Sanders: We Must End Over-Policing in African-American Neighborhoods

[Stephanie]

we see the Socialist Bernie and the witch Hillary is now coming out to pander for the black vote. I wonder how the good folks living there like hearing their party saying they should just live with the gangs investing and roving their neighborhoods? these people are such lowlife snakes again attacking our Civilian police force.

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By Melanie Hunter | February 12, 2016 | 1:17 PM EST


(CNSNews.com) – Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) called for an end of “over-policing” in black neighborhoods during the PBS Democratic presidential debate in Milwaukee, Wis., on Thursday night.

“What we have to do is end over-policing in African-American neighborhoods. The reality is that both the African-American community and the white community do marijuana at about equal rates,” Sanders said. “The reality is four times as many blacks get arrested for marijuana. Truth is that far more blacks get stopped for traffic violations.”

all of it here:
Sanders: We Must End Over-Policing in African-American Neighborhoods

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

If the behavior in said "African-American" neighborhoods does not improve, Bernie may get his wish, as there will be no policing of those neighborhoods whatsoever if the cops decide it's not worth the risk with their hands tied.

 

[DarkFury]

OH, so now they are giving away LOOTING ZONES! So kind of them.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Sanders is a fucking lunatic

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Bernie is a senile nut.

 

[Iceweasel]

Bernie is trying to pull in as many black votes as possible from Hillary. I think he needs to up his game and start offering free stuff, fried chicken, watermellon, rims, etc.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Is Sander really this fucking stupid?

 

[MACAULAY]

Sanders problem is that Blacks educated in rotting northern cities are too poorly educated to know that they are Socialists too.

They are a natural fit--a true Socialist and a whole culture that has been the victim of Democratic Party Policies for half a century...nobody is more ready for true open Socialism than Blacks educated in places like Chicago, Detroit, and Baltimore....the question is whether Sanders can teach them in time---that they are Socialists too.

Given time to campaign and let the voters get to know him, Karl Marx could get 75%--80% of the vote in Chicago...easy.

 

[Freewill]

Bernie's answer:

 

[Freewill]

Hillary.....Bernie.....Donald...............OH MY!

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Is Sander really this fucking stupid?

Yeah

 

[Wildman]

...if the cops decide it's not worth the risk with their hands tied.

and their lives at great risk if they do go into those vermin (read: Jungle Bunnies) infested shit holes, then if they are forced to go, go in full auto.

 

[midcan5]

LOL oh jeez wasn't racism a thing of the past. LOL

"Two themes dominate American politics today: at the forefront is declining economic opportunity; coursing underneath is race. This book connects the two. It explains popular enthusiasm for policies injuring the middle class in terms of "dog whistle politics": coded racial appeals that carefully manipulate hostility toward nonwhites. Examples of dog whistling include repeated blasts about criminals and welfare cheats, illegal aliens, and shari a law in the heartland. Superficially, these provocations have nothing to do with race, yet they nevertheless powerfully communicate messages about threatening nonwhites. In the last so years, dog whistle politics has driven broad swaths of white voters to adopt a self-defeating hostility toward government, and in the process has remade the very nature of race and racism. American politics today-and the crisis of the middle class-simply cannot be understood without recognizing racism's evolution and the power of pernicious demagoguery.

I initially sketched the ideas elaborated here in the Sixteenth Annual Derrick Bell Lecture on Race in American Society, delivered at New York University in the fall of 2011. The professor honored by the lecture series, Derrick Bell, passed away less than a month before the lecture he had invited me to deliver. You may have heard of him . Leading up to the 2012 election, a rightwing media outfit promised a "bombshell" about President Barack Obama. It turned out to be a grainy video of Obama as a student at Harvard Law School introducing Bell at a rally, and then giving him a hug. The warm clasp, media provocateur Andrew Breirbart's group claimed, symbolized Obamas full embrace of an intellectual leader they described as "the worst Johnny Appleseed of a nasty racialist legal theory [that argues] that the law is a weapon of the majority whites to oppress 'people of color.'"

From: 'Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class' by Ian Haney López

Additional point from another source.

"Gingrich, of course, denied this, offering “a bromide on the value of hard work” which was met with applause by the audience. Stanley writes: “Williams followed up by pointing out to Gingrich that expressions such as ‘lacking work ethic’ were associated with negative racial stereotypes…and it was disingenuous for Gingrich to deny them. The audience loudly booed Williams’s response.” In other words, “lacking a work ethic” is code for “lazy blacks,” just like “food stamps” or “welfare queens.” In 2012, you don’t need to say, “Negroes are shiftless freeloaders” to tap into the racist ideology of a portion of the audience. You just need to use the right code words." Not Your Grandfather's Philosophy - New Rambler Review

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[SassyIrishLass]

Go to any ghetto...there isn't enough policing

 

[Wildman]

Sanders is a fucking lunatic

and his opposition is even worse, a brain damaged female venomous snake.

 

[Confounding]

I think he needs to up his game and start offering free stuff, fried chicken, watermellon, rims, etc.

Careful, your racism is showing.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

I wouldn't even police the ghettos. Let the animals and thugs kill each other.

 

[Iceweasel]

The cops have backed off due to the constant criticism, city hall throwing them under the bus and media portraying them as Gestapo. The results have been increased crime.

 

[Wildman]

Is Sander really this fucking stupid?

YES!!

 

[Iceweasel]

I think he needs to up his game and start offering free stuff, fried chicken, watermellon, rims, etc.

Careful, your racism is showing.

Careful, your IQ is showing. I'm poking fun at them, I don't agree that black, white or brown people needs special consideration from politicians.