One thing I've learned is that almost to a man, every black person beleives they've been hassled by the police. If they get stopped at a DWI checkpoint, they find some reason why it was tougher for them to get through than for the white guys. If they get pulled over for speeding and running a red light, it's because they are black. If a cop nods at them and smiles, that's a microagression that white folk never have to deal with.
I was in a mandatory diversity class at work and they gave black people a chance to weigh in on their greivances and they were thrilled to do so, all of them had stories like the above. All of them. And when they were done hugging each other and wiping away their tears, I was like "wait, where was the oppression?" But I dare not say it out loud, that's for sure!
There’s also a lot of peer pressure in play there. If you aren’t complaining they’ll accuse you of being an “Uncle Tom”.
Black people commit disproportionately more crime than white people, thus cops will be less likely to give them the benef of the doubt when there is trouble. Who would blame them? Profiling is common sense.
If black people would take care to help their own communities straighten out and start being law abiding, they can turn that around. But that would be tooooo harrrrrddddd.
This kind of thing is called self fulfilling prophecy, or chip on the shoulder.
I wonder what Martin Luther King, Jr. would have said about this, or at least been counseled to say.
Now, actual wrongdoing in the blue is a different story and that needs to be addressed even if one is a green martian. But that is a color blind affair.