-dog-at-childs-birthday-party

#alldogsmatter

They love shooting a dog

[Teddy B 17,252]

How about Police Brutality against pet dogs?

http://okcfox.com/news/fox-25-investigates/police-kill-family-dog-at-childs-birthday-party

#alldogsmatter

Why is it always a pit bull?

Opie was a three-year-old American Bulldog and Pit Bull mix.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

Why is it always a pit bull?

Well pit Bulls are responsible for a vast disproportionate number of attacks

[Teddy B 17,252]

Well pit Bulls are responsible for a vast disproportionate number of attacks

While only accounting for 13% of the dog population?

[Merrytooth 5,748]

The dog was inside the fenced yard, not roaming around the streets posing imminent threats to people.

Poor pit bulls always have such a bad rep.

[Teddy B 17,252]

The dog was inside the fenced yard, not roaming around the streets posing imminent threats to people.

Poor pit bulls always have such a bad rep.

There's a very good reason for their reputation.

[Teddy B 17,252]

2015 dog bite fatality statistics

• 34 U.S. dog bite-related fatalities occurred in 2015. Despite being regulated in Military Housing areas and over 700 U.S. cities, pit bulls contributed to 82% (28) of these deaths. Pit bulls make up about 6.6% of the total U.S. dog population.2
• Together, pit bulls (28) and rottweilers (3), the second most lethal dog breed, accounted for 91% of the total recorded deaths in 2015. This same combination also accounted for 76% of all fatal attacks during the 11-year period of 2005 to 2015.

http://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-fatalities-2015.php

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

There's a very good reason for their reputation.

I got a buddy that is animal behaviorist . He was called in for an assessment of Mike Vicks dogs. He does not recommend them as pets.

[Teddy B 17,252]

I got a buddy that is animal behaviorist . He was called in for an assessment of Mike Vicks dogs. He does not recommend them as pets.

Pit Bulls have been bred to fight for centuries, it's in their genes.

[Merrytooth 5,748]

I got a buddy that is animal behaviorist . He was called in for an assessment of Mike Vicks dogs. He does not recommend them as pets.

Mick Vick's dogs were raised to fight, not as pets.

I blamed the owner Mick Vick!

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

Mick Vick's dogs were raised to fight, not as pets.

I blamed the owner Mick Vick!

Environment and breeding

[smilesammich 10,727]

[Ban Hammer 13,334]

Why is it always a pit bull?

[Ebunoluwa 6,136]

The civil rights era was through and through about race, and only race. Institutional racism wasn't just an undeniable fact, it was the law of the land in the entire southern portion of the country. Segregation in the south had no socioeconomic roots. It had nothing to do with anything other than race.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-fresno-shooting-20160721-snap-story.html

"Noble, a 19-year-old “country boy,” was unarmed when he was shot and killed following a traffic stop."

Where is the national outcry?

http://time.com/4404987/police-violence/

"The men in these cases were white, not black, and yet all three were killed by police officers under circumstances that would almost surely have elicited indignant protest nationwide if they were black."

How would you like me to protest this? #All /WhiteEverySingleLifeMatters? Or is it just simply not a problem unless the victim was black?

I'm not advocating for anyone to fix "their" ills. I oppose any notion of being people lumped into "groups" based on the color of their skin, period. Frankly, I'm not even sure what good the phrase " community" brings to the table. Are people some sort of homogeneous group of humans who think alike based solely on their skin color? Does "the black community" represent Sheriff David Clarke? Does it represent Ben Carson? Kanye West? Or is it a phrase used to describe the interests of "most" black people?

Nor am I advocating for anyone to actually use the hashtag #alllivesmatter. I get the meaning behind #blacklivesmatter, I really do. I recognize that certain police jurisdictions in the U.S. struggles with racial biases among some officers. Against black Americans particularly in cities with large socioeconomic disparities between black citizens and i.e. Asian or white citizens. Chicago is an example. Honolulu is not. The same could be said for Bakersfield, CA, where Hispanics top the list (not blacks), yet, few Hispanics are shot by police in New Orleans.

My problem is with people ostracizing, ridiculing and publicly shaming anyone for uttering the phrase "all lives matter." Think about it, prior to the Michael Brown case, at what point in history would the phrase "all lives matter" somehow mean you had anything but good intentions? Further, my problem is the popular narrative of black people, and black people only, being murdered in large numbers by an inherently racist police force. This just simply has no basis in reality in a country of over 300 million people. The fact is that while virtually all police shootings in 2016 of unarmed black men receive widespread media attention, similar shootings of unarmed white or even Hispanic teenagers receive little to no attention outside of local news.

For a group that calls for "inclusion", what BLM really has done by its racial undertones and divisively politicizing the multiple issues is to turn a serious problem into an "us vs. them" issue.

And it still has to do with nothing but it is all about race.

Here is the problem:

There was no institutional racism against white people and black people that suffered racism during the civil rights era

are still alive and well and so are their children. Some white people aren't over it yet and are still in the

oppression mindset and blacks are guarded.

Chew on that for a while and perhaps the light bulb will come on of why we have a BLM movement and a 'black community'.

It is not a group that thinks alike but it is a group that not so long ago had to use different bathrooms than whites. Duh !

There is a good reason that we have a BLM given our history a few decades ago though many would have loved for things to

stay oppressive against blacks and that mindset is also alive walking the streets.

# Cause and effect. The remnant of willful oppression and it's stench still floats in the US of A today on Main Street in every town.

If you do not experience it then have a seat and find a cause to write about that does oppress you.