a little black girl and two policemen

[BH]

I saw something today that made me want to laugh and cry at the same time.

There were two policemen checking out some stuff at a grocery store. This little black girl maybe ten years old and her mother come up behind them.

The little girl asks the policemen that if slavery was made legal again would they come to her house and put her family in chains.

The policemen looked ashamed and just walked off.

 

[Medicine Man]

I saw something today that made me want to laugh and cry at the same time.

.....At 5:55am.....in Texas.......

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.....

 

[Rhea]

Wow, they couldn't come up with and answer? That's pretty sad.

 

[Derec]

I blame the mother for filling the little girl's head with racist propaganda. Slavery ended over 150 years ago. Deal with it and stop using it as a crutch everywhere you go.

How about this story of a child and police:
Ohio boy tried to sell toy for food, police say

 

[whichphilosophy]

I blame the mother for filling the little girl's head with racist propaganda. Slavery ended over 150 years ago. Deal with it and stop using it as a crutch everywhere you go.

How about this story of a child and police:
Ohio boy tried to sell toy for food, police say

Slavery ended 150 years ago but segregation still existed in the South into the late 60's. However this can be used is a racist manner and as a crutch at times. Racism exists in any colour.

 

[dismal]

I blame the mother for filling the little girl's head with racist propaganda. Slavery ended over 150 years ago. Deal with it and stop using it as a crutch everywhere you go.

How about this story of a child and police:
Ohio boy tried to sell toy for food, police say

Slavery ended 150 years ago but segregation still existed in the South into the late 60's. However this can be used is a racist manner and as a crutch at times. Racism exists in any colour.

This comment was about slavery.

 

[whichphilosophy]

Slavery ended 150 years ago but segregation still existed in the South into the late 60's. However this can be used is a racist manner and as a crutch at times. Racism exists in any colour.

This comment was about slavery.

It was; there is still fall out from it by different reactions.

 

[laughing dog]

I blame the mother for filling the little girl's head with racist propaganda. Slavery ended over 150 years ago. Deal with it and stop using it as a crutch everywhere you go.

Unless you know the family, there is no way you could know what drove that child to ask the question. No way at all.

In another thread, you worry about the poor state of race relations in the USA. One of the biggest factors is people (of all races and ideologies) jumping to accusatory conclusions without a shred of evidence. If you want to help repair the poor state of race relations in the USA, model logical and reasonable behavior and refrain from jumping to such accusatory conclusions without a shred of evidence.

 

[dismal]

This comment was about slavery.

It was; there is still fall out from it by different reactions.

This comment is about the return of slavery, not its fall out.

 

[whichphilosophy]

It was; there is still fall out from it by different reactions.

This comment is about the return of slavery, not its fall out.

That itself is its fall out. Bringing up the subject of returning to this and reactions are just part of the fall out.

 

[dismal]

This comment is about the return of slavery, not its fall out.

That itself is its fall out. Bringing up the subject of returning to this and reactions are just part of the fall out.

I almost never hear someone call for a return to slavery.

Not sure I can recall ever having heard it.

 

[braces_for_impact]

That itself is its fall out. Bringing up the subject of returning to this and reactions are just part of the fall out.

I almost never hear someone call for a return to slavery.

Not sure I can recall ever having heard it.

I heard it on the car radio driving through Texarcana circa 1994, I think? Shocked the hell outta me.

 

[iolo]

Has slavery been abolished over there? Difficult to know, way the rightist racists rant.

 

[Elixir]

I almost never hear someone call for a return to slavery.

Why would you? We are already massively enslaved to the oligarchs running this country. You can't "return to" where you already are...

 

[Malintent]

For the mother allowing this, I might have asked the little girl if the Crusades started up again, would she go around burning people to death because they didn't go to the same Church? and then based upon the reaction, pretty much leave it answered at that.

Or ask if she would help 'round up the Jews.... or if we went to war with the Japanese again, if she would help put them in camps... or how she felt about returning to a True (TM) reading of the bible, and stone women for trying to be teachers.

 

[abaddon]

I saw something today that made me want to laugh and cry at the same time.

There were two policemen checking out some stuff at a grocery store. This little black girl maybe ten years old and her mother come up behind them.

The little girl asks the policemen that if slavery was made legal again would they come to her house and put her family in chains.

Only two possible answers: 1) Yes because it'd be the law and I'm a law enforcer. 2) No, I'd quit enforcing the law and fight for justice instead.

So looks more like a topic of authoritarianism than of racism.

The policemen looked ashamed and just walked off.

"Looked ashamed" is a bit hard for me to believe. Annoyance, disdain or suspicion are all far more likely. Maybe offended most likely of all. And 10 years old is old enough to start acting rude to citizens regardless of color. Among the more mindful-of-public-perception officers, I'd expect at least some half-ass answer. But ashamed? Hmm...

 

[ksen]

The policemen looked ashamed and just walked off.

"Looked ashamed" is a bit hard for me to believe. Annoyance, disdain or suspicion are all far more likely. Maybe offended most likely of all. And 10 years old is old enough to start acting rude to citizens regardless of color. Among the more mindful-of-public-perception officers, I'd expect at least some half-ass answer. But ashamed? Hmm...

If I was a betting man, and I might be, I'd bet their look was more one of "what the hell was that?"

 

[abaddon]

"Looked ashamed" is a bit hard for me to believe. Annoyance, disdain or suspicion are all far more likely. Maybe offended most likely of all. And 10 years old is old enough to start acting rude to citizens regardless of color. Among the more mindful-of-public-perception officers, I'd expect at least some half-ass answer. But ashamed? Hmm...

If I was a betting man, and I might be, I'd bet their look was more one of "what the hell was that?"

Ah, yes, perplexed is a good a bet too. But “ashamed” seems really out there.

 

[whichphilosophy]

It was; there is still fall out from it by different reactions.

This comment is about the return of slavery, not its fall out.

Slavery existed for a considerable amount of years followed by a just over 100 years of segregation and various forms of discrimination. So it is pretty much enshrined in history. Discussions of bad treatment, some conflicts or statements about returning to such ways could be considered a fall out from this.
Of course we shouldn't forget this.

It's not clear what motivated this. Was it a class project, she heard/overheard this or her own analysis or her parents.

 

[iolo]

For the mother allowing this, I might have asked the little girl if the Crusades started up again, would she go around burning people to death because they didn't go to the same Church? and then based upon the reaction, pretty much leave it answered at that.

Or ask if she would help 'round up the Jews.... or if we went to war with the Japanese again, if she would help put them in camps... or how she felt about returning to a True (TM) reading of the bible, and stone women for trying to be teachers.

But the American police are still killing people for being 'black', just as if they were a militia armed to serve the plantation-owners, whereas the other behaviours are in abeyance.