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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts) Thu Mar 19, 2015, 01:26 PM Mar 2015

This Is America: When you see this breaking news, you know the suspect is white...

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This Is America: When you see this breaking news, you know the suspect is white.

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This Is America: When you see this breaking news, you know the suspect is white... (Original Post) Playinghardball Mar 2015 OP

Well nothing like some good race bait to start the day. Egnever Mar 2015 #1

I think the operating word here is "capture" upaloopa Mar 2015 #2

Yea cause with incarceration rates for POC at ridiculously high levels Egnever Mar 2015 #3

When one sees the words Shooting suspect and captured Bettie Mar 2015 #4

The incarcerations were for possession of small amounts of upaloopa Mar 2015 #6

Weren't the Beltway Snipers captured? (nt) Nye Bevan Mar 2015 #5

Egnever

(21,506 posts)

1. Well nothing like some good race bait to start the day.

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Thu Mar 19, 2015, 01:28 PM

Mar 2015

upaloopa

(11,417 posts)

2. I think the operating word here is "capture"

Reply to Egnever (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 19, 2015, 01:35 PM

Mar 2015

I think the OP makes sense. It is OK to acknowledge that.

Egnever

(21,506 posts)

3. Yea cause with incarceration rates for POC at ridiculously high levels

Reply to upaloopa (Reply #2)

Thu Mar 19, 2015, 01:41 PM

Mar 2015

None of them were captured....

Yea makes total sense

Bettie

(16,095 posts)

4. When one sees the words Shooting suspect and captured

Reply to Egnever (Reply #3)

Thu Mar 19, 2015, 01:42 PM

Mar 2015

together, most of the time, you're going to find a white suspect was captured.

Not always, but usually.

upaloopa

(11,417 posts)

6. The incarcerations were for possession of small amounts of

Reply to Egnever (Reply #3)

Thu Mar 19, 2015, 01:57 PM

Mar 2015

drugs not mass shootings. I think if the shooter were Black that building would be on fire.
Nice that you see the problem of incarceration rates though. The rest of the issue is that the same crime rate by White people hasn't resulted in similar incarceration rates.

Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)

5. Weren't the Beltway Snipers captured? (nt)

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Thu Mar 19, 2015, 01:47 PM

Mar 2015

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