[quote]Jewbacca wrote:
[quote]Big_Boss wrote:
[quote]UtahLama wrote:
[quote]Big_Boss wrote:
[quote]Jewbacca wrote:
A woman convicted of brutally beating and stabbing a coworker to death at the Lululemon Athletica store in Bethesda last year was sentenced on Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Norwood, 29 (picture above) was convicted in November of bludgeoning and stabbing 30-year-old Jayna Murray to death in the back room of the high-end yoga apparel store on Bethesda Row after they had finished a work shift together in March.
The exceptionally brutal murder – which left 331 identifiable wounds on Murray’s body – coupled with Norwood’s elaborate cover-up story of rape by masked white men grabbed headlines for months and made for a dramatic storyline that could rival many crime dramas.
CALL AL SHARPTON! The only explaination is bigotry! [/quote]
Fuck Al Sharpton…[/quote]
I would agree…but he has a show on MSNBC, so LOT’s of people take him seriously…He and Reverend Jackson travel the country race baiting, stir shit up, then leave after the 24 hour news cycle is up…never caring what damage they have caused.
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I agree…he’s a self-serving,weak “advocate” for “us.” [/quote]
Precisely and I’m making two points:
(1) the stupidity of the knee-jerk reaction that this Zimmerman/Martin was some sort of hate crime
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(2) poking fun at Professor X who apparently lies awake sweating that the “white man” is going to send his blue-uniformed goons out to get him.
Obviously, out-of-control cops are a problem, but so are lightning strikes, and, statistically, you have a greater chance of getting struck by lighting than shot by a rogue cop.
In fact, if we get down to statistics, the overwhelming amount of crime is INTRA-racial (within a racial group).
If we look at INTER-racial crime, it’s overwhelmingly black-on-white:
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Blacks are seven times more likely than people of other races to commit murder, and eight times more likely to commit robbery.
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Blacks are 39 times more likely to commit a violent crime against whites then vice versa, and 136 times more likely to commit a robbery on whites than whites on blacks.
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Forty-five percent of black crime is against whites, 43 against other blacks, and 10 percent against Hispanic.
In short, statistically, if Prof X is permitted to profile white cops, whites are far more within their rights to profile blacks.
Obviously, neither approach is fair or democratic.
They are both bigoted, in fact. Individuals should not be treated as groups.
And I think a big part of the real issue that is pissing off Prof X is he is a respectible guy, but unfortunately shares the skin color with roughly 50% of the criminals out there, and is unfairly treated as such.
I am not really sure how to solve that problem.[/quote]
True…those statistics are very well known and used tirelessly as argument points for many a “race” discussion. Not that this is about those statistics themselves…but I always think beyond as to why those statistics are true(along with statistics on other groups as well)…mainly because I share that same skin color.
Me and X don’t necessarily agree on all things of this nature…but I damn sure understand where he is coming from.
