Go ahead! Anything is better than the "status quo", we already have.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "arhythmick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> I'll tell you what...I am getting ready to start an "AsburyCouple" for
> mayor campaign just on the strength of the common sense I see in his
> posts!
>
>
>
>
> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "asburycouple" <asburycouple@>
> wrote:
> >
> > Sharon,
> >
> > I don't see anything in the post below to generate your response?
> >
> > Beyond the raw anger and bitterness below - the root cause of which I
> > am not disptuing - what's your recommended solution to all of this?
> > And since I'm white, does that essentially invalidate any ideas I
> > have or any role I may chose to play in trying to make things
> > better? That's largely my key takeaway from your last few posts,
> > although I hope that's not your intent.
> >
> > I bring this up because if we all continue to allow past injustices
> > and negativity to prevent us from looking to the future, nothing here
> > will change. We will continue to argue, bicker and accuse and
> > ultimately solve nothing. I for one would love nothing more than to
> > be focused on a completely different set of issues five years from
> > now but I fear without the ability to look beyond our differences and
> > unite we'll just be sitting here with angry posts about the same
> > problems, having solved nothing at all. The only thing we'll agree
> > on is that no progress has been made. That would be the ultimate
> > tradgety, wouldn't it?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "2fine4u" sharon_b283@ wrote:
> > >
> > > 3000 arrests? How are they categorized? Drugs, solved murders,
> > > thefts, loitering, etc. Were people arrested for jaywalking?
> > Looking
> > > for prostitutes? Does anyone know? I don't mind their being a
> > curfew
> > > for 18 and under, permanently! Saw The Wire, on HBO and that is
> > > scary! Black on Black crime; drugs, one-parent homes; all the
> > > negatives that sterotype and depict African Americans as dead-beats
> > > and when law abiding Blacks are routinely profiled, killed, beaten
> > for
> > > nothing, just because you drive a car that whites don't think YOU
> > > should be in, like we don't bother to graduate from universities or
> > be
> > > in the entertainment business, which so many Blacks aspire to, we
> > are
> > > talked down to, like children, instead of getting the SAME respect
> > as
> > > you whites, routinely get! Who are the cops protecting and
> > serving?
> > > It's not us! I have a thoracic surgeon, federal judge, a librarian
> > > with a Ph.D, a television journalist in Boston, another doctor in
> > > Washington DC, who was a career Navy Doctor, prior to his
> > retirement,
> > > 10 schoolteachers, a restauranteur, a CPA, not including me, several
> > > GS government workers, etc., in my family and ALL have been stopped
> > by
> > > the police, for NO reason! Every member of my family that drives
> > has
> > > been stopped, for no reason, including myself. Wasn't speeding,
> > > didn't run a stop sign, wasn't for using turn signals, nothing!
> > > Everytime, it was for a broken tail light, which wasn't broken,
> > > driver's license and insurance current, just for no reason, just
> > > because we're Black! You try to live like this and still call
> > > yourself an American, then call me and tell me your experience! So
> > go
> > > on with your slave tactics; I'm not buying!
> > >
> > > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "apoojo" <apoojo@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "2fine4u" <sharon_b283@> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Question:
> > > > > What are AP cops doing better, than Louis Jordan, didn't?
> > > > > The current crop, goes around beating its' chest and getting
> > their
> > > > > pictures in the paper, is all I see. Oh yes and
> > they're "whiter"!
> > > > firstly i apologize to you for using the phrase marshall law, it
> > seems
> > > > most got my drift but you interpeted differently, again my
> > apolgys, my
> > > > drift was what we are doing is not working something else has to
> > be
> > > > tried, certainly not giving up our rights to freedom as you
> > pointed out
> > > >
> > > > as afar as your question what are these police doing jordan
> > didnt, if
> > > > and im saying if, so you do not jump all over me, their reported
> > > > numbers of an increase of 3000 arrests in a year is accurate i
> > would
> > > > say that is a beginning
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
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