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Woko Haram said:
But if Floyd was white and the cop was black, do you really think it would be getting this much attention? The incident has to have the proper racial optics to get premium media coverage.

So, even if the root cause of the problem is police practice, it should be easy to see why the coverage has been so thorough.
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Reality check. The cop is not black and the victim is not white. Try to avoid the make believe “if/would” bullshit.
 
domer76 said:
Blacks have talked about selective and systemic police abuse and violence against them for decades. With the advent of smart phones and cams, it appears they were correct all those many years.
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Or it could be that only what matches the narrative is shown. There have been numerous cases of alleged police brutality that only showed the moments where cops were defending themselves.
 
domer76 said:
Blacks have talked about selective and systemic police abuse and violence against them for decades. With the advent of smart phones and cams, it appears they were correct all those many years.
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Yes, my point as well.

When I lived in Los Angeles it was only after the riots that all my black friends told the same story of being stopped in their car by the cops and given no reason.
 
Woko Haram said:
So, should I go with progressive emotional narratives instead of facts?
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The fact is Floyds death has caused billions in damages and you think his death is a "bit of nothing"? You have to be a flaming racist shithead or have the intelligence of a doorknob, take your pick (probably both).
 
domer76 said:
Reality check. The cop is not black and the victim is not white. Try to avoid the make believe “if/would” bullshit.
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That's a rather convenient "reality check", when considering that "reality" in this context is heavily determined by what the media is willing to broadcast heavily.
 
Port Tack said:
The fact is Floyds death has caused billions in damages and you think his death is a "bit of nothing"? You have to be a flaming racist shithead or have the intelligence of a doorknob, take your pick (probably both).
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No, I'm just someone who's good at making people like you get overly emotional.
 
Woko Haram said:
I'll say this much. You have more faith in humanity than I do. Prejudice is something that happens naturally for humans, and some of it is actually beneficial for survival. In societies where everyone is so racially mixed that they share a common heritage, there is instead something called "colorism." People still discriminate based on skin tone.

Another interesting thing is that colorism happens among minorities themselves. The black community has a long history of treating lighter skinned blacks differently from darker ones. Usually, the lighter skinned black people are treated better among their own people.

So, as far as I can tell, prejudice is here to stay. Racism might go away if we racially mix enough, but we'll just replace it with colorism.
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Racism is a learned idea. It isn’t “natural” at all.
 
Woko Haram said:
And the extent to which something is covered should be proportionate to its relevance. Instead, it is proportionate to whatever is most clickbaity and inflammatory.
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A dozen major cities burning to the ground should be what, 2nd or 3rd page news?
 
jacksonsprat22 said:
Yes, my point as well.

When I lived in Los Angeles it was only after the riots that all my black friends told the same story of being stopped in their car by the cops and given no reason.
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Yep. I live in an extremely white place. The few blacks I have known, who have felt comfortable talking about it, have frequently referred to “driving while black”.
 
domer76 said:
Racism is a learned idea. It isn’t “natural” at all.
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Morality is also learned. There isn't much about us that doesn't require some level of instruction. Prejudice is often a matter of conclusions drawn by experience.

For example, a black man that has had multiple physical altercations with white men will understandably begin to view all white men in a certain way. He will still learn to trust certain individuals among that group, but his default assumptions will be wary. The same can apply to cops.

Prejudice can come in a lot of forms, and sometimes, it can be beneficial.
 
Woko Haram said:
That's a rather convenient "reality check", when considering that "reality" in this context is heavily determined by what the media is willing to broadcast heavily.
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There is no concocted “if/would” bullshit to deflect from the reality of this event. The cop IS white. The victim WAS black.
 
domer76 said:
Yep. I live in an extremely white place. The few blacks I have known, who have felt comfortable talking about it, have frequently referred to “driving while black”.
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In the autobiography of Miles Davis, he talks about being harassed by L.A. cops while driving. I heard it so often it was hard to not take seriously.
 
Woko Haram said:
The Michael Brown story turned out to be very different from how it was originally presented.
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Michael Brown was killed by a poorly trained and stupid fucking cop. The cop actively chased that massively obese 300 pound kid somewhere around 50, 60, 70 yards. Yet, when Brown turned around, the cop chose not to retreat that same distance and call for assistance. Shitty cop, shitty training, shitty decision making. Shitty result.
 
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