{"id":59872,"date":"2016-08-11T05:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59872"},"modified":"2016-08-06T18:59:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T23:59:11","slug":"59872","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59872","title":{"rendered":"Flare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In 1994, when Bill Clinton was President, there was another flare-up in the long-standing war between two African tribes \u2013 the Hutu and the Tutsis \u2013 fought mainly in Rwanda over the issue of political control to give special privileges to the dominant tribe\u2019s members.\u00a0 The losers fled to The Congo and continued the fight.\u00a0 Nearly 5 million people have died and inter-tribal killing continues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">In the United States today, Black people want special privileges.\u00a0 They\u2019ve been able to shame White people into going along because some White people were guilty of slavery so all White people should pay for it.\u00a0 Hispanics are less sympathetic and Asians outright hostile because neither of those groups feels racial historical guilt over offenses committed 100 years before they arrived in this country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Black Lives Matter has upped the ante.\u00a0 They called for dead cops and are starting to get them.\u00a0 Black Lives Matter does not seek progress, it seeks regress.\u00a0 It seeks to return Western Civilization to the level of Africal Tribal Warfare.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Hispanics, Asians and Whites get lumped together as \u201cWhite\u201d for purposes of crime reporting and affirmative action.\u00a0 As a \u201ctribe,\u201d Whites together with Hispanics and Asians, are 85% of the population.\u00a0 We\u2019re more numerous, more prosperous and better armed than Blacks.\u00a0 If Black Lives Matter starts a race war, it\u2019s going to be a damned short one.\u00a0 But then, if Black Lives Matter had the ability to look at the big picture and take the long view, they wouldn\u2019t be trying to start a race war at all<\/span><span class=\"s2\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\">Y&#8217;know, it&#8217;s not something I care to discuss, since no\u00a0<em>rational\u00a0<\/em>person on &#8220;either side&#8221; is remotely interested in things turning out that way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">But I think the talk of militants &#8211; especially militants whose target is society at large &#8211; is wishful to the point of comical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: In 1994, when Bill Clinton was President, there was another flare-up in the long-standing war between two African tribes \u2013 the Hutu and the Tutsis \u2013 fought mainly in Rwanda over the issue of political control to give special privileges to the dominant tribe\u2019s members.\u00a0 The losers fled to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59872"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59882,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59872\/revisions\/59882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}