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    Quote Originally Posted by Yakuda View Post
    And killing whites more often

    I don't know youre the one that mentioned they weren't cops. Why I am being asked to answer for the second time now something you said?
    Um it's literally the very first paragraph of what Dr. Tyson said. LOOK.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AProudLefty View Post
    Um it's literally the very first paragraph of what Dr. Tyson said. LOOK.
    Then stop asking me to answer for what you say.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yakuda View Post
    Then stop asking me to answer for what you say.
    No clue what you are talking about.

    Anyway we were talking about black drivers being pulled over cops more often than white drivers.

    Dr. Tyson also talked about BLM and protesters and what he thinks of them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AProudLefty View Post
    As for me, I had a dozen different encounters to draw from. There was the time I was stopped late at night at an underpass on an empty road in New Jersey for having changed lanes without signaling. The officer told me to get out of my car and questioned me for ten minutes around back with the headlights of his squad car brightly illuminating my face. Is this your car? Yes. Who is the woman in the passenger seat? My wife. Where are you coming from? My parent’s house. Where are you going? Home. What do you do for a living? I am an astrophysicist at Princeton University. What’s in your trunk? A spare tire, and a lot of other greasy junk. He went on to say that the “real reason” why he stopped me was because my car’s license plates were much newer and shinier than the 17-year-old Ford that I was driving. The officer was just making sure that neither the car nor the plates were stolen.

    They were common, recurring episodes. How could this assembly of highly educated scientists, each in possession of the PhD—the highest academic degree in the land—be so vulnerable to police inquiry in their lives? Maybe the police cued on something else. Maybe it was the color of our skin. The conference I had been attending was the 23rd meeting of the National Society of Black Physicists. We were guilty not of DWI (Driving While Intoxicated), but of other violations none of us knew were on the books: DWB (Driving While Black), WWB (Walking While Black), and of course, JBB (Just Being Black).

    As I compose this, about 10,000 chanting protestors are filing past my window in Manhattan. And because of the intermittent looting and related violence, the curfew for this evening has been pushed earlier, to 8 p.m., from 11 p.m. in the preceding days. The most common placard was “Black Lives Matter.”

    The way peaceful protesters and the press are being shoved, maced, tear-gassed, pepper-sprayed, and tackled in the streets of our cities (when the police should have focused on arresting the looters) you would think the protestors were doing something illegal or un-American. But, of course, the U.S. Constitution has something to say about it:

    Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom … of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.


    In 1991, Rodney King (age 25) was struck dozens of times, while on the ground, by four LAPD officers, with their batons, after being tased. The grainy 1990s video of that went media-viral, inducing shock and dismay to any viewer.

    But I wasn’t shocked at all.


    Based on what I already knew of the world, my first thought was, “We finally got one of those on tape.” Followed by, “Maybe justice will be served this time.” Yes, that’s precisely my first thought. Why? Since childhood my parents instilled in me and my siblings, via monthly, sometimes weekly lessons, rules of conduct to avoid getting shot by the police. “Make sure that when you get stopped, the officer can always see both of your hands.” “No sudden movements.” “Don’t reach into your pockets for anything without announcing this in advance.”

    Yet when I exit my front door, I’m a crime suspect. Add to this the recently coined “White Caller Crime,” where scared White people call the police because they think an innocent black person is doing something non-innocent, and it’s a marvel that any of us achieve at all.

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    Agreed. Shooting angry Trumpers should be a national pastime.
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    Only conclusion. Going to a Christian school causes you to be a mass murderer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lionfish View Post
    Dr. Tyson is black.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AProudLefty View Post
    Dr. Tyson is black.
    That has nothing to do with anything. The alt-lefties have been using race to divide this country for decades. Every day we get a new installment of CRT from white woke assholes wracked with guilt. Watch yourself as it is close to bouncing back in your face.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lionfish View Post
    That has nothing to do with anything. The alt-lefties have been using race to divide this country for decades. Every day we get a new installment of CRT from white woke assholes wracked with guilt. Watch yourself as it is close to bouncing back in your face.
    Okay? Anything to address the topic and what Dr. Tyson said?

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    Quote Originally Posted by AProudLefty View Post


    Let me try again. The cops are supposed to protect and serve. Dr. Tyson was talking about cops stopping the black drivers more often than the white drivers.

    Would it have mattered to your man if they were cops beating him up? Would his perspective change about the cops?
    Driving while black is a natural outcome of the disproportionately high black crime rate in this country.

    It sucks for law abiding blacks, but the people they should be more annoyed at aren't cops but the criminals in their racial group.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pax Mongolica View Post
    Driving while black is a natural outcome of the disproportionately high black crime rate in this country.

    It sucks for law abiding blacks, but the people they should be more annoyed at aren't cops but the criminals in their racial group.
    That would depend on the areas.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AProudLefty View Post
    That would depend on the areas.
    In just about any area with a significant black population, the ratio of crime correlates with the black percentage. A similar correlation is found with Latinos.

    Again, I'm not saying it's fair for the non-criminals of those groups, but prejudice doesn't develop out of thin air.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pax Mongolica View Post
    In just about any area with a significant black population, the ratio of crime correlates with the black percentage. A similar correlation is found with Latinos.

    Again, I'm not saying it's fair for the non-criminals of those groups, but prejudice doesn't develop out of thin air.
    Either way, Dr. Tyson was wondering why, no matter where he drove.

    I love the movie, "Green Book".

    Black people are worried about how cops would respond and rightly so.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AProudLefty View Post
    Either way, Dr. Tyson was wondering why, no matter where he drove.

    I love the movie, "Green Book".

    Black people are worried about how cops would respond and rightly so.
    I'm not necessarily against less policing, but only if gun rights are preserved.

    A simultaneous push for less policing and disarming of the public is a recipe for disaster.

    For a society to survive, you either need vigilant police or an armed public.

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