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Title: Some truth on black lives matter
Post by: cassandra and sara's daddy on August 18, 2015, 04:19:30 PM
From an unlikely source. I expect the comments to light off good
http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2015/08/armstrong_williams_what_if_black_lives_really_mattered.html


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ETC: Link fixed so those not on Book of Faces can read the article. - Scout26
Title: Re: Some truth on black lives matter
Post by: Scout26 on August 18, 2015, 07:04:16 PM
For those on Book of Faces and who want to read the comments (about 50/50 between "Uncle Tom!!" and "Preach it Brother !!)

https://www.facebook.com/theRoot/posts/10155869806565231


But basically hits the same points that Thomas Sowell, Ben Carson, and Bill Cosby (prior to the rape charges) have stated over and over.  That the Black community needs to clean up it's own house, value education and work, stop having babies out of wedlock and reject welfare and other .gov aid.
Title: Re: Some truth on black lives matter
Post by: cassandra and sara's daddy on August 18, 2015, 07:27:56 PM
The number of "preach it brothers " was encouraging


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Title: Re: Some truth on black lives matter
Post by: Angel Eyes on August 18, 2015, 07:29:35 PM
From an unlikely source. I expect the comments to light off good
http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2015/08/armstrong_williams_what_if_black_lives_really_mattered.html

From the article:
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The 2014 documentary 72 Percent, produced by Moguldom Studios, sheds an unflinching light on the epidemic of African-American children born to single-parent households. It explores the fact that black activists have largely rejected the criticism leveled by members of the intellectual class, such as Dr. Ben Carson, President Barack Obama and Bill Cosby, that black fathers are inexcusably absent from the lives of their children.

While the author's point is valid, I wouldn't mention Cosby.
Title: Re: Some truth on black lives matter
Post by: Mannlicher on August 19, 2015, 09:03:21 AM
the 800 pound gorilla (if I can use that term in this context), is that the ONLY black lives that 'matter',  are those that are politically expedient.