Media Portrays Whites In A better Light Than Blacks
Posted by Michelle Moquin on August 16th, 2014
Good morning!
Mike: You comment is a common thing done by the media to black men. A White suspect is portrayed in a positive light and the Black victim is portrayed in a negative one.
Here’s a write from the Huff Po:
When The Media Treats White Suspects And Killers Better Than Black Victims
On the afternoon of Aug. 9, a police officer fatally shot an unarmed, black teenager, Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Missouri. Details remain in dispute. Eyewitnesses have said that Brown was compliant with police and was shot while he had his hands up. Police maintain that the 18-year-old had assaulted an officer and was reaching for the officer’s gun. One thing clear, however, is that Brown’s death follows a disturbingly common trend of black men being killed, often while unarmed and at the hands of police officers, security guards and vigilantes.
After news of Brown’s death broke, media-watchers carefully followed the narratives that news outlets began crafting about the teenager and the incident that claimed his life. Wary of the controversy surrounding the media’s depiction of Trayvon Martin – the Florida teen killed in a high-profile case that led to the acquittal of neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman — people on Twitter wondered, “If they gunned me down, which picture would they use?” Using the hashtag #IfTheyGunnedMeDown, users posted side-by-side photos, demonstrating the power that news outlets wield in portraying victims based on images they select.
On Monday, Twitter user LordSWVP tweeted out a photo driving home another point: Media treatment of black victims is often harsher than it is of whites suspected of crimes, including murder.
This is by no means standard media protocol, but it happens frequently, deliberately or not. News reports often headline claims from police or other officials that appear unsympathetic or dismissive of black victims. Other times, the headlines seem to suggest that black victims are to blame for their own deaths, engaging in what critics sometimes allege is a form of character assassination. When contrasted with media portrayal of white suspects and accused murderers, the differences are more striking. News outlets often choose to run headlines that exhibit an air of disbelief at an alleged white killer’s supposed actions. Sometimes, they appear to go out of their way to boost the suspect’s character, carrying quotes from relatives or acquaintances that often paint even alleged murderers in a positive light.
Here are a few examples:
WHITE SUSPECT
That’s how the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal chose to present the story of Amy Bishop, a former college professor who eventually pleaded guilty to killing three colleagues and wounding three others at a faculty meeting in 2010.
BLACK VICTIM
And that’s the headline AL.com ran about the shooting death of a 25-year-old black man in Alabama earlier this year.
WHITE SUSPECT
This is how the Staten Island Advance covered the case of Eric Bellucci, a mentally ill New York man who allegedly killed his parents.
BLACK VICTIM
Meanwhile, NBC News ran this headline during ongoing coverage of the Trayvon Martin killing.
WHITE SUSPECT
This Fox News headline quoted friends shocked that 15-year-old Jared Michael Padgett had entered his high school heavily armed and killed a classmate, injured a teacher and took his own life.
BLACK VICTIM
But in Florida, this headline in the Ledger focused on a police account that made the death of a black 19-year-old seem somehow expected, or at least unsurprising.
WHITE SUSPECT
In the wake of the mass shooting in Santa Barbara, California, earlier this year, the Whittier Daily News offered a headline showing one man’s disbelief that Elliot Rodger could have committed such a crime.
BLACK VICTIM
Earlier this month, the New York Daily News ran this headline, carrying comments by the Ohio attorney general that appeared to defend police after killing a black man at a Walmart.
WHITE SUSPECT
This was the headline given to an Associated Press story at Mlive.comabout an Ohio teen who later pleaded guilty to a school shooting in which three students were killed and two were wounded.
BLACK VICTIM
But when an unarmed father of two was killed by a police officer while entering a vehicle that contained his own children, the Los Angeles Times served up this claim from officials.
WHITE SUSPECT
In 2008, 18-year-old Ryan Schallenberger was accused of plotting to bomb his South Carolina high school. Ohio’s Chronicle Telegram wanted readers to know that he was a straight-A student, running an AP story with this headline.
BLACK VICTIM
And according to the Omaha World-Herald, this is what you needed to know about Julius B. Vaughn, a 19-year-old gunned down in Omaha last year:
WHITE SUSPECT
Kerri Ann Heffernan was charged in 2012 in a string of bank robberies and stores. This headline at Wicked Local wonders how she’d come so far from her days as a smart high school student.
BLACK VICTIM
Of 22-year-old black man Deon Sanders’ killing in Ohio earlier this year, WKBN’s headline said “gang member,” and that apparently was enough.
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August 16th, 2014 at 10:11 am
One time I went to lunch with my girlfriend at an awesome restaurant called Eddie’s Diner.
When you sit down you have to walk past the open kitchen to reach the seating area.
We did and sat down. I ordered a club sandwich like I always do. When the food arrives I pull the one toothpick out that was holding the sandwich together. I then bite into the sandwich and feel an immediate stabbing pain on the roof of my mouth.
As I began to examine the sandwich I find a thick toothpick with the top and bottom picks broke off cleverly hidden in the sandwich. It hurt and made me bleed.
I complain to the waitress and ask her to ask the cook WTF? She comes back and says “sorry the cook doesn’t know what happened.” I chalk it up to a mistake and finish the new sandwich she brought.
When we leave I walk by the kitchen area again only to see a guy that I arrested for domestic violence only a couple of days before our restaurant visit. We made eye contact and he smirked at me.
Can I prove he did it intentionally? No. But how else would a toothpick get lodged discreetly into a sandwich and another toothpick added that wasn’t?
No thanks. I will live in another city where people are less likely to recognize me.
August 16th, 2014 at 10:15 am
I got no sympathy for you TG#1
I’ve had cops threaten to shoot me (flat out, and with creative stores about 9mm bullets)
I had a group of 4 cops make a bar owner throw me out of the bar, so they could get me with a drunk in public since I was out on the street. They were beating a man, the 4 of them, outside, I started yelling at them to leave him alone. Multiple bar patrons saw what those cops were doing and joined me. Never even heard a news story about that one, makes me wonder how often this happens.
After I get on the street I’m totally calm, cool, and collected. This pisses the cops off, they want confrontation, they want another person to beat.
They start telling me they are going to take me to jail. I say, based on what? They said I threatened them. I say “got proof?” Where’s the video? They ignore question, knowing they are lying. They let me go, saying they’ll wait for me to get into my car and get me for a DUI.
I say I didn’t drive here, my friend did, he doesn’t drink, it’s his car. Cop says it doesn’t matter, they pull me over in a vehicle (as a passenger) they’re saying I’m the driver.
This was 2 cops doing the hassling, while their 2 buddies sat their watching. Are you one of the watchers? You don’t do anything “bad” yourself, so you think you’re clean. Ignoring the fact that you have witnessed ample evidence of bad behavior yet keep your mouth shut? Is that how YOU sleep at night?
Sorry, ZERO sympathy for your story, sir. YOU joined “the club” I’m a citizen by default.
Don’t joint up with terrorist organizations and you won’t have to worry about the community treating you like a terrorist.
(BTW bar owner apologized and said he didn’t have a choice, said I was welcome back any time)
Plenty of more life experiences I can share, if that doesn’t paint the pictures of how MANY of US useless civvies view you and your gang.
I’ve read your online cop forums, I’ve read your cop articles, I’ve seen the tone your authors take with civilians, and the tone of greatness and superiority they take with cops.
August 16th, 2014 at 10:21 am
What gets me is the fact that cops use to be part of our community, they lived next door, kids went to the same schools and we all mixed together.
But something has been going wrong for some time now. My son is a plumber by trade and use to go out to fix insurance job problems. On the rare occasion he went to a ‘police’ house he noticed that photos were turned down. Currently I can’t think of a cop living locally or being part of our community any more.
This has to be a deliberate policy and a psychology that the government is promoting, because when the sh-t hits the fan, as it might well do in the UK with our cliff/kitty interest and people find that he was part of ‘an elite ring with titles”, its the police who will protect parliament and our elite from a raging public.
Currently our focus is on Ebola and the mind blowing cruelty of the Islamic country, but attention moves fast, Gaza will light up again soon but our elite paedophile rings have a history to bury and that’s hard with many decent minded people who think they should be dealt with by the law, names and shamed as cameron proudly shouts but only for the plebs of course.
I do think though that part of the problem is that black people project themselves as black Africans which immediately separates them from the white American population. How often does one hear a white person say I am a white, Swedish American. You don’t, they are see themselves as Americans.
In respectfully not challenging Black American’s identity, but trying another focus on that identity that changes the way all American’s think, the acceptance that black and white Americans make a total synergistic blend with all the other races who live and have American citizenship, one might get closer to Americans all together and all subject to the same laws.
It is essential though that people from different ethnic backgrounds work within the police force so that people don’t feel they are being policed by only one representative group with likely/presupposed prejudices.
August 16th, 2014 at 10:31 am
Steward#3, You made some good point here about the militarization of the cops,and I have said on other blogs that the brutality of the cops and the corruptibility of the media won’t stop with Black folks for they are honing their skills for eventual use against middle class White folks when the Sheit hits the fan.
Already they are stomping on poor whites with no power, just recently a new word came into use..it’s called Affluenza. A time will come when the head lines will make it looked like what used to be called the white middle class are now criminals by default.
They will be blamed for their own deaths no matter the circumstance..Hear me now quote me later.
August 16th, 2014 at 10:35 am
I was born and raised in the city that I work in as a police officer. I continued to live in the city for about 5 years while working as a police officer.
I eventually moved to another city in the same county about 20 miles away. I still work at the police department in the city where I was born and raised in.
Why did I move?
It was not because I didn’t want to be apart of the community. I love the community, it is my home! The people of the community are what drove me out.
Many times I would go to a restaurant off duty and the waitress or the cook would recognize me from when I arrested them for something or even wrote them a ticket. This not only made dirty looks and verbal arguements an almost everytime occurance it caused other issues.
One day I was sitting near the kitchen and I heard the cook say to the waitress “hey is that extra ranch for that guy out there in the hat?” The waitress said “yeah.” The cook proceeds to say “he’s a cop who arrested me.” At that point I hear him hock a “loogie” and spit in the dressing.
Turns out I arrested him for burglary the week prior.
On a regular basis I would go grocery shopping and run into people who recognized me. One time with my family I had a homeless man who I arrested for theft threaten to kill me.
There have also been many occassions where I have had to tell my family I will meet them in another isle because I see a gang member who will recognize me and I do not want to chance something happening and my family getting hurt.
My car has been egged and my mailbox smashed.
These are just some of the things that I had to go through on a somewhat regular basis. I was driven out by members of the community that I risk my physical and mental health for everyday I get up to work.
So please spare me from there being some nefarious conspiracy for officers to live in different cities then where they work. It is not true.
People always go on about how the police keep to their own. Well why wouldn’t we?
Try going to a social gathering and when someone asks what you do for a living tell them you are an officer. It turns out bad more often then not. They usually go on about how they unfairly got a ticket or complain about how “all” cops are dicks. It gets old.
You see the public is just as guilty at creating an “us” vs “them” mentality.
August 16th, 2014 at 10:43 am
Tom#5, Now let me tell you a little story, officer.
A few years ago, a retired cop I have known since my youth died after spending 30+ years on the force. At his funeral, the family and guests were quite surprised when several unsavory characters showed up at his funeral to pay their respects. When asked who they were.
They told the widow that everyone of them had been arrested by him, and some had served prison time, but that he was highly respected, because he always showed respect for those he arrested, and treated them kindly, unless he had no choice but to do otherwise.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, we have a cop now on the force, who is the most hated cop in this area. He gets similar treatment to what you have described from what I’ve heard. And has talked about moving to a different city. Wonder what the difference is. How he treats people maybe?
On topic: What we all need to understand is, the media loves to stir the pot, and create tension between people based on their race, gender, political leanings, and whatever else they can find to create division.
The black and white issues are just one part of that. It is up to us, as individuals, to stop listening to their banter, and start judging individuals, not whole sectors of society.
It’s up to us folks. Not them.
August 16th, 2014 at 10:53 am
If you are interested in seeing what the cop, Darren Wilson, who murdered Michael Brown looks like here’s the link.
http://news.yahoo.com/photos-ferguson-officer-darren-wilson-received-police-award-earlier-this-year-021255893.html
Notice in the link the victim is referred to as an “unarmed teenager.” Leaving him nameless is another way of lessing his importance as a human being while giving all the other human beings in the article a name.
Look for more of this treatment of the black victim, Michael Brown.
August 16th, 2014 at 10:55 am
Patty #38 yesterday,
You wrote “Never mind the fact that an enjoyable motherhood does require the equal participation of a partner(male/female) helping her raise the child.”
I think a lot of single mothers would disagree with that statement. It may be harder to do it alone, but I’m sure most of them would tell you they still enjoy being mothers.
August 16th, 2014 at 11:04 am
Thanks Robert I#7. Of the comments I liked this one to all the racists voicing their reasons why an armed police officer should get away with shooting an unarmed one 6 times when he was trying to surrender.
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Boy you white people are crazy. Seriously, just read your post. You’re upset because black people have had enough of your racism, killing our kids, stereo typing us, and when we fight back, there’s a problem.
I want to see any one of you go through what we go through on a daily, and then fix your mouth to talk all that crazy nonsense. Just because you sell and rape your children, just like you did ours in slave days, doesn’t mean we don’t care about what happens to ours.
August 16th, 2014 at 11:08 am
I have hear all of the fluff I want to hear about this police officer. There is only one thing I want to know WAS THIS YOUNG MAN IN THE POLICE CAR AS THE CHIEF CLAIMS OR WAS HE OUTSIDE THE CAR AS THE WITNESSES CLAIM.
This conflict will be determined by whether this man was in or not in the car, if he was not in the car and the officer grab him thru a window the officer cannot justify shooting him claiming he tried to grab the officers gun, if he was in the car then the officer may be justified in his claim.
August 16th, 2014 at 11:10 am
There are two issues here.
One, we have a person who committed a crime that was caught on video.
Two, we have a policeman who shot and killed a human being.
The two issues are separate. There is proof that the first issue occurred and that the person broke a law.
It is impossible to judge the second incidence until all the facts are in. The fact that the young man stole $40 of cigars does not justify taking his life. However, if he was shot because he put the officer in jeopardy, the shooting may be justified.
These are two separate incidences and should be judged as such. Stealing does not justify killing the suspect. When all of the facts are in, then we can determine whether the shooting was justified, until then all we have are opinions…much of which are based on race.
August 16th, 2014 at 11:15 am
For those who don’t know or prejudge, it is legal for an officer to shoot an unarmed subject who has just committed a violent felony and that still poses a significant risk to public safety. Fleeing felon rule. My guess is that this is what the officer did here.
There was a struggle and according to the officer, Brown tried to reach for the officer’s gun, then ran away. The encounter seemed simple enough as it started out, my guess is that the office could’ve said or did somethings to upset Brown, causing a struggle.
Simply telling people to get on the sidewalk isn’t good enough, as an officer, you have to let them know why and what justification there is for the stop or command if asked. If I as a cop told someone to get on the sidewalk, I would have to explain myself right afterwards, ie. jaywalking is violation and you’re being detained for jaywalking.
If he didn’t, it would make the officer look like a jerk and of course it’s escalate the situation.
August 16th, 2014 at 11:18 am
The police officer did not know about Brown’s assault of a store clerk for a box of cigars, which had happened not long before their encounter. When the police officer apprehended Brown and his friend, it was for a minor “misdemeanor” at the onset, at least.
I can understand that a police officer will not surrender his weapon to anybody, if he can help it. So I think that it is normal to struggle in order to prevent anybody from taking the weapon. However, I fail to see how multiple shots could be justified. It seems that it was clear that Brown was unarmed. So, in the extreme, the officer could have shot him once, to neutralize the aggressor, and as a professional, he should have aimed at his butt or legs, which would have stopped the struggle.
It is going to be hard to explain and justify why multiple shots were necessary, and why the officer aimed at Brown’s chest. Considering that police officers are trained with weapons, I cannot imagine that he held his weapon and fired randomly, aiming approximately or haphazardly.
This is where the crux of this matter lies. I for one can’t see how one can reason in a way that justifies these multiple, and lethal, shots.
August 16th, 2014 at 11:23 am
What a disgrace for the black community. Thugs and Drugs. If there was someone else that witnessed what actually happened and it was in favor of the police officer do you think they would come forward and tell their story? Would you?
This black Thug mob could care less about what happened to this kid and they sure don’t care about the Truth all they want is a situation they can use to steal and rob and burn knowing they face no repercussions. How’s this integration thing worked out for you America?
August 16th, 2014 at 11:23 am
Don’t want to politicize this tragedy, I am not considering myself either liberal or conservative, just want to be independent politically, but for records, from my observations, Liberal medias are the way most bias and discriminative at some point when it comes to reporting racial issues.
They tended to mislead the public to believe that the white is wrong, the black is always a victim before the facts are clear. due to this, the liberal media indirectly fueled the black people’s violence. do all liberal medias give a looting and robbery a pass just because they are black??????? where is the fair reporting????
August 16th, 2014 at 11:26 am
Deep down, MOST black people DO NOT LIKE whites. They resent us and they don’t even try to hide it. When there is white on black crime, they come out in droves and protest. It makes national news. Black leaders get involved and even our pathetic President and attorney general stick their noses in.
This ONLY happens when there is white on black crime. I NEVER see this type of outcry when there is crime from any other race on any other race (including black on black). Why? Blacks (including our leaders) are basically telling whites how they feel about them……they don’t even try to hide it.
They are ALLOWED to be racist. When are whites going to wake up and ACCEPT this fact. When somebody shows your who they are….BELIEVE THEM! I most thank the white liberals for this……I hate them more than ANY other group!
August 16th, 2014 at 11:29 am
Nigger lovers in the white liberal establishment is the main reason we have this out of control animal problem. We as the dominant white race had better solve this problem BEFORE we lose our majority status.
I say turn the police loose on these animals. Let the do their jobs. If they have to kill a few more of these animals, so be it.
August 16th, 2014 at 11:31 am
This incident is really a sad comment on the state of race relations is America. In the end it will come down to common sense. Here are the major components: 1. Statement(s). 2. Autopsy Results. 3. Social Intimidation. All of the pertinent details will surface ONLY AFTER the racial tension abates.
First. We have the statement of the Officer involved in the shooting. Since he appears to be a very good officer his statement will be critical to demonstrate what was really going on. Perhaps there is a video or even an audio portion of what occurred.
Do Jefferson Patrol Cars carry that technology? Let’s find out. Second. The wounds. Do they back up what the Officer states occurred? Where are the entrance wounds. It’ll be very hard to imagine a young man dead who wounded on his backside, wether it is his head, back, buttocks, etc. either this man was confronting the officer or he wasn’t.
If this kid has entrance wounds in the back of his head, or his back, this officer is up for murder. If the wound(s) are somewhere else on the body it’ll be involuntary manslaughter at the most, and/or excessive use of force.
One thing is for sure….the statements of the other kid involved (man actually) will be taken with a grain of salt. No stop the race-bating…the masturbating…and all that #$%$. A kid is dead, a family is left grieving, and a city is boiling over with hatred. Peace out.
August 16th, 2014 at 11:36 am
All of these comments fail to address the real issue. i.e. the murder suspect HAS NOT EVEN BEEN ARRESTED AND TAKEN INTO CUSTODY. It is not the investigators place to determine guilt or innocence. That is a job for a jury of his peers.
I’ve read comments about a black football player (O.J.) being accused of killing his white wife, but I also remember him being promptly taken into custody and sitting in jail for months waiting trial. Equal protection under the law and due process are not just good ideas, it is constitutional law.
So someone tell me why this suspect was given a paid vacation and sent on his way. If he decides to run, who will be called to answer for this lack of due process?
If he were a black police officer who shot a white kid, does anyone think, he would be off on a paid vacation? If that doesn’t smack of racism what the fuck does?
August 16th, 2014 at 12:15 pm
Beryl#8, I am the mother of 4 children. I have raised the last 3 on my own their father died when I was 2 months pregnant with our youngest.
Don’t presume to tell me what a mother who has to raise children alone feels. I have enjoyed by children. But my joy would have been immeasurably better if their loving father had been here to help me raise them.
People like you are sanctimoniously useless to the trials and tribulations of those of us who have to live in the real world. Resist the urge to speak for us.
August 16th, 2014 at 12:44 pm
Patty #20.
I live in the real world too Patty – and the real world mean a woman can raise a child alone. A woman can raise a child with another woman. A man can raise a child with another man. Sure it’s easier to raise children with two parents but a woman does not need a man to enjoy raising a child. Your comment gives a limited view and that is what I meant to convey.
I’m sorry you lost your husband. But you could have remarried if having a father for your children was so important for you to enjoy motherhood.
For the record I’m not speaking for you. I guess you missed that I was speaking against your point of view.
August 16th, 2014 at 3:37 pm
Didn’t have time right now to read, so I scanned the post and comments. I had to make this one remark Before I logged off, “HENRY ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR F**CKING MIND”?
August 16th, 2014 at 3:39 pm
Beryl#21, Actually what you are doing is speaking without reading for understanding. I never said I did not enjoy motherhood, I said that it would have been more enjoyable if the other parent was there. Obviously you know nothing about rearing children.
Of course a single parent can raise children. That doesn’t mean a thing. It is just something that happens. The single parent may enjoy it or not. The children will have different states of enjoyment, if any also.
It is just a fact that two loving parents provide a more happy and secure environment for children and themselves than a single one. It is obvious that you never experienced that responsibility or you wouldn’t be so glib with your answers. As I said please refrain from giving advice where you have no experience to rely on.
You sound like the male GYNs that used to tell us women that what we experienced during our menstrual cycles was all in our heads.
And for the record you were neither speaking for me, other mothers or against my point of view. Especially since you didn’t bother to read accurately enough to know what that was. i.e where did you get the idea that I thought having a partner was so important for me to enjoy motherhood?
Thank you for your suggestion without checking to see if I had tried that. Seriously people like you need to get a life.
August 16th, 2014 at 4:02 pm
A thank you to Anonz for the return of 63 girls to their Kummabza village in northern Borno state.
August 16th, 2014 at 4:10 pm
The cops in ferguson have reacted way too crazily. http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2014/08/14/tsr-dnt-todd-ferguson-police-militarization.cnn.html
The reason they can get all that equipment is the republican want to get rid of all the hundreds of millions of dollars they paid the industry to lobby them with money.
How far would $400,000,000 have gone to helping those cities than giving it to the 1% to supply armored personal carriers to the local police?
August 16th, 2014 at 4:12 pm
Patty#23, pay no attention to Know-it-alls like Beryl#21. They just want to be heard.
August 16th, 2014 at 4:13 pm
Al#22, what number is Henry?
August 16th, 2014 at 4:16 pm
Al#22, white people formed this nation. We had to fight savages and the terrain to take the country from “sea to shining sea.”
Sometimes you have to kick some ass to make a nation. The niggers, jews and yes white bitches owe the life they have in this country to us WHITE MEN!
August 16th, 2014 at 4:18 pm
The U.S. special forces were sent in devise a plan to help the Yezidis. Obama will make a decision soon on what America will do.
August 16th, 2014 at 5:01 pm
#17 is Henry … I’ll let Al talk to you, Henry, bc clearly you’re out of your mind … along with a few other resident racists here …
…ahhh, but just for the record, Henry, you can kiss my white woman ass…
white men think they’re all that but I will tell you that until the day you all REVERE women for simply giving birth to your egotistical asses I have very little respect for most of you: AL, Howie and Anonz amongst a few in my offline life are exceptions to that general rule.
- though I’ll tell you that I keep my eyes open even with those men at all times bc white men, generally speaking are about themselves and meeting their needs first and foremost and if you wait sometimes they’ll slip and throw out some BS that takes them down several notches in my book and they do it without even noticing, but I digress …
Henry, dude, maybe you’re here looking for sycophants to boost your white privilege ego, puh-leaseeee, kiss your own ass for ‘building this country’ – it’s pretty likely you and your white male ancestors did not do much to forward anything progressive, but you just can’t stand it that a black man might – oh and then add some of that brown sugar luvin’ to the fantasies you’ve got stirring in your mind and ouch, that’s gotta hurt right in the ego and the groin … eh? ; )
If you’re referring to ‘fighting for our freedoms’ well, I’m glad that men gave their lives for my freedom though always remember this, Henry…
…wars are started by men
(hello, those ‘savages’ lived here and had rights, but nooooo white men had to take it ALL from sea to shining sea, what a crock your selling … I can smell that poop from here)
…and wars are fought by men
and that’s another reason why men should revere women, your such hormonally driven idiots …
always wanting and taking whatever you want regardless of other people.
You should be thrilled we even talk to you …
Ok, I’m done now …
Luv, Zen Lill
August 16th, 2014 at 10:27 pm
Thank you Zen Lill for recognizing that we are people too. My ancestors welcomed the europeans to his land and were rounded up and confined to a prison (reservation) for their kindness.
August 16th, 2014 at 10:28 pm
Howie, what’s up? I know you are holding back.
August 17th, 2014 at 8:14 am
Henry:
In your first comment, #17 you claim to be of the dominant race, and you also make it clear that you fear other races taking away your majority status.
First off, belonging to a racist group is not the same as belonging to a race of people, or the Human Race for that matter. White supremacists are nothing more than people who are in fear of being found out, that they are afraid of regular people, and of just how deep their fears go. It is very apparent to everyone else.
In your second comment # 28, you claim that “white people formed this nation” by the looks of the way things have been going, I suspect you may be right.
I doubt that you are even aware that the invading Europeans stole this land from the Native Americans that were already here.
The white man exterminated practically an entire race of people, the ones you consider to be savages. They had welcomed the white man, and in typical white man fashion were promptly repaid.
Henry, you can kiss my white ass as well.
August 17th, 2014 at 8:56 am
You tell him Al. That’s MY man.
August 17th, 2014 at 9:25 am
War is destroying my country. Iraq was better off with Saddam. Why did your president Bush destroy the entire infrastructure of my country without a plan to provide the basic services, medical, electrical, police, emergency, communication, and the protection of weapon’s caches?
Your idiot president left my country vulnerable to bandits and any crazy fanatic with a grudge against any religious philosophy but his own.
I am a Sunni, but I want my country whole again. If the Shiites dominated government now in place would consent to share the power we could all make peace.
I applaud your new President Obama for telling Prime Minister Nuri as-Maliki that he will not help him unless he includes us Sunnis and the Kurds in an inclusive government. But I hope he will help my country stay whole by helping us drive out ISIS.
August 17th, 2014 at 9:36 am
I do not like on Guam. I don’t know where it is but this post is so true. We need to get together as a nation and vot the republicans out.
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Lill on Guam#39 you on Guam are very concerned about how United Airlines is treating you. They have a monopoly on travel off the island to the mainlands so they don’t care about their safety reputation.
They fly their planes regardless of how safe they appear to be. When you hear the republican mantra telling you we don’t need government regulation just look to UAL and Guam.
You will see what happens when the 1% controls your access to a commodity. Profit is their only concern. Once they have a monopoly in an area of product or service they work to affect the laws so that they can limit their liability that product or service defect.
They do that by buying off the politicians to get them to limit their legal product or service liability. The republican party takes the money and then passes legislation limiting their those companies liability or the ability of the victim to get good legal assistance.
The republican party limits the victim’s ability to get good or any legal assistance by telling their idiot constituents that lawyers are gouging them so they are legislating what a lawyer can charge his client,
What that does is make it unprofitable for a lawyer take a case that could involve years of litigation on a percentage basis without getting paid anything from the client during that period. If the percent a lawyer can charge won’t make up for the risk of pursuing such a case in the event of loss, the lawyer won’t take your case.
Tort liability usually involves years of litigation against the big insurance companies. They want to limit the number of victims who can afford to sue them. Lawyers need the flexibility to be able to tell their potential clients what percentage they need from the winnings to compensate for the risk of taking a case without charging a fee until they win.
Since if they lose they get nothing, and if the victim can’t get a lawyer he/she gets nothing, it is only fair to allow the lawyer to set a reasonable percentage fee which is usually 40 to 60% depending on how long the lawyer knows from the type of case the average in years he will be waging the legal battle without compensation.
It is still a win/win for the victim because 100% of nothing is nothing and that would be the victim’s position if he had to pay the lawyer for his work for 2 to 3 years fighting those insurance companies. So the next time you feel your legislator is fighting for you because he is passing legislation to limit the percent a lawyer can charge you know that you are being conned.
Your legislator is in the pocket of the insurance lobby and he is limiting the percentage a lawyer can charge you for a Tort case to make it financially prohibitive for the lawyer to take you on for free until the case is settled or won outright.
Hence, you will have a law not aimed at limiting the percentage a lawyer can charge you, but really a law limiting the quality of legal assistance you can get, if any, to pursue your legal grievance. That is a win/win for the insurance companies.
Therefore companies like UAL can afford to take chances with the lives of its customers because the benefits in terms of profits outweigh the potential loses in terms of Tort damages the victims or their families can pursue.
To corporations human lives are unimportant only profit is important. Look at the definition of a corporation. The Charter of every corporation is to Maximize its profits for its stockholders.
The highest Court in the land SCOTUS gave such a group “human status” so as to allow them to poison, maim, and kill real humans in the name of maxing profits for its stockholders. The members of that court that voted in favor of giving corporations that ability were saying that money is more important than life. They took the money from the corporation lobby to expose human lives to greed. We know them as S.T.A.R.K..
History will record them as the most corrupt members of SCOTUS in the history of that court. Remember these names S.calia, T.homas, A.lioto, R.oberts, K.ennedy. Their names will be infamous.
August 17th, 2014 at 9:50 am
Michelle here is a case in point of your article. The perp, Stephen M. Howells II, an alleged child molester is portrayed as a man whose patients seemed to like him. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/nyregion/upstate-couple-intended-to-abuse-amish-sisters-sheriff-says.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpHeadline&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
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If this was an OTW whatever negative he may have done in the past would be the lead description of him.
August 17th, 2014 at 9:57 am
The benefits to the 98% just keep coming with this President. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/us/medicare-to-start-paying-doctors-who-coordinate-needs-of-chronically-ill-patients.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpHeadline&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
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WASHINGTON — In a policy change, the Obama administration is planning to pay doctors to coordinate the care of Medicare beneficiaries, amid growing evidence that patients with chronic illnesses suffer from disjointed, fragmented care.
Although doctors have often performed such work between office visits by patients, they have historically not been paid for it.
Starting in January, Medicare will pay monthly fees to doctors who manage care for patients with two or more chronic conditions like heart disease, diabetes and depression.
“Paying separately for chronic care management services is a significant policy change,” said Marilyn B. Tavenner, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Officials said such care coordination could pay for itself by keeping patients healthier and out of hospitals.
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Can’t wait to hear republicans cry “where is the money going to come from?” The very same republicans that have no problem spending hundreds of millions on obsolete military hardware.
August 17th, 2014 at 10:01 am
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