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Weāve had a couple of officer involved shootings here in Vermont the last few weeks and it has been remarked that the two people who were shot survived. Apparently our officers are trained to stop shooting when the suspect is down.
Unfortunately, we donāt seem to be willing to charge police officers with taking kill shots when the suspect is down, nor are we willing to charge them when they donāt get medical teams out to the shooting immediately. Given that we also donāt seem willing, as a society as a whole, to change laws on that front, it may take a while before we see any change at all.
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Tell me again that Warren isnāt running. She is becoming the face of the Democratic party.
Love how this simple cartoon points out the obvious:
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This only adds to the reasons why she was always my first choice to run for the nomination. Iāll take her as Senate leader as a consolation prize, though. I think with Shumer re:Iran, she could definitely be #2 to Durbin.
Not even close yet; at this point only Black deaths seem to matter. Our value of human life is seriously out of line. It is outrageous that a political party would promote such a policy, but there they are, suppressing votes, cutting education and health care, and imprisoning men and women who might otherwise raise families and go on to be productive citizens.
Until all lives matter, none do.
The third panel really nails it.
All lives DO matter. Itās just that some lives are in greater danger than other lives. Hence the need to point out that Black Lives Matter. Anyone who cannot understand that simple explanation is either hopelessly biased, utterly misinformed, or just plain stupid.
I do wish, though, that the phrase āAll Lives Matterā hadnāt become associated with opposition to the Black Lives Matter movement. Because, used in the right context, āAll Lives Matterā would include not just African-Americans, but others whose lives are disproportionately in danger in this country due to discrimination, including Latinos, Native Americans, immigrants, and poor people of many ethnicities (although, again, especially minorities). Used in tandem with BLM, ALM is a positive statement of inclusion. Used to oppose BLM, ALM is an evasive dismissal of the seriousness of the problem,
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During a February 2014 on-air discussion about āGangsta Cultureā with Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett (Google search discussion), Bill OāReilly intelligently and compassionately talks about Americaās expanding and shameful National Epidemic of Child Abuse & Neglect, aka Poverty, that for decades has deprived countless children from experiencing and enjoying a safe, fairly happy American kid childhood.
Besides OāReilly and Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke, how many Americans are addressing this topic that is at the core of most all the issues and social problems many Americans of African descent are today experiencing?
Black Lives Matter; Take Pride In Parenting; End Our National Epidemic of Child Abuse and Neglect; End Community Violence & Police Fear
Speaking At The Eulogy For The Honorable Reverend Clementa Pinckney, President Barack Obama said:
āPerhaps it causes us to examine what weāre doing to cause some of our children to hate.ā (Applause.)
Video Excerpt from Obama Remarks Search YouTube: /watch?v=2T_GwYI7MnQ
With all due respect to my American neighbors supporting the Black Lives Matter movement, I believe your cause would better serve all Americans if your organization were to honestly, openly and compassionately address our National Epidemic of Child Abuse and Neglect, aka Poverty that for decades has deprived untold numbers of depressed children from experiencing and enjoying a safe, fairly happy American kid childhood.
I strongly suggest members of the Black Lives Matter target communities that have embraced The Street Culture Baltimore Mom of The Year Toya Graham desperately struggles to keep her son from embracing.
In his 2015 Grammy award winning Rap Performance titled āIā, Kendrick Lamar writes, āIāve been dealing with depression ever since an adolescent.ā
During a January 20, 2011 LAWeekly interview (Google search) Kendrick, born in 1987, the same year songwriter Suzanne Vega wrote a song about child abuse and VICTIM DENIAL that was nominated for a Grammy award, he told the interviewer:
āLamarās parents moved from Chicago to Compton in 1984 with all of $500 in their pockets. āMy momās one of 13 [THIRTEEN] siblings, and they all got SIX kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton,ā he says.ā
āIām 6 years old, seeinā my uncles playing with shotguns, sellinā dope in front of the apartment. My moms and pops never said nothing, 'cause they were young and living wild, too. I got about 15 stories like āAverage Joe.āā
It seems evident to me Kendrick identified the source of his depression, the roots of poverty, the child abuse/maltreatment that prevented him, his brothers, sisters, cousins, neighborhood friends, elementary and JHS classmates from enjoying a fairly happy, safe Average Joe and Josie American kid childhood.
Seems the adults responsible for raising the children in Kendrickās immediate and extended family placed obstacles in their childrenās way, causing their kids to deal with challenges and stresses young minds are not prepared to deal withā¦nor should they or any other children be exposed to and have to deal with.
It seems evident to me these PARENTAL INTRODUCED obstacles and challenges cause some developing childrenās minds to become tormented and go haywire, not knowing OR NOT CARING ABOUT right from wrongā¦because as they mature, young victims of child abuse realize their parents introduced them to a life of pain and struggle, totally unlike the mostly safe, happy life the media showed them many American kids were enjoying. RESENTMENT
I cannot speak for anyone else, but if I was raised in Kendrickās family I would most likely be silently peeved at my parents for being immature irresponsible āliving wildā adults who deprived me of a safe, happy childhood.
Though like many victims of child abuse, most likely I would deny my parents harmed me, seeking to blame others for the pain my parents caused to me.
I wonder how little Kendrick and his classmates reacted when their elementary school teacher introduced the DARE presenter and they learned about the real dangers of drugs and how they harm people, including their parents? Cognitive Dissonance
In a Oct 25, 2012, LAWeekly interview (Google search) Kendrick talks about being a SIX-YEAR-OLD child who was not able to trust and rely on his momā¦essentially he speaks about being emotionally abandon by his own mom.
Growing up during the 60-70s I listened to virtually ALL American music artists of African descent writing songs admiring, praising, respecting and loving the maternal half of our population.
I am curious to know if members and supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement have wondered why for the past three decades, many popular American music performers of African descent have been characterizing the maternal half of our population as *itches and *horesā¦essentially less than human creatures or people not worthy of respect?
Honestly, I have a feeling most BLM supporters donāt have the strength or will to face the truth about who is responsible for filling our prisons with depressed, angry, frustrated teens and young men who were victims of early childhood abuse and neglect at the hands of immature teen girls and women who irresponsibly begin building families before acquiring the skills, PATIENCE and means to properly raise a fairly happy American kid who enjoys a Safe Fun Street to play in.
Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke offers sound advice to all Americans, āFix the ghetto!ā
Iām with Sheriff Clarke. I believe we also need to re-examine societyās child protection and welfare laws.
I am hoping when camera technology proves its mettle in protecting police officers, as well as identifying officers who require further training or officers who have no business serving the public in a LE capacity, we will use that same technology to protect children by monitoring the common area of homes in which caregivers have established a track record for failing to properly raise, nurture and/or supervise their children.
Especially in communities with higher crime rates where kids are more often exposed to some/many depressed or āliving wildā neighbors with a mindset for lawlessness.
Recently I watched a video that saddened me as well as enlightened me when I learned child welfare investigators test the hair of child abuse victims for āambientā exposure to drugs.
Holy smokes, the numbers were critical. At the least cameras would expose signs of intoxication in homes identified as requiring extra care to prevent children from being emotionally and or physically harmed.
If we do not take affirmative action to protect children, āthe ghettoā will continue to thrive, fueled by poor parenting, resulting with depressed kids maturing into depressed teens and adults who often vent their angers and frustrations on their peaceful neighbors, instead of the person(s) responsible for introducing them to a life of hardship, pain and struggle.
This video depicts horrific examples of men who were victims of childhood abuse and neglect, conditioning a young teen to embrace the criminal, anti-social āStreet Cultureā Baltimore Mom of The Year failed to protect her teen son fromā¦not to mention representing the fear peaceful people living and WORKING in the community experience knowing depressed, angry, unpredictable teens and young adults need to vent their angers and frustrations for being introduced to a life of pain and struggle by irresponsible, āliving wildā single moms and/or dads.
Search youtube; /watch?v=C3ChOLiJa8k
This is a recorded act of criminal child abuse, maltreatment and violence againstā¦āA little girl, catching a cool breeze from an air conditioning unit in the yard, was blindsided by another child about her same age, who had evidently had some practice with fighting fierce. The small victim wasnāt alone, as there were plenty of nearby witnesses, who could have protected her but didnāt because they were too busy recording the brutal beat down and encouraging it.ā | Written By Amanda Shea
http://madworldnews.com/video-little-girl-gets-beating/
On MAY 18, 2015 The New York Times reports:
Rise in Suicide by Black Children Surprises Researchers
By SABRINA TAVERNISE
Who is responsible for traumatizing children to the point young kids believe their lives are not worth living?
With all due respect to my American neighbors of African descent, the oppression of humans that led to racism and slavery has largely been replaced with a new form of human oppression that impedes and deprives many American children from experiencing a safe, fairly happy American kid childhood.
TakePrideInParenting
EndChildAbuseNeglect
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