The Burning Issue: Race and Racialism

Discussion in 'Race Relations' started by Matswin, Jul 13, 2015.

  1. Mr_Truth

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    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/...Matthew-Ajibade-in-the-testicles-before-death



    Bloody, strapped to chair, video shows police tasering Matthew Ajibade in the testicles before death



    It is now abundantly clear that Matthew Ajibade was murdered by police in Savannah, Georgia. For over 10 months, police and prosecutors have concealed the video evidence of his murder not only from the public, but from Matthew's closest friends and family members. His death in police custody was ruled a homicide by coroners, but the whole of Savannah's government has colluded in covering up a sadistic and brutal murder of a beloved artist and photographer who was a student at Savannah College of Art and Design.
    The video below is awful and is confirmation that the United States tortures and kills its prisoners on American soil. Torture is not something that happens far away in Abu Ghraib, it's happening here.

    In case you can stomach the video, please allow me to explain what happens so that you can understand it and prepare to speak out against it.

    On New Year's Day of this year, Matthew Ajibade was arrested after a mental health crisis. Instead of being taken to a hospital, Matthew, who was otherwise in perfect physical condition, was taken to the jail against his family's wishes. In a video we received last week, police are seen punching and kicking Matthew Ajibade in the face and head before restraining him.

    Now, after Matthew was stripped of his clothes and handcuffed to a restraining chair, we see the worst. The police Taser has a camera attached to it that is automatically triggered when the device is turned on.

    Strapped to the chair after already being beaten and Tasered multiple times, we see a red light, the target of the Taser, continually pointed at Matthew's groin. The audio from the Taser camera is distorted, but we see little to no movement from Matthew.

    Soon, we see that the Taser is moving closer to his genitals. As the camera gets closer to his genitals, it is deployed. You hear the awful shock of the Taser, followed by the unforgettable screams of Matthew Ajibade. The video then ends - perhaps as the Taser is turned off, but we don't know.

    What we do know is that Matthew Ajibade died in his cell, strapped to this restraining chair, soon after being Tasered here. The timestamp on the video states that it is 4:45AM on the morning of January 2nd.

    Police claimed they found Matthew "unresponsive" in his jail cell at 1:38AM.

    Either way, the video below shows a restrained man being tortured to death in our jails.

    Nobody was charged with Matthew's murder and we now see that they concealed this video because they knew we'd call for such charges if we ever saw it.







    Where are all the howls of protest from the forum's innumerable right wingers who hate government abuse of the innocent public?
     
  2. rayznack

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    Dead blacks are not dangerous to the public.

    Corrupt police are.
     
  4. Mr_Truth

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    http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...oklyn-man-files-50m-lawsuit-article-1.2396324


    Brooklyn man wrongfully convicted of murder files $50M lawsuit against widow of NYPD detective who forced confession


    A Brooklyn man who served 29 years in prison for a murder he did not commit is suing the widow of the deceased NYPD detective who railroaded him.

    David McCallum filed the $50 million lawsuit Tuesday in Brooklyn Federal Court, going after the estate of Det. Joseph Butta who died of cancer in 1994.

    McCallum was 16 when he was railroaded on charges of kidnaping and killing Nathan Blenner in 1985 in Bushwick.



    The suit alleges that Butta slapped McCallum in the mouth and threatened to clobber him with a chair in the squad room unless he confessed to the slaying.

    McCallum's lawyer Oscar Michelen said the suit will be amended in the near future to add the city as a defendant as well.

    Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson's conviction review unit cleared McCallum and co-defendant Willie Stuckey last year, concluding the confession appeared to have been coerced and was not supported by DNA evidence. Stuckey died in prison of a heart attack in 2001.

    McCallum's innocence was also championed by famed boxer Rubin (Hurricane) Carter, who spent nearly two decades in prison for a triple murder he was wrongly convicted of committing.






    Still waiting to hear from all the forum anti-government right wingers - their silence in the face of all these government abuses in quite noticeable.

    So where is your criticism of the government in this and the other racial bias cases??????
     
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    Live blacks are more dangerous to the public than corrupt police.
     
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    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/e-pluribus-unum

    Out of many races, cultures, languages, religions, ethnic heritages, social-economic status, genders and other criteria we are united by one political ideology:

    To be an American is to embrace both the multi-culturalism of the many of this nation and the unifying political ideology that makes us one.

    Anyone that misses that point doesn't truly understand what it is to be an American.
     
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    I dont get why people are so caught up in old, irrelevant belief of race. There is no biological diffrences of any between races. This has been proven by science. The concept of race was created in virginis, which at the time was a slave society.

    Why? Because the bible says that you should not enslave other Christians. During those times the law of the bible were pretty much the rule of the land. This was when Britain still had full control. Well what happens if your slaves become christian? Do you let them go?

    of course not.

    they created the notion of race to circumnavigate the bible.

    So the notion of race was created by wealthy Virginian plantation owners who wanted to stay wealthy. That is a historic fact.

    For people to still believe race exists...Thats just beyond me.

    Now race is nothing more but a tool to categories different people
     
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    Please explain how ethnicity/race is identifiable by DNA if there are no differences between races?
     
  9. Egalitarianjay02

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    There are ancestry informative markers (AIMs) that indicate population relationships so we can identify a person's continental ancestry by these genetic markers but that doesn't mean we are identifying races. These AIMs can be used to distinguish groups on a continental, regional, local and even familial level. Does that mean that because we can distinguish siblings that they are automatically different races? Human biological variation exists it just isn't structured in to races.
     
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    So there are no biological differences between racial groups as per the previous poster's claim?
     
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    There are biological differences between geographic populations but those populations are not biological races.
     
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    That wasn't the question.
     
  13. Egalitarianjay02

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    I answered your question. You asked me whether or not there were biological differences between racial groups and I answered that there are no racial groups in humans but rather geographic populations and yes there are biological differences. Your question can not be adequately answered by assuming that racial groups exist in the first place.

    That is the real issue.

    So again, human biological variation exists meaning there are some biological differences between populations but that variation is not structured in to biological races (subspecies).
     

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