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After a night of violent protests, Milwaukee residents gathered Sunday evening to mourn an armed man shot to death by police and begin the healing process.
Family and friends of Sylville Smith, 23, held a candlelight vigil at the site of Saturday's shooting in a residential area of North Milwaukee.
The shooting triggered unrest in the city's north side Saturday night as protesters torched businesses and threw rocks at officers. Four officers were injured and 17 people were arrested, Mayor Tom Barrett said.
Tensions on Sunday gave way to calls for peace as activists gathered outside the affected businesses.
Smith's sister, Sherelle Smith, condemned violence carried out in her brother's name, saying the community needs those businesses.
Black Lives Shatter
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/14/us/milwaukee-violence-police-shooting/
(Score: 2, Interesting) by jmorris on Monday August 15 2016, @07:10PM
When the median white family wealth is 13x the median black family wealth the starting lines are not even close to equal.
Factually correct but doesn't matter. They didn't build this civilization so why should they have accumulated generational capital in it? But they are welcome to stay and build some and if they would be willing to do that they would find almost universal support.
If they instead decide America is irredeemably racist and that they would therefore be better off returning to the civilization they were sold off from generations ago, they would again find widespread support for that decision. Let us hold a massive telethon to raise the money to book their passage back. The nation of Liberia was founded for this very purpose.
Any rational mind observing the situation would have to say that it is a far better lot in life's lottery to have been born a poor black child in America than the median in any of their countries of origin but they are free to disagree. That while their great grandparents endured slavery[1] the result is that they themselves were lucky enough to be born here at a time when they are nominally free... to the extent any of still retain the blessing of Liberty in these dark waning hours of our former Republic.
What we won't do is open Pandora's Box of reparations. What we are increasingly unwilling to accept is the insanity of affirmative action on the basis of skin color, where a poor Appalachian thown out of work coal miner's son rates lower on the SJW scale of merit than Will Smith's brat for college admissions. We aren't going to accept riots every time some hood rat does something stupid and gets shot by a cop.
[1] Which was a normal part of the human condition worldwide, and still is in some parts, right up until a group of White people, starting in England, decided differently. The only places where Africans freed themselves from slavery turned into Hells on Earth that persist to the current day.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 15 2016, @07:37PM
> They didn't build this civilization so why should they have accumulated generational capital in it?
In fact slaves did build this civilization. Why do you think the South was so willing to secede? Money. Tons of Fucking Money. On the eve of the Civil War, the slave South had achieved a level of per capita wealth not matched by Spain or Italy until the eve of World War II or by Mexico or India until 1960. One crop, slave-grown cotton, provided over half of all US export earnings. Thus slavery paid for a substantial share of the capital, iron, and manufactured goods that laid the basis for American economic growth.
In addition, precisely because the South specialized in cotton production, the North developed a variety of businesses that provided services for the slave South, including textile factories, a meat processing industry, insurance companies, shippers, and cotton brokers. Slavery was the economic engine that created the United States.
You have inadvertently made the best argument for reparations. Good job!
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday August 15 2016, @09:37PM
He's a real piece of fucking work, isn't he? I wish that kind of ignorance were excruciatingly painful...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 15 2016, @09:40PM
So you're saying the millions and millions of immigrants after the civil war didn't do shit in helping to build america?
I guess the blacks just did everything back then, and fuck history and the truth. After all, black lies matter.
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/immigrant-population-over-time [migrationpolicy.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 15 2016, @10:23PM
All those immigrants wouldn't have come here were it not for what the slaves built.
The USA would have been just another banana republic otherwise.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 15 2016, @09:57PM
Lol. Slaves didn't build shit. They took orders from their masters. If the slaves were so good at creating a society and infrastructure then what the fuck happened to Haiti and the entire continent of Africa?
(Score: 2) by t-3 on Tuesday August 16 2016, @05:00AM
Intentional destabilization by white men with resources.