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The bosses are white. Cops can lose their job if they don't shoot.
What do evil black people have to do with it?
What do you have to do with it?
What are you babbling about?
Your 'situation' is entirely possible, and I would not be surprized if it has happened. But You are overstating it. There are no more "evil white people" than there are "evil black people", it is not about that at all.
Thing is that a police station culture have emerged where black people are automatically considered to be "suspects", It they reach for their pocketbook in order to donate to the Policemens Ball some nervous Police officer is likely to open fire. And that is BAD. Not evil, just Bad.
I googled it, Is this the incidence you were thinking of?
Hello More:
Individual bigotry is easier to identify than institutionalized racism, cause it's in your face. Institutional racism, on the other hand, can go unnoticed by some. Others, however, NOTICE such things.. The police force, itself, is racist.
excon
Absolutely nothing.
Excon - You can't have it both ways. We are either individuals who should be evaluated as individuals, or we are groups who should be evaluated as groups.
If you are going to put collective responsibility on the police for their conduct, you have put collective responsibility on black people for their conduct.
If the police deserve collective contempt for high levels of prejudice, then black people deserve collective contempt for high levels of crime.
If you want every black person to be treated as an individual who is not associated with any other black person, then every police officer should be treated as an individual who is not associated with any other police officer.
I'm an individualist. I consider collectivisation of blame or victimhood to be delusional. Individuals should be judged on an individual basis. My point was that we should be consistent in our thinking.
Human conflict doesn't usually break down simplistically into oppressor groups and victim groups.
In most conflicts before sides are trying to oppress each other and both sides are victims of each other. One side wins and one side loses. It's false to see the losing the side as a victim or the winning side as an oppressor. The loser only lost because they're weak and winner only won because they're strong. It could easily have gone the other way.
Even when we can justly say that one group has the moral high ground, that doesn't mean the other side is blameless. Most conflicts contain atrocities on both sides. On an individual level one can still find good people in the bad group and bad people in the good group.
If you insist on thinking collectively, you should at least try to balance the stereotypes you construct. A large amount of the prejudice black people suffer from the police these days is their own fault. They have perpetuated negative stereotypes by their own poor conduct. It's humanly impossible for police officers, who witness a disproportionate amount of crime from the black community, to not be influenced in their perceptions.
nothing, its the cop that did it
