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OK. Let’s see if you or the news media get as outraged the next time a black person victimizes a white. It happens many times more often than vice versa. Here’s the 2018 FBI UCR on interracial homicide arrests if you don’t believe me. Also note how many black-on-black homicides are shown. Click on Table 6.
originally posted by: bigsnowman
a reply to: Scapegrace
Yes, you are being racist for pointing out these "unpleasant truths" because the only reason you're bringing this up is to deflect from this news story. If you cared about black-on-black violence as much as your post suggests, where were you last week? Or the week before? Why wait until this story drops to bring it up? Any advice on how to address or fix the issue?
If you can watch a video of a police officer, whose sworn duty is to protect and serve his community(which includes any suspects), straight up kill a handcuffed man while three other cops sit back and watch, and your first reaction is: "well black on black violence is a much bigger issue and the evil LIBERAL MEDIA doesn't want to talk about it" then yes, you are being racist.
originally posted by: matafuchs
a reply to: bigsnowman
That doesn't make someone racist. It is an opinion. At one time you were allowed to have one.
Do the majority of you even know what racist means? It means you think you are 'better' or superior to another 'race'. You can hate someone and not be racist. You can be prejudice of someone and not be racist. FFS it is sad that it is thrown around the way it is.
The woman in the park recently. She was called racist because she described someone in the park as African American. Maybe she was at one time raped or attacked. We do not know that. But she calls a black guy an African American, not even dropping the N word, and now she has lost her job. (BTW she should have lost the dog and she was a nut but....) what I am saying is she was not being racist.
The cop who had his knee on the neck of the perp. His act was not racist but I would bet 2 to 1 he is.
originally posted by: bigsnowman
a reply to: Scapegrace
The issue here is the police are supposed to be an honorable, trustworthy organization that exist to keep us safe and protect our rights.
originally posted by: matafuchs
a reply to: Jaellma
I was responding to someone in the thread and I was trying to show how 'racist' is thrown around like a tag line. Then, in the end, I explained what a POS I thought the cop was.
I mean, are you a mod, dude? LOL
originally posted by: bigsnowman
originally posted by: matafuchs
a reply to: Jaellma
I was responding to someone in the thread and I was trying to show how 'racist' is thrown around like a tag line. Then, in the end, I explained what a POS I thought the cop was.
I mean, are you a mod, dude? LOL
I am the person you were responding to. I agree with you in that racist is a label that is thrown around too often, however, I never called the guy a racist, I said he was being racist. You don't have to be a racist in order to say or do something racist. I would bet dollars to donuts the poster I was referring to is not a racist, but I think what he said was definitely racist. I'm not an authority on racism so feel free to disagree with my opinion.
The reason I thought he was being racist is because he brought up black-on-black crime and then posted statistics regarding homicides committed by black criminals against white victims. The fact he brought that up tells me he is primarily focusing on the skin colors of the people involved in this incident and ignoring the main issue. There is a huge difference between a black criminal killing a white man and a white police officer killing a black man. Here's a hint: skin color is not the difference I am referring to.
That's why I thought it was racist. Criminals killing innocent people is different than cops killing innocent people so his race-based point is irrelevant to this discussion. A more relevant argument he could have made is "where is the media outrage when a black police officer kills a white person?" However, that argument holds no ground either because, if you recall, there was another incident in the same city(Minneapolis) just a few years ago where a black police officer shot and killed a white, Australian woman. There was plenty of media outrage surrounding that incident and that officer was fired, arrested, and sentenced to prison. I sincerely hope the same happens to the scumbag officer in this video.
Other thoughts- if the killer is indeed the same guy white the Make Whites Great Again hat, I can see this blowing up.
It’s felt, to me, as if we’ve been teetering on the edge of all out chaos, whether it’s racial tension, political tension....there’s tension.
People need to stop giving them balloons to inflate.