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Re: [SOLOSEZ] The March of Foolish Things

Sonya - Frankly, I haven't seen Asians burning down their own communities, killing each other by the thousands each
year, or blaming others for their plight. Maybe you should write and post about behavior like that. Gather the facts. I
think many would listen if you had them.

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[mailto:SOLOSEZ@MAIL.AMERICANBAR.ORG] On Behalf Of Sonya Nichelle Armfield
Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2015 3:45 AM
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Subject: Re: [SOLOSEZ] The March of Foolish Things

What does his race have to do with it? You NEVER post anything positive about black people. Always articles pushing
your negative conservative agenda about how inferior we are as a group. Your posts are offensive to many. That's why
so many people have you blocked.
Asian communities and other racial
groups have just as many ills as black people. When are you going to start posting articles about those issues?
You have yet to address the issues going in China. When are you?
With warm regards,

On Sep 9, 2015, at 6:30 AM, Yee Wah Chin <yeewah.chin@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> Jason Riley, the writer, is African-American.

>
> Regards,
>
> YWC
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------> From: <sonyaarmfield@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 7:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [SOLOSEZ] The March of Foolish Things
> To: Yee Wah Chin <yeewah.chin@gmail.com>
> Cc: "SOLOSEZ@MAIL.AMERICANBAR.ORG" <SOLOSEZ@mail.americanbar.org>
>
>
> I am offended when non-Aftican-Americans are quick to espouse negative
> theories regarding the state of black America. Usually, their theories
> are covert racism.
>
> Some minorities seem to relish putting black people down. To make
> themselves more acceptable to mainstream America, perhaps?its not
> going to happen. People will be people.
>
> All groups have issues. How long have you been posting articles on
> solosez, Yee Wah? Not once have you posted anything negative about
> Asians or any other racial group. But, you are constantly trying to
> prove how horrible black people are. Why are you so intent on casting
> a negative light against black people?
>
> There are tons of positive articles you could post about black people
> and/or tons of negative articles you could post about YOUR racial group.
> But you don't. Why?
>
> This is America, you can certainly be a racist. And I can call you on
> it and will. Every single time. Other people just delete you and/or
> block you because they don't agree with your agenda. Not me.
>
> I am all for healthy discussions about race, but not when you are
> bashing another race, even if it's sublimely.
> Try posting articles like this for a change.
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> http://www.theroot.com/articles/news/2015/09/_100_black_men_usher_kids
> _into_conn_school_to_with_cheers_and_applause.html
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> *With warm regards,*
>
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> On Sep 9, 2015, at 4:23 AM, Yee Wah Chin <yeewah.chin@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> Some views, and statistics, from one who is two generations younger,
> may also be thought-provoking.
>
> YWC
>
>
> http://on.wsj.com/1hVeNZV
> Black Lives Matterbut Reality, Not So Much The movement was founded
> on a falsehood. Scapegoating the police ignores the true threats to
> the urban poor.
> By Jason L. Riley
> Sept. 8, 2015 7:31 p.m. ET
>
>
> *Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men
> come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale
> hath had its effect.*
>
> Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
> [image: A Black Lives Matter protest in St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 10.] A
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> Black Lives Matter protest in St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 10. Photo:
> Associated Press
>
> The great lie of the summer has been the Black Lives Matter movement.
> It was founded on one falsehoodthat a Ferguson, Mo., police officer
> shot a black suspect who was trying to surrenderand it is perpetuated by another:
> that trigger-happy cops are filling our morgues with young black men.
>
> The reality is that Michael Brown is dead because he robbed a
> convenience store, assaulted a uniformed officer and then made a move
> for the officers gun. The reality is that a cop is six times more
> likely to be killed by someone black than the reverse. The reality is
> that the Michael Browns are a much bigger threat to black lives than
> are the police. Every year, the casualty count of black-on-black
> crime is twice that of the death toll of 9/11, wrote former New York
> City police detective Edward Conlon in a Journal essay
> <http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-racial-reality-of-policing-1441390980
> > on
>
> Saturday. I dont understand how a movement called Black Lives Matter
> can ignore the leading cause of death among young black men in the
> U.S., which is homicide by their peers.
>
> Actually, its not hard to understand at all, once you realize that
> this movement is not about the fate of blacks per se but about
> scapegoating the police in particular, and white America in general,
> for antisocial ghetto behavior. Its about holding whites to a higher
> standard than the young black men in these neighborhoods hold each
> other to. Ultimately, its a political movement, the inevitable
> extension of a racial and ethnic spoils system that helps Democrats
> get elected. The Black Lives Matter narrative may be demonstrably false, but its also politically expedient.
>
> Its the black poorthe primary victims of violent crimes and thus the
> people most in need of effective policingwho must live with the
> effects of these falsehoods. As the Black Lives Matter movement has
> spread, murder rates have climbed in cities across the country, from
> New Orleans to Baltimore to St. Louis and Chicago. The Washington,
> D.C., homicide rate is 43% higher than it was a year ago. By the end
> of August, Milwaukee and New Haven, Conn., both had already seen more murders than in all of 2014.
>
> Publicly, law-enforcement officials have been reluctant to link the
> movements antipolice rhetoric to the spike in violent crime.
> Privately, they have been echoing South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who
> said in a speech last week that the movement was harming the very
> people whose interests it claims to represent. Most of the people who
> now live in terror because local police are too intimidated to do
> their jobs are black, the governor said. Black lives do matter, and
> they have been disgracefully jeopardized by the movement that has laid
> waste to Ferguson and Baltimore.
>
> Over a three-day stretch last week, the New York Times ran two
> heart-wrenching stories about black mothers of murdered children.
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> Tamiko Holmes, a Milwaukee native, has seen two of her five children
> shot dead this year and a third wounded by gunfire. Sharon Plummer of
> Brooklyn lost a 16-year-old son on Aug. 30. He was gunned down while
> standing on a street corner two blocks away from where his 17-year-old
> brother was shot dead three years earlier. After the older childs
> death, Ms. Plummer moved to a safer community, but the younger son
> repeatedly returned to the old neighborhood to hang out with friends.
> She didnt move to escape predatory cops, which is what the Black Lives Matter activists would have us believe.
> Rather, she moved to protect her children from their predatory peers.
>
> Asked recently about the increase in violent crime, New York City
> Police Commissioner William Bratton
> <http://topics.wsj.com/person/B/William-Bratton/7853> said what
> precious few public officials and commentators have been willing to
> say. He stated the obvious. We have, unfortunately, a very large
> population of many young people who have grown up in an environment in
> which the . . . traditional norms and values are not there, Mr.
> Bratton told MSNBC. The commissioner added that Daniel Patrick
> Moynihans 1965 report warning that the disintegration of the black
> family could lead to other social ills had proved prescient. He was
> right on the money, Mr. Bratton said, the disintegration of family,
> the disintegration of values. There is something going on in our society and our inner cities.
>
> But the left has no interest in discussing ghetto pathology. Summer
> movies like Straight Outta Compton are too busy glorifying it, and
> summer books like Ta-Nehisi Coatess Between the World and Me are
> too busy intellectualizing it. The Black Lives Matter crowd has become
> an appendage of the civil-rights industry, which uses the black
> underclass to push an agenda that invariably leaves the supposed beneficiaries worse off.
>
> *Mr. Riley, a Manhattan Institute senior fellow and Journal
> contributor, is the author of Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals
> Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed (Encounter Books, 2014).*
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------> From: Yee Wah Chin <yeewah.chin@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 11:21 PM
> Subject: The March of Foolish Things
> To: solosez <SOLOSEZ@mail.americanbar.org>
> Cc: "Yee Wah Chin (G)" <yeewah.chin@gmail.com>
>
>
> I was struck by the statistic presented that "'In 2012, blacks were
> 1.2% <
> http://schools.nyc.gov/NR/rdonlyres/77954FB0-FD24-476B-AB81-3E9BBE8655
> D9/183200/DemographicSnapshot201011to201415Public_FINAL.xlsx
> of the students at Stuyvesant,' he says. 'Thirty-three years earlier,
> they were 12%.' In 1980, I'm fairly certain Jews were still in the
> majority of the student body at Stuyvesant and Asian-Americans were
> under 10%. Now, Asian-Americans are the majority in the student body.
>
> Best regards,
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>
> YWC
>
>
> http://on.wsj.com/1hIPHNz
> The March of Foolish Things The conservative sage on the decline of
> intellectual debate, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and what the welfare state has
> done to black America.
> By Kyle Peterson
> Sept. 4, 2015 6:56 p.m. ET
>
> *Stanford, Calif.*
>
> Thomas Sowell turned 85 years old this summer, which means he has been
> teaching economics to Americans through his books and articles for
> some four decades. So it seems like a natural question: Have we
> learned anything? Has the level of economic thinking in political
> debate gone up at all?
>
> Noin fact, Im tempted to think its gone down, Mr. Sowell says,
> without much hesitation. At one time you had a lot of people who
> hadnt had any economics saying foolish things. Now you have
> well-known economists saying foolish things.
>
> The paradox is that serious economic discussion enjoys a wider
> platform than ever before. One of the great bounties of the Internet
> is the trove of archival news and debate footage that has been dumped
> onto YouTube and other websites. Anyone with a modem can now watch
> F.A. Hayek discussing
> <http://freetochoose.tv/program.php?id=hayek_3&series=hayek>, in a
> soft and dignified German accent, the rule of law with Robert Bork in
> 1978. Or Milton Friedman at Cornell the same year, arguing
> matter-of-factly <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xeebU8VhmY> about colonialism with a young man in a beard,
sunglasses and floppy sideways hat.
>
> There is plenty of old footage of Mr. Sowell floating through the
> ether, too, and if one watches a few clipssay, his appearance
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y021WAdUlW8> on William F. Buckley,
> Jr.s Firing Line in 1981two things stand out. The first is how little Mr.
> Sowell has changed. The octogenarian who sits before me in an office
> at the Hoover Institution, where Mr. Sowell has been a senior fellow
> since 1980, has a bit of gray hair and a different set of glasses, but
> the self-assurance and the baritone voice are the same.
>
> The second thing that strikes is how little the political debate has
> changed. Maybe economics isnt merely a dismal science, but a futile one.
>
> <snip>
>
> *Mr. Peterson is an associate editorial features editor at the
> Journal.*
>
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