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He is talking about what we physically see. Unless you are blind I do not see why you are offended.
When he tells me what I see.
I suggest you do some research. Canada is far more diverse than the US.
You will be surprised to note that in Vancouver white is not a majority, is a plurality.
Toronto has a higher percentage of blacks than Omaha, Nebraska
We are the only country in the America's to have had a visible minority as head of state, Chinese-Canadian Adrian Clarkson.
I am not wasting another second with you on this.
As the stats I posted show, Canada has only a slightly higher percentage of 'whites' than America and is,
IMO, more culturally diverse.
You appear to not have not a clue what you are talking about on this subject...good day.
Canada is 80% White. USA is 60% White. Never said Canada did not have diversity.
That depends...on if you are counting Hispanics for the sake of benefit to the Latino community or if are you calling them white because they did something wrong.USA is 63% -78% white depending on if hispanics tick white or not...
Kapernick is black in pigment only. So are many east Indians, and they get along just fine. He is an ungreatfull jerk with zero street cred with the true "non-Oreo" blacks.
The guy is making some irrational false comparisons, statements and arguments.
"... but, you see this ..." @1:10 Referencing his skin color.
No, I see your fact-less irrational opinion.
Get past your bs and then maybe you will see the truth.
He then goes on with his false claims regarding "non-compliance".
It is like he doesn't even understand that non-compliant blacks are taken alive all the time or that whites are shot a greater rate than blacks are.
@1:36 "I see a guy selling CD's and he is killed."
He should try acknowledging reality.
Yes he was non-compliant, but that isn't the full story. He was shot because he was a lethal threat. (He had a gun and was reaching for it.)
@1:37 "I see a guy selling loose leaf cigarettes and he is killed."
He died because of complications brought about by his non-compliance
But he wasn't purposely killed or treated differently because he was black.
@1:39 "See, that's what gets us up in arms." :doh
Yep I am sure folks can see that your false narratives are what gets you and those like you, "up in arms".
Excon said:He then goes on to make false insinuations based on the Colorado and Dylan Roof shootings in which the assailants were compliant. :doh
And then he spews the false narrative that Roof was taken "by Burger King" when he wasn't. The guy is clearly educated in a lot of nonsense.
The explanation for the Burger King detail in the story involving Dylann Roof could stem from laws pertaining to the rights of a prisoner in custody...[to ensure] conditions under which a confession or other information gathered during the questioning of a suspect could later be deemed inadmissible due to possible coercion, which also included a scenario in which food was denied.
His comments were predicated on false narratives.I hear you Excon (and you, too, VanceMack), but the issue Shannon Sharpe raised wasn't about the crimes Eric Garner, Mike Brown or other Black people have committed and whether or not they complied with police instructions let alone the law. It was about how local police often perceive Black suspects before taking them into custody and after they've been apprehended and the unfair/harsh treatment that ensues.
That reads as though it is the Officer with the perception issue instead of what is reflected in the information you provided suggesting the perception issue actually lies within the black culture.However, what Mr. Sharpe was trying to articulate is that police officers will more often than not enter into a policing situation where if the suspect is Black they have a completely different mind-set about how to handle the situation than if the suspect were White.
I am not sure you understand what you are reading.[Three links]
Now, granted there are other so-called independent studies that claim otherwise like this one:
[Another link]
Trying to compared unrelated "Cherry picked "events involving different Officers when they are not reflective of the whole, is asinine.But there's no denying that there have been incidents where police have abused a Black suspect all the while demanding that he or she "stop resisting" when it's clear that the police officer's own actions grossly augmented the situation, escalating things beyond behavioral norms where had the office backed off the suspect very likely would have readily complied. In contrast, there have also been situations where comparatively police have apprehended a White suspect whose crime was far worse than say, "selling a loose leaf cigarettes" and that suspect was mildly subdued. To pretend that there isn't a contrast in prevailing attitudes of many police officers is foolish. It happens! And all Mr. Sharpe and the BLM movement are ultimately asking is "Why?".
This issue over the Burger King meal was dispelled long ago.BTW, while you are correct that the police did not take Dylon Roof to Burger King, ....
Making things up to believe, is not understandable.It's further understandable why Black people upon seeing all the abusive behavior bestowed upon Blacks would ask, "If Dylon Roof were Black and had been on the run for that long and claimed he was hungry would the police have stopped and got him food, as well?"
This could easily be worded...:roll:
He doesn't think that police regularly shoot belligerent white offenders? He doesn't think that black offenders occasionally get fed while in custody?
Honestly, the biggest problem here is people blindly indulging their own confirmation bias, and a media which all too readily plays into that desire.
White suspect unnecessarily killed? Little to no media coverage.
Black suspect gets killed ? (Regardless of whether it's justifiable or not these days) Media vultures make sure to turn it into a firestorm of publicity, for the benefit of their own ratings, and their own ideological biases.
Then, on the flip side of things, they want to turn around and only focus on incidents of police officers actually doing their jobs correctly, and treating suspects humanely, when they involve white suspects. They treat that as being the "exception that (somehow) proves the rule" with regard to supposed police brutality towards African Americans.
Police Officers - in this environment - are basically damned if they do, and damned if they don't. The "anti"-crowd can't be reasoned with, because they simply don't want to hear anything which deviates from the preconceived narrative of black victimization, and white responsibility for it. I'm sorry, but that position's just not grounded in reality.
I will, however, give Sharpe credit for acknowledging that blacks actually do bear some responsibility in this equation as well. That is certainly more than most people involved in this movement are willing to admit.
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