What is the controversy surrounding #takeaknee

[John V]

No fuckface. ECONOMIC conditions. Your bullshit "they only have themselves to blame" is racist judgmental BULLSHIT.

Crime happens a higher rate the more poverty exists. If you don't want it to be about race, then don't ignore and blame. Again you asshole, if you think blacks love poverty and murder you are a fucking moron. Our history of racism goes back hundreds of years. Unless you face the fact that economics affect blacks more negatively you are not going to solve shit. 

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/41...mas-sowell

We are told that such riots are a result of black poverty and white racism. But in fact — for those who still have some respect for facts — black poverty was far worse, and white racism was far worse, prior to 1960. But violent crime within black ghettos was far less.

Murder rates among black males were going down — repeat, down — during the much-lamented 1950s, while it went up after the much celebrated 1960s, reaching levels more than double what they had been before. Most black children were raised in two-parent families prior to the 1960s. But today the great majority of black children are raised in one-parent families.

I agree that minorities (who live in overwhelmingly poor areas of the country) have elevated participation in gang violence. And, as we can see by looking at gangs outside the US too, the best predictor of gang participation is income and education level. When minorities have a legacy of being treated poorly, and when that legacy results in systemic issues and prevents minority families from accruing wealth to pass on to future generations (such as the legacies around denying housing loans to minorities and cramming them into ghettos), you have a recipe for widespread problems.

You take an extremely short-sighted and superficial view of the facts.

See above regarding facts.

Also note that this argument is of limited value to police. When a cop sees a threat to the community or himself he needs to take action. Why or how the person came to be a threat is irrelevant at that point.