RJ_Sizzle said:
If white people run the governments that make the laws, the court systems, the police, the prisons, and they have fewer people incarcerated in the system proportional to their race, all that tells me is that they're holding all the cards. On top of this, most American blacks' descendants weren't voluntary immigrants to the country, but forced from their lands to slave in new ones. Hell, African-Americans didn't even have full civil rights in this country until the last fifty years or so. Jim Crow laws kept the South segregated for decades and the fallout from that STILL affects the US until today. But, yeah, it's all the minorities' fault. |
The issue is the fact that "minorities" in particular black minorities refuse to let shit go. So your great great great grandma was a slave, and? How exactly does that affect you today? You literally have the same rights as anyone else. She didnt, you do. Numerous studies have been done that show how you present yourself plays a HUGE role in how people treat you. Add in how you communicate and I gaurantee a black man in the ghetto wearing a suit and speaking in an educated manor will get the same respect as a white man in the same neighborhood dressed the same way speaking the same way. Sure cops are on edge in bad neigborhoods and are quicker to shoot, they have reason to be nervous. Im not saying that all police actions are called for or justified either. I happen to be in a 1% "outlaw" club and have had my fair share of run ins with police. They have a pre concieved notion about me because of what I belong to and I have been pulled over for absolutly no reason aside from the patch on my back. Im sure they are expecting some uneducated asshole to start talking to them but instead I am polite and respectful. On a couple occasions I was going well over the speed limit and was given a warning, they even complimented me on my bike. We have evolved to asses threat level based on visual cues, driving a crappy oldsmobile with 26" rims says one of two thing, you dont know how to manage youru money or you are a drug dealer. For me, they asume that I am armed and sell meth.
You dont go into a job interview with baggy pants a wrinkled shirt and smelling like weed because you are trying to make a good impression on the person interviewing you. Unfortunatly people dont realize that outside of that envirment and cant figure out that maybe they are being treated differently because of how they are presenting themselves.
