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The Privilege of Police Hatred.
When I was in the fifth grade, a neighbor from a nice family, and a close friend of my older brother, was arrested. I’m not sure how, and I think the why was purely out of boredom – unfortunately, unassuaged by codeine and alcohol – but, long story short: he burned down a house that was being constructed. I was told that he stood at the scene of the crime until police arrived, and then decided it was time to run. He was caught. In response to a local reporter asking why he ran, he was quoted thusly: “I hate cops.”
This was no squalid, inner cityhood; it was practically the opposite of that. This young man, who, last I heard, has struggled immensely to get his life on track since that fateful (farcical) evening, just didn’t like that group of people who tended to kill his buzz. It turns out they’d have had reason to be concerned about the destruction a misguided young man could cause. (Who’d have thought they aren’t just there for no reason?)
I hope there are some conservatives thinking about doing some campaigning in the neighborhoods that have more reason to appreciate the men and women who guard them while they sleep. I also hope his media team know of this video:
Any thoughts? (This was more of a whipped up post since I wasn’t sure if anybody had seen the first video.)
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So far this new Leftist experiment has already brought about CHAZ, the recent utopian kingdom, where there were basically various thuggy types who got to be the police.
So it does seem that should we end up not having police, there will be a “substitute” deemed to be new and improved. But in actuality the substitute police will be much worse.
We don’t have to go back to Stalin’s time, or the indoctrination camps of Mao to know how things will turn out. We can simply go over to youtube and type in “CHAZ” and find everything we might wanna know about how the current group of Leftists’ heaven on earth will turn out.
PS Ami’s video was informative and well done.
I love Ami. He’s a brave guy. He did one like this a few years ago. Same idea, same results. Here it is:
Far as I am concerned pull the police from the cities. Let them have what they want.
But the problem is that they don’t all want it.
The white people interviewed in the first video had no skin in the game, nothing to lose.
The black people who were interviewed didn’t want the police to be pulled from the cities.
Not what I see in the news. Not what the black leaders are saying. They all voted Democrat rule. Let them have Democrat rule. They will not thank you for forcing police on them.
I suspect that the black “leaders” who are saying that live in secure, gated communities as, no doubt, Mrs. de Blasio does.
Ronald Reagan: Telling truth to stupidity and cowardice.
Was at a pro police rally last week. The only black there were the counter protestors. If blacks want more police or better police then why are they not rallying for that instead of showing up in droves for defund police rallies.
As the one guy in the video says, “They were formed to hunt escaped slaves.” No. That’s not how or when it all worked.
Too late. That is now how it happened. That is how it will be taught in schools.
Yeah, he’s great!
But when I’m in public places I generally find that people are pretty normal – in their own weird way. Not a lot of protesting. I see people my age posting things on Instagram that prove that they’re still immature, but I don’t see much conviction.
The Democrat party is pretty inconsistent in its efforts to get out the black vote, and they haven’t had much in the way of serious competition. For decades that party has been about the status quo, now people are talking about changing, um, everything. We might not win, but we’ll have to do a pretty lousy job to lose.
That’s my two cents on the matter.
Ron White, a decade after Reagan: “You can’t fix stupid.”
I see scared whites and emboldened blacks. I see Karen’s running amok and everybody fearful about masks and being turned into the government. I see people hoarding and staying home and fearful of going into town.
I agree about the people staying home, I just wished they watched less news when they’re there; Karens are probably doing more to make our point than we ever could; and I really think it would behoove us to allow Democrats to do most of the talking about what “whites,” and all of the other colorful people do, and whatnot. I get what you’re saying, but I don’t think they’re persuading as many people that way as they’d like to believe. (Plus, it’s, like… totally their thing.)
In any case, we seem to have pretty different perspectives on this; I don’t expect to change your mind. Can we at least agree that it would be best if I’m right? 😉
Yeah… that story of a black woman getting into a fight with a cop because he prevented her from defacing the BLM “mural” – “ALL lives matter! We need the police!”
I’m on her side.
White “liberals'” condescension toward blacks is stunning. And racist:
Ami’s the best!
Funny how they can stop and arrest her from painting over a sign on the street but the cops cant seem to stop people from destroying other property
Too many white Progressives dream of being Atticus Finch, the white savior. Give it a rest.
Actually I view most Leftists as Charles Manson. Trying to invoke their version of Helter Skelter.
TV interviews tell us nothing. Are there not polls? Polls that distinguish who is answering what? These presentations should be accompanied by real information because it’s important, indeed critical.
Why do you trust polls over your lyin’ eyes?
Depends on who does them. If done even moderately well they’re more accurate than selected interviews used to emphasize a narrative. The narrative would be more effective if we knew how widely the views presented are.
Aw, you beat me to that one. Wish I had read ahead before I dug that one up.
That’s probably true, but polls still have major limitations and they aren’t especially obvious. Nowadays it’s difficult to know how many people would even feel comfortable answering honestly – or how many might be trolls.
If we’ve got a handful of people who are willing to speak publicly, on the streets of Harlem, about how the police are needed, I think we should run with it. I don’t know that rallies would go so well, but campaign ads; speeches concentrated on the specific betrayals of the particular Democrats who’ve been running our inner cities; and smaller events nearby would be worth it.
If the President got so bold as to reserve the empty Yankee Stadium in Southern Harlem, the media would have to cover it, a bunch of progressives from Manhattan would show up to throw a tantrum, and some locals might show up and get an education on the intricacies of privilege politics.
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I think by the incredulity of those Ami does get on camera, we can assume the vast majority of blacks would find the notion that law enforcement is their natural enemy, or they’re incapable of obtaining a driver’s license or other form if ID to be ignorant and insulting. Because it is.
Such notions are mostly fashionable among college professors and their woke (typically white) students.
The CHAZ founders and city officials needn’t go back far in history to discover that the result would be a mess. Just rewind to Occupy Wall Street.