You really got that from what he wrote and what you quoted?
yes, because that is exactly what he is saying.
He has a point. So do you.
i really don't think he does, because i know LP and his posting history well enough to know he's basically saying "this is all al sharpton's fault" and that's as far as his "logic" goes, because "blame it on jesse jackson" is the sum totality of what his brain requires to simply write off the entire topic.
There is a real problem with bias against black men in the US, and a prejudiced image of thug, lazy, violent etc that they get saddled with, no matter how peaceful, hardworking or generally good that they are. There is a real problem with police holding this bias and acting on it and causing pointless deaths of innocent black men.
i don't think that's the problem at all, because there is the same bias against redneck meth-heads, or mexicans with tear-drop tattoos, or any number of other easily visually identified cultural stereotypes that the genteel US mainstream consider frightening - and yet there isn't any evidence currently of there being a national trend of men of these other types being in assorted questionable situations with the police and being summarily executed over it.
even by this statement, you're trying to hand-wave away the problem, you're trying to say "oh well it's because poor victimized white murderers have been brain-washed into thinking these are dangerous criminals" - no, that isn't the problem.
take a white man and a black man dressed the same way ("gangsta" as you eloquently put it) and put them in the same contextual situation and have them act the same way, and national statistics and trends say that many people will find some way to excuse or justify killing the black guy, and will not do the same for the white guy.
the problem is that people in general see blacks as disposable, that a perceived threat from a black person is adequate grounds to straight up murder them - this is why #blacklivesmatter exists.
There are also people who see that and exploit it.
oh here we go...
There is a gangsta culture that markets it for profit. TV shows, music, etc glorifying it, even to the point that some daft white kids want to emulate it.
for every single instance you can possibly name or think of where "the blacks glorify being frightening to old white people" i can give you an equal number of examples of white people doing the same thing to the same extent (at least in terms of criminal activity and general social threat) but nobody would ever do what you're doing and try to claim that Breaking Bad is a legitimate reason to justify murdering a white kid because he was acting "shifty".
There are people (often quite disconnected with the actual downtrodden) who happen to be black and use that group identity to their profit. I would not say it is the biggest problem going on with this, or even close to it, nor did Loren say that (yet), but it does happen, and dismissing it out of hand and sniping at anybody who mentions it won't help anything.
this is patently ridiculous, because as white people have co-opted cultural trends which were traditionally associated with black communities, the perceived threat has not transferred to other races in remotely the same way.
the fact is you can take any perceived threatening cultural trait and apply it to whites, mexicans, asians, or potpourri and sure you'll make white people nervous, but it's only when you apply it to blacks that suddenly "immediate termination at the first tiny flicker of any behavior that isn't glaringly subservient" becomes something that is generally considered to be acceptable by society at large, or that will get people such as yourself and LP and derec to show up in threads and start doing mental gymnastics to try and justify.
this is why #blacklivesmatter exists.
It is sad.
