A proposal to address a racial injustice

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The following proposed Resolution was emailed to President-elect Obama, Congressman George Miller, Senators Diane Feinstein and Boxer.

Whereas in THE approximately 770,000 annual felony crimes committed between African Americans (hereinafter, blacks) and European America (hereinafter, whites) 85% of the victims are white Americans*** (Yr. 2005).

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111 th CONGRESS
Session

H. CON. RES.

Acknowledging the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of a staggering disproportionate number of black on white crimes in the United States of America, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

2008

Mr/Ms/Mrs. (110th Congress Members Proposing this Resolution)

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

The 111th Congress acknowledges that whites comprise approximately 70% of the population in the United States of America and that they have made a tremendous number of contributions to their country in the fields of science, engineering, arts, medicine and the development of a political system that is the envy of the world; and

The 111th Congress acknowledges the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of a staggering disproportionate number of annual black on white crimes that occur in the United States of America; and

Whereas approximately 85% of the victims of 770,000 annual felony crimes committed between blacks and whites are white Americans (2005) ***; and

Whereas these many disproportionate number of grave, cruel, brutal and inhuman crimes painfully and negatively impact upon the lives of white victims, their families and friends, and thereby cause them great emotional suffering, enormous physical damages, devastating monetary losses, as well as the freedom to travel in specific neighborhoods, thereby creating great tensions within their personal and professional lives, not to mention a profound sense of loss of personal dignity; and

Whereas the United States of America fundamentally denies whites their right to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and freedom to travel when it consciously conceals, hides, and/or suppresses the facts relating to t he alarming crisis level of a disproportionate number of black on white felony crimes being committed annually; and

Whereas although the white community suffers greatly in body and spirit from this neglect by its Government, they have nevertheless persevered and achieved great civic minded successes, particularly in the field of helping their fellow Americans through voluntary work and financial support; and

Whereas an apology is known to act as a beneficial catharsis and could lead to some reconciliation between members of America’s black and white races; and

Whereas there is a great need for the building of institutions and monuments to expose to public view the devastating facts about the horrible crimes that have been committed against the white community by blacks; and

Whereas the time has come for Congress to recognize and publicly acknowledge the harmful disproportionate numbers of black on white felony crimes being committed ea ch year in America.

Now, therefore be it

Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That–

(1) the 111th Congress–

(A) acknowledges the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality and inhumanity of targeting of white victims by black criminals;

(B) apologizes to the white community on behalf of the United States, for the enormous wrongs committed against all white victims of black crimes;

(C) expresses condemnation of and repudiates the criminal targeting of innocent European American whites by blacks

(D) recognizes the United States need to redress these harmful interracial crimes; and

(E) vows to set in motion effective plans to remed y the vicious, cruel and inhuman criminal attacks by blacks against whites;; and

(2) It is the sense of the Congress that–

(A) a commission should be established–

(i) to examine the depth and extent of black on white
crime in the United States America; and

(ii) to issue a standardized curriculum for use in public
schools on the cruelty and inhumanity of black on
white crimes; and

(iii) to explore a s cholarship and research fund; and

(B) a National Museum and memorial should be
established regarding black on white crimes in the
history of the United States, and other significant
European American white history.

*** The Color of Crime, Race, Crime and Justice in America, Second Edition New Century Foundation, Oakton, VA 22124

This Resolution prepared by Louis Calabro, President Emeritus, European American Issues Forum-eaifpresemeritus@aol.com (925) 798-555 January 2009

Louis Calabro, President Emeritus

End of Resolution

Louis Calabro

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Is there something you wish to debate?

Did you suddenly get on board regarding hate-crime legislation?

What’s your stance on the term “White Pride”, which Calabro was not allowed to copyright?

Shit man, give us something.

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:dubious:

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Oh boy.

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I didn’t vote for Barack Obama just to annoy people like Louis Calabro. But it is an unexpected bonus.

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Once again, the rights and needs of freckled persons are ignored and set aside by the dominant monochromatic culture. We will not be silenced!

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Perhaps the OP needs to understand that we are here to fight ignorance, not glorify it.

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I think his point is that if something similar was presented in your Congress, but dissin’ whites instead of blacks, then it might well pass, or at least would be considered acceptable.

It reminds me of a video I saw, which had a black pop star (I think it was Puff Daddy), saying that because the vast majority of people in jail for drug dealing were black, it was “a racist law”.

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It is true that the drug laws are tilted against black people. Just compare the criminal penalties for crack cocaine, used mainly by blacks, to ‘club drugs’, which are used mainly by whites.

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I thank the OP for posting Calabro’s letter so we can have a firsthand example of the kind of lame-brained whining that racists have been reduced to these days. It’s irritating to see that kind of garbage, but it’s instructive, similar to the reaction to the murders of Christopher Newsom and Channon Christian. Since the country now has a black president, I guess we can expect to see this kind of absurd fantasy of white victimhood increase among certain parts of the population. Thank you, Lonesome Polecat, for this public service.

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We don’t really get ‘crack’ in Ireland (we have craic instead:D), but isn’t that stuff meant to be far worse than ecstasy?

And since ‘crack’ is mostly prevalent in poorer areas, does it not make sense to punish its distribution harder, since drugs tend to have a disproportionately devastating effect in such areas?
Does it not make more sense to punish the drug that does more harm to society?

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So his thinking is that historically American laws have been biased in favor of black people? See, that’s an example of why we question his thinking abilities.

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How do we define which drugs do the most harm? If society has decided that the drugs used by black people are somehow ‘worse’ just because of who does them, it might make sense to reevaluate how that determination is made.

If police are more likely to target black people for dealing drugs, then that’s unquestionably racist. It’s discrimination in law enforcement. I think there are also big disparities in sentencing for cocaine possession vs. crack possession. This doesn’t make sense and seems to have a discriminatory result.

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There is a lot of reverse racism in the USA.

This is an excerpt from Rev. Lowery’s benediction at BO’s inauguration:
“… we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right…”

Notice the implication that whites do NOT embrace what is “right”? What do whites embrace? Only wrong?

Kind of a broad brush, correct?

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Let’s not hijack this thread into that discussion–one we recently argued just a couple of months ago.
Even if Puff Daddy’s claim is in error, it is still perceived by many to be true and it is not a case of simply looking at the numbers of arrests and convictions and jumping to a conclusion that the laws are racist; there is more to it than that.

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Bear in mind also the issue of racial disparities in arrest and conviction rates. If a black person is significantly more likely to be arrested/convicted for attacking a white person than a white person is for attacking a black person, then that 85% figure doesn’t mean shit.

As an example: Back in the Jim Crow days of lynching, black-against-white violence was ferociously punished (even in many cases when it was imaginary), while white-against-black violence was generally winked at or condoned. So the official statistics would suggest that violent crime was disproportionately black-against-white. Moral: Official statistics on felony convictions are not always reliable guides to the actual facts about felony crimes.

I’m all in favor of addressing injustice, but if somebody’s trying to claim that American society today is perpetrating serious systematic injustices against whites in favor of blacks, I’ll need to see some serious, detailed cites for that. A whiny manifesto from a self-proclaimed victim doesn’t cut it as evidence.

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He’s President Obama now. You can remove the “elect” part.

The rest of the OP is a joke.

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Help, help, I’m being repressed.

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Because you are wrinkled.

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This seems to be a turn around of the hypothesis that since a high % of blacks are in prison, the system must be racist.:dubious:

Of course, males are also highly over-represented in the prison population.:stuck_out_tongue: