Why drag Obama into this ?
due to libs saying it's Trayvon2............remember when 'O' said "if I had a son".......well Trayvon was ALL black and couldn't have been the son of 'O'
Why drag Obama into this ?
This post was not about St Louis or Ferguson in particular. You could use any place as an example. Can you tell me what separate Ferguson from anywhere else ?
You stated " In the case of Ferguson you have young Black males in the crowd who are on a daily basis directly affected by the actions of law enforcement They are also a group for whom law enforcement has little respect for their position in the community. "
how do you know what kind of respect they have for Fergusons? You clearly said that law enforcement have little respect for young black males..... how so? I live in St. Louis I'm interested in knowing how you draw that conclusion. Or were you implying Fergusons have no respect for cops in Ferguson?
Protests that turn violent and the average intellect of some of the participants being less than that of a turnip...
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you need to rethink your generalization.
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Aside from the general history of black in this country there are on camera statements from citizens in the community.
And then there is this.
http://fox2now.com/2014/08/13/analyzes-of-ferguson-racial-profiling-data/
Ferguson is predominately black, there will be more black stops/ arrests etc. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, this is a high crime rate area with a majority of those crimes being committed by blacks. We should not be surprised by those statistics. I would like to see more black cops in Ferguson, I think blacks would be more accepting of law enforcement.
When 9 out of 10 times you're stopping a group of people for nothing. That says a lot about what you think of them. These numbers represent an assumption of criminality by law enforcement. An assumption that according to your post you apparently agree with. You were all fired up when the suggestion was made about the view of their standing in the community. Yet here you are make excuses for a negative view by law enforcement of young black males when the evidence is presented.
9 out of 10 times stopping a group for doing nothing? Where's that evidence? That's 1.... facts speak for themselves, it's a bad neighborhood has been for the last 25 years. I wasn't all fired about anything I asked you what you meant, that the cops think nothing of them or they think nothing of the cops. In Ferguson it's a little bit of both. The crime and gang violence there is why there are more arrests. It's basic math.

This is quite a turn in logic on Spam's account.
From what I can tell, MOST Democrats on here have no problem lumping the entire south together as nothing but sloppy, racist, war-mongering rednecks.. and thus, use the culture to explain things that might happen.
However, the opposite is being said here. It's not to do with the culture at all...
Like a said, quite a turn in logic.
145 county and 220 for city for Whites vs 1454 county and 2076 city for Blacks.
so to sum up, the contributing factors could be . . .
1 - drug use, leading to . . .
2 - dropping out of high school, leading to . ..
3 - youth unemployment, and wandering the streets with nothng to do
So one population is twice that of the other but the stops are still 10 times as high.Of course, you conveniently leave out that blacks make up 2/3 of the population in ferguson...
so to sum up, the contributing factors could be . . .
1 - drug use, leading to . . .
2 - dropping out of high school, leading to . ..
3 - youth unemployment, and wandering the streets with nothng to do
So one population is twice that of the other but the stops are still 10 times as high.
how many, of all the people protesting, were actually looting on day 1 of the protests?
Leading to powerlessness in society. Which might cause individuals with authority to disregard their rights and concerns ? Which are the very same rights and concerns that a non drug using employed high school graduate has ?