[dfwgator]

The metaphor, Beck said, was intended to draw attention to white Americans' neglect to understand the very real issues, like police brutality, facing black Americans on a daily basis.

You mean .000001 % of the black population. Most blacks go their entire lives without being hassled by the police even once.

[Behind the Blue Wall]

Forty six years on the planet as a black person, and I have yet to experience a single interaction with a police officer that was anything but polite and professional. I guess I must be incredibly lucky . . .

[pepsi_junkie]

You mean .000001 % of the black population. Most blacks go their entire lives without being hassled by the police even once.

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!

[Exit148]

I think the metaphor was intended to draw attention to HIM. He only gets attention by saying jerky things now.

[angry elephant]

You mean .000001 % of the black population. Most blacks go their entire lives without being hassled by the police even once.

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Most blacks and most whites are never hassled by the police, the reason being that families who properly raise their children imbue them with some respect for authority. Of course, that kind of upbringing could be considered by the wild yute to be white class values.

As a white teenager growing up, all of us were constantly wary of the police and gave them wide berth. No one would ever try to be belligerent of a cop for any reason and invite arrest or worse.