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I’m not even talking to that extreme.  If you are an overweight white woman with a couple of ankle tattoos, cutoff jean shorts, and a Roll Tide tank top you are probably being looked at a little harder if you walk into a high end store on Rodeo Drive.

Look, I might be wrong but I’ve thought for awhile people are more  prejudiced against what they perceive is your social class than your race.

OK, then, 14th Amendment, long time ago, so we already have equity and fairness.  Huh, problem solved and we didn't know it.

I ate last night yet it appears I may eat again today. Why eat if you are going to have to do it again might as well give up.

You just can’t submit to facts when your narrative is challenged can you.  You throw a lot of data out there on COVID.  But when you see the written words of a political organization that is front and center you can only try to demean the messenger.

nice.  I see that a lot these days. 

No, I'm trying to clarify that BLM and M4BL are completely different organizations. Neither is "parent" nor "child" to each other. M4BL is a coalition with members from a lot of racial justice groups, including BLM, but it doesn't appear that either is "taking marching orders" from the other. 

Is BLM headed by some left-wing radicals? Yes, and if you want to impugn them, there are some things on their OWN website that you can point to. But they are not M4BL and M4BL is not their parent organization. Don't conflate the two like Acton did.  

No, I'm trying to clarify that BLM and M4BL are completely different organizations. Neither is "parent" nor "child" to each other. M4BL is a coalition with members from a lot of racial justice groups, including BLM, but it doesn't appear that either is "taking marching orders" from the other.

Is BLM headed by some left-wing radicals? Yes, and if you want to impugn them, there are some things on their OWN website that you can point to. But they are not M4BL and M4BL is not their parent organization. Don't conflate the two like Acton did. 

Oprah Winfrey Network? This is getting really confusing.

I'm confused by this one Max. Can you elaborate?

Yes.  There is lots of research out there, but to summarize it broadly:

1. Minorities tend to be over represented in the criminal and juvenile justice system
2. They tend to be under represented in the more lenient aspects of the criminal and juvenile justice system (diversion, probation, etc.)
3. Contact with the criminal and juvenile justice system, especially incarceration, causes problems and worse outcomes for people down the road

So the effort has been to identify why this occurs.  For example, a mostly white suburb may have their own diversion program and youth can avoid the system entirely, while a youth in a predominantly black community would typically be referred directly to the system.

Most black people are killed by: other black people. Not the police.

Blacks are only about 13% of the population, maybe less. Yet they commit about 52% of all homicides in the US. And 93% of all black homicide victims were killed by: other black people.

I think there is a poverty/class problem in this country, and people are miscategorizing it as racism. Reduction in poverty and giving people more opportunities in life tends to lead to reductions in crime and crime rates.

All this virtue signaling and sandbagging bullshit isn't helping anyone. If people really want to help blacks in this country, they ought to do something about improving education and job opportunities in the poor black inner cities, they ought to do something about the corrupt politicians (mostly all Democratic by the way) who run these cities into the ground, and they ought to do something about employers paying these people a living wage. Walmart for instance is the largest single employer in the US, yet doesn't pay it's workers an actual living wage. Walmart actually has programs where they teach their workers how to get on government programs to get aid to cover the shortfalls in their living expenses.

Just look at the millions of manufacturing and other US jobs that have been wiped out here and gone off to China, never to return. With the financialization of the US economy coinciding with American companies moving to China- US multinationals have made record amounts of money by exploiting China, and where has that record profit gone? In the hands of a very tiny % of executives and shareholders through stock repurchasing programs. The American worker has gotten virtually none of it.

The average CEO compensation for a Fortune 500 alone has grown about 1,000% since 1980. 1,000%. Typical worker compensation? 12%. It would take an average worker about 1,000 years of working to make what an average CEO makes in just one year.

This is the real problem. And the black people have probably been hit the hardest by this outsourcing spree. Cities like Detroit which have a huge black population thrived when those black people had decent, well paying jobs which gave them a livable wage. Look at Detroit now. It has lost basically all of it's manufacturing jobs. The state of Michigan lost 50% of all of it's manufacturing jobs from 2000-2010 alone.

Of course US multinationals will tweet black lives matter or virtue signal or do other meaningless PR stunts- because it will allow them to shift blame and not have to answer any questions. Jamie Dimon kneeling in front of a giant bank vault at a Chase bank was just too much. I literally broke out in laughter. These corporate people are complete ass clowns. And the masses fall for their bullshit hook line and sinker.