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Everything you just said is garbage. It reminds me of a survey taken of white people in the 1950s or 60s where the majority of respondents said that black people were treated equally to white people. Talk about clueless. If what you said was correct - if it was just about resisting police violence - then white people who "resist" would be treated the same as black people who do so, but they aren't.
You're part of the problem and, at your age, I think it's too late for education. I certainly don't have the patience. If you have grand-kids, maybe they'll be patient enough to teach you something. More likely, your generation will just die out so we can get better as a society.
You keep asking this question and it seems to the root of your cluelessness so I'll just respond to this.
Anti-white racism is not endemic in this police system nor in the country as a whole so why the **** would white deaths be relevant to a conversation about racism related police violence. They wouldn't. If you don't get that, you are part of the problem. As far as I can tell, activists are trying to educate folks like you. Hopefully, they'll get to you soon.
Seriously? A restrained person in a police van simply gets up? Was he Houdini or something?
By blaming police violence against black people on aggressiveness by black people, you're excusing and justifying the violence. You may not want to believe that you are, but if you weren't, there would have been no need to include that comment. Such a comment about white "passiveness" has literally nothing to do with how frequent this is.
When are you going to provide the source I asked for? Or is your silence a tacit admission that your comment about white people being more passive than black people was just you being casually racist?When did I blame blacks?
When are you going to provide the source I asked for? Or is your silence a tacit admission that your comment about white people being more passive than black people was just you being casually racist?
It's amazing how people like you just casually throw out comments like "white people are generally more passive" like it's just an accepted truth and when you are asked to provide evidence of your BS, you ignore the request and respond EXCLUSIVELY to other comments made by the poster asking you for the evidence. And, to make it worse, you pretend like you didn't make arguments you actually made. No integrity WHATSOEVER. Sickening.
How in the world does 4 examples support your naive opinion? That's like someone bringing 4 bottles of wine to a party and another person saying, the fact that you only brought 4 bottles of wine to the party supports my opinion that the grocery store primarily sells beer. In order to test either of our opinions, an extensive study on the role of implicit and explicit racism of police officers who kill black people would have to be done. Such a study is not going to happen because it's nearly impossible so we have to make our judgments based on available knowledge. I've made my judgment based on extensive knowledge of racism, police violence and a combination of both - a knowledge base that includes, but is certainly not limited to the 4 examples I provided. You, on the other hand, haven't done much research on racism and police violence, have you? So what's your opinion based on - blind trust in the police? A default assumption that police tell truth about why they killed people? A blind faith in the demonstrably racist justice system.Exactly. You have shown (so far) 4 examples out of 450+ (annually), or less than 1% of, police caused deaths that you suspect (and that I also agree) may well be crimes. That clearly supports the (my?) opinion that most (over 99%? of) police caused deaths are not so likely due to criminal acts by the officer(s) involved.
An observation of what? How many police interactions with black people around the country have you personally witnessed? And, **** if I'm about to legitimize your racist comment by comparing "observations". Your comment and question are based in false premises : that one can even conclude whether black people are more aggressive than white people. Unless, you have a study, your comment is baseless.Just an observation. [...] Do you have a different observation?
If it's not on the internet, then give me a name. I'll look it up myself. Point me to the research that supports your statement.Not everything is on the internet.
An observation of what? How many police interactions with black people around the country have you personally witnessed? And, **** if I'm about to legitimize your racist comment by comparing "observations". Your comment and question are based in false premises : that one can even conclude whether black people are more aggressive than white people. Unless, you have a study, your comment is baseless.
Dude, I'm sure you don't think of yourself as a racist - most people don't, but you casual assertion that white people are more passive than black people is based in a stereotype of black aggressiveness which means that you have some implicit racism going on.
If it's not on the internet, then give me a name. I'll look it up myself. Point me to the research that supports your statement.
It's amazing to me that some white people are still saying that police brutality against black people is "isolated" when a new case of it appears every week. Can you imagine the national outrage if every week a black police officer was found to have used excessive force against a white person.
And we're supposed to give officers the "benefit of the doubt" when people go out of their way to slander their victims.
Please. We have an epidemic of police brutality against the black population in the United States because the devaluation of black lives is endemic in the United States. Freddie Gray is one of the latest victims.
Of course, you never hear about it when a white man is killed by a cop. Al Sharpton doesn't show up to protest for some odd reason. Just last week a cop blew away a white college student with straight A's for no apparent reason here in Texas.
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