Comment by inglor_cz
4 years ago
"The reality is that the moment someone in Georgia says "this is not about the colour of her skin", it’s about the colour of her skin."
Ironically, what you wrote is a very classical example of prejudice.
4 years ago
"The reality is that the moment someone in Georgia says "this is not about the colour of her skin", it’s about the colour of her skin."
Ironically, what you wrote is a very classical example of prejudice.
No, what I wrote is experience. Just because I don’t give you a detailed example of the history where I know what I wrote to be true does not make it less experiential.
White racism in Georgia is deep and has decades of experience in cloaking itself in plausible deniability to confuse the weak-minded.
Or have you never heard of Lee Atwater (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Atwater)?
The same logic of experience drives police officers to draw their guns on 'suspicious' young black males. They are, after all, by far the most criminal demographic in the U.S., and most cops in racially mixed areas will have some bad prior experiences with them.
Are they justified doing so, in your opinion? Or if not, where is the line where experience should stop counting?
They are not the most criminal demographic in the U.S.
They are the most criminally profiled demographic in the U.S.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/police/Police-and-minoritie...
There is absolutely no justification for the recent extrajudicial murder of an unarmed black motorist by cops who shot him 60 times.
There is absolutely no justification for the murder of Tamir Rice.
Black people in America are overpoliced. When presented with the same crime, Black people are routinely charged more often, charged more intensely (the number and severity of the charges are higher), and convicted more often.
Your ignorance on this matter is showing.
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