Rex, I don't know you obviously, but my reading of what you have just written is that you are calling me a racist. How dare you? I have many friends of different races and cultures. How dare you? I have tried to argue reasonably about real solutions for black disadvantage in the US. I have called racist related deaths abhorrent. i disagree with what kaperdick has done, because I consider it straight out grandstanding that will continue the divide in the US, rather than make black lives better. If Black Lives Matter are so concerned about Black Lives, why are they not devoting their efforts to the root cause of 99 percent of black murders? How dare you?
We agree that the core problem is divisiveness Terry. Your issue is divisiveness against institutions of power. My issue is divisiveness against real live people.
I hear you aren't aware of yourself as being a racist. Most people of prejudice (ie most people) aren't aware of it.
You call Kapernick divisive because he doesn't worship authority and subservient nationalism like you do, and then expresses different opinions to yours. And you lump him and everyone who disagrees with you on this into a single catch-all bucket - "lefties" - which you then proceed to denigrate and blame for all ills. Does it make you feel superior doing that? Is that why you do it? That type of potted thinking is simplistic, lazy, takes no account of differences between individuals and is equivalent in nature to racism.
There is nothing in your postings that give any indication of any empathy at all with people of black skin. A non-racist would not effectively demonise and dismiss a race or group, as you have done. Your list of blamings are:
1 It is the lefties who play the blame game. Never you. You claim all of them have no answers apart from blaming racists. And you have all the answers - which btw sound like the same answers used so "successfully" in the 1950s.
2. You whinged about the money "thrown" at blacks
3. You claimed blacks (implicitly all of them) have a victim mentality. Unlike you. You don't see all of your complaints, and your reaction to being called racist, as coming from a victim mindspace?
4. You claimed blacks (implicitly all of them) do not take responsibility for their situation. I have to wonder if you were born black into a black ghetto, whether you believe you would have taken this "responsibility", and everything would have turned out so spectacularly rosy for you.
5. You totally dismissed any issue with racism in the US Police force. Presumably you think they are doing just fine when they beat and kill blacks. And then are found to have done nothing wrong.
6 You claim to want to talk about the real problems of substance and how to solve them. Yet the only causes you can think of are to blame lefties and blacks for all problems and your solution is to again point the finger of blame at lefties and blacks. Wow.
Now I will await the troll ratings from your racist mate (LGK) and the winner ratings you will inevitably receive from him.