Mr Khan said:
Kasz216 said:
NintendoPie said:
Otakumegane said:
All the racial violence in U.S summarized in 1 comic.
Is this too graphic?
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I think it might be a little too graphic. 
Not sure I get it, either.
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Basically the comic is showing how the crowd cares more about what the police officer is doing to the criminal by hurting his wrists, then the massive crimes said person has committed.
I'm assuming the point trying to be made is that the reason there is so much crime is because local communties tend to overlook the crimes of "Their own" and instead focus on others wrongdoings while ignoring what they've done.
Which to be fair is very common in the area I work at. Though where I work at in Las Vegas there is no racial divide. Black, Hispanic, White, everybody gets along perfectly fine, with "Battle lines" being drawn due to specific slights towards each other, and then people joining in, or just believing the side of the person they like more, assuming the other is completely to blame. Hence there is no accountability or change in behavior. When someone gets out of jail, it's the police's fault for arresting them, not that they stole someone or beat someone so bad they were put in a hospital, or the other guys fault for "starting" it by saying something stupid.
Also strangely enough it's rarely long lived. I've seen a guy pull a knife on another guy's throat having to be convinced by someone else not to use it, and then seen those two people hang out and act like friends a week later.
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It was always like that with guys i knew in high school. A few close friendships were started by guys kicking the shit out of each other...
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Here I think it's more a shared feeling of disenfranchisement and knowing that most commited slights are done because everbody is trying to "get by". If someone stole your car it's because they didn't have a car, and hell, you probably stole that car in the first place.
Which is coincidentally why I think people don't look inside their own commuties at problems sometimes as the above comic suggests. What's the point in improving your strategy if your convinced the game is rigged against you anyway. It reminds me of this one "Race boardgame" lecture we had where a guy brought in a board game that more or less showed how frustrating such a thing can be for African Americans. Funny enough my team progressed quick and "won" pretty fast, because I could figure out the trick to the game, while everybody else got stuck in an endless loop.
(Edit: The trick was you had a "Race" card you could play a couple times to avoid negative issues. Essentially i forced my team to stay pateint until we were near the goal line, even giving up half progress or more, until we were within striking distance of the goal to where it would take the worst possible dice combination to occur twice to get us to lose. He seemed annoyed we won quick, but really I thought that still made his point.)
