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    Skipping along to our shared destructionBrendan O'Connor
    7/11/16 8:46am

    Did he really just say that black fathers should raise their kids better so cops wouldn’t have to shoot them for being uppity?

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      Crazy Pills BOGO limited time onlySkipping along to our shared destruction
      7/11/16 8:55am

      My parents taught me to be respectful of authority, especially police.

      I’ve never been shot.

      Coincidence?

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      Flying Squid (I hate me more than you do.)Skipping along to our shared destruction
      7/11/16 8:55am

      You put more thought into what he said than he did.

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    Join the Grey SideBrendan O'Connor
    7/11/16 8:38am

    Nice to see the first amendment isn’t popular here with Gawker writers.

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      WhySoCiceroJoin the Grey Side
      7/11/16 8:41am

      They want a conversation about race, but they don’t want anyone else to talk.

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      Flying Squid (I hate me more than you do.)WhySoCicero
      7/11/16 8:44am

      I’m putting you both in the black just to piss you both off that you’re not allowed to complain you’ve been silenced somehow.

      You’re welcome.

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    Flying Squid (I hate me more than you do.)Brendan O'Connor
    7/11/16 8:33am

    Black Lives Matter is racist like the American Cancer Society is pro-pneumonia.

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      MarkyDeSadeFlying Squid (I hate me more than you do.)
      7/11/16 8:38am

      I am so totally stealing this to piss off my mouth-breathing, entitled Facebook “friends.”

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      MarcabExpatFlying Squid (I hate me more than you do.)
      7/11/16 8:44am

      Perfect. Purloining for social use.

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    Sid and FinancyBrendan O'Connor
    7/11/16 8:44am

    This is just so damn tone-deaf and counterfactual. The worst crimes in rap music have been perpetrated by white people.

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      Skipping along to our shared destructionSid and Financy
      7/11/16 8:49am

      If we’re looking for the bottom is it “Check out my hook while the DJ revolves it” or “jump around, jump around, jump up, jump up and get down”?

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      bourbon.p.millerSkipping along to our shared destruction
      7/11/16 8:54am

      Definitely not the latter because they at least encouraged exercise at high school proms for decades. My bottom is Mickey Avalon

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    Tuxedoed Flobee UserBrendan O'Connor
    7/11/16 8:32am

    Ban KFMDM = no trenchcoat killings

    Ban Ice-T & Body Count = no cop killings

    Ban Robert Johnson’s 32-20 Blues = no University of Texas tower killings

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      Flying Squid (I hate me more than you do.)Tuxedoed Flobee User
      7/11/16 8:35am

      I thought trench coat killings were due to playing Doom and Quake.

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      NeridqeFlying Squid (I hate me more than you do.)
      7/11/16 8:38am

      i thought it was from the matrix

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    ChozoRuinsBrendan O'Connor
    7/11/16 8:38am

    Everyone should know that Rudy Giuliani is like Beetlejuice. If you say “9/11" three times he will appear and spout off ridiculous and racist crap.

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      bassguitarheroBrendan O'Connor
      7/11/16 11:15am

      Here is the biggest problem facing “the black community” in America today:

      The unending idea that there is a “black community.” There isn’t. We are black PEOPLE, but at the end of the day the only things we’re all gonna have in common are the color of our skin and (sometimes) a shared sense of struggle based on the fact that the country continues to shove us all in the same pot.

      I was in Ferguson when Black Lives Matter was coined. I’ve marched with Jesse Jackson & Al Sharpton. I’ve been following the movement and hard at work with the movement.

      But when Rudy Giuliani goes up there and says:

      “They sing rap songs about killing police officers, and they talk about killing police officers, and they yell it out at their rallies and the police officers hear it.”

      This is the EXACT SAME SHIT that gets black people killed by police officers. When a police officer has a run-in with a black person and approaches them, thinking, “They rap about killing us and they talk about killing us and they yell it out at their rallies,” it doesn’t matter if that black person they’re approaching is Philando Castile or Martin Luther King, Jr.

      When that kind of thought process enters the officer’s head, and he approaches with his hand on his gun because of that thought process, we are now 3-4 steps closer to that line of lethal force, before the officer has ever interacted with this person.

      I have NEVER rapped about killing police officers, I have NEVER talked about it, and yet here I am tarred with Giuliani’s brush, and the next time I have a run-in with a police officer, whether it’s because I’m asking for directions, or lost my keys, it could be my last, because of what Giuliani is saying.

      For 400 years in this country we have been constantly treated like we are one solid hive mind. We are not.

      What do I have in common with Beyonce? Probably nothing. What do I have in common with Barack Obama? Probably very little. Yet I and almost every other black person in the country is going to have to wear the mantle of what Micah Xavier did. Why?

      Who was out there ready to go to war with white people over Dylann Storm Roof? No one. The cops went and got him, stopped him, called it a day. Xavier comes along and people want him to be the head of a movement. He isn’t.

      At the end of the day, the pervasive hive minding of black people is what’s getting us killed. No one speaks for me but me, but people like Giuliani are out there making it look like we have meetings every Thursday on what to do about white folks. We don’t. We never have. But that mindset, that constant intimating that we somehow all have something to do with each other, that’s the inescapable damage that society keeps doing to us.

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        sharpsticksbassguitarhero
        7/11/16 3:12pm

        Yeah. I think that makes reading articles/think-pieces/etc about “blackness” so weird. This homogeneous culture is really only those 2 points. And this image of blind solidarity that’s fostered by the media and such doesn’t exist either.

        Putting aside some of the outright dumb things she’s said, there’s Stacey Dash. The nuance and range of ideologies and perspectives that every other “race” has exists, but it’s simply not presented at large by anyone really.

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        bassguitarherosharpsticks
        7/11/16 3:29pm

        The only thing “black people” have in common is that our skin has a certain amount of pigment and we desire to not be shot to death. I think that’s pretty much the only constant.

        I would rather listen to Tool than Jay-Z and I’d rather drink an IPA than a shot of Hennessy, but Rudy Giuliani wants to paint me like I’m a founding member of the Black Panthers simply because I have black skin and don’t want to get shot to death.

        The other day I had to explain the difference between “black” and “African-American” to a licensed and trained psychiatrist. He was asking how to describe the closer, Santiago Casilla, for the SF Giants, as to whether or not he would be considered “black” or “African-American.”

        I said, “black is a color, African-American is a culture and ethnicity. Casilla could be from Colombia, that wouldn’t make him African-American, but he’s still black.”

        The conflation is strong in our society. Even black people who aren’t from America get painted with that same brush. If you’re *in* America and you’re black, you just gotta keep an eye out. Unless the officer observes you speaking with a proper british accent, you will likely still be seen as a “thug” until the moment you can prove that you are not. Many of us will never get that moment.

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      dvdoffBrendan O'Connor
      7/11/16 8:51am

      Guliani has a pretty impressive body count of first responders himself. Funny how no one asks him about those incompatible radios that were used on 9/11 and how many of the 343 firemen who lost their lives that day never heard the call to evacuate

      “Giuliani gave Motorola a $14-million no-bid contract. Despite this exorbitant sum, the radios were faulty and had to be taken out of service in March 2001, after a “distress call from a firefighter trapped in a burning house” went unheard. A New York City Council report on the fire department’s radio procurement process concluded:

      Thus, despite its acknowledgment two years earlier that several manufacturers were developing technology that might meet FDNY’s CAI specifications, and in apparent disregard of its pledge to evaluate new technologies and products, the FDNY appears to have elected to accept a radio representing an entirely new communications technology from Motorola rather than conduct a competitive review of products and prices.”

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        c'est-a-diredvdoff
        7/11/16 9:31am

        As a Supply Chain professional I fully support more open discussion of poor municipal procurement practices.

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        BCDFGdvdoff
        7/11/16 10:40am

        The radio issue for first response has been a silent killer for a long time, even after 9/11. It’s a case where you have all of these emergency response personnel who need access to communications, but you have a bunch of feudal warlords at the top of all the uniformed chains-of-command. And they all operate off of patronage.

        Contrary to what people might think, the FDNY (and not NYPD) are probably the worst offenders in this —Giuliani had a real lockstep partner in the brass there, because the FDNY (unlike the NYPD) stayed a segregated patronage mill well into the Bloomberg era. Giuliani folded in two departments (Buildings and EMS) into the FDNY, but made sure that they just padded FDNY’s stroke rather than really integrating them.

        And as a result, elementary things like getting radios to communicate within or around subway tunnel complexes has never been addressed. EMS has complained for years that they had inadequate radio coverage; they were never even allowed to be on the FDNY ban even though they’re nominally FDNY personnel (and it’s mostly because EMS is substantially integrated).

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      kamla deviBrendan O'Connor
      7/11/16 8:54am

      Stop calling him America’s mayor.

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        FrankNSamkamla devi
        7/11/16 9:24am

        America’s BM

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        EvenBaggierTrousers4kamla devi
        7/11/16 9:45am

        America’s mayo

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      Beet ArthurBrendan O'Connor
      7/11/16 8:40am

      If anyone did 9/11 it was probably Guiliani.

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        gruffbenjaminBeet Arthur
        7/11/16 8:45am

        Historically, he’s probably the person who has benefited the most from it.

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        Beet Arthurgruffbenjamin
        7/11/16 9:01am

        The joy he takes in it! The way he tried to become the dictator of NYC after ....

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