david starling
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"We're losing badly the War on Drugs....You have to legalize drugs to win that war".-{Donald Trump before he became President}
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Blackbery, Donald Trump is not a strong leader, for all kinds of reasons that I can enumerate if you care to read them.
If you want to vote for a strong leader, that's fine, but it wouldn't be Donald Trump.
It is important to distinguish between true effective leadership and a bombastic personality
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And in California (my state), racism against our southern neighbors Mexico and Hispanics/Latinos as a whole is quite common, despite our "PC multicultural Liberal" culture. After 9/11 there was a sharp rise in anti-Arab sentiment and Islamophobia in the USA, which is prevalent anyway. The USA is a diverse country with many kinds of ethnic and racial groups from the Irish and Italian Americans to Native Hawaiians and Samoans. It's like a fraternity when one has to go through being bullied to show they can "fit in" and join the club. Our past history of racism against Blacks or African-Americans in various forms: slavery, segregation, stereotypes, scapegoating and stigma continues to haunt the USA to this present day.
Though there is enough material out there for one to read through as to how Trump has used his office to lay the path for his children to 'benefit' from it, let me leave here two links as to Trump himself:...There is no evidence Trump has accepted bribes or benefits of the sort. There is strong evidence that Joe Biden, through his son, received lavish gifts in exchange for U.S. foreing policy...
Actually, Blackbery, we don't look forward to more gun violence. If it were up to me, I would either revoke the Second Amendment or (more realistically) understand that in the 1790s, it simply meant that the fledgling states could maintain militias that today we call the National Guard.
Don't blame David and me. Blame groups like the NRA that have consistently lobbied against any limits on gun ownership. Blame organized crime.
And no, I don't sit in a rocking chair wrapped in a quilt. But we have a presidential example of its moral equivalent.
Donald Trump plays golf and watches Fox News while cities burn. The Black Lives Matter protests occurred under his watch. He has done nothing to bring Americans together.
Unlike you who BULLY people like Dirius because she comes from a different country and tell her she can't have an opinion of the United State.
You and Way Bread have a lot of opinions about black urban areas when you've never stepped foot in an area like that. Or know police officers who work in these areas and put their lives on the line for the white and black citizens.
I think you maybe have an intellectual defect for it's like talking with a child with your ignorance.
Dirius, to use one of your favorite expressions, "it's funny how" the right wing blamed President Obama for all sorts of ills that are more correctly the purview of cities and states. Now that Trump is in office-- and had a clean sweep of Congress for two years-- suddenly it's the Democrats responsibility.
The Second Amendment is not going away any time soon.
I live in a rural area. Folks out here do not use guns much for self defense. They're more for hunting.
Blackbery, try looking at this from another perspective: Suppose the response to BLUE LIVES MATTER, was, ALL LIVES MATTER? Can you see how it completely undercuts the specific concern for the safety of police officers?
Dirius, "it's funny how" you believe that the best defense is a good offense.
Work on your offense, though, would you? Those personal attacks are so wildly off-target that I can't take them seriously.
(You know the sports analogy, right?)
BTW, I haven't reported anyone to the mods for several years now. But it seems your latest post to me has broken several forum rules.
I am sorry that you are so irritable.
The term "black on black crime" is racist to begin with. I've used it myself, without realizing that.