Showing posts with label racial tension. Show all posts
Showing posts with label racial tension. Show all posts

Thursday, March 22, 2018

Tucker Carlson gets a little panicky about white people becoming the minority in America.

 Courtesy of Vox: 

On his top-rated Fox News show Tuesday night, conservative pundit Tucker Carlson opined on demographic change and immigration in America, saying that though “most immigrants are nice ... this is more change than human beings are designed to digest,” and asking viewers, “How would you feel if that happened in your neighborhood?”

The segment was focused on a National Geographic article featured in the magazine’s April issue. Though the article, centered on the Pennsylvania town of Hazleton, was titled “As America Changes, Some Anxious Whites Feel Left Behind,” Carlson focused his remarks on the growth of Hazleton’s Hispanic population, which has increased exponentially since 2000 — a change that Carlson said “makes societies volatile.” 

But he saved his strongest words for “our leaders ... who caused all this,” who, in his words, live in neighborhoods that “are basically unchanged — they look like it’s 1960. No demographic change in their zip code.” He concludes, “Our leaders are for diversity, just not where they live.”

My favorite line is  “How would you feel if that happened in your neighborhood?”

Perhaps Carlson should have some native Americans on and ask THEM that question.

It kind of sounds as if Tucker is suggesting that the uptick in violence that we have seen is due to the fact that there are more brown people in the country these days.

And his argument is not that THEY are being violent, but that there very presence incites violence from those who were here before them.

Essentially white people, right?

So rather than educate everybody to be more tolerant by teaching our children about different cultures and customs, while trying to create more inclusive activities in communities to unite the people living there, we should instead start blocking nonwhites from entering the country?

Let's call that the "Fox News solution. "

Sunday, April 03, 2016

Mostly white armed protesters outside Islamic mosque slink off with tail between their legs after being confronted by mostly black armed counter protesters.

Courtesy of The Dallas Morning News:  

Racial tensions in South Dallas almost exploded at an anti-mosque protest Saturday afternoon before quickly dissolving when the protesters retreated. 

A few hundred South Dallas residents, mostly black, flooded Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to oppose a planned demonstration by a mostly white group that routinely protests outside mosques. 

Both sides were armed. 

Dallas police stood guard on a funeral home’s roof as black counterprotesters swarmed the parking lot of Eva’s House of Bar-B-Q, vowing to defend their streets and chanting “black power.” 

“This is what they fear — the black man,” said activist Olinka Green. “This is what America fears.” 

The anti-mosque group showed up in camouflage, carrying guns and an American flag, FOX 4 reported. They left soon after and the protests ended without incident.

I guess those Islamophobic protesters don't feel like such bad ass Rambo types if the other side brings their guns out as well. 

Isn't having EVERYBODY armed one of their favorite talking points?

You know, though it might seem counter intuitive, this kind of a response might actually keep somebody from being shot as it will intimidate these candy ass ammosexuals into skipping the next protest.

Monday, August 18, 2014

Michael Brown autopsy released, National Guard ordered to Ferguson.

Courtesy of the New York Times: 

Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager who was killed by a police officer, sparking protests around the nation, was shot at least six times, including twice in the head, a preliminary private autopsy performed on Sunday found. 

One of the bullets entered the top of Mr. Brown’s skull, suggesting his head was bent forward when it struck him and caused a fatal injury, according to Dr. Michael M. Baden, the former chief medical examiner for the City of New York, who flew to Missouri on Sunday at the family’s request to conduct the separate autopsy. It was likely the last of bullets to hit him, he said. 

Mr. Brown, 18, was also shot four times in the right arm, he said, adding that all the bullets were fired into his front. 

The bullets did not appear to have been shot from very close range because no gunpowder was present on his body. However, that determination could change if it turns out that there is gunshot residue on Mr. Brown’s clothing, to which Dr. Baden did not have access.

Six times? Twice in the head?

This fits in disturbingly well with the eyewitness account provided to the FBI by Michael Brown's friend:

A key witness — Brown’s friend Dorian Johnson — has told the FBI that he thought the robbery was a “prank,” said Johnson’s attorney. In an interview with federal agents, Johnson has said Brown was hit by one bullet, then — as Brown pleaded for his life — Wilson fired “five or six” more times. 

And when the shooting stopped, Johnson and his legal team have told investigators, the police officer who pulled the trigger did nothing to save the man he’d just shot. “The officer doesn’t attempt to resuscitate,” Johnson’s attorney, former St. Louis mayor Freeman Bosley Jr., said in an interview Saturday. “He does not call for medical help. The officer didn’t call it in that someone had been shot.” 

It is pretty clear that this preliminary autopsy report is going to do nothing to dissuade people in Ferguson from believing that this young man was executed.

Which was clear last night as protestors turned violent forcing the Missouri Governor to call in the National Guard: 

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon signed an executive order this morning deploying the Missouri National Guard to Ferguson after a night of continued clashes between police and protesters in reaction to the police shooting death of unarmed teenager Michael Brown. 

"Tonight, a day of hope, prayers, and peaceful protests was marred by the violent criminal acts of an organized and growing number of individuals, many from outside the community and state, whose actions are putting the residents and businesses of Ferguson at risk," Nixon said in a statement. 

"These violent acts are a disservice to the family of Michael Brown and his memory, and to the people of this community who yearn for justice to be served, and to feel safe in their own homes." 

The executive order comes after police used tear gas to clear protesters off the streets of the St. Louis suburb, action that police say was necessary because of shooting, looting and vandalism.

This is very unfortunate as it is clear the people of Ferguson have a legitimate reason to be angry and mistrustful of the police, however others who are using the opportunity to vandalize and loot are undermining the purpose of the protests and inviting outsiders to criticize the citizens as thugs.

It is troubling that after criticizing the police for hitting the streets using armored vehicles while dressed in military gear and wielding assault weapons at the beginning of these protests, that now we are seeing the actual military called out to do essentially the same thing.