Bill O’Reilly and Charles Krauthammer had a fine Old White Guys discussion of rampant Political Correctness on college campuses the other day, concluding with O’Reilly’s astute analysis of why Mexispanican people have no cause to complain about being portrayed by gringos who dress up for Halloween in big sombreros and mustaches, because after all, if
Bill O’Reilly: If Mexicans Don’t Like Stereotypes, Get That Mariachi Band Away From Me
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Bristol Palin Real Mad Media Ignoring White Child’s Shooting She Read About In Media
Bristol Palin is actually half right about a thing for once! (Relax, she’s still half wrong too.) On Wednesday, Bristol blogged her disgust and heartbrokenness that police in Marksville, Louisiana, shot a six-year-old autistic boy to death while firing at his father’s car, for no apparent reason. The two officers have been charged with second-degree murder and attempted
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Maine GOP Knows Liberal Preacher Running For Mayor Hates Christians
The mayoral election in Lewiston, Maine, has gone from ugly to downright weird, with the state GOP accusing Democratic candidate Ben Chin of being “anti-Christian” — which will be something of a surprise to Mr. Chin, who serves as a lay preacher at his Episcopal church. Chin is running to replace incumbent Mayor Robert Macdonald,
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Justice Scalia Knows The Blacks Are Too Dumb For Real Colleges
You’ll be shocked to know that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said a Not Very Nice But Very Typical Of Him thing on Wednesday. Was it about lady parts? Homo parts? Nope, this time it was about African-American brain parts: He argued that “most of the black scientists in this country do not come from the most advanced schools” and
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Fox News: President Obama Again Proves He’s Out Of Touch By Stating Facts, Being Black
Important Fox News alert: President Obama is the worst! Again! What did he do this time? The usual: He opened his mouth, during an interview on NPR, and let words spill forth, and you know how he does that just to make all those Fox butts break out in a rash. According to host Steve Doocy
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Racist Maine Gov. Paul LePage Decides It’s The Blacks Dealing Drugs After All
How incompetent is Paul LePage, the racist Hefty bag of bile and moose leavings who’s somehow won two terms as Maine’s governor? Apart from being so blessedly stupid that he mistakenly allowed a bunch of progressive legislation to become laws when he thought he was vetoing them (thanks, Shit Fer Brains!), he’s not even any
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Deleted Comments: Obama Murdered Scalia, Just Like He Killed Joan Rivers!
Hey Kids, welcome to a special Saturday edition of your weekly Deleted Comments, seeing as our how Sunday morning is going to be consumed with giving you good people all the straight dope on the Nevada caucuses and the South Carolina primaries. So we’re scrambling up the order a little — we’re pretty sure you
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Bill O’Reilly Mystified: Why Are The Blacks So Racist Against Poor Donald Trump?
For a guy who likes to think of himself as pretty smart, Bill O’Reilly is pretty easily flummoxed by little things like how the tides work, what socialism is, and what war correspondents do. And now he’s confused by one more thing: Why is Donald Trump so unpopular with The Blacks? On Thursday’s O’Reilly Factor,
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California Bars And Restaurants Doin’ Racial Profiling Like They’ve Turned Into Texas
In Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, there’s a lovely Kilgore Trout story-within-a-story called “The Gospel From Outer Space.” An alien came to Earth, studied Christianity very carefully, and concluded that the true message of the Gospels was “Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn’t well connected.” Which brings us to this story of two attorneys
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Montana School Gets Black Student, Morons Get Racist, School Bans Confederate Flags
A high school in the tiny Montana town of Livingston (population 7,044) has banned the Confederate flag from school property after the school enrolled its one and only black student. Get ready for the predictable shitstorm of butthurt neo-Confederate morons crying about white genocide and the like, although things at the school itself seem to
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Barack Obama Tells You A Thing He Knows About The Negro And The Oriental
President Obama signed a bill Friday updating federal law to eliminate obsolete racial terms like 'negro' and 'Oriental' from federal law. Rightwing reaction was as measured and thoughtful as you'd expect.
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Supreme Court Rules Prosecutors Must Hide Racism More Effectively In Death Penalty Cases
The U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday that the Constitution only allows racial bias in jury selection when it’s a lot more subtle than that practiced by a Georgia prosecutor’s office 29 years ago. The court overturned the conviction and death sentence of Timothy Tyrone Foster, who was convicted by an all-white jury in 1987, a
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Black Middle-Schooler Charged With ‘Stealing’ Free Milk From Lunch Line, For Some Reason
A Virginia middle-schooler was charged with larceny and suspended from school after a cop accused him of 'stealing' a 65-cent carton of milk that he was entitled to have as part of his free school lunch. Franz Kafka would be proud.
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Donald Trump’s African-American Not Actually Donald Trump’s African-American
The man Donald Trump singled out as "my African-American" at a recent campaign appearance isn't a Trump Supporter, but doesn't mind Trump's comments, because he's running for Congress and wow did this ever get him some publicity.
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Bill O’Reilly: Slaves Who Built White House Had It GREAT!
Also, they were helped by some white dudes who did get paid.
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Ex-Trumper Corey Lewandowski Revives Birther Nonsense, As If Week Weren’t Stupid Enough Already
CNN's Corey Lewandowski did a great job of defending his former boss, Donald Trump, from Barack Obama's assessment that Trump is unfit for office. How? By asking where the hell Obama's birth certificate is.
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Donald Trump Staggeringly Wrong About Another Thing (Crime). Bet You’re As Shocked As We Were!
Donald Trump was incredibly wrong about crime rates. Imagine that!
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Donald Trump To Visit Black Church In Detroit, No Matter How Dangerous It Might Be
Donald Trump plans to visit an African-American church Saturday, and we're betting we'll never hear the end of it.
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Donald Trump Ready To Deport Sportsballer Colin Kaepernick For Anti-Flag Crimethink
America is a land of boundless freedom, as long as you don't say anything unkind about it in relation to the flag or national anthem.
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Jeff Sessions: What We Have Here Is A Failure To Communicate!
Now that he’s made clear the Justice Department is so over voting rights, since racism is a thing of the past, Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III has focused firmly on the need to Git Tuff on crime, especially by unleashing our brave police to keep us safe. In a speech to the National Association of Attorneys General Tuesday, Sessions made clear that under his guidance, the Department of Justice isn’t about to waste too much time dealing with police abuses, because lawsuits aimed at making police departments respect people’s civil rights make cops sad and unable to keep us safe by cracking down on crimers.
“Somehow, someway, we’ve undermined respect for police and made — often times — their job more difficult,” Sessions said. “We need to help police officers get better rather than reduce their effectiveness, and I’m afraid we’ve done some of that. So, we’re going to pull back a little on this. I don’t think that it’s wrong or mean or insensitive to civil rights or human rights. I think it’s out of concern to make the lives of those, especially in poorer communities and minority communities, live a safer, happier life.”
The idea here is that strict policing will reduce crime and then they’ll all feel a lot safer, at least when people aren’t in fear of the cops, which should also keep their violent tendencies under control. It’s a win-win for public safety, as long as you don’t mind a little trampling on individual rights, which are sacred and inviolable when you’re talking about white gun owners in Texas, but a hindrance to public safety when you’re talking about black people in Chicago or Baltimore.
Sessions acknowledged that crime rates are in fact lower than in previous decades, but the official tone of the Trump administration is Gotham-City Black, so Sessions added that fears of violent crime are “driving a sense that we’re in danger” all the same. Of course, it’s the Trump administration that’s driving that perception with its depictions of cities as dens of constant murder, but that just proves we need to be nicer to cops.
“One of the big things out there that’s, I think, causing trouble and where you see the greatest increase in violence and murders in cities is somehow, some way, we undermine the respect for our police and made, oftentimes, their job more difficult,” he said.
Sessions readily acknowledged Monday that he hadn’t actually read two major DOJ reports on police abuses in Chicago and in Ferguson, Missouri, which both found systemic problems with the police departments’ treatment of citizens. But he said he had read summaries, and as far as he’s concerned, there was no real reason to take the reports too seriously, since “Some of it was pretty anecdotal and not so scientifically based,” a conclusion he might have a hard time supporting based on a summary. As Mother Jones points out, the Ferguson report was far from anecdotal, relying on the city’s own records in most cases, and finding that
African Americans accounted for 93 percent of arrests made by Ferguson police despite being just 67 percent of the city’s population; that black residents were more than twice as likely to have their cars searched during traffic stops despite being more than 25 percent less likely to be caught with contraband than white drivers; and that some discretionary citations like “walking in roadways” were issued nearly exclusively to black people.
The Chicago report also found abuses toward citizens, with these easily-dismissed anecdotal findings, as summarized by MoJo:
- Deadly force was used disproportionately against black residents.
- Only 1-in-6 recent graduates of the police academy interviewed by the DOJ “came close” to properly articulating the legal standard for use of force.
- Chicago’s police review board received more than 30,000 police misconduct complaints over the five years reviewed by the DOJ, but fewer than 2 percent of those were sustained or resulted in discipline. During that same period, CPD investigated 409 police shootings, but found only two to be unjustified.
- White residents were three-and-half times more likely to have an allegation of police misconduct sustained than black residents. White residents were six times more likely to have their use-of-force complaints sustained than Latino residents.
- A 2016 review of the department’s dashboard cameras conducted by the department itself found that the audio capability for 80 percent of the cameras were either not working or had been tampered with.
- Officers commonly colluded to cover up wrongdoing by their colleagues, and officers facing misconduct investigations were coached by union attorneys in a manner “experts had [not] seen to nearly such an extent in other agencies.”
- Officers routinely picked up and questioned known gang members about drug activity and dropped them off in rival gang territory if they did not cooperate, putting their lives at greater risk.
Those seem like details that perhaps an Attorney General probably shouldn’t skim over. Not that Sessions thinks the Obama administration really knew anything about Gittin’ Tough on crime anyway, because as everyone named Donald Trump knows, Chicago is a hellhole where you can’t walk down the street without getting shot. Sessions also said Monday his DOJ had not yet decided whether to follow through on pursuing a consent decree with the Chicago PD, a process the Obama DOJ had begun. But he did say he was “really worried” about “the surge in murders” in the city, as well as by the decline in the use of stop-and-frisk searches used in Chicago. With those very serious concerns, why would he want to read the reports on police abuses?
Don’t get any hopes up that Sessions will pursue anything but more aggressive policing tactics, because he’s very concerned that if cops are forced to actually follow the law, they won’t be motivated to crack down on crime. In fact, even talking about citizens’ constitutional rights too much may give cops a sad, and they’ll grow so discouraged they won’t be able to function:
“Sometimes local police departments really step up and do a great job. It’s almost disrespectful [to] them for the feds to go in and try to take it over,” Sessions said in response to a question from The Huffington Post.
Sessions also said the nation had “gotten a little overconfident” about public safety and it affected how police responded to violence.
But since the reports he didn’t read were merely anecdotal, there’s no need to pay much mind to their calls for changes in how policing gets done. The main thing is to make sure officers know the feds have their backs and won’t be snooping around every time some criminal (or unarmed criminal-seeming person) gets shot to death by a cop.
As we noted yesterday, awareness that crime has actually declined steadily since the 1980s might indeed poison Americans with a dangerous lack of fear of exploding crime rates, since crime rates aren’t exploding. How on earth will the Trumpers increase the militarization of police if we aren’t deathly afraid of crime, after all?
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