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<blockquote data-quote="gerhard1" data-source="post: 3016796" data-attributes="member: 5391"><p>This thread reminds me of conversations I have had with Blacks many years ago in Seattle. I was working for Boeing at the time, and I got along well with the Black people with whom I worked. Yet they would, almost without exception, come unglued when a cop shot a Black. One time, a group of Black females was talking about the latest police shooting and this one was claimed as an accident. I asked why they thought it wasn't and the reason was the one shot went through the guy's heart, so it couldn't have been. I was also informed by this same group that ALL police shootings of Blacks were racially-motivated. Even where the guy is shooting at the cops? Yes; even then. The cops 1) were lying about the Black person having a gun, or 2) assuming they were not lying, they could have shot the gun out of his hand.</p><p></p><p>It wasn't until I came to Wichita, that I met a Black guy who was wiling to talk about this seeming disconnect. When I retired from Boeing, I decided to try my hand at being a PI. I obtained my license, including my gun-permit before I left Boeing and this Black guy who was a PI as well, came up to me and talked to me about a gang shooting of a young girl. Why, he asked me, was the Black community not demonstrating about this when they would be so angry about the most justified police shooting of an armed Black thug? I was surprised that he would talk that way to a White person, but he had to be very frustrated to do this. </p><p></p><p>Black-on-Black violence, not a mythical 'occupying army of racist police' is rippiing the community apart, and some refuse to face this. Instead, they focus on police brutality (which, I concede does exist) or availabilty of guns or White racism, or any of numeroous other factors in an effort to avoid the real issue. </p><p></p><p>What is the real issue? First, let me tell you what it is not. Racial loudmouths such as Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Maxine Waters, Barack Obama, the Democratic Party, and especially the media, seem to place blame everywhere but where it belongs: on the thugs doing the violence. They are victims, we are told, of a racist system that does not want them to succeed. Easy availability of guns gets blamed. Or an inadequate education system, or a depressed job market, or a racist criminal justice system that somehow seems to profit from Black men in prison. </p><p></p><p>There is something missing from the equation and that is the real issue: moral or personal responsibility. That is the essence of political correctness. The denial of moral responsibility for one's actions. When you don't encourage folks to take responsibility for their actions, you encourage irresponsible behavior. By denying moral resonsibility, you deny their complete humanity. Thus political correctness is a form of racism, and because it is well-intended, getting rid of it is nearly as impossible as Shylock's bargain.</p><p></p><p>Until this stops, the situation will not improve.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gerhard1, post: 3016796, member: 5391"] This thread reminds me of conversations I have had with Blacks many years ago in Seattle. I was working for Boeing at the time, and I got along well with the Black people with whom I worked. Yet they would, almost without exception, come unglued when a cop shot a Black. One time, a group of Black females was talking about the latest police shooting and this one was claimed as an accident. I asked why they thought it wasn't and the reason was the one shot went through the guy's heart, so it couldn't have been. I was also informed by this same group that ALL police shootings of Blacks were racially-motivated. Even where the guy is shooting at the cops? Yes; even then. The cops 1) were lying about the Black person having a gun, or 2) assuming they were not lying, they could have shot the gun out of his hand. It wasn't until I came to Wichita, that I met a Black guy who was wiling to talk about this seeming disconnect. When I retired from Boeing, I decided to try my hand at being a PI. I obtained my license, including my gun-permit before I left Boeing and this Black guy who was a PI as well, came up to me and talked to me about a gang shooting of a young girl. Why, he asked me, was the Black community not demonstrating about this when they would be so angry about the most justified police shooting of an armed Black thug? I was surprised that he would talk that way to a White person, but he had to be very frustrated to do this. Black-on-Black violence, not a mythical 'occupying army of racist police' is rippiing the community apart, and some refuse to face this. Instead, they focus on police brutality (which, I concede does exist) or availabilty of guns or White racism, or any of numeroous other factors in an effort to avoid the real issue. What is the real issue? First, let me tell you what it is not. Racial loudmouths such as Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Maxine Waters, Barack Obama, the Democratic Party, and especially the media, seem to place blame everywhere but where it belongs: on the thugs doing the violence. They are victims, we are told, of a racist system that does not want them to succeed. Easy availability of guns gets blamed. Or an inadequate education system, or a depressed job market, or a racist criminal justice system that somehow seems to profit from Black men in prison. There is something missing from the equation and that is the real issue: moral or personal responsibility. That is the essence of political correctness. The denial of moral responsibility for one's actions. When you don't encourage folks to take responsibility for their actions, you encourage irresponsible behavior. By denying moral resonsibility, you deny their complete humanity. Thus political correctness is a form of racism, and because it is well-intended, getting rid of it is nearly as impossible as Shylock's bargain. Until this stops, the situation will not improve. [/QUOTE]
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