You're right. Let's start with how the police treat minorities overall.
Oh now he's preaching hatred. Ok Dave. Take your meds and relax. We'll have a white person in the White House soon enough. I can't guarantee it will be a southern white Christian male, but odds are the person will be white, so that's gotta count for something. You've managed to stay alive and keep your guns for seven years now, I'm sure you'll be alright just a little while longer.
You know all your post in this thread amount to blatant accusations of racism because someone dares to point to simply facts. It appears on this topic of discussion and others in the past that anyone who might disagree with your position or opinion is a racist. Personally I think Obama is an empty suit but it has nothing to do with his skin color. I think Hillary would make a terrible president and not because of her skin color either. Truth be known I didn't thing much of the Bush admin either and he is and old white guy and a Republican.
CO made some excellent points in this thread and was spot on. One of the comments he made was:
"It is becoming obvious that in some cases intentionally, and in other cases as a by-product of politics, racial tensions are exploited to benefit the exploiters by maintaining their power and influence and maybe also their electability."
In line with the above thought, today Chris Wallace interviewed MD Democratic Rep Donna Edwards and her comments illustrate a large part of the problem. Wallace pointed out the simple fact that Baltimore has been governed by Democrats and liberal policies for decades and during the interview Edwards placed part of the blame on the Republican Governor Larry Hogan who has been the Governor since Jan of this year. Wow! In general her position and comments illustrate the point CO was making. Liberal policies of treating blacks as victims and thinking more money is always the answer is a huge part of the problem. Education was an element of the discussion. And the exploiters and many of them are in public offices do in fact create and amplify racial tensions to keep themselves in power. This is a huge part of all our problems....politics, power, and keeping their voting block intact.
Conservatives don't feel that blacks are lazy and free loaders as you often imply and did in this thread. The comment stating why can't we all be white is simply BS and throwing the racism charges at anyone pointing out the simple facts is BS as well. We do in fact need to quit treating blacks as victims because of their skin color. Those with similar attitudes of yours are a huge part of the problems. They do create racial tension when race has nothing to do with it.
Mjvcaj commented:
"Hard to argue this is a racist issue given the involvement in black officers and some of the detail behind past incidents. Perhaps it is a race issue, but by definition, it is not a racism issue."
He to is correct.
In closing I have pasted some simple facts I spotted about Baltimore. They have nothing to do with race or my personal opinions on race. Just some facts that are to often ignored. Frankly not often ignored but in general always ignored and certainly by our current admin. It's apparent that policies aren't working and haven't for a long time. This points tend to illustrate that the problems aren't a result of race so much and a lot to do with government policies, initiatives, education, and management.
Do conservatives have all the answers....no they don't but it would be hard to do worse. Perhaps if all sides of the political spectrum would realize the true heart of the problems and work together to solve them some positive results could be achieved. A lot could be accomplished if those in power quit treating blacks as victims and as voting blocks and instead tackled the problems with reforms etc we could see some very positive results. And more importantly quit supporting the race hustlers and exploiters.
●Citizens of this metropolis have not elected a Republican as mayor since 1963, before the War on Poverty began. That mayor’s 4 year term is the only interruption in Democrat rule since 1947. They have had Democrat control for 64 of the last 68 years, and sole control for the last 48 years straight.
●Their mayor is black. ●Their previous mayor, Sheila Dixon, was black. ●She was convicted of embezzlement in 2010 and couldn’t finish her term. They had a white mayor (current Democratic Presidential hopeful Martin O’Malley) for eight years. ●The mayor before him was black.
●Their City Council consists of 15 members. ●All fifteen are Democrats. ●The Council President is black.
●Democrats have had control of legislation in Baltimore for the last 50 years. ●Every program, policy, initiative, or school curriculum that exists in Baltimore was enacted by liberal Democrats.
●The Police Commissioner is black. ●Approximately 50% of the police force is black.
●The School Superintendent is black, along with the School Board. The district has an annual budget of $1.32 billion to teach 84,000 kids. The Baltimore school system ranks second among the nation’s 100 largest school districts in how much it spent per pupil at $15,700 per student. Only NYC spends more.
●Only two thirds of students graduate high school, despite this high level of spending.
The average SAT scores of Baltimore City public school students are: 379 in Reading; 376 in Math; 381 in Writing. These are the scores of the best of the best in Baltimore schools who actually think they should get into college. The average scores in the country, which still suck, are around 500. Students with these scores have about a 15% chance of graduating college. This is the Return on Investment (ROI) you get after spending $188,000 per student over their 12 year academic career.
●The population of Baltimore is 623,000 and 63% are black. Median household income is $41,000, with 24% living below the poverty line. The home ownership rate is 48%. The percentage of college graduates is 27%.
The population was 950,000 in 1950, so it has fallen by 35% in the last 65 years. The population was 24% black in 1950. ●Decades of liberal Democrat policies drove most of the white population out of the city.
●Baltimore’s violent crime rate is 370% higher than the U.S. rate. ●They have over 200 murders, 300 rapes, 3,600 robberies, 4,600 assaults, 7,800 burglaries, and 22,000 thefts per year. ●These are all 2 to 4 times the U.S. averages per 100,000 people.
●Over 35% of all Baltimore residents get food stamps. ●Over 85% of the kids get free breakfasts and lunches at school. ●More than 60% of Baltimore residents are receiving some form of government assistance.
●Baltimore’s welfare paradise is paid for by outrageously high taxes. It’s income tax rate of 3.2% is on top of the state rate of 4.75%. ●It’s property tax rate is more than double the other counties in Maryland. The sales tax rate is 6%. Corporations pay an income tax rate of 8.25%.
●The percentage of out of wedlock births to black women in Baltimore exceeds 72%. ●Baltimore and Detroit are the two cities with populations over 600,000 with the highest percentage of single parent households – 59% to 61%.
●The reported unemployment rate for Baltimore is 8.2%, one of the highest in the country. ●In reality, 42% of the working age population is not working. ■Young black men between the ages of 20 and 24 have a reported unemployment rate of 37%. ■But in reality, it is north of 60%. The number of employees in 1990 totaled 475,000. Today they total 365,000, down 23%
