Obama Administration Protecting the Black Panthers

[Diane Amberg]

Please don't attribute what Jar said to my mouth. That's how people get painted with the wrong brush. There is just one on here who I do believe should be living back in the civil war time and it isn't you. Now that you mentioned Eric Holder I understand.  (Elk county is only 6.2 percent black, by the way.) I'm really sorry that guy up set you but most big cities have a few of those. The police know exactly who each one is, the company they keep and if one or many make a real move or a threat with a name on it, I'm sure they would act.
  Cities do have white characters too. We had a man here who had Tourettes and was somewhat retarded. He sat along a stone wall downtown a couple of days a week cussing and screaming and making horrible threats to anyone who passed by. He was harmless and we all knew it, but it could be scary if someone didn't understand. He finally died.
I was curious so I looked up some stats from the Dept. of Justice's bureau of statistics. In anyone's life time a person's chance of being arrested and going to prison is men 11.3 %  women 1.85% .... blacks 18.6% Hispanic 11.4%  white 3.4% Traffic stop and search... 9% Hispanic, 9.5% black,  3.6% white. Traffic stop with arrest following... black 4.5%   Hispanic 3.6%   white 1.2% All were pulled over at about the same rate between 8 and 9%. There had been some problems with black profiling but that has evened out. On a side note, which really is none of my business, I wonder why all those welfare checks  aren't direct deposit so they aren't lost or stolen? It would be more private too.

[twirldoggy]

No one gets a real check in the mail now.

[Diane Amberg]

Ah, just a facsimile? Thanks!  Why didn't I think of that?

[frawin]

Diane, where did you get that Elk County is 6.2% Black, Elk county is less than .02% black. When the other posters were talking about the numbers of Blacks in the area they were talking about towns within 30-50  miles of Elk County.

[Diane Amberg]

It was in the Elk County census information. Maybe I'd better go look at it again. I'd sure tend to trust your number better than mine.... You got it. I read the wrong line and got it for the whole state, not just Elk county. Hm, not to get in trouble all over again but perhaps my original statement was closer to correct than I thought.

[frawin]

Diane you are getting into discussions/arguments with people on the forum about subjects and areas you know absolutely nothing about. Many people in Elk County drive to work or to shop, or to the Dr.or for whatever in other towns and that is what KSH said in her post, that we have do have African Americans in all of the towns around, noone said that we have a concentration in Elk County. Many of these people drive to the surrounding larger towns 5-6 days a week.

[jarhead]

twirldoggy, the VA tries to get you to direct deposit your check but they will still send an actual check if you want that. So does the Social security admin.

[Varmit]

I just don't agree that blacks in general are being treated "better'' than whites. One bad example from a big city far away doesn't make it so. Show me trends, statistics.

Statistics?  Trends?...How about the Dept. of Justice refusing to prosecute those black panthers because they are black? 

[kshillbillys]

and it will increase racial tension...that was the excuse! Unfreakingbelievable!

[Varmit]

Diane, where did you get that Elk County is 6.2% Black, Elk county is less than .02% black. When the other posters were talking about the numbers of Blacks in the area they were talking about towns within 30-50  miles of Elk County.

Don't know about the percentage rates but there is a black man that farms a small piece just west of Oak Valley and then theres my son so thats one in Grenola.