All lives matter. I even think we should refrain from shooting down conservatives (though if a tranquilizer gun would make them shut up...)
[video=youtube;a0HJdf-oDIs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=a0HJdf-oDIs[/video] The problem is that blacks are more likely to be shot dead by police officers in America for acting suspiciously or making sudden moves as you can see in the video. White kids are usually treated with respect by police no matter what they do, except for mass shooters who are executed on the spot.
More Whites are killed than Blacks by police officers annually, and, after adjusting for homicide rate and murder of police officers, Whites are 1.7 and 1.3 times more likely to be shot and killed than Blacks. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news...e-whites-than-blacks-but-minority-d/?page=all
Blacks only make up 12% of the population and black men were at a 5 times greater risk of being killed by police from 1999 to 2011. In 1968, blacks (8.9 per million) were 10 times more likely killed by shootings by law enforcement called "legal intervention" than whites (0.9 per million). In 2012, according to the CDC, 140 blacks were killed by police. That same year 386 whites were killed by police. Over the 13-year period from 1999 to 2011, the CDC reports that 2,151 whites were killed by cops -- and 1,130 blacks were killed by cops. Police shootings, nationwide, are down dramatically from what they were 20 or 30 years ago. The CDC reported that in 1968, shootings by law enforcement -- called "legal intervention" by the CDC -- was the cause of death for 8.6 out of every million blacks. For whites the rate was was .9 deaths per million. Read more: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/ar..._didnt_make_the_cut_125004.html#ixzz3hb0gY27h
Can you name a few Whites who have been killed by police officers this year? I don't doubt you are telling the truth. I'd just like to see their names.
Now that's a hoot. Whites killed by cops are almost never reported on by the Left-allied Mainstream Media because -- altogether now -- "White Lives Don't Matter" in this nation. Sweet!
Yeah, sorta like if a man walks into the forest and there is no woman to hear him speak, is he still . . . wrong?
I realize you are on conspiracy island, but are you actually arguing that whites are not really killed by the police?
They only get names if the media reports on them (which they don't). Otherwise they are just statistics.
Then I have an assignment for you, Gatewood: Go to the MSM and demand that they start printing the names and stories of all the Whites who are killed by policemen. Report back to me in a month. - - - Updated - - - You have the same assignment as Gatewood above. Get to work! - - - Updated - - - Ah neber don' hear nuthin bout it, suh.
How do you know if you don't try? Seriously, I'm sure there are some Whites who are killed by the police. But, I wonder if the percentage is the same as it is for Blacks/Hispanics when you take their demographics into consideration.
See, now you're talking statistics, not individual names and stories. But it is telling that even though you are sure there are whites killed by the police, you don't know their names or stories, although I'm sure you could name a few blacks killed by police. I guess it's because THEIR lives matter.
Black Lives Matter and Whites Live Does Not Matter, that is exactly what happens when you provide special privileges based on race. You have given up your rights, sorry.
I was talking with a friend recently about the "Black Lives Matter" movement and why it makes many Whites so angry. My friend said he thinks it's because for all the history of the USA only White lives have mattered. And the thought of Blacks having the audacity to suggest their lives matter is just too much. I believe all lives matter.
America is unsafe since it is a country of many religions and castes and if religious or racial discrimination is not properly addressed it is likely that America will not be a safer place to live in. There is a discrimination between births since they celebrate if the baby child is. White people have kind of racist thoughts and even though they are taught to be equianimous
The #BlackLivesMatter movement does not come from a place of hatred. They aren't saying only Black lives matter, they are saying that Black lives in fact do matter and should have the same importance of all other lives. Obviously White lives matter too. All lives matter. Black lives have just been the focus of modern civil rights issues because of racist injustices against Blacks including police and regular people getting away with harming and murdering Blacks.
This was obvious to me from the get-go. I don't know why anyone else couldn't pick it up. Would the #AllLivesMatter trolls have said the same thing back in, I dunno, the 1950s? Back when people didn't even bother with veiling their racism?
After adjusting for homicide rate, which matters if one race is more violent than another, whites are more likely to be killed than blacks.
this whole thing is stupid. Almost all of those accidents happen in crime ridden areas. Areas were people sell drugs and where murder happen frequently. It just so happens that such areas are populated by majority black demographic. a police is not racist for shooting a 12 old kid for pointing a gun at him. even if the gun was fake. There similar 12 year old kids who would not hesitate to kill someone. In fact, in recent days, more and more criminal organisations are starting to use children. Cops have to be on their toes and finger on a trigger when going into some areas. Other areas are too bad for cops to even go into.
I realize this is an old post, but I wanted to explain something... I don't think that has anything to do with it. Aside from the "white" lives of the random cop, robbery victim, or car-owner... we all know most blacks believe white lives matter too. If there were no white lives in America, things would become a serious struggle for anyone else. I think the issue many have with this BLM movement is simply the behavior represented, and encouraged by it. One example is the shouting down of Bernie Sanders and not letting him speak at his own campaign stop. If you watch the actual video of that, these girls are nothing more than belligerent C-words. They're allowed to walk all over people. Cheered for, supported... and to many this makes no sense. Including people like the left's own Martin O'Malley who had to literally apologize for saying: "Black lives matter. White lives matter. All lives matter." This is the problem most people have with it. No one aside from a few ignorant racists disagrees that black lives do in fact matter. But a black man dying after attacking a cop is not the reasoning this should be based on. Hatefulness, revenge and shouting down an old man already on the verge of a heart attack is not the way to make anyone care about it.
