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Posted by Nilet on Thu Aug 28 04:29:18 2014, in response to Re: How Officer Wilson could avoid being found guilty, posted by BILLBKLYN on Thu Aug 28 03:40:39 2014. Listen, I'm being serious. Cut the shit with the name calling. I'm NOT a 60-something nebbish foamer blah blah blah I think I'm hot shit blah blah blah blahDude, seriously? You're making me giggle. Also, who's Ralph Kramden? Nope. NEVER did! A man's race has NOTHING to do with condemning anybody. I don't believe you, but I'm not going to bother googling at 4 AM. Oh wait, never mind, it took me five seconds of googling to find it. You must be wearing orthopedic shoes because you stand corrected! I read the list and that has NO bearing on policing in America. Aggressive policing FOR THE MOST PART is where the lion's share of the crime takes place, no matter WHERE it is or WHO is doing it. Try again. -A black man was shot to death. -By a white cop. -In a country with a mind-bogglingly high level of racism. -And a culture that allows police to get away with nearly anything. -Meaning that the murder of black men by white cops occurs very frequently. -Said black man was unarmed. -And had his hands up at the time he was shot. -The police department can't keep its story straight about what supposedly happened. -And reacted to peaceful protests with violent thuggery. -While making repeated death threats. Shall I post it in a bigger font? He WAS a criminal before he got shot. False. In fact, they're about to release his juvenile record. True story. "They" being the police who offered seven explanations for what happened in five minutes? The right wing media who ran stories about the "orbital fracture" Wilson never actually had? That you have to add "true story" to the end does not bode well. So, are you telling me that there are 2 seperate ways both policing and justice operate, one dealing with how white cops deal with a white public/criminals and the other how white cops deal with a black public/criminals? Yes. I am saying exactly that. Black people have to live their lives in fear of the police in ways that even white criminals simply don't. This fact is obvious to anybody who isn't blinded by white privilege and racism. That line of thinking is what will CONTINUOUSLY devide people, NOT bring them together. So tell me, are you just playing dumb or are you actually so retarded that you can't tell the difference between noticing racism and endorsing it? A black man (even a middle-class one) is more likely to be shot by the cops than a white felon. This is a fact. It is objectively true. It is not a "line of thinking" or a philosophy that can unite or divide anyone. It is a simple acknowledgement of what black people face every day. If you really cared about uniting people rather than dividing them, you would acknowledge this fact and work to change it. Just for shits and giggles, say I was a cop and there are 2 identical scenarios.. One involves me having to shoot a white guy coming at me with a knife. The other is a black guy coming at me with a knife. Based on your logic, MERELY because of race, should there be 2 different kinds of investigations done prima face? Logic just isn't your strong point, is it? Welcome to the Island of Conclusions. Based on the actual facts of policing in America, your hypothetical example would lead to 0 investigations because police shootings are never truly investigated no matter the circumstances. However "if you were a cop," then statistically, you'd be a hell of a lot less likely to shoot the white guy in the first place, and a hell of a lot more likely to shoot the black guy regardless— later telling the chief that he had a long object that kind of looked like a knife attached to his belt, so you shot him in self-defense while he was standing perfectly still, sixty feet away, with his hands in the air. |
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