re: State senator places hold on University of Arkansas budget because of anthem

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total # of deaths per race by law enforcement or % per race.

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No one refutes that, stop being ignorant. Proportion of deaths compared to population is the only thing that means anything in terms of profiling and racism.

Then provide the data to prove your point.

Otherwise your confusing real data with media exposure...

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Actually knowing people of color and talking to them about their life experiences is a pretty good way to learn what they're talking about.

You're making assumptions about the lives of people you've never met. It doesn't hurt to actually listen to them versus cite irrelevant stats.

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So because I, and every piece of available data, doesn't agree with your stance, I must be:

Not a person of color
Not know any people of color
Not have grown up in a colored community
Not have any relations to inner cities

I appreciate you coming here to correct me about my life experiences.

Nolan grew up during Jim Crowe, no one playing sports today ever experience that true systematic discrimination in their lives.

Everyone in this country has experienced some form or bias or discrimination against them at some point in their lives, the reasons for this can often differ from the perceived reasons by each side in each case.

The protest was started by Kaepernick, who if he really had any knowledge of how real change is brought about in this country he would have voted on Tuesday, which he did not.

It has brought him attention and those who followed attention, almost all of it bad and negative. Their reason has largely been overlooked or lost in the noise, at which point they need to reevaluate the methods of delivering their message, if that is truly what their purpose is and not to garner attention from the masses.

Washington Post Article LINK
Statistics are accurate as of July 10th, 2016

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White people make up roughly 62 percent of the U.S. population but only about 49 percent of those who are killed by police officers. African Americans, however, account for 24 percent of those fatally shot and killed by the police despite being just 13 percent of the U.S. population. As The Post noted in a new analysis published last week, that means black Americans are 2.5 times as likely as white Americans to be shot and killed by police officers.

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U.S. police officers have shot and killed the exact same number of unarmed white people as they have unarmed black people: 50 each. But because the white population is approximately five times larger than the black population, that means unarmed black Americans were five times as likely as unarmed white Americans to be shot and killed by a police officer.

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About 13 percent of all black people who have been fatally shot by police since January 2015 were unarmed, compared with 7 percent of all white people.

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You literally must have never read an unbiased article on this issue.

Most murders are committed by someone who knew the victim. So yes more blacks are killed by their own race just as most whites are killed by someone of their race.

I'm a Republican, and Alan Clark is an idiot. I wish his ilk would leave the party.

Fact folks: those girls have the right to do what they did. I don't like it. I hate it. But they have the legal right to fricking do it.

And Alan Clark is simply one of the people who overreach and give the dipshits at Arkansas Times fodder to trash the entire GOP.

I support Jeff Long's statement. I don't like Jimmy Dykes' statement afterward. Jimmy's sounded almost "in your face." Jeff's was the same scripted-by-legal message any AD would have used at any university.


Should Tim Tebow have been allowed to have the scriptures on his eye-black? Yes. Consistency. Somebody doesn't like Tebow doing that? frick them. He had a right to do it.

This is all a slippery slope. The issues that could be related are numerous. Can an ex felon vote? Not sure the Virginia statute, but the answer is commonly "no." Well if they paid their debt to society, they should be able to vote, whether anyone likes it or not. IF they paid their debt. Same for gun ownership. Can't own a gun if you're a past felon? Even if you've paid your debt to society? What happens when an overreaching govt decides to circumvent gun rights with trumped up felony charges? Think about it.


Consistency people. This is not the fricking fifth grade playground.

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It's almost like black people can't afford proper representation and are convicted of a lot more crime, per capita.

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FIFY