I agree with Jolly. It is stupid.
Unarmed African-Americans are statistically more likely to be killed by police,
I do not think that is really the case when you correct for number of interactions with police. Also, an unarmed person can still be a significant threat justifying use of deadly force. Take for example Mike Brown, the Gentle Giant of Ferguson. Furthermore, the propagandists will often insists that perps armed with realistic replica guns are "unarmed" even though a police officer cannot distinguish between the two. For example Quanice Hayes formerly of Portland. His
family,
activists and
some media continue to call him "unarmed" even though he was armed with a realistic looking pellet gun which he used to rob a homeless guy.
and even when the killings are obviously a grotesque violation of power by the police, the whole thing is recorded in video, and published to the world, the killers almost never go to prison.
Vast majority of police shootings are justified, and questionable police shootings can happen to people of any skin color. Remember that guy at that hotel?
African-Americans still suffer systemic racism.
It is debatable to what extent that is still true and also there is systemic racism that benefits blacks as well. For example affirmative action, or this societal aversion to point out, and sanction, black racism.
But even if you were 100% correct, that still does not justify nasty racism exhibited by this travel outfit. That's the point of this thread, and you are proving my point about double standard when it comes to racism, since you seem to defend black racism.
If we acknowledge that systemic racism affects African-Americans and not white people, you think that is stupid?
If you say that black people can't be racist, that's stupid. If you think that there is nothing wrong with saying that white people should not be allowed to have passports, that's racist. And stupid.
Just another example of
white fragility.
Yet another black racist term. If a white person compains of any racist treatment, no matter how justified the complaint, that automatically means we are "fragile". Bull-fucking-shit!
African-Americans are being attacked for in effect begging for their lives, but you are the real victim here, right?
Let's look at some facts here. They are not "begging for their lives" not to be killed by white people. 90% of blacks who are victims of homicide are killed by fellow blacks - yet they never become #BLM hashtags.
It is very unlikely that any particular person, black or white will get killed by police. And the chances increase by many orders of magnitude if you do something stupid, like attack a police officer or point a gun (real or replica) at them.
#BLM has slogans like "stop killing us". But blacks commit 5-6 times more homicides per capita than whites, according to FBI crime data. Blacks are also twice as likely to kill a white person than vice versa. And yet the narrative in the media is that it is whites, and/or police, who are somehow killing blacks to the point that black people must somehow go to Costa Rica to avoid all those evil white people who want to kill them. It's bogus, it's racist, it has no relationship with reality.
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It might be for some but it's not much of an improvement.
Why? How would you say it to be PC enough?
