Newsweek America's Getting Less White, and That Will Save It BY WILLIAM H. FREY DIVERSITY EXPLOSION: HOW NEW RACIAL DEMOGRAPHICS ARE REMAKING AMERICA BY WILLIAM H. FREY America reached an important milestone in 2011. That occurred when, for the first time in the history of the country, more minority babies than white babies were born in a year. Soon, most children will be racial minorities: Hispanics, blacks, Asians, and other nonwhite races. And, in about three decades, whites will constitute a minority of all Americans (see chart, below).
Television has had some fun with Marky Mark's crime spree. In the Law & Order episode entitled "Teenage Wasteland", a young punk instigates his crew to launch a lethal attack on a Chinese deliveryman. When the DAs get his juvenile police record unsealed, they discover the punk put out an eye of a classmate during an assault in school. In an episode of the 2011-2012 season of Blue Bloods, older brother Donnie Wahlberg is made to say (in character as a police detective) that an arrogant rich prick suspected of rape has a history of violence which includes putting out another man's eye in a brawl. I'll bet the episode writer had a field day putting that in Donnie Wahlberg's mouth.
Cedric Bartee, Unarmed Black Man Shot By Florida Deputy, Allegedly Had Hands Up By Barbara Liston ORLANDO, Fla., Dec 8 (Reuters) - A Florida sheriff called for calm after a 28-year-old unarmed black man in a stolen car was shot and critically wounded early on Monday by a white officer, after witness reports that the man had his hands up and amid racially charged protests nationwide about police violence. Man shot at police, receives 'disappointing' plea deal By: Ryan Luby, KOB Eyewitness News 4 He opened fire on Albuquerque officers. He faced more than a dozen charges. But not anymore. Jason Halverson could have faced 41 years in prison according to an analysis of court penalties by KOB. Instead, he'll receive, at most, one-tenth of that. "I think the right word would be disappointing," Shaun Willoughby, with the Albuquerque Police Officers Association (APOA) said. Halverson initially faced 14 charges, many of which included aggravated assault on police officers. Back in May 2013, four officers responded to his home where they said he shouted and fired at them at least four times using a rifle. The District Attorney's office, less than a month ago, pleaded down the original 14 charges to just two charges of aggravated assault on a peace officer. That's why APOA is so frustrated. "All these officers that were involved had specifically requested them -- the DA's office -- not to plea this case out at all," Willoughby said. "They wanted it to go to trial; they were victimized in this process, and they wanted [Halverson] to see [his] day in court."
We are going to be hearing this nonsense about how the guy had his hands up every time the cops engage in a fatal shooting of a black guy, as if cops are just out there executing black people gang land style.
There is, however, a somber point in the social outlook of Americans. Their sense of equality and human dignity is mainly limited to men of white skins. . . . Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man’s quest for wealth and an easy life they have been ruthlessly suppressed and exploited, degraded into slavery. The modern prejudice against Negroes is the result of the desire to maintain this unworthy condition. I do not believe there is a way in which this deeply entrenched evil can be quickly healed. But until this goal is reached there is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of the good cause. Albert Einstein
Throwing out quotes from individuals, however prominent, that lived their entire lives before the Civil Rights movement (hell, Einstein was born in the late 1800s) does little for pushing your boring and overused narrative that there is White Privilege in today's society. I mean, why not just drag out quotes from Harriet Tubman that we're supposed to interpret to mean there's still slavery in the US today?
What clearly cannot be said is that violence and nonviolence are tools, and that violence—like nonviolence—sometimes works. "Property damage and looting impede social progress," Jonathan Chait wrote Tuesday. He delivered this sentence with unearned authority. Taken together, property damage and looting have been the most effective tools of social progress for white people in America. They describe everything from enslavement to Jim Crow laws to lynching to red-lining. TA-NEHISI COATES
We owe obama one debt of gratitude. His offensive overuse of the race card has basically worn it out. He accomplished what even career race hustlers Jesse jackson and Al sharpton failed to do. Well-meaning and totally non-racist whites are beginning to discount the never-ending stream of supposed racial grievances.