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RiffRandell

(5,909 posts) Wed Dec 23, 2015, 02:25 PM Dec 2015

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All I Want This Holiday is:

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All I Want This Holiday is: (Original Post) RiffRandell Dec 2015 OP

It's not clear to me if this is a comment on the plight of young black men, or if it is a wider Brickbat Dec 2015 #1

Could be both. Fuddnik Dec 2015 #2

I took it more as being a young black man RiffRandell Dec 2015 #6

Then turn off the TV Egnever Dec 2015 #3

Agreed. trotsky Dec 2015 #4

Yup a scared public is easily manipulated. Egnever Dec 2015 #5

The only influence the right has on me is donating and voting RiffRandell Dec 2015 #9

I'm so sorry I'm a breeder and have 2 kids which RiffRandell Dec 2015 #7

Suggest Santa LiberalElite Dec 2015 #8

No kidding. RiffRandell Dec 2015 #11

Depends on who you are. KentuckyWoman Dec 2015 #10

Brickbat

(19,339 posts)

1. It's not clear to me if this is a comment on the plight of young black men, or if it is a wider

Reply to RiffRandell (Original post)

Wed Dec 23, 2015, 02:33 PM

Dec 2015

scope.

Fuddnik

(8,846 posts)

2. Could be both.

Reply to Brickbat (Reply #1)

Wed Dec 23, 2015, 02:53 PM

Dec 2015

RiffRandell

(5,909 posts)

6. I took it more as being a young black man

Reply to Brickbat (Reply #1)

Wed Dec 23, 2015, 10:07 PM

Dec 2015

but as stated below with school shootings, it could be both.

Not implying young black men aren't victims of school shootings.

Egnever

(21,506 posts)

3. Then turn off the TV

Reply to RiffRandell (Original post)

Wed Dec 23, 2015, 03:11 PM

Dec 2015

America is safer now than any time in your lifetime.

trotsky

(49,533 posts)

4. Agreed.

Reply to Egnever (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 23, 2015, 03:14 PM

Dec 2015

The fear mongers on the right are the ones to blame for not feeling safe.

Egnever

(21,506 posts)

5. Yup a scared public is easily manipulated.

Reply to trotsky (Reply #4)

Wed Dec 23, 2015, 03:17 PM

Dec 2015

RiffRandell

(5,909 posts)

9. The only influence the right has on me is donating and voting

Reply to trotsky (Reply #4)

Wed Dec 23, 2015, 10:16 PM

Dec 2015

to the Left.

RiffRandell

(5,909 posts)

7. I'm so sorry I'm a breeder and have 2 kids which

Reply to Egnever (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 23, 2015, 10:11 PM

Dec 2015

1 was the age of the child victims at Newtown.

Unfortunately I'll be reminded of what you said at the next school shooting or when a black person is murdered by the police.

LiberalElite

(14,691 posts)

8. Suggest Santa

Reply to Egnever (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 23, 2015, 10:14 PM

Dec 2015

bring you a little empathy.

RiffRandell

(5,909 posts)

11. No kidding.

Reply to LiberalElite (Reply #8)

Thu Dec 24, 2015, 03:10 AM

Dec 2015

KentuckyWoman

(6,688 posts)

10. Depends on who you are.

Reply to Egnever (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 23, 2015, 10:22 PM

Dec 2015

This article was published more than a year ago. Things since have not gotten better.

http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/10/07/black-people-killed-police-lynched-jim-crow/

One thing is quantifiable. There are more black men in prison right now than were held as slaves in 1850.

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