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.
Nice strawman. I'm saying that, among the list of things that black people have to worry about, getting killed by a cop is low on that list in terms of probability.
I'm also saying that certain racial narratives determine the prominence of news coverage. There was considerably less coverage of certain black people knifing Jews in the NJ and NY areas a few months ago, for example. No riots occurred either.
Had the criminals been white people and the victims black, then you'd have a much more inflammatory story to spread.
I hope your shithead president starts shooting them soon. Executing a bunch of US citizens should do wonders for his re-election chances. I'm sure racist shitheads such as yourself would cream in their jeans but those will be the ONLY ones voting for him. Whatever edict he signs will be retracted as soon as the racist fuck is out of the whitehouse so who cares. Just like the Paris climate agreement, support for the WHO, the Iran treaty, his stupid fucking wall and a dozen other things he has made most Americans ashamed of.
Why do people keep trying to compare the white & black experiences in America?
White parents don't have to have 'the talk' w/ their kids - the one about how they survive encounters w/ police.
It's okay. We're not there yet - it hasn't been that long since the pre-civil rights days. We've made enormous strides, but we still have a ways to go.
Why can't people acknowledge that, and just say we'll keep on working at it? There is such a defensiveness about the idea that racism that clearly exists still exists.
TTQ64 (05-31-2020)
No, the issue is getting harassed by the cops. You know the expression, "everyone and his brother." That was literally true in Los Angeles. The black men I knew all had a story about getting stopped by the cops in their car for no reason. Woman had same story about their brother or uncle or father.
Port Tack (06-01-2020)
You'll notice that I'm not denying that they have to deal with it more than white people. I don't have defensiveness about that.
What I'm questioning is the media's tactics of blowing things out of proportion. But hey, white guilt is contagious. I just happen to be immune to it. Compared to most countries in the world, minorities have it better here. Try being a minority in an Islamic country, for example.
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