I lived 11 miles outside of NYC at the time. The media I got was all "greater metropolitan area." I'll agree to your second list, but I'll point out there wasn't unrest like the riots of '67-68. Whether cities in general were dirty and dangerous in 1980 due to those riots 12 years earlier or not I couldn't say, and I left for the midwest shortly afterwards so I never got to see DJT clean up NYC or any of that. It was a nice change of pace. I did hear about Tawana Brawley at the time and it's still a disturbing case, regardless what actually happened.
Racial tensions weren't high where I was. We laughed at Sharpton's goofiness. Impersonations of Jesse Jackson were easy, and well received. If your's was no good you were ignored, not threatened. Black people especially had no qualms about condemning black people that were just troublemakers. Right up through the OJ trial I saw people willing to be honest about problems in the black community, so I would say that started changing probably some time after 911.
If cops were only arresting victims not perps in NYC, I couldn't challenge your claim. I was busy challenging cop's ineptitude.
You're right about the mentally ill. I didn't realize we started kicking them out of institutions and onto the streets as early as 1955. I didn't see that until more like 1985.
Your previous post though, we didn't have that. If the perp was black, they said so. We didn't have Coulter's law. Neither did we have sympathy for cop killers or criminals committing suicide by cop. This is an odd and sharp contrast, for such a short distance at the same time.
So for me to see MSM pitying the latest string of fools just begging to get shot to death by cops, that's a drastic shift for me to see that. (Since Trayvon Martin) Your perspective is interesting, and NYC is usually "ahead of the curve." Not that you'd want to be in this case. So I wonder if the roots of blm go all the way back to the 80's?
Ok I have to wonder where you were in the 80's . I didn't see this living in IN, CT and NJ.
I lived 11 miles outside of NYC at the time. The media I got was all "greater metropolitan area." I'll agree to your second list, but I'll point out there wasn't unrest like the riots of '67-68. Whether cities in general were dirty and dangerous in 1980 due to those riots 12 years earlier or not I couldn't say, and I left for the midwest shortly afterwards so I never got to see DJT clean up NYC or any of that. It was a nice change of pace. I did hear about Tawana Brawley at the time and it's still a disturbing case, regardless what actually happened.
Racial tensions weren't high where I was. We laughed at Sharpton's goofiness. Impersonations of Jesse Jackson were easy, and well received. If your's was no good you were ignored, not threatened. Black people especially had no qualms about condemning black people that were just troublemakers. Right up through the OJ trial I saw people willing to be honest about problems in the black community, so I would say that started changing probably some time after 911.
If cops were only arresting victims not perps in NYC, I couldn't challenge your claim. I was busy challenging cop's ineptitude.
You're right about the mentally ill. I didn't realize we started kicking them out of institutions and onto the streets as early as 1955. I didn't see that until more like 1985.
Your previous post though, we didn't have that. If the perp was black, they said so. We didn't have Coulter's law. Neither did we have sympathy for cop killers or criminals committing suicide by cop. This is an odd and sharp contrast, for such a short distance at the same time.
So for me to see MSM pitying the latest string of fools just begging to get shot to death by cops, that's a drastic shift for me to see that. (Since Trayvon Martin) Your perspective is interesting, and NYC is usually "ahead of the curve." Not that you'd want to be in this case. So I wonder if the roots of blm go all the way back to the 80's?