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...is because they actually don't care about those things as their true love, loyalty, and devotion is to serving the interests of government and party elites.

I say TRUE. What do you say?

 
Harrowing video captured bystanders desperately trying to help some of the eight high school students shot at a Philadelphia bus stop as they sobbed and clutched their blood-soaked injuries.

The bystander footage of the traumatic aftermath of Wednesday’s mass shooting — in which cops say 30 shots were fired, leaving a 16-year-old boy in critical condition — was uploaded to X as proof that “Philly is a warzone.”

It shows frantic pedestrians trying to help several of the sobbing students prone on the sidewalk.

A distraught woman could be heard screaming as the crowd circled to help the children, with one of the male students groaning in pain over a gunshot wound in his right thigh.
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This sort of mass shooting crime is so common in the deep blue Democrat dystopian cities that it doesn't rise to national attention in the Media.
 
...is because they actually don't care about those things as their true love, loyalty, and devotion is to serving the interests of government and party elites.

I say TRUE. What do you say?


They don't cover it because it isn't news. Dog bites man isn't newsworthy, man bites dog is. Things that commonly happen never make the news.
 
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They don't cover it because it isn't news. Dog bites man isn't newsworthy, man bites dog is. Things that commonly happen never make the news.

Wrong. They don't cover it because it might cast the party/state in a less than glorious light.
 
BS. It's covered. What isn't covered are the many positive activities that occur in black communities. THAT keeps us divided and people like you guys running your mouths in forums like this about blacks when whites committ way more crime.
 
BS. It's covered. What isn't covered are the many positive activities that occur in black communities. THAT keeps us divided and people like you guys running your mouths in forums like this about blacks when whites committ way more crime.
Yeah, 99.99% of all “positive activities” everywhere by every race of people don’t get covered in the news.

Person to person, black people commit WAY more crime. The only way you can make your BS argument to work, is to pretend to be so stupid that you don’t understand that black people are only 12% of the population,
 
BS. It's covered. What isn't covered are the many positive activities that occur in black communities. THAT keeps us divided and people like you guys running your mouths in forums like this about blacks when whites committ way more crime.
Positive things don’t get covered normally. Perhaps on a slow news day there will be a fluff piece or two.
 
The national media soft pedals minority-committed criminal acts is because their activist desire "shape opinion" ... or "be the change". They don't understand that objectivity is not optional. Members of the media should approach reporting the news with same attitude a baseball umpire approached the game he is umpiring: You're not supposed to care who wins.
 
The national media soft pedals minority-committed criminal acts is because their activist desire "shape opinion" ... or "be the change". They don't understand that objectivity is not optional. Members of the media should approach reporting the news with same attitude a baseball umpire approached the game he is umpiring: You're not supposed to care who wins.
More racist bs. What is not accurately reported are the positive events that happen in black communities. The fact is that white violence and crime simply happens more.
 
More racist bs. What is not accurately reported are the positive events that happen in black communities. The fact is that white violence and crime simply happens more.
there are 5 times as many whites as blacks which means crime with whites should be 5 times higher than crime with blacks but it isn't, 37 percent of all violent crime is committed by blacks. 50 percent of all murders are committed by blacks, over twice as many whites are murdered by blacks then blacks are murdered by whites.
 
BS. It's covered. What isn't covered are the many positive activities that occur in black communities. THAT keeps us divided and people like you guys running your mouths in forums like this about blacks when whites committ way more crime.

You're blind and delusional.
 
More racist bs. What is not accurately reported are the positive events that happen in black communities. The fact is that white violence and crime simply happens more.
Whole number-wise, PERHAPS. But when based on proportional representation, the figures are disturbing. Blacks comprise about 14% of the American population, but commit 53% of the murders and about 60% of the robberies. That 14% drops to 4% when you exclude black females and black males under age 12 and over age 65. FOUR PERCENT of the population commits more than half the murders.
 
Whole number-wise, PERHAPS. But when based on proportional representation, the figures are disturbing. Blacks comprise about 14% of the American population, but commit 53% of the murders and about 60% of the robberies. That 14% drops to 4% when you exclude black females and black males under age 12 and over age 65. FOUR PERCENT of the population commits more than half the murders.
No they aren't. 1 person equals one person and if 5000 whites do something it is 5,000 people and you can't make 1,000 blacks into 5,000 blacks just because you have more whites. That's bullshit. Approximately 2.1 percent of the American population are criminal offenders. .6 percent of the population who are criminal offenders are black, 1.09 percent of the population who are criminal offenders crimes are white. So any way you measure it using the actual numbers of offenders or arrests whites damn near are triple the number of blacks. And whites have little of the impediments that cause crimes, yet commit the most.

Annually over 250,000 blacks die from hypertension. Compare that to the 7-8,000 that die from murder. And that hypertension is due to the streess of having to hold in the anger created by white racism. So then when we talk avout murder, that should be included. There are 30 categories of crime in the UCR, don't cherry pick 2 and ignore the other 28 where whites lead on an annual basis. Do not try telling me how embezzlement and fraud are less dangerous than murder when those crimes take eveyything a person has, which is robbery, but it's given a different name. So just stop making excuses.

Face the problem you have as a race instead of always trying to point fingers at everybody else. White racism has f-d up this nation and it has created the moment we are in now. And the most dishonest part of all this is that right wing whites are mad because they think a country that never belonged to them is being taken from them because they have to allow every other group the rights that are supposed to be God given as stipulated in the constitution. So then it appears that a portion of the white community has amnesia or psychosis when you example the totality of what actually has gone on here on this country.
 
No they aren't. 1 person equals one person and if 5000 whites do something it is 5,000 people and you can't make 1,000 blacks into 5,000 blacks just because you have more whites. That's bullshit. Approximately 2.1 percent of the American population are criminal offenders. .6 percent of the population who are criminal offenders are black, 1.09 percent of the population who are criminal offenders crimes are white. So any way you measure it using the actual numbers of offenders or arrests whites damn near are triple the number of blacks. And whites have little of the impediments that cause crimes, yet commit the most.

Annually over 250,000 blacks die from hypertension. Compare that to the 7-8,000 that die from murder. And that hypertension is due to the streess of having to hold in the anger created by white racism. So then when we talk avout murder, that should be included. There are 30 categories of crime in the UCR, don't cherry pick 2 and ignore the other 28 where whites lead on an annual basis. Do not try telling me how embezzlement and fraud are less dangerous than murder when those crimes take eveyything a person has, which is robbery, but it's given a different name. So just stop making excuses.

Face the problem you have as a race instead of always trying to point fingers at everybody else. White racism has f-d up this nation and it has created the moment we are in now. And the most dishonest part of all this is that right wing whites are mad because they think a country that never belonged to them is being taken from them because they have to allow every other group the rights that are supposed to be God given as stipulated in the constitution. So then it appears that a portion of the white community has amnesia or psychosis when you example the totality of what actually has gone on here on this country.
Blacks comprise one-seventh of the population, but commit more than half the murders. Your rejection of the analytical concept of proportional representation is your ethical (or intellectual) limitation. 96% of blacks murdered in this country are murdered by other blacks. A black murder victim is 120 times more likely to be killed by a black than a white. It's called reality and you need to step into it.
 
Blacks comprise one-seventh of the population, but commit more than half the murders. Your rejection of the analytical concept of proportional representation is your ethical (or intellectual) limitation. 96% of blacks murdered in this country are murdered by other blacks. A black murder victim is 120 times more likely to be killed by a black than a white. It's called reality and you need to step into it.
I haven't rejected anything but your distorted use of math and your cherrypicking one category of crime. So step into this, murder can happen directly or indirectly. 85 percent of whites are killed by whites. A white person has the same probability of being killed by another white as a black person has being killed by another black. But the insidious manner that white racism kills indirectly is something YOU don't want to address, but if you are talking to me, it will be addressed. Proportional reresentation is a flawed argument that whites like you don''t use when we talk about police killing blacks. When that happen, then its more whites are kiled by police than blacks. So you just don't get to use that excuse here.

So here is some medical reality for you pertaining to white racism and the damage it causes.

“Bryant-Davis and Ocampo (2005) noted similar courses of psychopathology between rape victims and victims of racism. Both events are an assault on the personhood and integrity of the victim. Similar to rape victims, race-related trauma victims may respond with disbelief, shock, or dissociation, which can prevent them from responding to the incident in a healthy manner. The victim may then feel shame and self-blame because they were unable to respond or defend themselves, which may lead to low self-concept and self-destructive behaviors. In the same study, a parallel was drawn between race-related trauma victims and victims of domestic violence. Both survivors are made to feel shame over allowing themselves to be victimized. For instance, someone who may have experienced a racist incident may be told that if they are polite, work hard, and/or dress in a certain way, they will not encounter racism. When these rules are followed yet racism persists, powerlessness, hyper vigilance, and other symptoms associated with PTSD may develop or worsen.”

“On occasion, the emotional weight of racism can lead African Americans to engage in maladaptive coping, such as remaining in denial, engaging in substance use, aggression, self-blame – even in extreme cases suicide (i.e., Black Lives Matter activist Marshawn McCarrel) and terrorism (i.e., Dallas shooter Micah Xavier Johnson). These responses are harmful and lead to negative, long-term consequences.”


Ryan C.T. DeLapp, MA, and Monnica T. Williams, Ph.D., “Proactively Coping With Racism, Getting back to our lives in the aftermath of racial violence in the media.”, July 18, 2016, www.psychologytoday,com

Findings from large-scale national studies indicate that, while African Americans have a lower risk for many anxiety disorders, they have a 9.1% prevalence rate for PTSD, compared to 6.8% in Whites. That means that almost one in ten Black people becomes traumatized, and I think these rates may actually be higher since diagnosticians are usually not considering the role of racism in causing trauma.

Dennis R. Upkins, Denying Racism And Other Forms Of Gaslighting, Aug 24, 2016, Mental Health Matters, derived from: https://mental-health-matters.com/denying-racism-and-other-forms-of-gaslighting/

Simply put, every act of racism causes PTSD in black people. So when 47 million blacks continue to experience or watch racist actions, these things start happening according to the Mayo Clinic:

  • Recurrent, unwanted distressing memories of the traumatic event
  • Reliving the traumatic event as if it were happening again (flashbacks)
  • Upsetting dreams or nightmares about the traumatic event
  • Severe emotional distress or physical reactions to something that reminds you of the traumatic event
  • Trying to avoid thinking or talking about the traumatic event
  • Avoiding places, activities or people that remind you of the traumatic event
  • Negative thoughts about yourself, other people or the world
  • Hopelessness about the future
  • Memory problems, including not remembering important aspects of the traumatic event
  • Difficulty maintaining close relationships
  • Feeling detached from family and friends
  • Lack of interest in activities you once enjoyed
  • Difficulty experiencing positive emotions
  • Feeling emotionally numb
  • Being easily startled or frightened
  • Always being on guard for danger
  • Self-destructive behavior, such as drinking too much or driving too fast
  • Trouble sleeping
  • Trouble concentrating
  • Irritability, angry outbursts or aggressive behavior
  • Overwhelming guilt or shame
“Racism is part of the fabric of life for African Americans and is among the causes of enduring negative health outcomes. There is really nothing new or startling in the assertion that social circumstances encountered as part of day-to-day experience influence physical health. At the turn of the last century, W. E. B. Du Bois (1906) and Kelly Miller (1897) proposed in separate manuscripts that oppressive social conditions encroaching on the lives of African Americans contributed to poor health and premature death.

Fifty years later, Frantz Fanon’s classic studies (1967, 1968) examined the effects of oppression and included a recognition of “psychosomatic”—that is physical—consequences. Currently, social epidemiologists, health psychologists, and medical sociologists have extended the insights of these important early scholars by showing how racism generates systems and practices that contribute to persistent disparities in health outcomes.

Estimates indicate that the failure to erase these disparities costs tens of thousands of African American lives each year. As long as the rates of the leading causes of death differ along racial lines, the specter of racism will haunt the United States. The persistence of racial health disparities and of racism in any form calls scholars, therapists, activists, and political leaders to vigorous action.”

Camara Jules P. Harrell, Tanisha I. Burford, Brandi N. Cage, Travette McNair Nelson, Sheronda Shearon, Adrian Thompson, and Steven Green, Multiple Pathways Linking Racism to Health Outcomes, US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health

On June 3, 2020, SAMHSA’s Office of Behavioral Health Equity published a report titled, “Trauma, Racism, Chronic Stress and the Health of Black Americans.” They found that racism contributed to poor mental health and chronic physical health problems.

“Racism and associated trauma and violence contribute to mental health disorders, particularly depression, anxiety and PTSD, and chronic health conditions such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes, maternal mortality/infant mortality and morbidity in African Americans. Racism is considered a fundamental cause of adverse health outcomes for racial/ethnic minorities and racial/ethnic inequities in health. The primary domains of racism - structural/institutional racism, cultural racism, and individual-level discrimination— are linked to mental and physical health outcomes. Racism and violence targeting a specific community is increasingly associated with complex trauma and intergenerational trauma, all of which have physical and behavioral health consequences.”

Studies show that consistent exposure to adversity and marginalization causes early health declines in black Americans. Racism is a stressor that triggers the body into allostasis or better understood, and racism forces the body to adapt to stress. Allostasis is the process that helps us adapt to stress. Allostatic load is compiled damage to the body due to constant pressure. Such stress leads to allostatic overload, which is the point when the overall amount of stress causes health problems or death. For example, allostatic processes lead to increases in blood pressure, a leading cause of death in the black community. Allostatic overload created by stress caused due to constant exposure to racism increases the occurrences of heart attacks in blacks.

In 2014, “Structural racism and myocardial infarction in the United States,” a study by Alicia Lukachko, Mark Hatzenbuehler, & Katherine Keyes, was published in Social Science and Medicine Journal. Their research showed that structural racism was one cause of heart attacks in black people.

“This study demonstrates adverse effects of structural racism—specifically state-level racial disparities disadvantaging Blacks in political representation, employment, and incarceration —on past 12-month myocardial infarction. These adverse effects, however, were specific to Blacks, and among Whites, indicators of structural racism appear to have a benign or even beneficial effect on cardiac health. It is important to note that individual-level risk factors including age, sex, education, income, and medical insurance do not account for these findings. Furthermore, lending support to the construct validity of our measures of structural racism, the effects persist above and beyond those of state-level racial disparities in poverty.

Measures of structural racism pertaining to job status did not follow the expected pattern of association, and were inversely associated with myocardial infarction among Blacks. While this finding was unexpected, it is in line with results from previous studies that have documented that Black Americans in high status positions report greater exposure to interpersonal discrimination. This increased exposure, coupled with potential pressures to assimilate and to defy negative racist stereotypes, may in turn place high status Blacks at greater risk for adverse health outcomes. Our results similarly suggest that Black Americans in states with greater representation of Blacks in high status positions are at higher risk for heart attack.”

definition of murder: the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another:

White racism is killing blacks and other people of color, and basically that's murder because racism is a premeditated act. In this case we're talking about white on black murder and its way higher than black on black killing. This is reality. Your opinion is not.
 
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My citing 96% of black murder victims being murdered by other blacks wasn't a reference to proportional representation, per se, but rather an act of footnoting to show the self-destructive outcome within the black community that results from blacks disproportionately committing the crime of murder in America. Simply put, you are your own worst enemy. Bigots won't care. They'll cheer it on.

And if the selectivity of BLM demonstrations and NFL player knee-taking are any indication, blacks don't seem to regard those Black Lives Matter(ing). Instead, black focus remains with the "reprehensible slaughter (choose your own moral outrage verbage if you wish) of young black men at the hands of police." On average, about 1200 people are killed by police each year as a result of firearm use by them. I don't know the percentage of blacks killed, but no percentage you could cite would ever convince me of the existence of some racist network or attitude within law enforcement, in general. These actions span 50 states and 365 days each year. And the overwhelming percentage of these shootings each year are found to be justified by circumstance. If there is a disproportionate representation by blacks in these shootings, it wouldn't surprise me in the least considering the disproportionate commission by black offenders of virtually every violent felony offense tracked in this country.

Yet blacks (and their liberal white limousine supporters), in a profoundly disgusting example of hypocrisy, will take to the streets to "demonstrate" on behalf of the black "victim" in these instances, with nary a protestor in sight the previous week when two or three blacks were murdered by other blacks in the very same neighborhood. As I said, I guess those black lives don't matter (at least enough for these same protestors to fit it into their busy schedules).

The rest of your post is nothing more than a regurgitation of sociological psychobabble -- probably authored by "soul brother" researchers and/or cloistered white liberal academia desperately trying to convince everyone that within every white citizen beats the heart of a slave plantation owner.
 
I haven't rejected anything but your distorted use of math and your cherrypicking one category of crime. So step into this, murder can happen directly or indirectly. 85 percent of whites are killed by whites. A white person has the same probability of being killed by another white as a black person has being killed by another black. But the insidious manner that white racism kills indirectly is something YOU don't want to address, but if you are talking to me, it will be addressed. Proportional reresentation is a flawed argument that whites like you don''t use when we talk about police killing blacks. When that happen, then its more whites are kiled by police than blacks. So you just don't get to use that excuse here.

So here is some medical reality for you pertaining to white racism and the damage it causes.

“Bryant-Davis and Ocampo (2005) noted similar courses of psychopathology between rape victims and victims of racism. Both events are an assault on the personhood and integrity of the victim. Similar to rape victims, race-related trauma victims may respond with disbelief, shock, or dissociation, which can prevent them from responding to the incident in a healthy manner. The victim may then feel shame and self-blame because they were unable to respond or defend themselves, which may lead to low self-concept and self-destructive behaviors. In the same study, a parallel was drawn between race-related trauma victims and victims of domestic violence. Both survivors are made to feel shame over allowing themselves to be victimized. For instance, someone who may have experienced a racist incident may be told that if they are polite, work hard, and/or dress in a certain way, they will not encounter racism. When these rules are followed yet racism persists, powerlessness, hyper vigilance, and other symptoms associated with PTSD may develop or worsen.”

“On occasion, the emotional weight of racism can lead African Americans to engage in maladaptive coping, such as remaining in denial, engaging in substance use, aggression, self-blame – even in extreme cases suicide (i.e., Black Lives Matter activist Marshawn McCarrel) and terrorism (i.e., Dallas shooter Micah Xavier Johnson). These responses are harmful and lead to negative, long-term consequences.”


Ryan C.T. DeLapp, MA, and Monnica T. Williams, Ph.D., “Proactively Coping With Racism, Getting back to our lives in the aftermath of racial violence in the media.”, July 18, 2016, www.psychologytoday,com

Findings from large-scale national studies indicate that, while African Americans have a lower risk for many anxiety disorders, they have a 9.1% prevalence rate for PTSD, compared to 6.8% in Whites. That means that almost one in ten Black people becomes traumatized, and I think these rates may actually be higher since diagnosticians are usually not considering the role of racism in causing trauma.

Dennis R. Upkins, Denying Racism And Other Forms Of Gaslighting, Aug 24, 2016, Mental Health Matters, derived from: https://mental-health-matters.com/denying-racism-and-other-forms-of-gaslighting/

Simply put, every act of racism causes PTSD in black people. So when 47 million blacks continue to experience or watch racist actions, these things start happening according to the Mayo Clinic:

  • Recurrent, unwanted distressing memories of the traumatic event
  • Reliving the traumatic event as if it were happening again (flashbacks)
  • Upsetting dreams or nightmares about the traumatic event
  • Severe emotional distress or physical reactions to something that reminds you of the traumatic event
  • Trying to avoid thinking or talking about the traumatic event
  • Avoiding places, activities or people that remind you of the traumatic event
  • Negative thoughts about yourself, other people or the world
  • Hopelessness about the future
  • Memory problems, including not remembering important aspects of the traumatic event
  • Difficulty maintaining close relationships
  • Feeling detached from family and friends
  • Lack of interest in activities you once enjoyed
  • Difficulty experiencing positive emotions
  • Feeling emotionally numb
  • Being easily startled or frightened
  • Always being on guard for danger
  • Self-destructive behavior, such as drinking too much or driving too fast
  • Trouble sleeping
  • Trouble concentrating
  • Irritability, angry outbursts or aggressive behavior
  • Overwhelming guilt or shame
“Racism is part of the fabric of life for African Americans and is among the causes of enduring negative health outcomes. There is really nothing new or startling in the assertion that social circumstances encountered as part of day-to-day experience influence physical health. At the turn of the last century, W. E. B. Du Bois (1906) and Kelly Miller (1897) proposed in separate manuscripts that oppressive social conditions encroaching on the lives of African Americans contributed to poor health and premature death.

Fifty years later, Frantz Fanon’s classic studies (1967, 1968) examined the effects of oppression and included a recognition of “psychosomatic”—that is physical—consequences. Currently, social epidemiologists, health psychologists, and medical sociologists have extended the insights of these important early scholars by showing how racism generates systems and practices that contribute to persistent disparities in health outcomes.

Estimates indicate that the failure to erase these disparities costs tens of thousands of African American lives each year. As long as the rates of the leading causes of death differ along racial lines, the specter of racism will haunt the United States. The persistence of racial health disparities and of racism in any form calls scholars, therapists, activists, and political leaders to vigorous action.”

Camara Jules P. Harrell, Tanisha I. Burford, Brandi N. Cage, Travette McNair Nelson, Sheronda Shearon, Adrian Thompson, and Steven Green, Multiple Pathways Linking Racism to Health Outcomes, US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health

On June 3, 2020, SAMHSA’s Office of Behavioral Health Equity published a report titled, “Trauma, Racism, Chronic Stress and the Health of Black Americans.” They found that racism contributed to poor mental health and chronic physical health problems.

“Racism and associated trauma and violence contribute to mental health disorders, particularly depression, anxiety and PTSD, and chronic health conditions such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes, maternal mortality/infant mortality and morbidity in African Americans. Racism is considered a fundamental cause of adverse health outcomes for racial/ethnic minorities and racial/ethnic inequities in health. The primary domains of racism - structural/institutional racism, cultural racism, and individual-level discrimination— are linked to mental and physical health outcomes. Racism and violence targeting a specific community is increasingly associated with complex trauma and intergenerational trauma, all of which have physical and behavioral health consequences.”

Studies show that consistent exposure to adversity and marginalization causes early health declines in black Americans. Racism is a stressor that triggers the body into allostasis or better understood, and racism forces the body to adapt to stress. Allostasis is the process that helps us adapt to stress. Allostatic load is compiled damage to the body due to constant pressure. Such stress leads to allostatic overload, which is the point when the overall amount of stress causes health problems or death. For example, allostatic processes lead to increases in blood pressure, a leading cause of death in the black community. Allostatic overload created by stress caused due to constant exposure to racism increases the occurrences of heart attacks in blacks.

In 2014, “Structural racism and myocardial infarction in the United States,” a study by Alicia Lukachko, Mark Hatzenbuehler, & Katherine Keyes, was published in Social Science and Medicine Journal. Their research showed that structural racism was one cause of heart attacks in black people.

“This study demonstrates adverse effects of structural racism—specifically state-level racial disparities disadvantaging Blacks in political representation, employment, and incarceration —on past 12-month myocardial infarction. These adverse effects, however, were specific to Blacks, and among Whites, indicators of structural racism appear to have a benign or even beneficial effect on cardiac health. It is important to note that individual-level risk factors including age, sex, education, income, and medical insurance do not account for these findings. Furthermore, lending support to the construct validity of our measures of structural racism, the effects persist above and beyond those of state-level racial disparities in poverty.

Measures of structural racism pertaining to job status did not follow the expected pattern of association, and were inversely associated with myocardial infarction among Blacks. While this finding was unexpected, it is in line with results from previous studies that have documented that Black Americans in high status positions report greater exposure to interpersonal discrimination. This increased exposure, coupled with potential pressures to assimilate and to defy negative racist stereotypes, may in turn place high status Blacks at greater risk for adverse health outcomes. Our results similarly suggest that Black Americans in states with greater representation of Blacks in high status positions are at higher risk for heart attack.”

definition of murder: the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another:

White racism is killing blacks and other people of color, and basically that's murder because racism is a premeditated act. In this case we're talking about white on black murder and its way higher than black on black killing. This is reality. Your opinion is not.
the number one cause of death for young white males isn't other white males ..

 

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