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Racial tension erupts in St Louis as heavy handed police arrest demonstrators
Riot-gear clad police arrested at least 17 people on Sunday after they refused orders to disperse from a spontaneous sit-in outside a convenience store in St. Louis during a weekend of otherwise peaceful protests against police violence. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesLately they are paralizing each US city that a cop shoots dead a criminal. It happens when you patronize people for far too long and you send the message that the country owes you something because of a particular ethnic background. Too much political correctness also is to blame for the Paris and London riots.
Oct 13th, 2014 - 02:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What Latam countries that had substantial ammounts of blacks in them got right was not fall into this patronizing and political correctness and positive discrimination that the US developed since the 1960s onwards. And countries like Brazil abolished slavery far later and had imported far more africans into the plantations that the Americans did. Never ever Brazil nor Colombia had racial issues.
We are seing this play out in Argentina as today there is news of attacks on park watchers in Nahuel Huapi. The message is Roca was bad man that should be erased from $100 notes, your ancestors were peaceful natives unfairly opressed, you need a radio funded by the State to express your views, private property is not respected. And so on. 10 or 20 years this didn't even exist in Argentina.
This country has racism, poverty, violence, moratorium, poor infrastructure, poor education, poor health disorganized (Ebola kills nurse).
Oct 14th, 2014 - 09:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0The first world is shit!
Here we have the American government warning travelers not to visit Argentina because (as they say) it has a high crime rate. What do they call this in St Louis??
Oct 14th, 2014 - 02:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Maybe th erest of the world should be telling its nationals to look out for trigger happy cops in the USA!! and stay home. ummmmmmmmmmmmm
“Never ever Brazil nor Colombia had racial issues”
Oct 14th, 2014 - 10:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Totally unsubstantiated claim.
Care to compare then with the history of racial issues of the US and Latam with more detail ??
Oct 14th, 2014 - 11:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That is not what you claimed. You claimed that “Brazil nor Colombia had racial issues”
Oct 15th, 2014 - 01:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0Which is totally unsubstantiated and completely wrong.
Whatever, do the Brazilians or the Colombian cities paralize each time the cops shoot a black criminal in the Favelas or in the poor barrios??
Oct 15th, 2014 - 01:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0Oh so public demonstrations are a sign of racial inequity?
Oct 15th, 2014 - 04:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps more Brazilians should be upset when black Brazilians are shot.
You made a claim and you have still not backed it up. Considering the number of street protests paralysing BsAs at times, you would t hink that it is a poor indicator on being used as a yardstick to judge an entire country.
Will there be riots in Argentina this Christmas? Because on past form that is a possibility.
No they are a sign of racial tensions and issues. The clue is in the title dummy
Oct 15th, 2014 - 09:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Racial tension erupts in St Louis as heavy handed police arrest demonstrators”
“Perhaps more Brazilians should be upset when black Brazilians are shot.”
We dont have a history of patronizing minorities in Latam.
A criminal is a criminal regardless of his skin colour and race.
You should read Thomas Sowell a black intelectual in the US.
It all comes down to entitlement indoctrination that your country and society owes you something for a reason. In Europe and Western countries its about race and in Argentina its about social status.
You made a claim and failed to back it up.
Oct 15th, 2014 - 10:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well why dont you produce the evidence to claim my statement as false then??
Oct 15th, 2014 - 10:24 am - Link - Report abuse 09. CD you are correct mollycoddling these people is what has caused all the problems. I blame LBJ for putting a whole class of people into permanent subsistence and reliance on the Fed Gov't to survive.
Oct 15th, 2014 - 01:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It will change in the next decade. There's too many working people paying for people not to work and they're getting very tired of it. People are finally taking about the U$& Trillion we've spent so far “fighting” poverty to get us no where or maybe even worse off.
This is also an election year and the Dems are flaming this so they go out and vote. They won't but they're trying everything now because they're desperate.
The media is also blowing this out of proportion, the Ferguson riots were on 1 street encompassing 4 city blocks. Not at all significant. Most of the rest of the country, and its a big big country barely knows where St Louis is nor cares.
The elections are in Nov so you'll see another month of this and then it should all die down.
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