"They are using belligerent and obnoxious behavior to TRY and bring attention to their cause, whatever it is." Just as PETA does when they throw a pie in the face of a teenage pork queen at the state fair. It still is wrong and should be aggressively denounced by all. Especially when they are out there advocating murdering men, women and children as with these two nut cases who call themselves the new Balck Panthers. I don't care what their cause is or how justified and noble they or others believe their cause is or how repressed they have been in the past it is simply wrong and should not be condoned by anyone and especially members of the black community. Same goes with white racist whacko's such as the KKK. We need all level headed folks to keep telling them how how wrong their behavior and beliefs are.
I think most of the problems with racism can be traced back to poor parenting and a lack of good role models. Yes there are blacks who give their race a bad name. There are many young black males who try to act like tough thugs. When ever we visited our son's college dorm there were always several young black males loitering around the entrance doors and main hall acting as if they were trying to intimidate white students coming and going. I noticed when I was in college thirty some years ago when I would go to a public gym and play pick up basket ball games that often young black males would act far different when they played on a team with white players then when they were on a team comprised of all black players when they would do more trash talking and strutting. Reminds me of how guys will act much different when out drinking with the guys then when in the presence of ladies. However I don't think the behavior of some of these young black males is much different then many young white or Hispanic males I know or have seen that also feel the need to act tough and prove themselves. I believe strongly that many of these troubled young males have not had the best of upbringing and could have benefited from better role models growing up.
Waterloo has always had a bad reputation for trouble and violence with the younger generation. If I recall correct a couple high schools there quit having their football games on Friday nights for a time many years ago because of excessive fights between students during the Friday night games so they played their games during the day on Saturdays.
As far as troubled youth being a problem for all races I can bring up the case of a near by town with a population of about 3000 people. Last year I was told their high school had 9 girls pregnant at one time. We calculated it amounted to about 8% of the female student population of high school students that were pregnant at the one time. There were no black students in the school which was about 95% white and 5% Hispanic.
Ida, didn't you see the recent Duke study that said a person's belly button is their center of of gravity and the height of person's navel has an effect on their ability to run or swim faster. Seems blacks have higher belly buttons which helps them run faster and whites have lower belly buttons which helps them swim faster according to the study.
"It so happens that in the architecture of the human body of West African-origin runners, the center of gravity is significantly higher than in runners of European origin," which puts them at an advantage in sprints on the track, he said.
Individuals of West African-origin have longer legs than European-origin athletes, which means their belly-buttons are three centimeters (1.18 inches) higher than whites."
That means the black athletes have a "hidden height" that is three percent greater than whites', which gives them a significant speed advantage on the track.
"Locomotion is essentially a continual process of falling forward, and mass that falls from a higher altitude, falls faster," Bejan explained.
In the pool, meanwhile, whites have the advantage because they have longer torsos, making their belly-buttons lower in the general scheme of body architecture. "Swimming is the art of surfing the wave created by the swimmer," said Bejan.
"The swimmer who makes the bigger wave is the faster swimmer, and a longer torso makes a bigger wave. Europeans have a three-percent longer torso than West Africans, which gives them a 1.5-percent speed advantage in the pool," he said.
I'm now wondering if the fact that the ice in hockey is simply frozen water has something to do with the lack of blacks in the sport of hockey???
.....naw he`s too smart..wouldn`t touch this toxic stuff with a 10 foot pole.
