Maybe not directly. But with the St. Louis riots continuing it does make you wonder.
Now from the start when I heard the black guy was shot 8 times (now 6) I thought to myself "Only a total psycho shoots an unarmed man that many times without provocation. The victim probably ain't inocent."
Sure enough, now they've got video of the same guy robbing a store and generally acting like a macho douche. Kinda makes it atleast plausible that the cop is telling the truth.
And yet...nope, can't be. Cops hate blacks; everybody knows that. Let the looting continue. And it's not like it's just blacks saying that. The media at large is fanning the flames.It's like it just HAS to be true that a corrupt white cop gunned down an unarmed black youngster or the world just doesn't make sense.
Does it ever get better? Or do these things continue until the day a whole city burns down in an outright rebellion?
its remind me london riot wich surprised me very much
american always turn to violence but in uk it was a first
It's an interesting question. For the sake of context, and for those who don't remember a world before smart phones, let's take a short trip down memory lane and take a look at the pattern over the last fifty five short years.
1948 July 26
Truman signs Executive Order 9981, which states, "It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin."
1954 May 17
Thurgood Marshall The Supreme Court rules on the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans., unanimously agreeing that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. The ruling paves the way for large-scale desegregation. The decision overturns the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling that sanctioned "separate but equal" segregation of the races, ruling that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." It is a victory for NAACP attorney Thurgood Marshall, who will later return to the Supreme Court as the nation's first black justice.
1955 Aug.
Fourteen-year-old Chicagoan Emmett Till is visiting family in Mississippi when he is kidnapped, brutally beaten, shot, and dumped in the Tallahatchie River for allegedly whistling at a white woman. Two white men, J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant, are arrested for the murder and acquitted by an all-white jury. They later boast about committing the murder in a Look magazine interview. The case becomes a cause célèbre of the civil rights movement.
Dec. 1
Rosa Parks (Montgomery, Ala.) NAACP member Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a bus to a white passenger, defying a southern custom of the time. In response to her arrest the Montgomery black community launches a bus boycott, which will last for more than a year, until the buses are desegregated Dec. 21, 1956. As newly elected president of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., is instrumental in leading the boycott.
1957 Jan.–Feb.
Martin Luther King, Charles K. Steele, and Fred L. Shuttlesworth establish the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, of which King is made the first president. The SCLC becomes a major force in organizing the civil rights movement and bases its principles on nonviolence and civil disobedience. According to King, it is essential that the civil rights movement not sink to the level of the racists and hatemongers who oppose them: "We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline," he urges.
Sept.
The Little Rock Nine pictured with Daisy Bates, the president of the Arkansas NAACP.
(Little Rock, Ark.) Formerly all-white Central High School learns that integration is easier said than done. Nine black students are blocked from entering the school on the orders of Governor Orval Faubus. President Eisenhower sends federal troops and the National Guard to intervene on behalf of the students, who become known as the "Little Rock Nine."
1960 Feb. 1
(Greensboro, N.C.) Four black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. Although they are refused service, they are allowed to stay at the counter. The event triggers many similar nonviolent protests throughout the South. Six months later the original four protesters are served lunch at the same Woolworth's counter. Student sit-ins would be effective throughout the Deep South in integrating parks, swimming pools, theaters, libraries, and other public facilities.
April
(Raleigh, N.C.) The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is founded at Shaw University, providing young blacks with a place in the civil rights movement. The SNCC later grows into a more radical organization, especially under the leadership of Stokely Carmichael (1966–1967).
1961 May 4
Over the spring and summer, student volunteers begin taking bus trips through the South to test out new laws that prohibit segregation in interstate travel facilities, which includes bus and railway stations. Several of the groups of "freedom riders," as they are called, are attacked by angry mobs along the way. The program, sponsored by The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), involves more than 1,000 volunteers, black and white.
1962 Oct. 1 James Meredith
James Meredith becomes the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Violence and riots surrounding the incident cause President Kennedy to send 5,000 federal troops.
1963 April 16
Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham, Ala.; he writes his seminal "Letter from Birmingham Jail," arguing that individuals have the moral duty to disobey unjust laws.
May
During civil rights protests in Birmingham, Ala., Commissioner of Public Safety Eugene "Bull" Connor uses fire hoses and police dogs on black demonstrators. These images of brutality, which are televised and published widely, are instrumental in gaining sympathy for the civil rights movement around the world.
June 12
(Jackson, Miss.) Mississippi's NAACP field secretary, 37-year-old Medgar Evers, is murdered outside his home. Byron De La Beckwith is tried twice in 1964, both trials resulting in hung juries. Thirty years later he is convicted for murdering Evers.
Aug. 28
Martin Luther King, Jr. (Washington, D.C.) About 200,000 people join the March on Washington. Congregating at the Lincoln Memorial, participants listen as Martin Luther King delivers his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
Sept. 15
(Birmingham, Ala.) Four young girls (Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Addie Mae Collins) attending Sunday school are killed when a bomb explodes at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, a popular location for civil rights meetings. Riots erupt in Birmingham, leading to the deaths of two more black youths.
1964 Jan. 23
The 24th Amendment abolishes the poll tax, which originally had been instituted in 11 southern states after Reconstruction to make it difficult for poor blacks to vote.
Summer
The Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), a network of civil rights groups that includes CORE and SNCC, launches a massive effort to register black voters during what becomes known as the Freedom Summer. It also sends delegates to the Democratic National Convention to protest—and attempt to unseat—the official all-white Mississippi contingent.
July 2
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion, or national origin. The law also provides the federal government with the powers to enforce desegregation.
Aug. 4
FBI photographs of Andrew Goodman, James Earl Chaney, and Michael Schwerner
(Neshoba Country, Miss.) The bodies of three civil-rights workers—two white, one black—are found in an earthen dam, six weeks into a federal investigation backed by President Johnson. James E. Chaney, 21; Andrew Goodman, 21; and Michael Schwerner, 24, had been working to register black voters in Mississippi, and, on June 21, had gone to investigate the burning of a black church. They were arrested by the police on speeding charges, incarcerated for several hours, and then released after dark into the hands of the Ku Klux Klan, who murdered them.
1965 Feb. 21 Malcolm X
(Harlem, N.Y.) Malcolm X, black nationalist and founder of the Organization of Afro-American Unity, is shot to death. It is believed the assailants are members of the Black Muslim faith, which Malcolm had recently abandoned in favor of orthodox Islam.
March 7
(Selma, Ala.) Blacks begin a march to Montgomery in support of voting rights but are stopped at the Pettus Bridge by a police blockade. Fifty marchers are hospitalized after police use tear gas, whips, and clubs against them. The incident is dubbed "Bloody Sunday" by the media. The march is considered the catalyst for pushing through the voting rights act five months later.
Aug. 10
Congress passes the Voting Rights Act of 1965, making it easier for Southern blacks to register to vote. Literacy tests, poll taxes, and other such requirements that were used to restrict black voting are made illegal.
Aug. 11–17, 1965
(Watts, Calif.) Race riots erupt in a black section of Los Angeles.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Sept. 24, 1965
Asserting that civil rights laws alone are not enough to remedy discrimination, President Johnson issues Executive Order 11246, which enforces affirmative action for the first time. It requires government contractors to "take affirmative action" toward prospective minority employees in all aspects of hiring and employment.
1966 Oct. Members of The Black Panthers Party
(Oakland, Calif.) The militant Black Panthers are founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.
1967 April 19
Stokely Carmichael, a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), coins the phrase "black power" in a speech in Seattle. He defines it as an assertion of black pride and "the coming together of black people to fight for their liberation by any means necessary." The term's radicalism alarms many who believe the civil rights movement's effectiveness and moral authority crucially depend on nonviolent civil disobedience.
June 12
In Loving v. Virginia, the Supreme Court rules that prohibiting interracial marriage is unconstitutional. Sixteen states that still banned interracial marriage at the time are forced to revise their laws.
July
Major race riots take place in Newark (July 12–16) and Detroit (July 23–30).
1968 April 4
(Memphis, Tenn.) Martin Luther King, at age 39, is shot as he stands on the balcony outside his hotel room. Escaped convict and committed racist James Earl Ray is convicted of the crime.
April 11
Eyewitnesses to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
1971 April 20
The Supreme Court, in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, upholds busing as a legitimate means for achieving integration of public schools. Although largely unwelcome (and sometimes violently opposed) in local school districts, court-ordered busing plans in cities such as Charlotte, Boston, and Denver continue until the late 1990s.
1988 March 22
Overriding President Reagan's veto, Congress passes the Civil Rights Restoration Act, which expands the reach of non-discrimination laws within private institutions receiving federal funds.
1991 Nov. 22
After two years of debates, vetoes, and threatened vetoes, President Bush reverses himself and signs the Civil Rights Act of 1991, strengthening existing civil rights laws and providing for damages in cases of intentional employment discrimination.
1992 April 29
(Los Angeles, Calif.) The first race riots in decades erupt in south-central Los Angeles after a jury acquits four white police officers for the videotaped beating of African American Rodney King.
2003 June 23
In the most important affirmative action decision since the 1978 Bakke case, the Supreme Court (5–4) upholds the University of Michigan Law School's policy, ruling that race can be one of many factors considered by colleges when selecting their students because it furthers "a compelling interest in obtaining the educational benefits that flow from a diverse student body."
(See also: Affirmative Action Timeline.)
2005 June 21
The ringleader of the Mississippi civil rights murders (see Aug. 4, 1964), Edgar Ray Killen, is convicted of manslaughter on the 41st anniversary of the crimes.
October 24
Rosa Parks dies at age 92.
2006 January 30
Coretta Scott King dies of a stroke at age 78.
2007 February
Emmett Till's 1955 murder case, reopened by the Department of Justice in 2004, is officially closed. The two confessed murderers, J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant, were dead of cancer by 1994, and prosecutors lacked sufficient evidence to pursue further convictions.
May 10
James Bonard Fowler, a former state trooper, is indicted for the murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson 40 years after Jackson's death. The 1965 killing lead to a series of historic civil rights protests in Selma, Ala.
2008 January
Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) introduces the Civil Rights Act of 2008. Some of the proposed provisions include ensuring that federal funds are not used to subsidize discrimination, holding employers accountable for age discrimination, and improving accountability for other violations of civil rights and workers' rights.
2009 January
In the Supreme Court case Ricci v. DeStefano, a lawsuit brought against the city of New Haven, 18 plaintiffs—17 white people and one Hispanic—argued that results of the 2003 lieutenant and captain exams were thrown out when it was determined that few minority firefighters qualified for advancement. The city claimed they threw out the results because they feared liability under a disparate-impact statute for issuing tests that discriminated against minority firefighters. The plaintiffs claimed that they were victims of reverse discrimination under the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Supreme Court ruled (5–4) in favor of the firefighters, saying New Haven's "action in discarding the tests was a violation of Title VII."
2013 June
In Shelby County v. Holder, the Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, which established a formula for Congress to use when determining if a state or voting jurisdiction requires prior approval before changing its voting laws. Currently under Section 5 of the act nine—mostly Southern—states with a history of discrimination must get clearance from Congress before changing voting rules to make sure racial minorities are not negatively affected. While the 5–4 decision did not invalidate Section 5, it made it toothless. Chief Justice John Roberts said the formula Congress now uses, which was written in 1965, has become outdated. "While any racial discrimination in voting is too much, Congress must ensure that the legislation it passes to remedy that problem speaks to current conditions," he said in the majority opinion. In a strongly worded dissent, Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg said, "Hubris is a fit word for today’s demolition of the V.R.A." (Voting Rights Act).
There is no shortage of 'racial tension' noted in the above timeline; I think too that there is a progressive pattern of increased tolerance and a genuine effort to make the country better than the day, week, month, and year before. I guess the question for me would be, "Can we as a species tame racial tension before it destroys us?" It's a work in progress. For myself, I know that I'm not there yet. I will also keep trying to be a better human being than the day, week, month and year before. It's all we can really do.
Needs must when the devil drives.
Once again, the only time that I seem to see absolutely no racial animosity whatsoever is when I go to some church affair of the wifes. Lots preach indifference, but very few follow through on a daily basis.
Now in defense of the police, it is hard not to let crime statistics influence who you focus on more when on patrol. And a P/O has to ignore the comments that he is harassing an individual only due to the color of his skin. Often a P/O will even avoid doing his job properly due to being pegged as a racist if they attempt to question a possible suspect who happens to fit the racial profile as well. He approaches his task the same way many others in different occupations do on a daily basis....through process of elimination. A P/O should stay focused and follow SOP's (standard operating procedures) no matter the color of anothers skin.
I too watched the videos regarding this matter and I find it hard to justify their continued firing at a suspect who is already down and no longer a possible threat. The obvious conclusion is that dead suspects can't plead their innocence in a court of law later. Therefore only the officer's testimony bears witness to the facts during a later investigation of events. In other words, it's much safer to finish the suspect off if the P/O screwed up along the way... I don't believe that this is much of a common practice as yet in Canada, but I'm sure a lot of Blacks in the U.S. do get shot over quick presumptions on behalf of the attending P/O some likely do take extra rounds in attempt at covering their earlier mistakes.
Seems they've got to learn to immediately say "I'm sorry" like us Canuks do instead.
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Maybe a silly question, what is the race of a person who is from parents with different ethnicity?
Have you ever saw a kid with different complexion with their biological mother?
What is the race of a person who can trace back his/her history from various ethnicity?
Greandpa from ethnic A, Greandma from ethnic A, result A
Grandpa from ethnic A, Grandma from ethnic B, result ? Usualy people will say I'm a half A and B, but complexion sometimes inclines to one of the ethnicity.
Dad from ethnic A/B, Mom from ethnic C, result ? I'm a quarter A and B, and half C? Easy to say but sometimes the complexion says different.
Repeat the mix in the future generations... again and again
Bloodline that encompasses all races in this world, what will they become?
I see no problem in that, but apparently many are still unable to reach the understanding of human race.
US has proven to withstand many events, so it will need more than just racial tension to bring it down.
Regret comes last, if it comes early its called registration!
In the end, only fellow preppers truly respects other preppers.
When nothing happens, the world will laugh at you.
When SHTF, what will happen when they found out you got supplies?
Wow thanks very much for that timeline, very informative.
I read a good comment article in the national post not too long ago that describes just how good we have it here. http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/12/23/joe-oconnor-tragic-police-shooting-of-armed-teens-that-didnt-happen-says-a-lot-about-canadian-city/
Man civil war in the USA out of race is nothing new though. I do not see this as a problem, at least not now. I think the most drastic has yet to pass.
Maybe a silly question, what is the race of a person who is from parents with different ethnicity?
Have you ever saw a kid with different complexion with their biological mother?
What is the race of a person who can trace back his/her history from various ethnicity?
Greandpa from ethnic A, Greandma from ethnic A, result A
Grandpa from ethnic A, Grandma from ethnic B, result ? Usualy people will say I'm a half A and B, but complexion sometimes inclines to one of the ethnicity.
Dad from ethnic A/B, Mom from ethnic C, result ? I'm a quarter A and B, and half C? Easy to say but sometimes the complexion says different.
Repeat the mix in the future generations... again and againBloodline that encompasses all races in this world, what will they become?
I see no problem in that, but apparently many are still unable to reach the understanding of human race.US has proven to withstand many events, so it will need more than just racial tension to bring it down.
That's easy. If you have a wide variety of races in your blood, your far closer to the original parents of all mankind. Whether you believe this is Adam and Eve or aliens dropped them off here, logic dictates this answer is closer to the truth as we witness such things often while even breeding animals. Many scholars often profess that if we let dogs run rampant, they'd all revert back to the basic breeds instead of those man has bred over the centuries.
I'm not sure but this theory seems logical and so mankind would follow this same path too if we'd ignore built in prejudices which were often instilled by others with inferiority complexes.
Wow thanks very much for that timeline, very informative.
I read a good comment article in the national post not too long ago that describes just how good we have it here. http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/12/23/joe-oconnor-tragic-police-shooting-of-armed-teens-that-didnt-happen-says-a-lot-about-canadian-city/
Man civil war in the USA out of race is nothing new though. I do not see this as a problem, at least not now. I think the most drastic has yet to pass.
Singlecell - You are most welcome for the timeline. It took all of ten minutes to compile and edit for the post. I only wish the doom mongers would take the time to see that the world is just fine before they proposed their theories about the "end times". What are you going to do?
Needs must when the devil drives.
Maybe a silly question, what is the race of a person who is from parents with different ethnicity?
Have you ever saw a kid with different complexion with their biological mother?
What is the race of a person who can trace back his/her history from various ethnicity?
Greandpa from ethnic A, Greandma from ethnic A, result A
Grandpa from ethnic A, Grandma from ethnic B, result ? Usualy people will say I'm a half A and B, but complexion sometimes inclines to one of the ethnicity.
Dad from ethnic A/B, Mom from ethnic C, result ? I'm a quarter A and B, and half C? Easy to say but sometimes the complexion says different.
Repeat the mix in the future generations... again and againBloodline that encompasses all races in this world, what will they become?
I see no problem in that, but apparently many are still unable to reach the understanding of human race.US has proven to withstand many events, so it will need more than just racial tension to bring it down.
Beige???
Needs must when the devil drives.