lol championing them? OK, I am merely providing examples of how we judge and perceive others, and we use race to determine how we treat others. America doesn't like to look at itself in the mirror, and never has. That looks to fit your bill pretty well no? Media is part of perception and perception is reality. All part of a system to ensure racism still exists.
What are you implying here? Do you really think I can't read between the lines in terms of what you are attempting to accomplish there? You seem like a smart guy, and you've formulated your opinions on much more difficult issues in the past.
I asked how black people are oppressed. That doesn't equate to me saying they aren't. This is how adults have conversations. If they're oppressed it should be easy to point to the facts. So where are they?
So now your rebuttal about Gabby Douglass and Lochte was about oppression not racism? Thunder cats....Thundercats...Thundercats Hoooooooooooo-ly shit!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ands-up-as-he-tries-to-help-autistic-patient/ http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/23/u...y-errors-by-police-then-a-fatal-one.html?_r=0 How do we let this stuff continue to happen? Cops are lacking big time training and to me, it looks like they are trigger happy on specific races no? Is that not in a way being oppressed?
You're pointing at individual cases. Where is the evidence that cops are trigger happy on specific races?
How is the war on drugs a system to ensure racism still exists? The war on drugs is retarded, that's for sure.
So if I find an individual example of a black cop that shoots a white guy, does that mean whites are oppressed?
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richard-nixon-drug-war-blacks-hippie/ Chicago still suffers from these symptoms to this very day. Drugs were pumped into largely black populated communities. It created this whole perception of Chicago today, kill or be killed. Dwayne Wade lost his cousin to drug dealers not too long ago. Who pumped the drugs into the community? Well ... I think you have an idea.
did that white 12 yr old happen to have a toy gun in his hand? If you can find me something like that, then I stand corrected.
I don't know what you mean. Here's a white kid getting shot by the cops without a toy gun. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/louisia...rrests-norris-greenhouse-jr-derrick-stafford/ I don't really care to get into a back and forth over comparing individual cases and I do not believe whites are oppressed. The point I'm trying to make is that using individual cases to support the statement that blacks are oppressed is problematic.
So basically because one white person once in a while gets shot by the cops, that's equal to black people getting targeted by the cops on a daily basis? Do you think the phrase "driving while black" got made up out of thin air? What about voter ID laws? They aren't meant to stop voter fraud, they are meant to stop poor minorities from voting because they won't vote for the party that aims to keep the poor poorer and the rich richer. Racism is an actual issue even if you want to bury your head in the sand. People in power in this country actively try to keep minorities down. Look at drug laws. When cocaine was made illegal, it was given a much shorter sentence than crack despite being the same drug. They are both cocaine. But the sentence for crack is much higher because it was thought of as a black person drug. Sent from my SM-G930P using Tapatalk
Actually, cops kill more white people than black people. What does a voter ID have to do with oppressing blacks? Are you saying blacks are unable to get ID? I didn't say racism wasn't an issue. How are people in power trying to keep minorities down? I will look at this. Never heard of it.
The problem is we make up our minds on half truths and lack of facts and evidence. We also act like there are no black cops. The men in blue put their lives in danger everyday they walk on the street. We are looking at these issue backwards but it is easy sensationalize this story's that to deal with the facts. In the Miami story we do not anything including if the officer was black or white. What we do know is the call came in that somebody had a gun and then a person with their hands up being threatened. The cop saying he was shooting at the other guy and missed. (Race had nothing to do with is as far as I can tell) Again, The Tamir incident seems a bit different but not just a he was black so we shot the boy. "What the officers, Frank Garmback and his rookie partner, Tim Loehmann, did hear from a dispatcher was, “We have a Code 1,” the department’s highest level of urgency." If that was enough not for me to decide but whatever you decide please get all the facts first. This issue in my mind is not about black youth getting gunned down by cops as the media wants you to believe. It is more about the culture of guns and violence in the inner city.
http://heyjackass.com/ murdered: every 11 hours and 56 minutes shot: every 2 hours and 3 minutes but hey, it's the cops' fault!
