Obama to unleash thousands of violent maniacs

[Virginia Day Templeton]

Lock and load.

A massive crime wave is about to hit the country, when Obama and Holder release 6,000 thuggers, druggers, gangstaz, cap-bustaz, and narco sicarios to descend on the law-abiding public like packs of wild hyenas. Many are illegals; all are highly dangerous. It is no surprise, nor any kind of coincidence, that the DOJ should do this while continuing to ramp up its anti-cop/anti-white/pro-thugger rhetoric. This is Obama's Crimerica, where responsibly armed citizens are the bad guys and brutal drug dealers are victims of oppression. Make no mistake: they are coming to kill you, rape your daughters, and sell dope to your sons. That's why they were thrown in jail in the first place.

To prepare churchgoers for this hurricane of violence, Landover will be renting out free guns from its arsenal to all bronze tithers and above, and to stingy members for a reduced fee of $50 for handguns and shotguns and $120 for automatics. Gun cleaning and repair services will also be offered free of charge. Trust me, you do not want to miss out on this offer. Even if you already own a gun (and you should own several) it can never hurt to have a few more, especially when Jose and friends show up at your door.

Violent Offenders, Non-Citizens Among 6,000 Federal Prisoners to Be Released

The Department of Justice today confirmed that the doors of federal prisons all over the country will swing open for an estimated 6,000 drug offenders at the end of this month.

It is the largest-ever one-time early release of federal prisoners, and it comes as a result of U.S. Sentencing Commission and Obama Administration efforts to reduce long prison sentences given to drug offenders. It is also part of an effort to cut down jail overcrowding.

It is not just non-violent offenders who are getting their freedom, a Justice Department spokesman said -- some of those being released have been convicted of violent crime, along with drug crimes.

While we can and should hate Obama for doing this, we must not question God for allowing it to happen. He always has His reasons.

Amos 3:6
Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?

God uses calamities to test our mettle. If our faith and our aim are true, we will emerge from this crisis stronger, wiser, and closer to Christ, and our children who have not yet experienced evil firsthand will have had a real education that no school can provide. For the unrighteous, it will serve as a punishment.

Leviticus 26:21-22
21 And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.

22 I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.



In Detroit and East St. Louis, the highways are already desolate and decent human beings are few indeed. Children are slaughtered every day, because of their fair skin or simply for ending up between a thugger and the "ho" he "finna holla at." AIDS, hepatitis, syphilis: the plagues speak for themselves. I am not sure about the cattle part -- maybe it refers to thugs robbing Burger King. The bottom line is that all of this stuff is right there in the Holy Bible, and there is no excuse for ignoring it. That is why right-wingers who complain endlessly about thuggery are missing the point somewhat. Yes, these beasts are a threat to civilized society as a whole, but the people they victimize have been singled out by God for behaving in a way that was contrary to His commandments, and therefore every thugger attack is deserved and should be celebrated as an act of God. It follows that a society beset by such mayhem has lost its way.

Again, this is not an excuse to let your guard down when the beasts run wild. God warns us against that very thing!

Proverbs 22:13
The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.

No True Christian commits the sin of sloth, and if you do so, God will remove His protection from you. That is why it is so important to demonstrate your faith by arming yourself to the teeth. If anyone wants to join me, I will be at the range all day.

[Alvin Moss]

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Lock and load.

A massive crime wave is about to hit the country

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Amen, Sister.

Many in America are too young to remember when we had sane government, when even some Democrats were saved and rational thought, coupled with God's laws, ruled the land. Back then, when the Negroes were shooting each other in record numbers, the people in Washington looked to see why and Behold! It was the Negroe crack salesmen shooting all the other Negroes. So they made it illegal to be a Negroe shooting Negroe crack dealer. Now, the godless Federal Government says that is racist, so they are all going to get out of prison and go back to their communities, presumably to be model citizens.

Negroes shooting Negroes has been decriminalized in many cities in America. Thus, the only thing that the authorities have to worry about is whether these people will be selling the crack again. That will likely lead to lots of shooting, as that business seems well saturated, but, again, Negroes shooting Negroes is now decriminalized.

[Virginia Day Templeton]

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It's possible that homosexual "marriage" is exacerbating the thugger problem. Texas GOP lawmaker Bill Flores did a beautiful job explaining this on Tony Perkins' Godly radio show.

“Let’s talk about poverty for instance,” he said. “The single best indicator of whether or not a child is going to be in poverty or not is whether or not they were raised by a two-parent household or a single-parent household. And so the breakdown of the family has contributed to poverty.”

“You look at what’s going on in Baltimore today, you know, you see the issues that are raised there,” Mr. Flores continued. “And healthy marriages are the ones between a man and a woman because they can have a healthy family and they can raise children in the way that’s best for their future, not only socially but psychologically, economically, from a health perspective. There’s just nothing like traditional marriage that does that for a child. Each of us has a mother and a father, and there’s just no way to get around that.”

Race hustlers love telling us how thuglets don't have fathers around to teach them right and wrong because the fathers are in prison, and thus they can't help but become full-grown thuggers. The flaws in this argument are obvious: first of all, the babydaddies are in jail for committing crimes, so it's safe to say that if they were out on the streets, they'd be teaching their thuglets to commit those crimes too. Also obvious is the fact that most thuggers don't even know/care who their kids/daddies are, regardless of whether or not they are incarcerated. And "gay marriage" is one of the reasons for that. It deliberately creates motherless and fatherless households -- which, we are told, are the roots of all this damned thuggery.

[Des]

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This is the handiwork of those damned tree-hugging hippies with their fruity Catch-and-Release programs!

[WilliamJenningsBryan]

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With Republican majorities in congress Obama is for the moment stopped from enacting the rest of his socialist wealth redistribution schemes from being enacted into law. Obama's only alternative is to release his wealth redistributing bro's from jail.

[Alex Osterman]

Re: Obama to unleash thousands of violent maniacs

First of all, you don't know what you're talking about. If you actually read the article, you would see that most of the prisoners being released are non-violent drug "offenders." As in black kids that got caught smoking a joint. Oh heavens, hide the children!

Secondly, you're racist. Like, really racist. Did you know that? Has anyone ever hinted that you might be a big, fat racist? (I mean fat in a figurative sense, not a bodyshaming/fatphobic one. Sorry if I offended anyone.) That goes for you too, Alvin. At least you had the guts to actually come out and say "N---oes" instead of that dogwhistle bullshit about "thugs." The high crime rates in some African American neighborhoods are the result of racist housing policies and a "justice" system that disproportionately arrests POC and punishes them with unjustly harsh sentences. In other words, institutional racism. The fact that you never once acknowledged the reality of systemic discrimination is proof of your intellectual dishonesty and your blinkered, white privilege-tinted worldview.

The vast majority of crime is intraracial, which means you are much more likely to be attacked by another white person than a POC. Not only that, but Tim Wise has done the math to show that whites are nearly three times more dangerous to Black people than vice-versa. See for yourself. When you ignore the overwhelming violence against Black and brown bodies in favor of some conconcted "thug" narrative, you do so at your own peril.

Again, the TL;DR: you are racist.

[Back against wall]

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*** BLAH ***As in black kids that got caught smoking a joint. Oh heavens, hide the children!
*** Something about being a homofag nigero lover ***
.

You said it young lady, all we need is a cackle of nigeros running around shooting the marajooawana and raping our good Christian children (or Chillun as the nigeros call them)

This won't do.

When Donald is President, this will all stop. Nigero work release programs will have every good Christian home spick and span with 3 square meals on the table and the good Christian Woman will be able to get back to devoting 100% of her time to looking after and pleasing her man.

Amen to that. Praise Jesus.

[Alvin Moss]

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Welcome, Alex. We are the friendliest people on the interwebs and we invite all who seek salvation to come among us. Presumably, you are a Negroe. We accept even Negroes here on this site and we have a very successful program especially for Negroes. We have found that Negroes appreciate programs designed especially for them. With the Lord's help and our guidance, you can become even lighter than President Obama.

We are, however, still concerned about the satanic Negroe menace. This is sin that the Negroes brought with them from Africa, when they came here to be our servants. In fact, it is the primary reason we had to let most of them go, that and the invasion by the damned Yankees who came here to ruin us.

You know, Alex, the Lord has gifted us with free will. He may already know what is going to happen and He does, but He is fair and will allow us to make our own decisions. We can follow the Jesus road, as you seem interested in doing, or we can follow any of the many roads to Hell. You still seem to be on the victim road, Alex. You can stay there until you pass and then go on to perdition, or you can become a Christian and live forever with Jesus, God and the righteous up in Heaven. The choice is yours.

Do please make a proper introduction and tell us of your experiences with Jesus. Do you live in the ghetto? Are you frequently burgled? Tell us everything.

God Bless!

[Ezekiel Bathfire]

Re: Obama to unleash thousands of violent maniacs

Lock and load.

A massive crime wave is about to hit the country, when Obama and Holder release 6,000 thuggers, druggers, gangstaz, cap-bustaz, and narco sicarios to descend on the law-abiding public like packs of wild hyenas. Many are illegals; all are highly dangerous. It is no surprise, nor any kind of coincidence, that the DOJ should do this while continuing to ramp up its anti-cop/anti-white/pro-thugger rhetoric. This is Obama's Crimerica, where responsibly armed citizens are the bad guys and brutal drug dealers are victims of oppression. Make no mistake: they are coming to kill you, rape your daughters, and sell dope to your sons. That's why they were thrown in jail in the first place.

I admire the cool, rationalized way you are able to present this "Opening of the Gates of Hell." but I'll be frank - it terrifies me.

If Obama had wanted to free up a few cells, he could have ordered the execution of a few inmates - but I suppose he wants psychopaths on the streets for his coming Muslim Revolution!

[Virginia Day Templeton]

Re: Obama to unleash thousands of violent maniacs

You need to start living in the real world, Alex.

First of all, you don't know what you're talking about. If you actually read the article, you would see that most of the prisoners being released are non-violent drug "offenders." As in black kids that got caught smoking a joint. Oh heavens, hide the children!

The average sentence for these thugs was 10 years, which is far more than anyone gets for "smoking a joint." Most of them were probably dealers, and I do not consider dope dealing a non-violent offense, regardless of what Holder says. If you found out that all of these poor, oppressed people were moving to your neighborhood at the end of the month, how would you feel? Please try to be honest.

Secondly, you're racist. Like, really racist. Did you know that? Has anyone ever hinted that you might be a big, fat racist? (I mean fat in a figurative sense, not a bodyshaming/fatphobic one. Sorry if I offended anyone.) That goes for you too, Alvin. At least you had the guts to actually come out and say "N---oes" instead of that dogwhistle bullshit about "thugs." The high crime rates in some African American neighborhoods are the result of racist housing policies and a "justice" system that disproportionately arrests POC and punishes them with unjustly harsh sentences. In other words, institutional racism. The fact that you never once acknowledged the reality of systemic discrimination is proof of your intellectual dishonesty and your blinkered, white privilege-tinted worldview.

This is absolute nonsense, Alex. When you say racist housing policies, do you mean blacks living around other blacks? The reason black areas are so crime-ridden is because they're full of black people? Well gee whiz! That's exactly what we've been saying. Arrest rates reflect crime rates. If blacks are being "disproportionately" arrested compared to whites (there's no proof of this, by the way), then the police should start arresting more whites, not fewer blacks. As for tougher sentences, that's what you get when you're dealing with multi-time offenders, which most thuggers are.

Do the words "thug" and "thugger" offend you? Too bad. I'm not dogwhistling at all, just trying to be inclusive. After all, there are nonblack thuggers (we call them wiggers, chiggers, and spiggers) who have adopted their idiotic street culture, as well as blacks who have risen above thuggery to become respectable citizens. Yes, there are blacks I like and respect; sorry if that doesn't fit your blinkered point of view.

The vast majority of crime is intraracial, which means you are much more likely to be attacked by another white person than a POC. Not only that, but Tim Wise has done the math to show that whites are nearly three times more dangerous to Black people than vice-versa. See for yourself. When you ignore the overwhelming violence against Black and brown bodies in favor of some conconcted "thug" narrative, you do so at your own peril.

Tim Wise is flat-out wrong, as usual, but at least he's just a liar -- you actually believe the numbers he's plucked from his heinie. Five out of six interracial crimes are black on white, and that comes straight from the Bureau of Justice (and has been noted by talented-tenther Walter Williams).

Again, the TL;DR: you are racist.

Racist (ray-cist) noun: someone who's winning an argument with a liberal.

[Alvin Moss]

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First of all, you don't know what you're talking about. If you actually read the article, you would see that most of the prisoners being released are non-violent drug "offenders."

I beg to differ, fellow. As a Minister of God, I have spent considerable time doing God's work in one of the nearby Federal Prison Camps. FYI, the prison camps are where criminals with little risk to the public, NO CONVICTIONS FOR VIOLENT CRIMES and who have sentences of no more than 10 years (or no more than 10 years left of their sentence) are housed. There are almost no Negroes there, owing to the fact that the Federal Government has almost no incarcerated Negroes with no convictions for violence. And yet, the godless Federal Government has many Negroes in their prisons. How do you explain that?

[Alex Osterman]

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You need to start living in the real world, Alex.

You mean the one where everybody is white, cis, straight-identified, and a hardcore Republican Christian? If that's the real world, I'm happy to live in the fake one.

The average sentence for these thugs was 10 years, which is far more than anyone gets for "smoking a joint." Most of them were probably dealers, and I do not consider dope dealing a non-violent offense, regardless of what Holder says. If you found out that all of these poor, oppressed people were moving to your neighborhood at the end of the month, how would you feel? Please try to be honest.

I live in Bushwick, so I have plenty of contact with POC and many of my friends and neighbors have prior convictions due to targeting by the NYPD. Earlier in the year, a group of disadvantaged youths mugged me and knocked out two of my teeth. That is a lot to unpack. I reflected that:

• Were the situation reversed, they likely would never have been taught to put the teeth in milk on the way to the ER, nor could they have afforded the operation to have the teeth replaced.
• I was an interloper in their neighborhood, and I don't know the rules there. It is very possible that I violated their cultural boundaries in some way and thus triggered the mugging.
• I will always have more power than them, no matter how much money or how many teeth I possess. Even as the youths were stomping my head into the concrete, I was metaphorically treading on them with the boot of my unearned white male privilege.

This is absolute nonsense, Alex. When you say racist housing policies, do you mean blacks living around other blacks? The reason black areas are so crime-ridden is because they're full of black people? Well gee whiz! That's exactly what we've been saying. Arrest rates reflect crime rates. If blacks are being "disproportionately" arrested compared to whites (there's no proof of this, by the way), then the police should start arresting more whites, not fewer blacks. As for tougher sentences, that's what you get when you're dealing with multi-time offenders, which most thuggers are.

Racist housing policies that force POC to live in neglected areas ("ghettos") while giving whites, even whites in the same income brackets, carte blanche to move wherever they want. In literal terms, segregation. Ta-Nehisi put it far better than I ever could:

"If you sought to advantage one group of Americans and disadvantage another, you could scarcely choose a more graceful method than housing discrimination. Housing determines access to transportation, green spaces, decent schools, decent food, decent jobs, and decent services. Housing affects your chances of being robbed and shot as well as your chances of being stopped and frisked."

As for our "justice" system, it is so obviously racist that even the majority of white Americans, a group of people whose racism is their singular defining characteristic and the core of their national identity, agree that it is biased against POC. I cannot believe you are seriously arguing this. Give me a break.

Here is just one example: Black people use drugs at a rate equal to whites, but make up 37% of drug arrests and 56% of the people in state prisons for drug arrests. Stop and frisk policy in New York was overwhelmingly racist. Black and Latinx people are half the population but made up 80% of those stopped, and were ten times more likely than whites to be frisked after being stopped. That's justice for you.

Do the words "thug" and "thugger" offend you? Too bad. I'm not dogwhistling at all, just trying to be inclusive. After all, there are nonblack thuggers (we call them wiggers, chiggers, and spiggers) who have adopted their idiotic street culture, as well as blacks who have risen above thuggery to become respectable citizens. Yes, there are blacks I like and respect; sorry if that doesn't fit your blinkered point of view.

Are you saying "thuggers" on purpose because it sounds like "niggers"? Because I've never actually heard that one before. You seem to have invented a new slur. Congratulations on your racism, I guess. The rest of this is just the old Chris Rock niggers vs black people routine. Did you know he stopped performing that because it was coopted by white racists? Oh wow, you respect some "blacks" -- that changes everything! How breathtakingly progressive. Maybe it's you who is the SJW after all!

Tim Wise is flat-out wrong, as usual, but at least he's just a liar -- you actually believe the numbers he's plucked from his heinie. Five out of six interracial crimes are black on white, and that comes straight from the Bureau of Justice (and has been noted by talented-tenther Walter Williams).

Derbyshire got his numbers by removing "justifiable homicides" and killings by cops, as if those don't count. But as I said, our justice system is brutally racist and allows whites to get away with murder all the time (George Zimmerman says hi) especially when the victims are POC. See for yourself:

Racist (ray-cist) noun: someone who's winning an argument with a liberal.

Liberal: someone who always wins arguments with racists. See? I can do it too!

[Virginia Day Templeton]

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You're still posting nonsense, Alex, and it's getting tiresome to read.

You mean the one where everybody is white, cis, straight-identified, and a hardcore Republican Christian? If that's the real world, I'm happy to live in the fake one.

No one cares.

I live in Bushwick, so I have plenty of contact with POC and many of my friends and neighbors have prior convictions due to targeting by the NYPD. Earlier in the year, a group of disadvantaged youths mugged me and knocked out two of my teeth. That is a lot to unpack. I reflected that:

• Were the situation reversed, they likely would never have been taught to put the teeth in milk on the way to the ER, nor could they have afforded the operation to have the teeth replaced.
• I was an interloper in their neighborhood, and I don't know the rules there. It is very possible that I violated their cultural boundaries in some way and thus triggered the mugging.
• I will always have more power than them, no matter how much money or how many teeth I possess. Even as the youths were stomping my head into the concrete, I was metaphorically treading on them with the boot of my unearned white male privilege.

No one cares. They beat you up and robbed you because you're white, period. The next person who beats you up -- and trust me, there are many beatings in your future -- will do so because of your smug expression, your skinny girl pants (I know you wear them), and/or the idiocy you constantly babble. I'm afraid you are just going to have to get used to it.

Racist housing policies that force POC to live in neglected areas ("ghettos") while giving whites, even whites in the same income brackets, carte blanche to move wherever they want. In literal terms, segregation. Ta-Nehisi put it far better than I ever could:

"Ooga booga boo"

No one cares. Instead of posting reams of ebonic garbage here (I assume those are rap lyrics?), you can link to it in order to make it easier for us to ignore. I guarantee that if you applied the same "racist housing policies" and "segregation" towards whites, they would get on just fine. Negroes are violent because 1) their braindead hip hop culture promotes it, 2) it is in their genes, and 3) they are cursed by God. This is all connected -- the culture comes from the genes, and the genes come from the curse.

Genesis 9:22-25

22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.

23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.

24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.

25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

LBU Creation geneticists have actually identified this thug gene (N1-gg) and using advanced theo-radiometric dating techniques, pinpointed its origin at the moment when God levied the Curse of Ham.

As for our "justice" system, it is so obviously racist that even the majority of white Americans, a group of people whose racism is their singular defining characteristic and the core of their national identity, agree that it is biased against POC. I cannot believe you are seriously arguing this. Give me a break.

No one cares. Not only are you making an argumentum ad populum (a logical fallacy), but you're appealing to a population that you consider to be a bunch of racist retards. What a great argument. This just proves America is headed straight to Hell in a handbasket.

Here is just one example: Black people use drugs at a rate equal to whites, but make up 37% of drug arrests and 56% of the people in state prisons for drug arrests. Stop and frisk policy in New York was overwhelmingly racist. Black and Latinx people are half the population but made up 80% of those stopped, and were ten times more likely than whites to be frisked after being stopped. That's justice for you.

No one cares. Blacks get caught more often because they're dumber than whites. Every IQ study ever carried out has shown this. American Negroes have lower IQs than Koko the Gorilla (AN: 85, KG: 90), although their scores have risen in recent decades as a result of Jew-pushed miscegenation. Smart blacks -- now that is a scary thought! The S&F numbers actually show an anti-white bias, since nonwhites make up 88% of NYC criminals but only (by your own admission) 80% of those stopped and frisked. By the way, oildriller DeBlackio pulled the plug on that policy, causing crime to skyrocket.

What is Latinx? A typo? A computer operating system? A wild cat?

Are you saying "thuggers" on purpose because it sounds like "niggers"? Because I've never actually heard that one before. You seem to have invented a new slur. Congratulations on your racism, I guess. The rest of this is just the old Chris Rock niggers vs black people routine. Did you know he stopped performing that because it was coopted by white racists? Oh wow, you respect some "blacks" -- that changes everything! How breathtakingly progressive. Maybe it's you who is the SJW after all!

No one cares.

Derbyshire got his numbers by removing "justifiable homicides" and killings by cops, as if those don't count. But as I said, our justice system is brutally racist and allows whites to get away with murder all the time (George Zimmerman says hi) especially when the victims are POC. See for yourself:

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No one cares. The Z-Man is not white. He's Hispanic. The DOJ oh-so-conveniently classifies Hispanics as white when they're the perpetrators and as "Other" when they're the victims. What is the purpose of that graph? It seems to show that blacks are much more likely to shoot people for malicious reasons, while whites are more likely to use guns to defend themselves. That's what you're using as proof of "racism"?

Liberal: someone who always wins arguments with racists. See? I can do it too!

You know what I'm going to say, don't you?

[H. Montague Worthington]

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Once the bands of dark-skinned heathens are released, that will be it for America. Oh well, we had a pretty good run as the last, best hope for Western Civilization.

In Europe, the New World Order types-- liberals, socialists, and communists-- have turned England, Germany, and France into Islamist states where no-go areas have made native Europeans into third-class citizens in the own countries. Meanwhile, Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Greece have been turned into beggar states, with Africans and Middle Easterners flowing in like locusts. In Japan, the average age is now somewhere around 67, and the few able-bodied and educated people still in the workforce can barely handle their ordinary infrastructure operation; one more tsunami or major earthquake and they'll likely be ruined.

Who is on the upswing? Communist China, Cuba, and North Korea; African Dictatorships that control vast mineral wealth and energy resources; Islamo-terrorist in the Middle East and Asia; and narco-terrorists in Mexico and South America.

The US under Obama is faltering fast. Our health care system has been ruined beyond repair, our so-called foreign policy has given carte blanche to bloodthirsty terrorists and ISIS all over the world, and all the able-bodied heterosexual men have left our military to be operated by girl scouts and cross-dressing disabled drug addicts with the AIDS. The release of packs of super-violent Negroe thugs into America's heartland will portend the sad and gruesome end of America's promise. Obama and his cronies had this planned from the very beginning, and their evil plan has been pulled off without a hitch!!

Don't say that America's silent majority of White, Christian, heterosexual patriots didn't give you plenty of warnings!!!

[Alvin Moss]

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I was looking at your homicide chart, Alex. It shows that Negroes who are committing violent crimes are far more likely to be killed by White people than the other way around. To me, that means that Negroes are far more likely to need shooting than White people, though it is clear that there are a few White people who also need shooting. The graph covers justifiable homicide, Alex, not homicide in general.

Also, the self loathing that is evident in your defense of the Negroes who beat you and robbed you is pathetic.

Do any of your colored friends ever beat you up when you call them POC? The Mexicans where I live would whip your skanky hind end if you tried that with them.