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bluestateguy

(44,173 posts)
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 05:06 PM Jun 2014

Where are the leaders of the white community?

Why won't the leaders of the white community speak out, and tell these thugs to knock it off? The leaders of the white community need to reject and denounce these hatred in the Las Vegas shooting.

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Where are the leaders of the white community? (Original Post) bluestateguy Jun 2014 OP
excellent. Whisp Jun 2014 #1
yessir tk2kewl Jun 2014 #17
Interesting point. nt el_bryanto Jun 2014 #2
I see what you did Skittles Jun 2014 #3
Well said and much deserved. nt sufrommich Jun 2014 #4
Why how dare you say white people are to blame...Chicago! Chicago! randys1 Jun 2014 #5
Sadly Many Are Not On Top Of Current Events grilled onions Jun 2014 #6
I could not even fathom PowerToThePeople Jun 2014 #8
You read my mind. bravenak Jun 2014 #7
YES!! SkyDaddy7 Jun 2014 #25
Then why hasn't Obama set up a program for them? It's still his fault!!! freshwest Jun 2014 #34
I blame the music they listen to gwheezie Jun 2014 #9
just look at justin bieber and all the trouble JI7 Jun 2014 #12
I wish we could send them all back to Europe! xfundy Jun 2014 #10
I have to admit, SevenSixtyTwo Jun 2014 #15
Could you imagine... SkyDaddy7 Jun 2014 #26
This message was self-deleted by its author valerief Jun 2014 #11
Zing! n/t countryjake Jun 2014 #13
They're as asleep as SevenSixtyTwo Jun 2014 #14
hmmm Kali Jun 2014 #36
Intra racial murders are reported on all the time. Rex Jun 2014 #38
Yes black on black homicide SevenSixtyTwo Jun 2014 #39
Those Wall St. welfare whites simply have no personal responsibility. nt valerief Jun 2014 #16
Excellent! thank you! n/t etherealtruth Jun 2014 #18
Do you mean the 1% Libertarians and Tea Party Founders and Funders? Demeter Jun 2014 #19
Harry Reid Livluvgrow Jun 2014 #20
Harry Reid Called It Domestic Terrorism Leith Jun 2014 #24
"Nobody is raggin' on white people" Not the OP, no. (But yes, some have been guilty of just that.... AverageJoe90 Jun 2014 #27
+10 840high Jun 2014 #29
+1 btrflykng9 Jun 2014 #28
Who are they? Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jun 2014 #21
There's a White community? n/t Skip Intro Jun 2014 #22
Step forward Joe Biden. Nye Bevan Jun 2014 #23
they're standing next to cliven bundy underthematrix Jun 2014 #30
Exactly... butterfly77 Jun 2014 #31
Kick,kick,kicked&Recommended! butterfly77 Jun 2014 #32
Sadly, the type of leader this mob would listen to Erda Jun 2014 #33
Every white person who has not spoken out against it IronLionZion Jun 2014 #35
pretty interesting to see what your thread has "caught" Kali Jun 2014 #37
More proof that conservatives lack the gene for sarcasm. baldguy Jun 2014 #40

grilled onions

(1,957 posts)
6. Sadly Many Are Not On Top Of Current Events
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 05:17 PM
Jun 2014

If it does not involve them, their "popular districts" or best districts they lose interest. Far too many spend most of their time running for office or trying to get reelected. They don't want to annoy potential donors. They don't want to make waves. Fence sitting is almost as benign as ignorance of all the shootings going on. Someone, somewhere must be making a scrapbook of all these killings from schools,malls movie houses. These tragedies must be remembered. They are not fake, they were not part of a play.Those sadly involved know that. That empty bedroom,those family photos of someone they loved who is no longer there,know. But politicians,in general, seem carefully detached from such heavy issues.

 

PowerToThePeople

(9,610 posts)
8. I could not even fathom
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 05:26 PM
Jun 2014
These tragedies must be remembered. They are not fake, they were not part of a play.Those sadly involved know that. That empty bedroom,those family photos of someone they loved who is no longer there,know.


My heart aches at the thought of losing my child. I do not even know how I could handle it. I probably wouldn't. I would probably be gone shortly after. I could not imagine the dept of pain a parent would feel losing their child. It is disgusting how little the people that have the power to change things care so little to do anything about it.
 

bravenak

(34,648 posts)
7. You read my mind.
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 05:19 PM
Jun 2014

There must be a breakdown in the family structure. We need to call on them to provided good role models and outreach to prevent another tragedy. These violent youth will grow up to be super-thugs, running around causing murder and mayhem and drowning our nation in a crime wave of massive proportions. Why are the communities letting their kids run around wild devastating families and children.

SkyDaddy7

(6,045 posts)
25. YES!!
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 07:22 PM
Jun 2014

The white leaders (I'm white) have failed us...They are silent!!

Us white folks don't like the light to be shown on our short comings...That is why this story is not being reported as HOME GROWN NRA ENABLED WHITE FOLK TERRORISM...White Power terrorism or White separatist terrorism or at the very least Domestic Terrorism (White folks way of glossing over the "white" part of the problem) LOL! True though.

I like your pictures on your signature!! I tried to post some of my wife & I but never seem to get to work.

Take care & see ya around!

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
34. Then why hasn't Obama set up a program for them? It's still his fault!!!
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 10:44 PM
Jun 2014
Seriously, though, that was the perfect comment!

Response to bluestateguy (Original post)

 

SevenSixtyTwo

(255 posts)
14. They're as asleep as
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 06:09 PM
Jun 2014

black leaders are about daily homicides of blacks by blacks. Intra racial murder seldom raises an eyebrow like interracial murder does. It's all about the drama.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
38. Intra racial murders are reported on all the time.
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 12:35 AM
Jun 2014

Did you think that sounded clever? Intra and interracial?

 

SevenSixtyTwo

(255 posts)
39. Yes black on black homicide
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 07:22 AM
Jun 2014

as well as white on white homicide is reported all the time. It's only a media money maker when it's black murdered by white. And black leaders only respond when it's black murdered by white. It's as if they only care if it's a racial issue. Racism really stirs the pot and they get more publicity and make more money, their ultimate goal. We need black and white leaders who want to end racism. Not perpetuate it for monetary gain.

 

Demeter

(85,373 posts)
19. Do you mean the 1% Libertarians and Tea Party Founders and Funders?
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 07:02 PM
Jun 2014

Look in DC, LA, NY, and the Caymans.

Livluvgrow

(377 posts)
20. Harry Reid
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 07:07 PM
Jun 2014

Must've turned black then because I could have sworn that well never mind continue on with your b.s I am going to go excercise my white privilege and look for a job. Oh wait I am a white male i shouldn't have to look for a job because struggles dont impact me the way it does everybody else.

Leith

(7,808 posts)
24. Harry Reid Called It Domestic Terrorism
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 07:21 PM
Jun 2014

Give'em Hell Harry the senior senator from Nevada. What more do you want?

John Boehner refused to comment.

And, Livluvgrow, chill out a little. Nobody is raggin' on white people (I'm so white that I glow in the dark and I'm fine with the OP).

 

AverageJoe90

(10,745 posts)
27. "Nobody is raggin' on white people" Not the OP, no. (But yes, some have been guilty of just that....
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 07:33 PM
Jun 2014

and they know who they are, pretty much.)

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
21. Who are they?
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 07:10 PM
Jun 2014

The only people I know who think about themselves as 'the white community' are jackasses like Stormfronters.

I'm not trying to pull 'No True Scotsman' here - I'll certainly acknowledge that the shooters were white, like so many mass shooters.

But I don't think 'the white community' even thinks of itself as a 'community', or could ever agree on who 'the leaders' are, even if it did.

You'd probably get nutballs like Pat Robertson self-promoting himself to 'white community leader' status.

 

butterfly77

(17,609 posts)
31. Exactly...
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 08:03 PM
Jun 2014
I've been saying it for years. In America seems as though only AA are suppose to have some type of leader as though they are a separate entity from another planet.

Erda

(107 posts)
33. Sadly, the type of leader this mob would listen to
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 08:28 PM
Jun 2014

is fund-raising off of their mass ignorance. The Sarah Palin type of leader wants the mob to be mobilized and angry. The John McCain or George Bush types have no influence. The mob has grown beyond being reasoned with. It has no rationality -- only hatred and ignorance. You cannot control them with reason. This is what happens when you embolden ignorant, hateful people that you fear, because they will do things that normal society would not condone. Thank Hannity, Limbaugh, but also Boehner, Cantor, Rubio, Jindal for not standing up for principle. And thank the funding by the Brothers Koch for trying to destroy the rule of law.

The principled leaders are not listened to. Take Bob Dole -- if anyone has earned the right to speak, Senator Dole has. And look at what Ted Cruz said to discredit him.

The Republican machine created this monster. It can no longer control it.

And, if anyone one of their "leaders" tries to reason with them, they will be deemed "traitors" and "turncoats" and their lives will be threatened.

IronLionZion

(45,380 posts)
35. Every white person who has not spoken out against it
Wed Jun 11, 2014, 09:49 AM
Jun 2014

is actually supporting domestic terrorism and must be sent to Gitmo for the good of America. Let Freedom Reign!

Maybe its time to deport the Tea party.

 

baldguy

(36,649 posts)
40. More proof that conservatives lack the gene for sarcasm.
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 07:57 AM
Jun 2014

Does that mean they're not quite fully human?

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