About that #BlackOnBlackCrime Thingy......

MSNBC host Chris Hayes satirizes the right's concern with "black on black violence," rolling footage of a recent "surf riot" from Huntington Beach and asking when "the white community would gets its act together."

RedEye's RoundUp

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Now on to the Roundup:

Black On Black Crime my Donkey!

Ongoing protests against police brutality have revealed how distorted the American discourse on crime is. The biggest myth animating this discourse is black criminality: the notion that black people commit more crime, and therefore deserve more heavy-handed policing

How about some Black on Black Justice?

 A Black People’s Grand Jury in St. Louis, Missouri, this weekend delivered a “true bill of indictment” for first degree murder against former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the death of Black teenager Michael Brown. Black people “can and must take matters into our own hands,” said Omali Yeshitela, one of four prosecutors that presented evidence, not only of Wilson’s personal guilt, but the institutional culpability of the entire regional criminal justice system in the murder and subsequent whitewash of the crime.

I HOPE George Zimmerman's attorney turned CNN legal analysist, the jury, the prosecutors, the judge and the media are happy now.

You won't hear it on TeeVee or the so called mainstream media because it doesn't fit the media driven narrative, but Common's acceptance speech for winning a Golden Globe award for best original song was as the young people say, "Off the Chain".

Speaking of the mainstream media, would someone tell them they are the only ones' gushing over Christ Christi, Jeb Bush, and Mitt Romney?  Real people, not so much....

The House will vote Thursday on what Republicans are calling the "Save American Workers Act," a proposal that would make it easier for employers to cut their workers' hours and paychecks and eliminate their benefits. It's a "fix" to Obamacare that would change the definition of full-time work from 30 hours per week to 40. As the law stands, employers with 50 or more workers have to either provide insurance to 95 percent of their full-time employees or pay a fine. Republicans say that their proposal will create more full-time jobs.

Sometimes a loss is a victory

 While the Republicans continue to fight among themselves over who can do more to obstruct progress in this Country, the President continues to lead this country and carry out the will of the American people, and proves once again that there isn't a conservative in America who has ever read the Constitution.

Got popcorn?

New Year same as the Old Year, only worse....

#Scalise #scaliseexcuses Well said!!! pic.twitter.com/j9cvdrUJ9P
— Jeremy Meredith (@SosukeAizen) December 31, 2014

I'm sorry, but I can't bring myself to start the year with a post full of HOPE for the future of our country in 2015.  Maybe things have to get worse before they get better.  Between the gop infused, media enabled, Tea Party gaining control of the House, the Senate, and  republican gerrymandering to ensure they maintain control until eternity, and the dark money thanks to Citizens United, the game is rigged.  And who wins in the end?  Not us liberals that's for sure.

RedEye's Predictions:

But, but, black on black crime will continue to be the excuse for the extra judicial killing of black folks.

But, but, guns don't kill people will continue be the excuse for mentally ill people and toddlers to exercise their second amendment rights.

But, but, I'm not a white supremacist because I know some good Negroes will continue to be used as a an excuse for those in positions of power and influence to exercise their racism.

But, but, let's not throw any more money to fund public education will be used as an excuse to justify not funding public education.

But, but, Obama is a Kenyan, Muslim, Socialist, will continue to be used as an excuse for red state governors not to expand medicaid.

But, but, excuse me while I go back to eating drinking and being merry for a little while longer.

#TamirRice and #JohnCrawford are dead because they were "scaring the s#*t out of everybody", including the police

On mattering @Fox6Kelvin: #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/9qKFAJmurO
— ProgressivePhD (@CallOut4) December 8, 2014

Listen to the 911 caller report the #TamirRice incident, then watch Tamir Rice being shot seconds after he is confronted by the police.

Read about the 911 call that lead to police shooting #JohnCrawford to death.

It's not the so called black on black crime, it's the easy access to guns people.

Police assume everyone is exercising their second amendment right to be locked and loaded, so they shoot first and ask questions later, out of fear they won't return home to their family at the end of their shift.  Not only do they have to contend with real guns, they have to worry about toy guns that look like real guns and vice verse. It would make the job of the police much easier if they didn't have to figure out the difference between the law abiding citizens and the criminals.  It might save some lives too..

I'm just saying.....

Michael Eric Dyson exposes Giuliani: It’s ‘the defense mechanism of white supremacy in your mind’

"White police wouldn't be there if you (Black's) weren't killing each other."- #AmericasMayor #RudyGiuliani #Racist💥 pic.twitter.com/GeCUl1EPGk
— F.Corey (@cfgodwell) November 24, 2014

We owe a debt of gratitude to Rudy Giuliani, who the main stream media dubbed America's Mayor because he happened to be the mayor of New York  on 9/11,  for decoding the code words behind Governor Nixon's decision to declare a pre-emptive state of emergency in #Ferguson.

The decision by Governor Jay Nixon (D-MO) to declare a state of emergency in his state ahead of the grand jury decision in the killing of Michael Brown has been a hot topic this week, and resulted in a very clarifying moment on NBC’s Meet The Press Sunday morning. In discussing cities with disproportionately white police forces, giuliani decided to change the subject to, what else, so-called “black-on-black crime,” a favorite hobby horse of police apologists, but one which is usually played for concern-trolling effect. Not this time.
Giuliani brought up the statistic that 93% of black homicide victims are killed by black people, and wondered why this doesn’t sufficiently distract people from caring when cops kill unarmed black people. “I would like to see the attention paid to that that you are paying to this, and the solutions so to that,” Giuliani said.

Yeah, let's talk about black on black crime every time a white police officers kills unarmed black people so we won't have to talk about why white police officers kill unarmed black people!

To Giuliani and his ilk, black people aren’t being killed by criminals, they are killing each other, so the cops aren’t there to protect black people, they are there to pacify a population that is killing each other.

There's just one little problem with this ahem theory,  according to statistics, white people are killing each other too, and most mass murders are privileged white males.  

Well, what do you know. So, do white people also need to “stop killing each other,” too? For Whatever Reason™, people like Giuliani look at those stats and see black people as the threat, but not white people. The unfortunate thing is that it is becoming ever more acceptable to share this view in polite company.

Thank you Rudy Giuliani for decoding the code words, and for illustrating the absurdity of the police mindset that has them “reasonably suspecting” nine innocent black men out of every ten, for example, or gunning them down for holding toys.

RIP #Tamir Rice, #MikeBrown,

#BlackLivesMatter