Kareem Abdul Jabbar Sums Up Ferguson. Not Kidding.

[Indy]

From that perspective yes, you're more likely to be shot being black.

I'm flipping it around not from the violence perspective towards the victims, but the economic one. In other words, poor white people--or soon to be poor white people--guess what? This is where you're going to end up too if this continues (not being shot, being that poor and that without options).

[eynon81]

[Indy]

We're getting slightly off-topic here. It seems like a pyramid of cause:

-We create more and more poor people every day
-Poor people commit more crimes
-Which we're inundated with on TV nightly
-Which causes people to clamor for more police
-Which causes too much policing/overly aggressive police
-And we end up with Fergusons

The point being, shouldn't we really be focused on a war on poverty? That would seem to solve a lot of problems. It would seem to also have a much more proactive result on the American black community than simply ramping up police armaments or everybody going out and buying guns.

Our media spends so much time on violence in this country, and not the financial violence being done us by the 1%.

[eynon81]

I find Kareem's political statements lacking in nuance... he's a lil too CREDO and not enough Carter. Identifying a list of specific things we want isn't the answer to social unrest. He sounds like the president of Key club rallying key club members who don't have anything else to spend their time on anyway.The militarization of police is a symptom, and police brutality is a symptom of a symptom.

[eynon81]

[Aaron]

btw I believe the phrase "financial violence" may actually win an olympic gold medal for levels of over-wroughtness and bleeding-vagina-ness

[eynon81]

[Indy]

[Philly]

I'm not a denier. I just think u need a heavier pad.

[Indy]