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Originally Posted by obx!
The recent events with black men being shot and killed by white cops has nothing to do with interracial porn lol. It's black men caught in breaking the law and thinking because I'm black and can blame racism on everything I can get away with breaking the law. Eric Garner would be alive today if #1 he wasn't selling untaxed cigarettes, #2 and resisting arrest. Tamir Rice would be alive if he had spent time with a positive male role model that would explain to him even play gun can get you killed when not using them in the right environment. It's funny people are so emotional about these two traggic deaths that have happened. But nobody gives a shit when it's black men killing other black men.
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Thanks for saying this. It's something that needs to be acknowledged and addressed within the black community. It doesn't excuse police brutality and excessive force, but it's the plain truth of the matter. The first thing black people need to do is stop killing themselves, stop burning down their own neighborhoods, stop having so many illegitimate kids, and abide by the law. But even when you have black men and boys abiding by the law, they still end up getting shot!
Trayvon Martin was just going back home from the store (admittedly wasn't the police doing the shooting). Then, you had the man in South Carolina who was shot by law enforcement after he did what he was instructed to do, which was to show his drivers license. He reached into the car to get his documents and he was shot. The cop kept shooting even when the man put his hands up! These are just two of many, many cases that we could go on forever talking about. We could have an entire thread devoted to unarmed black men who have been killed or otherwise physically harmed by the police in the United States!
The South Carolina shooting was all caught on video. Had it not been, I'm 100% confident that the cop would have lied about exactly what happened like they routinely do ("he lunged at me" is a favorite bullshit line). The man was lucky not to be killed (cop was fired and will probably cost the state a lot of money as the result of a civil lawsuit). So yes, there are things that black people need to do differently, but there are things that the police . . . our society . . . needs to do differently too.
We're where we're at today in this nation precisely because of the deep seated damage that the history of white racism in this country caused. Like Chris Rock said, Barack Obama's election twice doesn't prove that black people have come a long way in the United States. Oh no! That would assume that for centuries no black person before him
ever was qualified to be President, which is false. The ones who have come a long way are . . . white people . . . who over those same centuries denied full citizenship and equal protection (and opportunity) under the law to people of African descent. It's "Mr. Charlie" who's come a long way baby! As Rock said in the interview, white people are "nicer" these days to people of color.
And so here we are. This is what lies at the heart of the problem. And we've been dealing with it for a long time. It's not so simple and easily solved by saying abide by the law and you won't be harmed. I agree that's what needs to be done, but I'm not naive. The problem is far more complicated than that. Basically, blacks simply have not had enough time to recover from the devastation of slavery. Think about it. The Civil War ended in 1865. But then blacks struggled under the evil of Jim Crow for another
100 years until the Civil Rights Act of 1964!!! And today we're only 50 years down the road from that. That's a blip in time in the human experience!
And yet, look at what has happened in those mere 50 years since the Civil Rights Act of 1964. We have a black President of the most powerful, most prosperous country the world has ever known! Can you imagine where black Americans would be today had Mr. Charlie not done what he did to them (as a matter of law) over all of those previous racist, discriminatory centuries? There just hasn't been enough time since the end of slavery for black people to recover from that. Not enough time I'm telling you! Only 150 years since the end of the Civil War, which is a heartbeat in time in the scope of human events. And still we've had a black President within that short time frame! Imagine where black Americans would be today but for the scourge of slavery. Mr. Charlie has come a long way! Incredible progress has been made! BUT we ALL still have a long, looooong row to hoe
