Colin Kaepernick sit upon protest

Colin Kaepernick didn't start this disrespect in the NFL, but he has grabbed the attention of other wannabes when they saw how easy it was to get on national TV and social media even with low stats and a floundering career. Even the president took notice.  And I've read (not fact checked) that he's converted to Islam for his #blacklivesmatter girlfriend. Interesting. For over 1,400 years Arab Muslims controlled the world slave trade and traded captured black Africans to Europeans for the trans-Atlantic horrors and sent millions of others to Europe and Asia. Women particularly were trafficked for sex before the 18th century when focus changed to labor, even as today Islamic Boko Haram steals Nigerian Christian school girls for sex and politics. Fewer than 97% of their captives made it to the North American colonies and the trade was outlawed by the Constitution within 25 years of the U.S. becoming a country. And Kaepernick has three white parents; the black one took off. http://www.africanecho.com/africanechonews5-sept29.html

Trump visits the flood victims in Louisiana

I don't agree when candidates, Democrat or Republican, depict blacks as unemployed, with poor housing and bad schools, as Trump did when appealing for their vote during his recent visits in Wisconsin and Louisiana. Whites out number blacks in poverty and crime statistics, but the incredible gains of blacks in the 21st century, particularly during the Bush years, are amazing. Their rate of enrolling in college has exceeded whites since 2008. Their life expectancy has soared. Not only do we have a black president who has filled many important posts with blacks, as did Bush before him, we have black governors, Congress members, mayors, principals, business owners, first responders (percent of minority police exceeds national figures), military big wigs, investors, hedge fund managers, and just plain folks doing extremely well, living "the American dream," however that is defined. From the candidates down to ‪#‎blacklivesmatter‬, we do a tremendous disservice always playing down accomplishments of any group of Americans, and we help stir up feelings of victimhood.

Main line churches are anti-Israel

I don't know why most main-line churches are anti-Israel, but they are. They need to look at a map and see what surrounds our tiny ally, Israel. Pro-abortion, anti-Israel, pro-feminist, pro-LGBTQ agenda, pro-Democrat, pro-BLM, pro-illegal immigration, and that just about sums up the political agenda of many "Christian" churches. If you left the church years ago because there was too much "come to Jesus" preaching about sin and not enough about social justice, take a second look. There's something for you if you're missing pot lucks and Sunday School.

This item is about ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) the synod our local congregation left about 5 years ago (now NALC), but it's no different in Church of the Brethren, United Methodist, United Church of Christ, etc.

 "The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) has approved two resolutions advanced by anti-Israel activists including a push to end all U.S. aid to the Jewish state until the “military occupation of Palestinian land” ceases, according to CBN News. The resolution was adopted in an overwhelming 751 to 162 vote during the Mainline Protestant denomination’s triennial Churchwide Assembly held in New Orleans August 8-13." https://juicyecumenism.com/2016/08/15/lutherans-israel-resolutions/

More on e-mails and Democrats

I've seen some memes and posters about the latest e-mail scandal of the Democrats. They are much more worried about who hacked them than what they said about Sanders' supporters and minorities. Not sure the party faithful will see it that way. Now even Donna Brazile has been implicated. It should be a lesson to anyone, anywhere, politics, business or church, don't put it in e-mail if you don't want it exposed.

#‎blacklivesmatter‬ is marching in Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love, with a large sign, "Hillary, delete yourself." Is that a threat?

 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/25/us/politics/donald-trump-russia-emails.html?_r=0

 http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-07-25/cybersecurity-experts-say-russia-hacked-the-democrats

 http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/25/politics/democratic-convention-dnc-emails-russia/

Now you can be on the Ferguson Grand Jury

  What happened in Ferguson that makes ‪#‎blacklivesmatter‬ a lie and "Hands up don't shoot" a fake? This is all a myth - an evil nasty story that has no relation to the truth, but has led to the deaths of many police officers and life time crippling injuries of others.

There was a Grand Jury investigation into the shooting and that has been made into a play. It is verbatim eyewitness testimony with nothing added. It's the truth. Now you can judge. But it is an hour and 22 minutes, but riveting. The set and costume design are amazing, as are the actors. The creator--the man who used only the words of the testimony--is Phelim McAleer and it was performed by professional actors on stage in Los Angeles. Now you can see it on YouTube.  But you can also see how witnesses see things differently, and how some are mentally unstable or frightened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBVNATEyF_g

"If Michael Brown had just stopped running, it could have ended another way." Eyewitness

All Lives Matter suspension in Canada

Tenor Remigio Pereira was recently suspended from The Tenors of Canada for singing, "all lives matter," changing the words of "O Canada" at an MLB game. Not clear to me if they thought it was disrespectful to their national anthem or to blacks. But I fear it is now racist to claim all lives matter. Is it disrespectful to mention baritones and basses also count if a group is named THE TENORS? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpxsJ-_vdPU

Don't know him, but he's called it

  

 

Here is another post by Mark:
So someone just asked me; "what do you think black people need to do to solve the issues you keep talking about?" Here's what I think; the first step is with black males. Black males need to go home and start being MEN IN THEIR HOMES instead of BOYZ N THE HOOD. They need to start DEALING with the crime in their communities instead of DEALING the dope that causes so much of it. They need to start realizing that nobody fought and died so you could live like a fool and die like a coward. And they need to take this load off their women's backs and take their rightful place of responsibility in their families.
Do that.....
and everything else will fall into place.

Little black lives

It's a shame that ‪#‎blacklivesmatter‬ isn't a slogan for the unborn. 78% of abortions in New York are for black and Hispanic babies, but no one is rioting. 72% in Mississippi, but no one is marching or clogging freeways. In 2010 in New Jersey 55.9%, the District of Columbia 64.8% and Georgia, 73.2% and in Texas 63.7% were Black or Hispanic, all supported and financed by white, liberal Democrats, but no days of rage are planned.

Are we being manipulated by trending stories on social media?

I think it was either Wall Street Journal or Washington Post that posted a side by side view of what trends on Facebook on various issues. I suppose they calculate from hashtags, which I rarely use. You can check any of about 10 issues and see how we are being told completely different versions by the (mostly) on-line media which are often connected to mainstream TV and print. For instance, much on the left about bathrooms is posted by an LGBQT rights organization that probably few on the right have ever heard of.  I see I'm not the only one posting statistics about percent of white offenders shot by police exceeding black, but that news isn't crossing over. Some reporters definitely don't know the difference between percentage and rate, and believe crime should reflect percentage of population. If that were so, 50% of homicides would be by females. Although both left and right could read Department of Justice reports that homicide rate declined from 9.3 homicides per 100,000 in 1992 to 4.8 homicides per 100,000 in 2010, they disagree on why, and rarely cite it in #blacklivesmatter stories, even though blacks have benefitted the most. Unfortunately, there is something called the Ferguson affect and crime is on the uptick--again, disagreement on why.

November 2011, NCJ 236018

What if you read a story about Chicago murders and that most occur on street and alleys and parking lots, in fact that the outdoor rate of murders had gone from 61.3% in 1991 to 82.4% in 2011.  Scary, right?  But what if you read that in 1991 the outdoor murder number in Chicago was 928, and by 2011 had dropped to 435, and the streets of Chicago are safer than 20 years ago?  Both figures are true, but it depends on the slant the reporter chooses to use to manipulate the reader. Black Lives Matter will probably not tell you that most of the falling crime rate in the last two decades has been for blacks, because the white rate was low 20 years ago, and is still low.  It is the black community, the one complaining about increased police presence in the neighborhood and more black criminals in prison that has benefitted the most from the Clinton era omnibus crime bill.

Chicago murder analysis, 2011

Cleveland Browns running back Isaiah Crowell posted a drawing/cartoon of someone dressed all in black (a message?) slitting the throat of a policeman. He's since apologized for his poor decision. Sorry. That's not good enough for me. He needs to hear from President Obama and AG Lynch and lose his flying privileges and the Browns should fire him. Where was his outrage at black men being killed by black men, which is about 4,500 a year or 40— criminal or innocent — for every one killed by a cop, and where was his rage when whites, mostly committing crimes, were killed by police to protect him, his family, and job--that number is higher than blacks. He's disgusting. And the media can step up and take the blame for race pimping and never telling the truth, only reporting about blacks, and often erroneously.

Black lives matter

Black lives matter began on social media, was picked up and distributed by mainstream news, all about the false narrative that police kill blacks out of proportion to the population. But crime isn't committed that way. The victimization rate for Blacks (27.8 per 100,000) was 6 times higher than the rate for Whites (4.5 per 100,000). The offending rate for Blacks (34.4 per 100,000) was almost eight times higher than the rate for Whites (4.5 per 100,000). (Homicide Trends in the United States, 1980-2008 NCJ 236018) From 2003-2009 among reported arrest-related deaths, 42% of persons were white, 32% were black, and 20% were Hispanic. And crime rates for blacks is 8x that of whites. (Bureau of Justice. Arrest related deaths, 2003-2009. NCJ 235385) So Whites are being killed at a higher rate than Blacks. We don’t see it on tv.

More misinformation on TV tonight

We're still hearing twisted statistics about cops killing blacks. (Just watched the Ferguson story on CBS.) People want any unfortunate killings to reflect percent of population, but black males between the ages of 14 and 17 commit homicide at 10x the rate of white and Hispanic youths. Obviously, they will encounter police more often as the police protect people.

In New York City blacks are 23% of the population but commit 75% of all shootings, 70% of all robberies and 66% of all violent crime. Whites are 33% of the population but commit fewer than 2% of all shootings, 4% of all robberies and 5% of all violent crime. This means when police are called out on a gun run, the chances are they will encounter black men looking for trouble. 

The anti-cop campaign of the last 2 years puts police in danger and also the people they are supposed to protect. Crime fell dramatically the last 20 years, now it's creeping back up as the number of police killed in shootings doubled in 2016. The chance of a police officer being killed by a black is 18.5x higher than the chance of an unarmed black getting killed by a cop. From "The danger of the Black Lives Matter Movement" by Heather MacDonald, April 17, 2016, speech.

Black Lives Don't matter in Chicago

They can shut down the GOP convention, but they can't stop the killing in Chicago? 19 homicides and 116 shot just in March. A 98.6% increase since the Black Lives Matter movement.





Article from July. 


Ms. Perry hosted  the “Melissa Harris-Perry” show since 2012, focusing on the state of race, gender and social justice in America, but resigned/was fired on Feb. 28 because she didn't like it that her show was being preempted for political coverage, and she was too good to read the news.