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Deme670's avatar

I am a black female and it’s very frustrating to me to see how the media reports. I grew up in a loving home with both of my parents present always. My father worked several jobs so my mom could be home to take care of me and my siblings. I did not have any siblings from outside of their marriage. They were married 50 years before my mom passed away. My siblings and I were educated and had no student loans. My mother’s siblings were all married had children and there were no children from adulterous behaviors. Nor on my father’s side with his siblings. It makes me sad to see how the black family is portrayed in the news, there are families out there who have a wonderful family life. Work hard and are stand up members of their community. They don’t use race as a crutch and at the same time it makes me angry to see how a lot of the black community are really like what you see on the news, theives, murderous behavior and down right ghetto.

Please don’t put all eggs in one basket.

If you’re white stop letting folks create fear in you.

These judges should be held accountable for their actions and stop being soft just because someone shares the same skin color.

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John Leake's avatar

Thanks for your comment! I am sorry that white and black liberal activists have made such an appalling mess of race relations, which were very good in this country 25 years ago

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pretty-red, old guy's avatar

YES, they were MUCH better 25 years ago. Surely Deme670 will also attest to that. She and her family certainly are a rarity, a very precious one. Would that our society could learn their secret, their traditions, their morals and teach it widely to those SO much in need.

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William's avatar

Agreed, but some posts/commentors of yours, including a few above, personify that alienation and hate for those different from what “they like or want their slice of the world to be like. Note the couple of disgusting comments that weave Jewish hate into this line. Hate one, easy to justify hate for others - in the interesting reparations or “fairness”. Once tolerated easily to spread.

This is not a black or religion issue, it is a human condition issue. What does one condition oneself to justify and support?

A heck of a lot more CS Lewis rationality would help. Not, “Well, those are the right type of blacks, Jews, Catholics, etc. Obama started, Biden fully weaponized hate against those who disagree.

I would appreciate you filtering out the hate filled tropes, mostly anti-Semitic as witnessed by a few above.

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Yoganana's avatar

Sadly the reality is that anti semites will take every opportunity to vilify Jews and Israel. They will do so whether the subject has any relevance to their comments or not.

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Margaret H. Brazda's avatar

Your comment is really appreciated! You are proof that sound families are the key to successful child rearing and produce fine , responsible adults! Happy for your success!

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William's avatar

💯 with and in support of you.😇. Ben Carson, Thomas Sowell, etc. 👏

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Inisfad's avatar

I am glad that you had the proper upbringing with a nuclear family and father that was present in your life. Sadly, I cannot say whether this is the ‘norm’ in the black community, but it is no secret that government ‘assistance’ has caused the decline of the nuclear family, encouraged single mothers, etc., and that this has impacted the black community rather harshly.

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Deme670's avatar

You’re right it’s not the norm in a lot of our communities and I pray for children in all communities to have both parents present in their upbringing and for those parents to take their responsibilities seriously while raising their children.

We have three and they have been the most wonderful blessings to my husband and I. They’re all adults now and I am so proud.

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Nadine A White's avatar

Good post. I can't figure out where the ghetto behavior came from. Young black woman acting like animals right along the males.

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Dena's avatar

I would say the so called role models in music & sports mostly. The music industry ( mostly white men) was known to purposely promote & glamorize a violent ghetto lifestyle using rap. Of course that included slutty looking women. It was part of the effort to destroy western culture, same way the feminist movement was a deliberate attempt to break down our families.

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Remy's avatar

Thomas Sowell discusses this in both “Discrimination and Disparities” and “Intellectuals and Race”. i’m well aware that race is not the issue (as opposed to what CRT proposes) after having lived in Europe, Africa and Canada for extended periods of my life … the culture wars are the issue and the DEI agenda (DIE is a more appropriate mnemonic) is the cancer that currently fuels this racial tension. there’s no denying that racism exists … but it’s NOT systemic as the justice warriors claim: this is a LIE

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Realist's avatar

"Letting violent offenders roam free suggests that the objective is to stoke fear, loathing, and division in our society."

It is just one of the efforts by the Deep State to disrupt societal cohesion. The purpose is to divide and conquer.

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Bobby's avatar

Yes, the intent is to destroy western civilization and bring down the existing government so they can install the new communist (Democrat Socialist) government.

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Realist's avatar

More likely to strengthen our current plutocratic oligarchy...we no longer have a democratic republic.

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Bob S's avatar

Sam Francis said something about it. The elite upper class uses the lower class to squeeze the middle so that they would submit to authoritarianism, the suspension of due process and the constitution, all in the name of law and order. Promote/allow criminality to the point the people will put up with anything in order to make it stop.

IOW the same old game plan.

The Dim Vanguard for the Bolsheviks promotes chaos and the Repug National Guard Palantir fascist/nazi total surveillance solves it. What's not to like?

More big and intrusive government/tyranny all in the name of safety, the existing laws/constitution that if implemented could solve the problem, be damned.

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Frank Canzolino's avatar

Sowing division is the only thing that DEMOCRATS got…

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Troll Hunter's avatar

Oh, they even talk about it. Mile Nellis, campaign manager for Kamala Harris, posts at substack. Many of his live videos (you can watch the past postings at substack), when not expressing TDS, were expressly about how the Dems can get their proverbial groove back. I am not being sarcastic in the least when I say it's truly sad. Look at what they've become..

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Leah's avatar
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Backs are more likely to be murdered by other blacks statistically than whites. It does everyone, especially blacks, a disservice to let mentally ill career criminals roam the streets.

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Kerri's avatar

My children were born in the 80’s and had to ask me in middle school about racism. They’d always gone to mixed race schools and had friends from all backgrounds. The racial divide was gone! Somehow it’s gotten reversed. DEI, fatherless homes and media bias contributed to much of this! Our media loves to report according to their bias instead of using facts, truth and realism! No wonder individuals on the web carry more weight for truth than MSM.

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Dr. K's avatar
12hEdited

Thank Obama His Own Self who left only two legacies: 1) The complete recrudescence of racialism that had been largely eliminated and 2) the bankruptcy of the US health care system. Clearly the second worst president in the history of the country, behind only Woodrow Wilson.

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Margaret H. Brazda's avatar

Such a spot on comment! Obama was a thug president who promoted racism and LGBTQ ! This damaged our social structure in so many ways!

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guest1.6's avatar

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Troll Hunter's avatar

Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, needs much closer and longer scrutiny. Her family appears to be of the Khazarian "tribe" doing the bidding of a "greater Israel" agenda accomplished through the workings of the Hudson Bolshevics here, infiltrating FBI, CIA and positions of public leadership, promulgating and planning the wider dissemination of their Marxist philosophies since sometime in the 1800s.

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Inisfad's avatar

Sorry to disappoint, but Obama’s mother and father were not Jewish. Apparently his father married a Jew after he divorced Obama’s mother.

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LJ's avatar

I've thought about that too. My parents taught my sibling and myself in the late 60's, early 70's, to not consider color at all. They rarely talked about it much at all and when there was a consideration of it, they emphasized not judging based on color. My dad also had been brought up that way. My mom came at it as a believer in Jesus, knowing that God didn't judge based on skin color. Now everything is back to racial divide. But these dividing words and actions are, with, again, some known exceptions (e.g. KKK or Nazi following skin-heads), mostly coming from the non-whites, not the whites.

As a side note: you may see me rail against radical Islam and against the Islamic activism I see in the USA. I want to be clear that I am not opposed to Muslims/Islam/Middle Easterners/Asian Muslims as a race. I am opposed to the institution of Sharia Law or Laws that would impose Islamic mores on me or other Americans in DIRECT violation of our Constitution.

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Kerri's avatar

I agree with you. The problem with Muslims is their religion teaches that all others are infidels and should be eliminated! If that’s the case, why did we allow them to immigrate here?

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LJ's avatar

Yes. True. However, we do have to consider that America is a country that has long legally, constitutionally championed religious freedom, EVEN for a religion that advocates these things that you and I find heinous and repugnant?. So, here’s my serious question for you: how do we prevent this legally? Under the constitution.

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Brien's avatar

Rap music was not an organic development inside the black community. It was introduced from the outside, arriving with money and organization. It was not even a product of the music industry, although the music industry was the instrument of its introduction and eventual success. It was aimed specifically at urban, inner city blacks and it eventually it took hold. It was anti-establishment in the extreme, entering the music scene like a pestilence, creating a musical wall and culture where none had existed before. It was the anti-Motown pandemic, the new all-beat sound with its forced transmissibility and its built-in virulence. It was the killer-app of the music scene. It was designed to divide and imprison, to be the weeds in the garden that would never need tending, never going away.

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nonwo's avatar
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I read a leaked recording then transcribed of the music industry owners- all “deep state” to put it nicely, but we all know who they are. In detail there was a “secret meeting” they talked about further destroying the white race by rap music, each song must have pornography/violence. Mind you the “deep state” are about as white as they come. It was a long and detailed transcript.

The author of the article was present and disgusted . He had a conscious and wanted to get the word out. He was afraid for his life he said these are very dangerous people (not the rappers) and will stop at nothing until they destroy America from within.

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pretty-red, old guy's avatar

So, please clarify:

The deep state you refer to was NOT governmental actors but higher ups in the "music" industry with similar strategies as communists and / or America haters to destroy America? right?

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Marc's avatar

I bet they were all diminutive headgear enthusiasts.

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nonwo's avatar

Crisis actors aren’t deep state they are hired by deep state for pay. Deep state can always “rent a crowd” (company name) for a bunch at one time.

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nonwo's avatar

You got it

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Marina's avatar

NGOs, beaurocrats, elites that pay of the idiot politicians

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nonwo's avatar

🎯

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Troll Hunter's avatar

Yes. Much if not most of this "music" that I first heard in the 80s is just screaming hatred towards society, like "I H-A-T-E EVERYONE" at the top of the lungs. NO melody. No harmony. It's slamming beats without a heart whatsoever. It's not just a problem any longer-- They lost the song in their hearts because they focused on killing as The Only Means of "solving" their predicament, I clouding killing their own heart.

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pretty-red, old guy's avatar

as I recall the music's main detrimental affects were denigrating women as useful only as sex tools and high levels of violence and disrespect via heavy use of crude diatribe and cursing.

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nonwo's avatar
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All deep state. Deep state also has white songwriters writing violent and pornographic “music” for black rappers -for the cause”-destroy America from within for globalization.

The U.S. is a monkey wrench as everyone has a gun.

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nonwo's avatar
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Songs may be written by deep state and given to unknowns to sing with the promise of unbelievable wealth and a one way ticket out of the ghetto. This is my opinion and I have not researched for accuracy. But it makes sense. These singers have mothers, daughters ,wives and girlfriends.

I don’t think they make up this filth.

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nonwo's avatar

The ones that tell the truth are murdered. Michael Jackson, Tupac etc. especially if they are phenoms

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albert venezio's avatar

As always John you are a true humanist - thank you! I agree with your premise, especially sowing division between people. Many people get trapped by this but I believe it is the Psycho's at the top plan to keep us at each others throats so we don't understand who the real enemy is - the Psychos at the top - and we don't put our energy to getting them out of power!

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Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH's avatar

Thanks Albert! This is John Leake replying. I always appreciate your thoughtful and encouraging commentary. Thank you for your support! Regards, John

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albert venezio's avatar

Thank you John!

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Hawks Perch's avatar

EXACTLY.

"I've made it my life's mission to destroy the United States. I hate this country and, I hate all of the people in it!" ~~ George Soros, Newsweek magazine 1979

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albert venezio's avatar

Exactly Hawks Perch, they often telegraph their intentions!

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Elizabeth Falconer's avatar

In the same vein, the young black man that was with Michael Brown in Ferguson MO was just gunned down. Media tried to say it was cops, but NO---young black gangster style shooting. Black on black crime, another wasted young life.

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Realist's avatar

"Black on black crime, another wasted young life."

But I doubt if any are destined to a fruitful life.

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Danny Huckabee's avatar

Obama and his staff did everything they could to stir up racial anger in blacks. Like Lenin said, "More chaos!". A consistent feature of communist insurgencies.

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guest1.6's avatar

Obama, "abandoned" by his African father's death despises Blacks more than Whites, that is why he leads Blacks down a counter-productive, bitter and vengeful road, while he lives a "Lilly-White" existence on Martha's Vineyard.

Raised by a transvestite nanny, he embraced and promulgated transexuality wherever he could.

His communist beliefs "naturally" attached themselves afterwards to his twisted bitter persona.

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dmickg's avatar

And what of the people on the train that just walked away from this poor injured and dying woman, offering no help?! This just sickens me!!!! Where is our sanity? Our humanity? WHERE IS GOD?!!

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Barbara Charis's avatar

I don't judge anyone by the color of their skin...there are some great black people I admire. I am aware of Lyndon Johnson's Plantation Scheme...altering black families into single women raising children without men in the home. My mother taught in a black neighborhood for years without a problem, until Johnson and the Democrats promoted paying unmarried women to raise children. Then, years later my mother was forced out of teaching, when two young black thugs beat her up in her classroom, after school, and put her into the hospital, because she would not change their bad grades. Our government with its deadly health practices, injecting aluminum and mercury, etc. into the bodies of the young....and the very questionable poor educational system has caused the proliferation of uneducated and mentally unbalanced young blacks, but almost everyone in America has been affected by these systems, too.

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Andrew Devlin's avatar

Spare the rod, spoil the adult!

The constant wrist slapping of young offenders has to stop while they are still impressionable. They learn not to fear the consequences of their actions and just keep doing what they feel like doing. At some point, criminality becomes their way of life!

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KFH's avatar

Wow. Stokes needs to BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THIS MURDER!!!!

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Chris Steiner's avatar

Healthy people don't aggress, menace, or defraud, though against those who do are a surprisingly effective defense. With poor diet and toxicity (e.g. fluoride per Dartmouth College studies) demonstrably implicated in criminality across many studies, what "corrections" facilities feed inmates is incorrect and inedible. I'm not as concerned about potential assailants as I am of what I know I'm capable do to defend myself, as well as negotiation skills fortified by public speaking. Especially for those who imagine themselves slaves, I explain that it's best to know how one is presently a slave, to not be educated merely in slavery's history, and that we have the same enemy (e.g. Federal Reserve and its mechanics inducing debt slavery in substitute for the more conspicuous chattel slavery), so it's counterproductive to guilt trip or victimize fellow debt slaves.

Capitalism being simply the right to privacy property should explain how maximizing capitalism can defeat centralization of power, like communism, socialism, and fascism/corporatism. What could be more fascist (corporatist) than the privately-owned Federal Reserve issuing currency and credit?

Not everyone has enough money, though everyone has the same amount of time. Because human productivity is virtually unlimited -- limited only by time, technological innovation, and resources -- an economy's supply of currency shouldn't be limited by any commodity or even basket of commodities, lest we restrict our productivity, our beautiful potential creativity be sapped by bankster gangsters. Large amounts of commodities, like precious metals, can be dumped onto markets, lowering prices, allowing them to be bought back in higher quantities. As technology increases, so should our standards of living, but the opposite is happening, especially for those participating exclusively in usurious, rigged economies. Instead, promote and participate in more equitable commerce media like community currencies, time banks, barter networks, cooperatives, swap shops, and community gardens, where you can buy, sell, trade, and give plants, seeds, cuttings, knowledge, and food. With these, defeat usury, ensure abundance, afford premium-quality services and heirloom-quality goods, allow more time for civic involvement, encourage patient conversation, trend towards a gifting society. By so fertilizing patient conversation, more progress is to be had than by trying to educate on any other issue, showing we can find more and more time to cultivate ourselves and our civilizations. Whipping the money changers with minimal physical conflict, we can cease feeding those beasts, proving we are not dependent, exiting the rusting global plantation.

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Texaspeaches's avatar

Many hate white people. Resentment taught and stoked for many years.

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Ben Jordan's avatar

No shit Sherlock!

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