Why we should call out the racial issue if it's warranted.

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I'm noticing a lot of DUers getting squeamish whenever anyone talks about the race issue behind the Tea Party movement, or even suggests that Angry White Men* might be behind the recent death threat against a liberal politician. This is one of those cases where the road to hell is paved with good intentions, assuming the cause for their concern is based on a concern for PC. However, if the Republicans are behind the opposition, this is why they would want to keep racism out of the discourse:

Many of us are beginning to understand the scope of the good ole boy networks which control our local government. There is a code word that they use here when a City Attorney or State Attorney makes decisions which fly off the handle of reason. They say that they're making a "political" decision. When they make these "political" decisions, trust me, you will find a great deal of illiteracy and no legal reasoning behind their decision. It is steep in incompetence, and that's assuming they don't just ignore the issue in the hope that you will go away. You can scream, you can write all the letters you want, you can flail your arms, but it won't matter. One injustice after the other will happen in your home town and most of the residents won't understand why, and their ignorance makes them potential useful idiots for someone. Meanwhile, the community leaders understand fully why things are screwed up in town, but they're so connected that they have nothing to fear, except when someone with heavy pockets can sue them in Federal Court (jumping over the local, crooked judges), or when a member of a minority group catches on to their little game. When that happens, they will do whatever they have to do to destroy the credibility of that person because the stakes for them are high.

But, when they do this long enough, soon patterns develop over time. You can actually see how policies from law enforcement are openly targeting minority areas, and they leave good ole boy areas untouched. I'm not just talking about the Scalia "high risk" areas. I'm talking about grand jury investigations that are directed at the opponent's district before a major election. While the authorities are digging up all kinds of graft on their opponents, the areas which are hardcore right-wing are kept outside the scope of the investigation. So their dirty, crooked campaign donors are able to continue fleecing the unsuspecting public, sending the goods on in the form of campaign donations.

When these patterns exist in your state, you have a racial imbalance. Why that's a concern to the Republicans is that once it gets that obvious, it has the potential of turning into a Federal matter. That's why the Republicans don't want the racial issue brought up. Cries of discrimination are the only way to get the Federal agencies to wake up and do their job. When they do, they will disrupt the networks which control the crooked system that controls the townships which dispense the law in a "political" manner.

"Political" meaning arbitrary and discriminatory. That's why we shouldn't pipe down when we see discrimination in the way policies are being applied, or in the people who are suppose to be applying it. Because it's time to remove the euphemism and allow justice to prevail.

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[blondeatlast]

1. Hope I'm the first to recommend this--as an Arizonan, I know all too well that what you write is

so true.

I don't shy from the use of the word "racism" when it is so richly warranted--as it is so much in my state right now.

BIG, BIG k/r.

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4. Thank you so much, blondeatlast.

You have no idea how important this is to me. The thing is, that everyone is oppressed by these networks. Anyone who wants to live a clean, honest life. White, black, hispanic, Asian. You name it. You put these crooked networks down and we just might go back to being the America that everyone remembers. The key is understanding how and why local government selectively enforces the law, and how to find someone to hold them accountable.

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3. Oh there IS racism, but just not in THIS case, or that one, or that one...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/21/nyregion/21about.html


"Nearly nine out of ten people charged with violating the law are black or Latino, although national surveys have shown that whites are the heaviest users of pot. Mr. Bloomberg himself acknowledged in 2001 that he had used it, and enjoyed it.

On the Upper East Side of Manhattan where the mayor lives, an average of 20 people for every 100,000 residents were arrested on the lowest-level misdemeanor pot charge in 2007, 2008 and 2009.

During those same years, the marijuana arrest rate in Brownsville, Brooklyn, was 3,109 for every 100,000 residents.

That means the chances of getting arrested on pot charges in Brownsville — and nothing else — were 150 times greater than on the Upper East Side of Manhattan."

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5. Skewed policies, lead to skewed statistics.

And you don't see something that might be off with this sentence:

"Nearly nine out of ten people charged with violating the law are black or Latino"

The operative word being charged. Because the police have wide leeway in defined high risk areas, I can see how these numbers would be high for blacks and hispanics. Now, if they were to make consistent raids on the beach area bars along Long Island, they would destroy the perfect records of a great many young adults from good, clean families.

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