Monthly Archives: April 2022

Opinion

Common Sense Can Go A Long Way

I saw this tweet the other day. Actually one of the dumbest tweets that I have ever seen. Here is the tweet:

I understand what this tweet is trying to say, but the author has completely missed out on the patterns on why rapists rape in the first place. It’s like he is saying that the things like women walking alone doesn’t matter. Or a drunk woman. Or a woman in a short skirt. The author has completely missed a prime opportunity to inform women that these behaviors do matter, and that a woman shouldn’t do them.

Rapists tend to have a pattern. They select their victims based upon several factors. It can be anywhere from hairstyle, hair color, clothing, behavior, locations, and several other factors. Years of study have gone into the behavior of rapists. Countless conversations with actual rapists have also gone into the determining of what rapists look for in a victim.

You may have heard of the Behavioral Science Unit (BSU) or the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU). They are two names for the same Unit in the FBI. The BSU was the original name and the BAU is the current name, however, they are the same thing. This Unit was literally formed to try and dive into the minds of all types of criminals from rapists, murders, thieves, and many others in between. The goal is to find out who criminals are, how criminals think, and why they commit the crimes that they do. Tons of research has gone into understanding the behaviors and patterns of criminals and tons of interviews with actual criminals have too. Over the last 50 or so years, the FBI has been able to develop a profile of most criminals and how they think. The research that they have come up with concerning rapists and their behaviors has been widely published. Therefore, the FBI has developed a list of behaviors that women should try to avoid at all costs, because these types of behaviors tend to attract rapists. Everything listed in the tweet above, except for the rapists, are simple patterns that rapists look for in potential victims. It’s silly to say that walking alone in the dark doesn’t cause rape, because it is, after all, a behavior that rapists look for. To get technical isn’t helping future victims. It’s foolish to say, your skirt can’t rape you. The nighttime sky can’t rape you. Walking doesn’t rape. Only rapists can rape you. That’s not the point. The point is that rapists look for women, in the dark, walking along. They look for other patterns such as women with long hair that’s in a braid or bun. On their cell phones as to be distracted. Plus, a number of other factors.

The Ripley County Sheriff’s office in Indiana has put out a memo on statistics of rape and some ways to avoid it. You can find it here.

The point is that it’s silly to say that only rapists rape while ignoring potential factors that contribute to a women getting raped. It’s a fact that you are less likely to get raped if you walk in a group rather than walk alone. It’s a fact that you are less likely to get raped if you don’t present yourself in a flirtatious manner than if you do. Do these things make a woman invincible to getting raped? No. Of course not, but it sure does lessen the odds.

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Opinion, Politics

Racial Divide

If there is one thing that I don’t understand in this world today, it’s the racial divide that seems to be going on in this country. I don’t understand it because it doesn’t make sense to me. It doesn’t make sense to me because I just don’t see it. I don’t see it because I cannot find a good example of any type of racial incident that has happened without it simply being claimed as racial. In other words, it’s just someone’s opinion.

I have tried my best to find an incident that has happened that can be deemed as racial, but I just cannot find one. Incident after incident, the premise is based on someone’s opinion, rather than fact. Every news article has someone claiming an incident was racial simply because it involved a White guy and a Black guy. Maybe a White cop and a Black guy. If a White guy gets into a fight with a Black guy, it’s automatically seen as racist. No one even attempts to determine the actual cause of the fight, nor do them want to get the facts first before reporting. It’s gotten to the point of absurdity.

Some people believe that racial tensions are so high, that they believe that this country is nothing but a racist country. They have convinced themselves of this. I have a Black friend who can turn any situation into a racist one. He believes that everyone and everything is against him. The idea of racism has clouded his judgement and it’s sad to see. If he goes to the grocery store and the young bagger boy accidentally smashes his bread, he see’s it as the boy was racist. If he goes to get his oil changed, he will walk away thinking that he overpaid because the man behind the counter is racist, even though the price of the oil change is on the wall. He has conditioned himself to believe that literally everything, and everyone, is racist.

On the flip side to that, we both have a friend, that is also Black, that sees the world in a different light. He never sees racism. He always has a good outlook on life and believes that in 2022, America is the least racist that it has ever been. I would have to agree with him. This isn’t the 1950’s America and we have made major strides since back in those times. You won’t find a single law holding back Black Americans from becoming whoever they want to be. Hate groups such as the KKK are in tremendous decline and don’t have much of an impact these days. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has a great article on this, and you can find it here. Sure, there are hate groups. No one is denying that, but in 2022, those groups are few and far between compared to what they were back in the 1950’s.

Things like interracial marriage have a 94% approval rating today, as compared to just 4% back in 1958. That’s even up from the 2013 reading of 87%. Racial tensions in America are on the decline, not the incline no matter what people in the media tell you. Statistics prove this, polls prove this, and just common sense prove this. Why the media cannot get this right is beyond me. Joy Reid of MSNBC would like you to believe that everything that happens in America concerning Blacks is due to racism. Everything she says is not based on facts, rather it’s based on her own opinion. Just listen to her speak. It’s purely opinion based. Whoopi Goldberg is another person who spouts opinions about racism rather than facts. Just the other day she claimed that Republicans refuse to vote for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson because she was Black. She claimed that Republicans don’t believe that a Black woman can get the job done. Again, this is purely opinion. No facts to back up this claim whatsoever and you will not find a single Republican saying this at all. It’s just silly to say these types of things if you cannot back them up as facts. People begin not to listen to you and the trust in you starts to diminish.

America has come a long way in the acceptance of Blacks in America from 70 years ago. America is the least racist it has ever been and the least racist place to live on the planet. Don’t buy into this media garbage of lies. It just seems that the media wants to start a race war. Why? I have an idea.

Blacks have a history of voting Democrat, but over the last several years, Blacks have shifted their views more conservatively. In 2020, according to and NBC News poll of early and Election Day voters, only 80% of Black men supported Joe Biden. This doesn’t mean that the other 20% supported consecutive candidates, however, it does signify a major shift in the views held by a huge portion of Blacks in America. Not to long ago, when Obama was running for President 95% of Black men voted for him. Fast forward four years and only 87% voted for him. Hillary Clinton only got 82%. Now, a little over a year into Biden’s Presidency, the Black vote continues to slide away from Democrats at only 80% This is a huge problem for Democrats, because a huge portion of their vote is based on the Black vote. Without the Black vote, Democrats are almost sure to lose in almost every election. That’s how important the Black vote is for them. So, Democrats have to conjure up something to try and win the Black vote back. What would be better than saying that Republicans are the racist party? That’s why I believe that Democrats have started to talk about race more and more. If they can convince the Black voter that the White Republicans are the racist party, then maybe they can win some of the Black vote back. The problem is that this doesn’t seem to be working. Even with all the talk about race and racial tensions that they spout out, Black voters continue to abandon the Democrat party in record numbers. Simply put, Black voters aren’t buying what Democrats are trying to sell.

On a final note, if racial tensions are so high, as Democrats claim, why is there a need to make up racial incidents? Such as Sherita Dixon-Cole, a Black woman, who in 2018 claimed that she was raped by a Dallas area State Trooper. Video from the incident proved she was lying. Or Eddie Curlin, also Black, who in 2017 was charged with three counts of vandalism when he spray-painted hateful rhetoric targeting Blacks around the campus of Eastern Michigan University on three different occasions. There are so many fake hate crimes that go on in America, that there is a website dedicated to exposing them. You can find it here. Fake hate crimes go on all the time. They have been going on since the Duke lacrosse case and before. They have gone on forever. A person must ask why though? If racism exists to the extent that some people say it does, there would be absolutely no reason to fake a hate crime.

Once again, don’t believe the narrative of the media. Racism is on the decline. I’m not saying it doesn’t exist or that there aren’t racist people out there, but it’s nowhere near what it was back in the 1950’s. We’ve come a long way since then, and every year that goes by, we become more and more tolerant of each other.

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