Comment by DamnYuppie
11 years ago
The incident in Texas in only shocking when one considers the slanted reporting that the media is doing. Those kids were trespassing, were violent with minors, and flatly refused to listen to police officers. The reporting of this is nothing more then a propaganda piece. We have large populations of minorities who feel entitled to behave badly without any consequence because the color of their skin.
How does one get from "a few kids being rowdy and not listening to police officers" to "x group of people has entitlement issues"? Seems like quite a disingenuous stretch.
edit: to be clear, I'm talking about the video specifically, not the parent comment's general perspective.
Watching the video, while has was telling the girl to get on her face, several teens were encroaching and yelling. The one he chased with gun out came up behind him and made a motion that looked like he was feinting pulling out a gun. I think the events in Ferguson and otherwise and causing some to become a bit more cavalier, as if they've "earned" the right to act that way during a police action due to what has happened elsewhere.
When you say "some" and "they" do you mean "black people"? I only ask because the parent comment specifically talks about minorities. If so, that's a unfortunate dichotomy that you have created.
If anything, the safer generalization is that cops are the ones that have a history of acting recklessly in their interactions with non-police. Especially considering that they are civil servants, whose job is to protect all people with equal consideration.
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From what I've read, most of the teens were invited by another teen who lived in the community (including the one who was slammed to the ground for mouthing off to the cop). Apparently, some additional teens who were not invited showed up which is what prompted someone to call the police but when this particular officer arrived on scene he didn't attempt to distinguish between teens who were invited and teens who were not and instead just started subduing every black kid in sight.
That is not what happened. First there were more then a "few" uninvited teens. Many of them jumped over the fence. They were being aggressive the young children who were there. They were not heading the warnings of adults. There was more then one police office there and they weren't subduing everyone in site. This incident occurred because the "victim" in question was aggressive and unresponsive to the police officers commands. Yet that portion of the video "some how" didn't make it onto the main stream media.
I was right there with you until your last sentence veered off into racist territory.
Stating a group of people has entitlement issues isn't Racist. Racism is denying people the ability to do something based on their race. I am not denying anyone access to anything. I am simply stating that I see an issue with how allowing people to continually play the race card emboldens them to believe there are no consequences to their actions.
You're right, it was less racism than bigotry. Stating that a whole race of people has an entitlement issue is bigoted.
Why not just say "blacks", anyway? Everone knows what we're talking about here, but if you say "blacks have an entitlement issue", it's harder to pretend that you're not a bigot.
Racism is stating a superiority of one race over another. The last sentence was controversial, at worst an overgeneralization, but not racist.
Can we please stop this politically correct nonsense of calling any controversial comment involving race racist?
To say that "black people" have an entitlement problem, and not "all people", is to imply that this is a flaw that non-blacks do not share, or at least to a much lesser degree.
And buddy, that is implying the superiority of one race over another. Which is racist.
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How sad to see such a thoughtless outburst, with fabricated facts, unsubstantiated assertions, and avoiding the real questions.
While I hope our society has progressed a little, something like this post often reminds me how many people embrace thoughtlessness and anger.
You watched the videos, right? Oh wait, you only watch Fox News.