It's horrible what happened in Nova Scotia however, it's not really relevant to Donald Trump is it? The gunman was a psycho, end of..
I don't know enough about the gunman, I'd say anyone who does that is mentally ill. I would agree that Trump is not directly part of that tragedy.
Regarding your observations, it always intrigues me when debating someone who's raised the problem of racism, that their immediate go to, in fact their only go to, is that it's somehow a white only problem and that any hatred for the other only exists in the hearts and minds of white people. The evidence clearly shows otherwise.
In America, the most heinous of crimes, murder, is most often within the in group. Inter racial murder makes up less than 5% of the total murders for most years.
Those who do the overwhelming majority of the crimes from the two racial groups are male, aged between 15 and 50, of which white men number 50 million, whilst black men number just under 10 million..However, blacks kill more whites, than whites kill blacks, twice the number in fact, year on year.....
There is certainly a black on black crime issue. I would suggest you ponder why that might be (start with The Ferguson Effect and work backwards). To understand why, you'd have to understand what being black in America has been for decades and decades, as well as the entrenched racism and prejudices that still exist. As for your "blacks kill more whites" you'll have to do a little better and post some pretty accurate statistics, from more than one right-wing source, and with proper context. N one of these "statistics" account for context.
It's the same for rape and theft - black men carry out these crimes against whites in much higher numbers than whites do against blacks.. All this and yet white men out number black men by five to one..
What a pathetic, frankly disgraceful comment to offer without a shred of evidence. Or context.Any of it actually. This sort of comment underscores a mindset I find dangerous, sheltered and repugnant. Again, your sheer lack of information behind such a comment does lead me to believe you would absolutely LOVE the mentality of someone like Trump, who works along similarly incendiary lines with absolutely no supportive evidence or context. In fact, it reminded me of this...
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch...-black-crime-rates-take-another-hit-bjs-study
Another fact to consider when you criticise Trump for stoking racial tensions and enthusing the "white racists".. Under Obama in his final two years in office 2015/16, the overall murder rate spiked to it's highest since 1990..Both racial groups killed each other in increasing numbers in those two years than in previous years. America had a president who endorsed Black Lives Matter leaders, inviting them to dinner and meetings in the White House. Meanwhile, cops were getting murdered by snipers and we had a lapdog sycophantic media at the president's briefings asking the important questions, yeah right, sure we did.
It appears much of what you know of American life seems filtered through a narrow jet of right-wing trollspeak. First of all, Obama was never going to get an easy ride. (Drumroll)...he was a black man leading the US. Problematic for many. The same "many" who started this "birther" flimflam, of which Trump was a prime-mover. As ever though, we need to return to that inconvenient old chestnut, context. The NYTimes offers a high degree of context and proper interpretation of Trump's big claim. I also enclose a quick link to overall crime states in the time frame.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/09/08/us/us-murder-rates.html
https://www.statista.com/statistics/191219/reported-violent-crime-rate-in-the-usa-since-1990/
Violent crime excluding murder stats, show a gradual increase under Obama compared to the Bush jr years and actually spiked in 2014.. In 2015 attacks on Muslims hit immediate post 911 level highs... Obama causing geopolitical tensions with his regime change policies and, Obama and the Democratic Party's leading lights playing identitarian politics, have their consequences.
The single biggest factor in "attacks on Muslims" stems from 9/11 and the disgracefully-executed actions and invasions after it. How on earth you can lay that at Obama's door is beyond me, it genuinely is. I will say openly that I was highly critical of Obama's drone campaign, and consider it to have been a major misstep in his foreign policy. As for "major tensions with his regime change policies" are you referring to Ghadaffi? Who else? Because my friend, regime change on the US dime has been going down since the fudging '50s, and in the process has fudged over, and caused retaliation from, many more places than ANYTHING Obama did.IF you want to take a walk down "regime change road" we certainly can; it won't be pretty.
I do think some of you are looking back on the Obama years as some sort of golden era for social cohesion - they were anything but.
Absolutely not, they could never have been a "golden era for social cohesion". He had to spend his first term trying to undo some of the heinous actions of his predecessor and their cabal of interests and actions. Again, I do not think he was perfect by any measure.
Baring in mind the above facts, ask yourself why is it that when you talk of hate for the other, that your accusations of racial hate are only directed at whites? Is it conditioning by the education system, political correctness of the main stream media and politicians, Hollywood perhaps?
Honestly, do you get your viewpoint from Breibart? Steve Bannon? "Hollywood perhaps?" What sort of thing is that to say in serious conversation? "Conditioning by the education system"? Good grief.
I don't doubt what you've experienced and I can do likewise and share my own experiences as I've done loads of business trips over there, with White and Black Americans...Got to know a few people and stayed at their homes ...
Define "loads" and define where they were. I could take a guess but I wouldn't be so rude.
I can tell you that successful blacks will often say, that the most racial hassle they get is not from whites but by blacks themselves...A sellout to his own.. Why were he employing Whites and Latinos whilst brothers were unemployed?.. He had moved out to a predominately white neighbourhood and forgotten his roots.. He were an uncle tom, a coconut.
Unless your definition of "often" is a golf-course bar-b-que on a Tampa Bay golf course, then you can tell me what you like, but again, without context it is just small sample flimflam. Yes, there will be situations like you outline; arseholes are everywhere in all shapes and colours. But not Wizwig, no no NO "successful blacks" will NOT often say that the most racial hassle they get is from blacks themselves, because it is-not-true. Again, show me the statistics where that is a fact. It isn't. And like it or not, from the lack of opportunities in education to the enforced poverty conditions to the lack of opportunities, the BIGGEST obstacles to "successful blacks' remains the institutional prejudices that people like you are apparently too blind to see or even wish to recognize. I am not "influenced by Hollywood" or even "conditioned by the education system or political correctness" army. I am influenced by what I have seen firsthand for decades not just in the US but worldwide. I've been around the world many times and been to many places. I'll stack my experiences up against yours in this discussion any day of the week and call flimflam my friend.
By the way, Trump is not viewed by people around the world with the same disdain you and most on this forum have for him, he just isn't..
It depend who you're talking to. If you like hanging out in Hungary, enjoy a bit of a flimflam with Bolsonaro or like a fry-up with Farage and his fans, then you're likely not wrong. If, however, you don't subscribe to the blinkered agenda of populist separatists, then yes, trump is very much viewed with the disdain he is by most on this forum. Context AGAIN!
Please accept my apologies for my delay in reply...
