The U.S. is soooo headed for a race war.

[Dave PSC]

Before you start shouting that it is a race war you should look around first. It does not take a black person to see that something went very wrong here and the actions should not be tolerated.

[Greg B]

Originally Posted by freechess

i marched with brother al the day he got stabbed in a protest over the

death of Yusef Hawkins the person came out of the police line dressed up

as a cop. the cops did nothing to even try to stop the guy the protesters

ended up subduing him

I remember the Yusef Hawkins case! That shit was crazy! Totally unbelievable! I remember the Michael Griffith case too and the Tawana Brawley thing. Back in the 80's things were INSANE in NY and the 90's weren't any better. Cops were all over people and one guy actually got beat and sodomized by some cops and they got busted. To tell you the truth things were more racially violent in the 80s and 90s than they were in the 60s and 70s and I don't know why.

I think after all that shit, nowadays these people aren't going to take it anymore. Push the wrong buttons and blam, it's all over with. The only thing holding this country together right now is tv, porn, mp3s and soft mattresses but as far as I'm concerned having seen what's happened to black people the past 5 decades up front if they tore ass day and night I wouldn't blame them. How much longer can a group of people be patient? Especially after that Hurricane Katrina shit. I hope Sharpton fucks NY city allllll up and then moves on to each major city. That would be the epitome of the Bush Administrations legacy, record debt, record failures, record civil unrest.

It's gonna happen, mark my words.

[BadWolf]

Sure, you got problems in big cities like LA and NY.......or should I say the problem IS big cities like LA and NY.

[pam]

Tawana Brawley had nothing to do with the police and everything to do with one man lying to create a situation between the races and to garner attention.

The guy was "sodomized" with a toilet plunger handle but the case was huge and people were punished.

There are bad cops everywhere. But it's reported much more in big cities and when the media and people blow it out of proportion and make it more than it is

[freechess]

Originally Posted by pam

Tawana Brawley had nothing to do with the police and everything to do with one man lying to create a situation between the races and to garner attention.

The guy was "sodomized" with a toilet plunger handle but the case was huge and people were punished.

There are bad cops everywhere. But it's reported much more in big cities and when the media and people blow it out of proportion and make it more than it is

actually it was Tawana Brawley who lied to cover up the fact she

disobeyed her mom i believe. Brother Al thought she was telling the truth

all the way till she confessed she lied.

[pam]

I will always believe he knew the truth. He really inflamed things by playing the race card, but it bounced back at him.

Didn't she and her mom get something like a quarter of a million dollars and then leave the state?

[_LB_]

Humans are not developed enough mentally for race not to be a major issue. Give it a few thousand more years till we have developed as a race and managed to supress many of our primal instincts which fuel most of the conflict.. and we may be able to move past issues like race etc. No matter how politically correct we try to be, no matter how much we try to pretend race shouldn't be an issue, humans are still very tribal and basic and we have to develop our species before we can improve it.

Unfortunately our ability to destroy is being developed faster than our ability to move beyond inter-species conflict. I think we will wipe ourselves out first.

[Mihx]

Originally Posted by _LB_

...

Unfortunately our ability to destroy is being developed faster than our ability to move beyond inter-species conflict. I think we will wipe ourselves out first.

Problem solved then .

[pam]

I think we had a race war a few years ago. Rodney King, anyone? Black people destroying black businesses in anger. Black people hurting white people.

And who can forget the news coverage of the rioting in tiny towns in Iowa, Nebraska and Arkansas.

There are still some areas of the USA where there is racial inequality, like blacks can't go to proms with whites (segregation), etc.