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GOP Sen. Cotton criticized for comments on dealing with Gaza protesters disrupting traffic
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American author Jared Yates Sexton wrote on X that “It isn’t just that Tom Cotton is openly calling for his supporters to carry out violence, it’s how blood-curdlingly casual he is in calling for them to carry out violence.”
American author Jared Yates Sexton wrote on X that “It isn’t just that Tom Cotton is openly calling for his supporters to carry out violence, it’s how blood-curdlingly casual he is in calling for them to carry out violence.”
GOP Sen. Cotton criticized for comments on dealing with Gaza protesters disrupting traffic
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I never understood why protesters believe pissing off a bunch of people helps their cause. I've come to the conclusion they don't care about the people there are pissing off, only their cause. So inclusive.
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CPL LaForest Gray
According to American FACTS, there isn’t a proper way to protest.
1.) Sins of our past': Leaders apologize for 1970 Jackson State shootings
The gunfire by city and state police officers killed two people and injured 12 others on the campus of the historically Black college.
JACKSON, Miss. — The mayor of Mississippi's capital city and a state senator both apologized Saturday for shootings 51 years ago by city and state police officers that killed two people and injured 12 others on the campus of a historically Black college.
the families of the two men whose lives were cut short by the violent police response to the protest against racial injustice. Killed were 21-year-old Jackson State student Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and 17-year-old James Earl Green, a high school student who was on campus while walking home from work.
[ “As James Baldwin once wrote: ‘When we cannot tell the truth about our past, we become trapped in it,’” Lumumba said. “I believe, as a city, we must publicly atone for the sins of our past and proclaim a new identity of dignity, equity and justice.” ]
SOURCE : https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1267511
2.) 50 Years After the Jackson State Killings, America's Crisis of Racial Injustice Continues—and Shows the Danger of Forgetting
Conflict between local law enforcement and Jackson State students was nothing new in 1970. Founded in 1877 to serve those recently freed from slavery, the institution had always struggled against white supremacists seeking to limit African American access to education.
In the aftermath, the highway patrol and the police claimed falsely that their lives had been threatened by the students and concocted a story about a sniper in the dormitory. At the time of the shooting, all of the students had retreated from the street and were separated from the officers by a chain link fence. No evidence of a sniper was ever discovered, and the officer’s actions violated basic protocol as they sprayed the building and the students out front with over 150 rounds of ammunition, marking the sides of Alexander Hall with more than 400 bullet or buckshot marks.
SOURCE : https://time.com/5836466/jackson-state-shooting-history/
Dr. Martian Luther King : Peaceful Protest, Preacher Non-Violence as Violence is constantly happening to him, still preaches until his head is blown off. He still made white america uncomfortable … even in death.
NFL Player Kaepernick took a knee, spoke clearly why, was completely non-violent …. Ostracized by white america because he didn’t protest properly. He was peaceful also.
Protest is about disruption of the evil of society, it’s why LABOR UNIONS would protest peacefully …
1.) Sins of our past': Leaders apologize for 1970 Jackson State shootings
The gunfire by city and state police officers killed two people and injured 12 others on the campus of the historically Black college.
JACKSON, Miss. — The mayor of Mississippi's capital city and a state senator both apologized Saturday for shootings 51 years ago by city and state police officers that killed two people and injured 12 others on the campus of a historically Black college.
the families of the two men whose lives were cut short by the violent police response to the protest against racial injustice. Killed were 21-year-old Jackson State student Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and 17-year-old James Earl Green, a high school student who was on campus while walking home from work.
[ “As James Baldwin once wrote: ‘When we cannot tell the truth about our past, we become trapped in it,’” Lumumba said. “I believe, as a city, we must publicly atone for the sins of our past and proclaim a new identity of dignity, equity and justice.” ]
SOURCE : https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1267511
2.) 50 Years After the Jackson State Killings, America's Crisis of Racial Injustice Continues—and Shows the Danger of Forgetting
Conflict between local law enforcement and Jackson State students was nothing new in 1970. Founded in 1877 to serve those recently freed from slavery, the institution had always struggled against white supremacists seeking to limit African American access to education.
In the aftermath, the highway patrol and the police claimed falsely that their lives had been threatened by the students and concocted a story about a sniper in the dormitory. At the time of the shooting, all of the students had retreated from the street and were separated from the officers by a chain link fence. No evidence of a sniper was ever discovered, and the officer’s actions violated basic protocol as they sprayed the building and the students out front with over 150 rounds of ammunition, marking the sides of Alexander Hall with more than 400 bullet or buckshot marks.
SOURCE : https://time.com/5836466/jackson-state-shooting-history/
Dr. Martian Luther King : Peaceful Protest, Preacher Non-Violence as Violence is constantly happening to him, still preaches until his head is blown off. He still made white america uncomfortable … even in death.
NFL Player Kaepernick took a knee, spoke clearly why, was completely non-violent …. Ostracized by white america because he didn’t protest properly. He was peaceful also.
Protest is about disruption of the evil of society, it’s why LABOR UNIONS would protest peacefully …
'Sins of our past': Leaders apologize for 1970 Jackson State shootings
The gunfire by city and state police officers killed two people and injured 12 others on the campus of the historically Black college.
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CPL LaForest Gray
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Protest and cities will burn if white people don’t approve. Facts follow
The FACTS of Systematic Racism in America from Slavery to Jim Crow Laws to Present Day :
Let’s see..... legal slavery “acknowledge” existed in North America for 245 years.
A 148/150 years ..... yet certain FACTS gloss over Jim Crow Laws which weren’t ruled unconstitutional until 1954’ sooooo let’s see 2020 - 1954 = 66 years of being legally treated as equals.... People have discounted the 89 years of not being treated as so. (89 + 65 = 154 years).
Jim Crow Laws went from 1877 to 1965, that’s 88 years of a unequal society, by LAW.
One of the most heinous of these policies was introduced by the creation of the Federal Housing Administration in 1934, and lasted until 1968. Along with RedLine Districts & Block Busting.
So by the law, the ratification of the 15th Amendment of the Constitution it’s been a level playing field {
The FACTS of Systematic Racism in America from Slavery to Jim Crow Laws to Present Day :
Let’s see..... legal slavery “acknowledge” existed in North America for 245 years.
A 148/150 years ..... yet certain FACTS gloss over Jim Crow Laws which weren’t ruled unconstitutional until 1954’ sooooo let’s see 2020 - 1954 = 66 years of being legally treated as equals.... People have discounted the 89 years of not being treated as so. (89 + 65 = 154 years).
Jim Crow Laws went from 1877 to 1965, that’s 88 years of a unequal society, by LAW.
One of the most heinous of these policies was introduced by the creation of the Federal Housing Administration in 1934, and lasted until 1968. Along with RedLine Districts & Block Busting.
So by the law, the ratification of the 15th Amendment of the Constitution it’s been a level playing field {
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CPL LaForest Gray
1.) What is a proximity crime?
A quick definition of dangerous-proximity test:
It looks at how close the person was to actually completing the crime and considers factors like how serious the crime would have been, if the victim was aware of the danger, and how likely it was that the crime would have happened.
SOURCE : https://www.lsd.law/define/dangerous-proximity-test#:~:text=A%20quick%20definition%20of%20dangerous%2Dproximity%20test%3A&text=It%20looks%20at%20how%20close,the%20crime%20would%20have%20happened.
2.) The problem with using proximity & poverty to dismiss the fallacies of “Black-on-Black crime”
* August 5, 2020
SOURCE : https://racebaitr.com/2020/08/05/the-problem-with-using-proximity-poverty-to-dismiss-the-fallacies-of-black-on-black-crime/
3.) Black on Black Crime - The Myth and the Reality
NCJ Number 94205
JournalCrime and Social Justice Issue: 20Pages: 50-62
Author(s)
BD Headley
Date Published Unknown
Length 13 pages
Abstract
An acceptance of the belief that crime by blacks against other blacks poses the single greatest threat to black survival prevents any indepth analysis of the root causes of urban crime. A more fundamental cause may be class conflict resulting from inequities in a capitalist society. Recommendations for change include raising the consciousness of black leaders and the formation of anticrime groups within low-income communities. Twenty-five references are listed.
SOURCE : https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/black-black-crime-myth-and-reality
White Nationalist GoTo DOG-WHISTLE : “BLACK ON BLACK CRIME” = Shut up Boy
BONUS :
White-on-white murder in America is out of control
Yet the disturbing truth, according to the FBI's most recent homicide statistics, is that the United States is in the wake of an epidemic of white-on-white crime. Back in 2011, the most recent year for which data is available, a staggering 83 percent of white murder victims were killed by fellow Caucasians.
* To understand the level of cultural pathology at work here, it's important to understand that 36 percent of those killed by whites are women — a far higher share than you see with black murderers.
SOURCE : https://www.vox.com/2014/8/21/6053811/white-on-white-murder
A quick definition of dangerous-proximity test:
It looks at how close the person was to actually completing the crime and considers factors like how serious the crime would have been, if the victim was aware of the danger, and how likely it was that the crime would have happened.
SOURCE : https://www.lsd.law/define/dangerous-proximity-test#:~:text=A%20quick%20definition%20of%20dangerous%2Dproximity%20test%3A&text=It%20looks%20at%20how%20close,the%20crime%20would%20have%20happened.
2.) The problem with using proximity & poverty to dismiss the fallacies of “Black-on-Black crime”
* August 5, 2020
SOURCE : https://racebaitr.com/2020/08/05/the-problem-with-using-proximity-poverty-to-dismiss-the-fallacies-of-black-on-black-crime/
3.) Black on Black Crime - The Myth and the Reality
NCJ Number 94205
JournalCrime and Social Justice Issue: 20Pages: 50-62
Author(s)
BD Headley
Date Published Unknown
Length 13 pages
Abstract
An acceptance of the belief that crime by blacks against other blacks poses the single greatest threat to black survival prevents any indepth analysis of the root causes of urban crime. A more fundamental cause may be class conflict resulting from inequities in a capitalist society. Recommendations for change include raising the consciousness of black leaders and the formation of anticrime groups within low-income communities. Twenty-five references are listed.
SOURCE : https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/black-black-crime-myth-and-reality
White Nationalist GoTo DOG-WHISTLE : “BLACK ON BLACK CRIME” = Shut up Boy
BONUS :
White-on-white murder in America is out of control
Yet the disturbing truth, according to the FBI's most recent homicide statistics, is that the United States is in the wake of an epidemic of white-on-white crime. Back in 2011, the most recent year for which data is available, a staggering 83 percent of white murder victims were killed by fellow Caucasians.
* To understand the level of cultural pathology at work here, it's important to understand that 36 percent of those killed by whites are women — a far higher share than you see with black murderers.
SOURCE : https://www.vox.com/2014/8/21/6053811/white-on-white-murder
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CPL LaForest Gray
Tom Hanks on Tulsa Race Massacre
#TomHanks #TulsaMassacre
https://youtu.be/Mhr1nyZDG-k
Of course cowards and racist don’t want to take accountability.
CRT = Critical Race Facts *{Aint no damn theory, GTFOH} :
These are #AMERIKKKA / #USA Deadliest Domestic Massacres/Mass Shooting/Acts of Domestic Terrorism/Riots by White Racist Domestic Terrorist in American Documented History :
Remember these FACTS :
East St. Louis Massacre - 1917
200 - 700 Deaths : Source - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/east-st-louis-race-riot-left-dozens-dead-devastating-community-on-the-rise-180963885/
Arkansas Massacre - 1919
854 - Deaths : SOURCE - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/death-hundreds-elaine-massacre-led-supreme-court-take-major-step-toward-equal-justice-african-americans-180969863/
Ocoee Massacre - 1920 : SOURCE - https://www.ucf.edu/pegasus/the-truth-laid-bare/
https://www.thehistorycenter.org/exhibition/the-ocoee-massacre/
Most estimates total 30–35 Blacks killed, although as many as 50 African Americans may have been killed during the massacre. Most African-American-owned buildings and residences in northern Ocoee were burned to the ground.
Deaths: 30–35 Blacks, 2 Whites
Location: Ocoee, Florida
Date: November 2–3, 1920
Tulsa Massacre - 1921
300 - 3000 Deaths : SOURCE - https://www.history.com/.amp/this-day-in-history/tulsa-race-massacre-begins
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/tulsa-1921-race-massacre-mass-grave-greenwood-archaeology-dna/amp
Rosewood Massacre - 1923
150 - Deaths : SOURCE - https://www.history.com/.amp/topics/early-20th-century-us/rosewood-massacre
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Rosewood-riot-of-1923
*If you didn’t know these Massacres were against “Black/African-Americans
The historical/history of FACTS they call “theories/theory” that they desire not taught on known about.*
*** Disclaimer : This a repost from myself, because people are tooooo comfortable with the status quo. ***
“Stay alert, Stay safe & Stay strong”
“I CAN breathe”.
“I WILL fight back”.
U.S. Army Combat Veteran
12 1/2 years Honorable Service
ODS Vet : Support Garrison
OEF/OFI Vet : Deployed to Theatre
No Political Affiliation
Of course cowards and racist don’t want to take accountability.
CRT = Critical Race Facts *{Aint no damn theory, GTFOH} :
These are #AMERIKKKA / #USA Deadliest Domestic Massacres/Mass Shooting/Acts of Domestic Terrorism/Riots by White Racist Domestic Terrorist in American Documented History :
Remember these FACTS :
East St. Louis Massacre - 1917
200 - 700 Deaths : Source - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/east-st-louis-race-riot-left-dozens-dead-devastating-community-on-the-rise-180963885/
Arkansas Massacre - 1919
854 - Deaths : SOURCE - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/death-hundreds-elaine-massacre-led-supreme-court-take-major-step-toward-equal-justice-african-americans-180969863/
Ocoee Massacre - 1920 : SOURCE - https://www.ucf.edu/pegasus/the-truth-laid-bare/
https://www.thehistorycenter.org/exhibition/the-ocoee-massacre/
Most estimates total 30–35 Blacks killed, although as many as 50 African Americans may have been killed during the massacre. Most African-American-owned buildings and residences in northern Ocoee were burned to the ground.
Deaths: 30–35 Blacks, 2 Whites
Location: Ocoee, Florida
Date: November 2–3, 1920
Tulsa Massacre - 1921
300 - 3000 Deaths : SOURCE - https://www.history.com/.amp/this-day-in-history/tulsa-race-massacre-begins
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/tulsa-1921-race-massacre-mass-grave-greenwood-archaeology-dna/amp
Rosewood Massacre - 1923
150 - Deaths : SOURCE - https://www.history.com/.amp/topics/early-20th-century-us/rosewood-massacre
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Rosewood-riot-of-1923
*If you didn’t know these Massacres were against “Black/African-Americans
The historical/history of FACTS they call “theories/theory” that they desire not taught on known about.*
*** Disclaimer : This a repost from myself, because people are tooooo comfortable with the status quo. ***
“Stay alert, Stay safe & Stay strong”
“I CAN breathe”.
“I WILL fight back”.
U.S. Army Combat Veteran
12 1/2 years Honorable Service
ODS Vet : Support Garrison
OEF/OFI Vet : Deployed to Theatre
No Political Affiliation
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Nothing new...how soon we forget Ms Waters:
Rodney King riots in May 1992, Representative Waters said, “If you call it a riot, it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for no reason. I maintain it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable. So I call it a rebellion.”
October 20, 2017, Representative Waters told a crowd at an LGBTQ Youth Gala, “With this kind of inspiration, I will go and take Trump out tonight.”;
June 23, 2018, Representative Waters told a crowd, “If you see anybody from [President Trump’s cabinet] in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them! And you tell them that they are not welcome, anymore, anywhere.”;
September 8, 2018, Representative Waters told a crowd of her supporters in Los Angeles, “I did not threaten [Trump] constituents and supporters. I do that all the time, but I didn't do that that time.”
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Rodney King riots in May 1992, Representative Waters said, “If you call it a riot, it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for no reason. I maintain it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable. So I call it a rebellion.”
October 20, 2017, Representative Waters told a crowd at an LGBTQ Youth Gala, “With this kind of inspiration, I will go and take Trump out tonight.”;
June 23, 2018, Representative Waters told a crowd, “If you see anybody from [President Trump’s cabinet] in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them! And you tell them that they are not welcome, anymore, anywhere.”;
September 8, 2018, Representative Waters told a crowd of her supporters in Los Angeles, “I did not threaten [Trump] constituents and supporters. I do that all the time, but I didn't do that that time.”
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And when she was met with the same force she was wanting her constituents to use, she cried like a baby.
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SFC John D.
Notice our resident Progressive Peons endorse their wing illegally disrupting emergency services, causing excessive pollution from idling vehicles, and economic damage to the community.
Then they put their own spin (like they did when the word "bloodbath" was mentioned regarding China building cut-rate EVs in Mexico and flooding the US market) on what “take matters into your own hands to get them out of the way" means as "incite/promote violence".
It's very telling that the progressive-left's views are only supported by 12% of the country (only 12% of people in a recent YouGov survey responded that blocking traffic is 'always/usually acceptable') - https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/Protests_poll_results.pdf
Those blocking traffic are the from the same group chanting "Death to America". Nice to know where the progressive-left has their priorities.
Then they put their own spin (like they did when the word "bloodbath" was mentioned regarding China building cut-rate EVs in Mexico and flooding the US market) on what “take matters into your own hands to get them out of the way" means as "incite/promote violence".
It's very telling that the progressive-left's views are only supported by 12% of the country (only 12% of people in a recent YouGov survey responded that blocking traffic is 'always/usually acceptable') - https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/Protests_poll_results.pdf
Those blocking traffic are the from the same group chanting "Death to America". Nice to know where the progressive-left has their priorities.
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CPL LaForest Gray
The viral video that set a city on fire
25 years after Rodney King and the LA riots, CNN's Ryan Young shows how videos havebecome the voice for many silent Americans who without them, may have nev...
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Let’s see how anyone feels about it (stopping traffic for prolonged periods of time) if they are taking their wife or child to a hospital for an urgent life-threatening condition. Hamas/Iran advocates need to be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for their illegal life threatening action.
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PO3 Justin Bowen
So, people blocking roadways and highways like these folks:
https://wpde.com/news/nation-world/convoy-of-truckers-protest-briefly-block-traffic-along-dc-area-highways-police-say-highways-interstate-270-95-nurses-teachers-carpenters-plumbers-engineers-legal-professionals-veterans-homemakers-1776-restoration-movement
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/angry-canada-truckers-block-busiest-bridge-with-us-trudeau-faces-grilling-2022-02-08/
https://www.keranews.org/texas-news/2022-04-12/truckers-block-border-traffic-to-protest-costly-new-inspections
https://wpde.com/news/nation-world/convoy-of-truckers-protest-briefly-block-traffic-along-dc-area-highways-police-say-highways-interstate-270-95-nurses-teachers-carpenters-plumbers-engineers-legal-professionals-veterans-homemakers-1776-restoration-movement
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/angry-canada-truckers-block-busiest-bridge-with-us-trudeau-faces-grilling-2022-02-08/
https://www.keranews.org/texas-news/2022-04-12/truckers-block-border-traffic-to-protest-costly-new-inspections
Convoy of truckers protest, briefly block traffic along DC-area highways, police say
A convoy of trucks protested along D. C. area highways Monday morning, briefly blocking off traffic on Interstate 270 and Interstate 95.
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PO3 Justin Bowen - I don't like that either. The Left uses it the most, but there are NO excuses for it. Lets hear you say something against Democrats...
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SFC John D.
PO3 Justin Bowen - I and most conservatives will agree with you - you want to block traffic, you should suffer the consequences.
Since you mentioned the truckers in Canada, I think you're right. The progressive-left that is blocking traffic should be treated just like them. Freeze their bank accounts and criminally prosecute them. That's very enlightened of you. Does that apply to the other progressive-left protesters such as the ones that want to destroy art and history in order to shout their cause?
A couple of multi-year convictions for domestic terrorism will probably put a stop to
By the way, do you even bother to read the stuff you cite or do you blindly put up whatever you can find on Google. Maybe you just hate Mexicans and try to lump them into "those bad ones on the right" you were trying to use as an example.
Since you mentioned the truckers in Canada, I think you're right. The progressive-left that is blocking traffic should be treated just like them. Freeze their bank accounts and criminally prosecute them. That's very enlightened of you. Does that apply to the other progressive-left protesters such as the ones that want to destroy art and history in order to shout their cause?
A couple of multi-year convictions for domestic terrorism will probably put a stop to
By the way, do you even bother to read the stuff you cite or do you blindly put up whatever you can find on Google. Maybe you just hate Mexicans and try to lump them into "those bad ones on the right" you were trying to use as an example.
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CPL Douglas Chrysler
Exactly, except during the action those blocking the direct path would be removed.
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