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The Daily Caller wrote:Black Lives Matter protesters marching on the Minnesota state fair on Saturday spewed violent anti-cop rhetoric just hours after a Harris County, Tex. sheriff’s deputy was ambushed and executed at a Houston-area gas station.

“Pigs in a blanket, fry ’em like bacon,” activists with the St. Paul, Minn. branch of Black Lives Matter chanted while marching behind a group of police officers down a highway just south of the state fair grounds.

Carrying signs reading “End White Supremacy” and “Black Lives Matter,” the protesters railed against racial inequality, the criminal justice system and policing. Besides issuing the chant calling cops by the pejorative “pig,” the protesters repeated the names of several blacks who have been killed by police in recent years.

The activists sang out the violent chorus chant just hours after a lone gunman shot 47-year-old Harris County sheriff’s deputy Darren Goforth while he was getting gas. The suspect approached the 10-year veteran from behind at around 8:30 p.m. Friday and shot him in the back of the head. He then shot Goforth several more times as he lay on the ground.

Goforth leaves behind a wife and two children.

During a press conference on Saturday — before protesters in St. Paul called for cops’ deaths — Harris County sheriff Ron Hickman condemned what he characterized as “some of the very dangerous national rhetoric that’s out there today.”

“So any point where the rhetoric ramps up to the point that calculated, cold-blooded, assassination of police officers happen, this rhetoric has gotten out of control,” he added.

“We’ve heard ‘black lives matter,’ ‘all lives matter’ — well, cops’ lives matter too. So why don’t we just drop the qualifier and say ‘lives matter,’ and take that to the bank.”

The Orson Empire wrote:This is yet another reason I, as an African-American, do not want to be associated with this nonsense. Calling for violence against police officers isn't helping your cause.

The balkens wrote:

The Orson Empire wrote:This is yet another reason I, as an African-American, do not want to be associated with this nonsense. Calling for violence against police officers isn't helping your cause.

I dont think they care at this point.

The Orson Empire wrote:

The balkens wrote:
I dont think they care at this point.

These people are more concerned with getting their 15 minutes of fame then fighting for civil rights. They disgust me, and they are doing an injustice to all African-Americans.

Mairland wrote:BLM is just a load of (violent) hot air now.

This is basically amounting to severe criminal activity.

The balkens wrote:

The Orson Empire wrote:These people are more concerned with getting their 15 minutes of fame then fighting for civil rights. They disgust me, and they are doing an injustice to all African-Americans.

Do they even have the support of even most African-Americans?

The Orson Empire wrote:

The balkens wrote:
Do they even have the support of even most African-Americans?

I don't know, but if anything, they are making us look worse as a whole.

After all, working-class whites didn’t leave the Democratic Party over insufficiently populist policy and rhetoric. The liberal economic reforms of 1960s—and Medicare in particular—paid benefits to white working-class families throughout the 1970s and ’80s, even as the group moved to a decisive break with the Democrats. No, the proximate cause of the break was the Democratic Party’s close identification with black Americans, who—after the riots of the late ’60s and ’70s—became identified with urban disorder and welfare.

Specifically, whites were bewildered and infuriated with liberals who defended rioting communities—correctly noting the decades of deprivation and abuse that led to those violent outbursts—and pushed anti-poverty programs to address the underlying conditions. Black incomes rose while at the same time, many white incomes were beginning to stagnate or even fall. Why was the government spending our tax dollars on them, working-class whites asked, when they destroy their neighborhoods and refuse to work, and we’re losing our jobs and our homes?

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Then, as now, working-class whites are ardent supporters of Social Security and Medicare. But to them, our retirement programs came with an implicit social contract: If you work and contribute to society, society will care for you into your old age. By contrast, you didn’t have to work to benefit from anti-poverty programs, in fact, you could riot and still receive government benefits. To these whites, the New Deal and its successor programs rewarded self-reliance and independence. The War on Poverty didn’t. And they hated it.

Oglassa wrote:Black Lives are not the lives that matter.
All lives are the lives that matter.

The balkens wrote:

The Orson Empire wrote:I don't know, but if anything, they are making us look worse as a whole.

Probably best to distance yourself from them at this point.

The Orson Empire wrote:This is yet another reason I, as an African-American, do not want to be associated with this nonsense. Calling for violence against police officers isn't helping your cause.

The Orson Empire wrote:

The balkens wrote:
Probably best to distance yourself from them at this point.

I already have. I don't want any association with them.

The balkens wrote:

The Orson Empire wrote:I already have. I don't want any association with them.

I predictions are this, it will end like OWS. Faded into the background when shit like this becomes for common,

Honorable goals? sure. But with their words and chants? any decent person will tune off from them.

Gauthier wrote:

The balkens wrote:
I predictions are this, it will end like OWS. Faded into the background when shit like this becomes for common,

Honorable goals? sure. But with their words and chants? any decent person will tune off from them.

Except unlike Wall Street greed, blacks being shot dead by police for a grab bag of disproportionate reasons isn't something easily ignored by those it affects.

Aurum Reich wrote:If mainstream media didn't cover it, did it really happen?