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re: Hey, White People.
Posted on 9/11/14 at 11:10 pm to finestfirst79
Posted on 9/11/14 at 11:10 pm to finestfirst79
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24-hour CNN coverage, national outrage, etc. A small number of young stupid black males is no reason to condemn or hunt down the entire race. I know you don't mean that it does, but that's how black folks see it.
Police profiling is not a "Hey, White People" type of thing.
It's a "Hey, Police."
They use "White" to replace "Society", which is one of the biggest problems I've had for a while. If they didn't start it off this way, I think we could actually acknowledge some things about our judicial system that may be adversely affecting minorities and whites alike.
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I honestly believe if Ferguson had a more representative police force that Michael Brown would be much less of a story.
It'd pose an interesting dilemma if the police officer were black, but it was going to be a story no matter what. A black youth was killed by a white police officer and people came out of the woodwork to exploit it.
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Posted on 9/11/14 at 11:15 pm to StrawsDrawnAtRandom
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Police profiling is not a "Hey, White People" type of thing.
It's a "Hey, Police."
They use "White" to replace "Society", which is one of the biggest problems I've had for a while. If they didn't start it off this way, I think we could actually acknowledge some things about our judicial system that may be adversely affecting minorities and whites alike.
This is a broad brush with which you're painting.
Posted on 9/11/14 at 11:16 pm to StrawsDrawnAtRandom
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They use "White" to replace "Society", which is one of the biggest problems I've had for a while. If they didn't start it off this way, I think we could actually acknowledge some things about our judicial system that may be adversely affecting minorities and whites alike.
Great point.
Eta: Al Sharpton don't make no money off of no white people's problems.
This post was edited on 9/11/14 at 11:17 pm
Posted on 9/11/14 at 11:22 pm to StrawsDrawnAtRandom
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It'd pose an interesting dilemma if the police officer were black, but it was going to be a story no matter what.
I really doubt that. Racism (at least as most of the country currently defines it) would be taken out of the story. At worst it would be a story about a bad shooting. The end. No riots (which I think are entirely the result of the justified opinion that the police force has a bad racism problem, because...)
There's something really messed up going on there. 64% black, 94% white police? Those folks need to join the 21st century, or something. No matter what happens or who is at fault that ratio is inviting racism claims. And honestly, I can't see how those claims could be wrong.
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