Tavis Smiley says riots may be the new norm

[DigitalDrifter]

If true, the whites that are left in the big cities will be leaving.

Tavis Smiley: Protests and Riots Could Become the New Normal

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IDEAS RACETavis Smiley: Protests and Riots Could Become the New Normal

Tavis Smiley @tavissmiley 6:09 AM ET



Sait Serkan Gurbuz—ReutersA demonstrator confronts law enforcement officers near Baltimore Police Department Western District in Baltimore on April 25, 2015.

Smiley is host and managing editor of Tavis Smiley on PBS and author of My Journey With Maya

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Tavis Smiley Protests and Riots Could Become the New Normal

 

[Katzndogz]

It would be a real shame if riots become the new normal. The riot prone cities will end up little more than prisons. There will be no investment, no employment, no stores. The riot area in Baltimore has not had a grocery store in a year. It took 3 years of negotiating to persuade CVS to open.

Black americans are 13% of the population and shrinking. Hispanics are 14% of the population and growing. Make no mistake about it, latinos look at these depresses black areas as opportunities for expansion. The new normal of rioting only helps.

 

[Stephanie]

And I do believe this will be the new normal

and also who does it HELP the most ?

these people IN OUR GOVERNMENT. to step on us while Pretending to ride in and SAVE US ALL

 

[TheOldSchool]

Unarmed black men being killed by police seems to have also become the new normal.

 

[Sunni Man]

Large chain grocery store retailers refer to the inner city ghetto areas without grocery stores as "food deserts".

The only people brave enough to open even a small grocery store in the hood were the asians and the arabs.

But since their store's always seem to be a magnet for attack by the black looting rioters.

I doubt that many of them will reopen......

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Riots have already become the norm because obama has fomented them. The conditions for riots have been present for over thirty years and the precedent was set in 1992. The incidence of fatherlessness is the culprit and things won't change until that does.
Smiley is an idiot, token columnist/host.

 

[Tank]

Blacks rioting has always been the norm

 

[Sunni Man]

Even if a businessman was crazy enough to want to open a large retail store in the hood.

I doubt that he could find an insurance company to insure the store.

Or a banker stupid enough to loan him the money. .......

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

We have to subsidize this bigoted idiot Smiley because he works for PBS.
Creepy.

 

[NLT]

Travis Smiley? just another agitatior

 

[FA_Q2]

Unarmed black men being killed by police seems to have also become the new normal.

Really? How many unarmed black people have been killed by the police? How many unarmed white people have been killed by the police? Break those down into percentages of apprehended suspects? What are those numbers?

Are blacks more likely to be killed by police than obesity? Cars? Other blacks? Whites?

How about those numbers 10 or 20 years ago?

Have any of that data at all? If not, why are you claiming that is has ‘become’ the ‘norm.’ Likely because it fits the propaganda and messaging that you happen to agree with.

 

[FA_Q2]

Riots will not be the norm. They are going to be a problem for a while though.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Unarmed black men being killed by police seems to have also become the new normal.

Really? How many unarmed black people have been killed by the police? How many unarmed white people have been killed by the police? Break those down into percentages of apprehended suspects? What are those numbers?

Are blacks more likely to be killed by police than obesity? Cars? Other blacks? Whites?

How about those numbers 10 or 20 years ago?

Have any of that data at all? If not, why are you claiming that is has ‘become’ the ‘norm.’ Likely because it fits the propaganda and messaging that you happen to agree with.

Oh more unarmed black and white people are killed by cars and obesity than by police? Whoa! I had no idea! Nvm I guess police killing unarmed people is perfectly fine!

 

[guno]

It would be a real shame if riots become the new normal. The riot prone cities will end up little more than prisons. There will be no investment, no employment, no stores. The riot area in Baltimore has not had a grocery store in a year. It took 3 years of negotiating to persuade CVS to open.

Black americans are 13% of the population and shrinking. Hispanics are 14% of the population and growing. Make no mistake about it, latinos look at these depresses black areas as opportunities for expansion. The new normal of rioting only helps.

Dream on ignorant cracker dream on

Your fantasizes won't stop you from crapping your pants

 

[guno]

Unarmed black men being killed by police seems to have also become the new normal.

Really? How many unarmed black people have been killed by the police? How many unarmed white people have been killed by the police? Break those down into percentages of apprehended suspects? What are those numbers?

Are blacks more likely to be killed by police than obesity? Cars? Other blacks? Whites?

How about those numbers 10 or 20 years ago?

Have any of that data at all? If not, why are you claiming that is has ‘become’ the ‘norm.’ Likely because it fits the propaganda and messaging that you happen to agree with.

Oh more unarmed black and white people are killed by cars and obesity than by police? Whoa! I had no idea! Nvm I guess police killing unarmed people is perfectly fine!

Amazing the cracker "logik"

 

[guno]

It would be a real shame if riots become the new normal. The riot prone cities will end up little more than prisons. There will be no investment, no employment, no stores. The riot area in Baltimore has not had a grocery store in a year. It took 3 years of negotiating to persuade CVS to open.

Black americans are 13% of the population and shrinking. Hispanics are 14% of the population and growing. Make no mistake about it, latinos look at these depresses black areas as opportunities for expansion. The new normal of rioting only helps.

"We have an aging white America. They are not making babies. They are dying. The explosion is in our population ... I love it. They are shitting in their pants with fear. I love it."

José Angel Gutiérrez, an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at Arlington

 

[dannyboys]

It would be a real shame if riots become the new normal. The riot prone cities will end up little more than prisons. There will be no investment, no employment, no stores. The riot area in Baltimore has not had a grocery store in a year. It took 3 years of negotiating to persuade CVS to open.

Black americans are 13% of the population and shrinking. Hispanics are 14% of the population and growing. Make no mistake about it, latinos look at these depresses black areas as opportunities for expansion. The new normal of rioting only helps.

Dream on ignorant cracker dream on

Your fantasizes won't stop you from crapping your pants

Just wait until Hispanics start buying up property from negro shit holes. We'll see what happens when a bunch of negro thugs thinks it can burn down a predominately Hispanic neighborhood.
There is literally no place left for the thug negroes to exist in within a few years.
Peaceful negro people will be most welcome. Fucking simian negro thugs not. There is only two places for them to end up. In prison or the fucking crematorium incinerator.

 

[FA_Q2]

Unarmed black men being killed by police seems to have also become the new normal.

Really? How many unarmed black people have been killed by the police? How many unarmed white people have been killed by the police? Break those down into percentages of apprehended suspects? What are those numbers?

Are blacks more likely to be killed by police than obesity? Cars? Other blacks? Whites?

How about those numbers 10 or 20 years ago?

Have any of that data at all? If not, why are you claiming that is has ‘become’ the ‘norm.’ Likely because it fits the propaganda and messaging that you happen to agree with.

Oh more unarmed black and white people are killed by cars and obesity than by police? Whoa! I had no idea! Nvm I guess police killing unarmed people is perfectly fine!

Nice deflection. IOW, you have no evidence at all? Nothing that actually substantiates your position?

 

[Defiant1]

Fox will have to start a riot channel on cable.

I'm going to invest in popcorn stock.

 

[Stephanie]

Fox will have to start a riot channel on cable.

I'm going to invest in popcorn stock.

Why? we already have one it's called, PMSnbc, CNN is doing a fine job, ABC, CBS, NYslimes, Washingtoncompost, SALON, mediamatters, oh the choice are so out there