with a smaller ball, and do nothing but stand
around. But back to "Black Lives Matter". If everyone would
join forces and point out over 1,500 unarmed people were shot and killed
by cops last year, maybe something could be changed.
Also,
on your "Stray Thoughts" [page
3] about how hate crimes legislation punishes a man not for what
he does, but for what he believes, the real question? Who gets to
decide what constitutes a "hate crime"? Generally, the "majority"
can decide anything they want. What if the gay, Jew, liberals decide
that a child must suck a dick and eat a pussy before the age of 18, if
they don't they're branded "gay basher" and charged with a "hate crime"?
I know that sounds extreme but in reality, we aren't far away from that
sort of extreme thinking. More and more it's becoming criminal to
be a poor, white male.
Well
brother, I shall close for now. Peace and be well.
Sincerely,
—S. H., a prisoner
You've
raised an important point about the numbers and proportions of the deaths.
According to your numbers, last year the cops killed more than twice as
many white people as black people. Maybe the protestors can't count.
Of course, they like to base their complaints on the proportion
of black people killed, as compared to the size of the black population.
It has to make you wonder. Is it okay for the cops to kill white
people, just so long as the proportion of white people killed is
less than the proportion of black people killed, as compared to
the respective populations? I don't know, but that seems to be what
they're suggesting. If so, then it seems kind of crass to me, maybe
even racist. If they're not suggesting that, then why do they
keep bringing up the proportions? The cops killed twice as many white
people as black people. If black lives matter, then why don't white
lives matter?
You're
also right about the women. They've used their tired old "equal pay
for equal work" story to divert attention away from "unequal pay for unequal
trouble". Workplaces are more complicated and expensive to operate
when women are working in them.
—editor
A Quick, Impromptu
Survey
Sam Aurelius Milam III
I
recently did a quick, impromptu survey. Notice, I didn't say that
it was a scientific survey. It was a quick, impromptu survey.
I just wanted to check a thought that came to mind.
I
receive my television signals through an antenna. So, the number
of channels that is available to me at any given moment can vary from one
moment to the next. During the time of my quick, impromptu survey
I had, variously, from about 15 channels to about 19 channels available.
So, I'll say that the number of channels that I surveyed was about 17,
close enough for a quick, impromptu survey. I conducted my survey
at what amounted to a randomly selected time. It was shortly before
10 o'clock on Sunday morning, on the ninth of August. The idea popped
into my head about then and I just turned around and did the survey.
What
I did was to click around all of the channels. I watched each channel
for just long enough to see who was on the screen. That was usually
only a second or two. In a few instances, I had to wait longer, if
they were showing scenery, for example. Other than that, my
survey included whatever programming happened to be on at the moment when
I clicked to the channel. That included all kinds of programming,
news, comedies, commercials, everything. As soon as I saw who was
on the screen, I clicked to the next channel. I did it four times.
What
I discovered was that eight times, then six times, then six times, then
six times again, the very first thing that was on the screen was at least
one black person, and sometimes more than one black person. Even
the kid's cartoon channel had a cartoon with black kids in it. For
what it's worth, probably nothing, I didn't see any black people at all
on the Christian channel or on either of the two Spanish language channels.
But, on the American commercial channels and on all four PBS channels,
it was black people first, almost half of the time, 6 to 8 out of about
17.
My
survey doesn't prove anything but it does make me wonder. Black people
are a minority of the population. Is it really possible that they're
using almost half of the screen time on American commercial and public
television? I don't know. Maybe it's just a false impression,
but it does seem to me that most of the time when I look at the screen,
there's a black person on it. If that's actually true, then does
it even matter? I don't know. If it matters, then is it a good
thing? Again, I don't know, but if black people have really been
that successful at getting themselves on television, then maybe their problems
aren't really so much worse than the problems that other people have.
Maybe the problems that black people have just get more exposure and publicity.![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif)
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