Posted on 12/29/2015 1:23:15 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
FULL TITLE: Until White America looks at Tamir Rice and sees their own children, there will be no racial justice in the U.S.
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The failure to indict the police who killed Tamir Rice, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Rekia Boyd, and so many others forces an uncomfortable question. Could it be that black people in America (and the West, more generally) are somehow “stained”? Are they marked for special punishment? Is the Curse of Ham real, does that Judeo-Christian mythology from the era of colonialism, white empire, and chattel slavery endure into the post civil rights and ostensibly “post racial” American present?
Research in psychology and other fields has demonstrated that many white people do not feel that blacks are worthy of empathy. Other work shows that many white people possess a deep subconscious belief which dehumanizes black people by linking them with apes and other primates. Psychologists have also determined that white people consistently view black children as being older than they actually are. Other research has shown that white people believe that blacks have superhuman, magical powers. Implicit bias research suggests that approximately 50 percent of whites (as well as members of other groups) hold racist and prejudicial attitudes towards black people.
And of course, America’s police are quicker in their decision to shoot unarmed black people than they are whites in the same scenario. Likewise, America’s police also somehow believe that harmless objectswhen held by a black person are transformed into lethal items such as guns and knives.
These examples suggest that the White Gaze views “blackness,” and by implication, black people, as toxins in the white body politic, a human curse, or even worse as “takers” and social parasites.
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
Probably saved numerous black lives by taking this stupid gang banger off the planet.
Pray America wakes
“Seriously, everyone should just stop reading and posting from Salon, Slate, MSNBC and the other extreme leftists. They aren’t worth any time and you are just giving them hits.”
Pretending something does not exist does not make it so.
A wise man seeks all knowledge, not just what they want to hear.
It is good to know what those that hate us have to say, that way we will not be surprised when they take it to the next level.
All the more in favor of the cop.
Leni
Cop told him to raise his hands and his response was pull the “ toy” out of his waistband? Tamar was playing the role of thug ... Grand jury found no fault of cops and in this case it seems obvious
Until Black America quits raising little thugs
No change.
The amazing thing is that if this thread were about Andy Lopez everyone who is defending the cops here would be condemning them in that case. And be wrong about both of them.
Exactly right.
MY CHILD WOULD NOT PULL A REPLICA 1911 ON A COP!!! Nor, would my child be pointing it at other people.
As a person of a certain background I 100% agree with you and yeah my favorite saying is you cant change your color but you can change your culture, and no where does it say it should be with those for the rest of your life who are ignorant cause you grew up with them, that’s one of the greatest freedoms we have.
What would Black America have to say if Rice were White and the cop happened to be Black? #RaceHustlersSuck
You mean whitey’s accomplishments like the Holocaust?
Apes are not smart enough to do things like that — but you don’t have to white to accomplish such a thing.
Right. I am just as likely to look at box of Little Debbie Snack cakes and see “my own children”.
“They drove up leaped out and opened fire. They were in the wrong.”
They were responding to a “person with a gun” call. I don’t know whether the tactical idea was to overwhelm the suspect before he could react, or what. But the kid made the classic suicide-by-cop move he should have been told not to do - draw a weapon with a cop at point-blank range.
I put it down to parents and schools that are so anti-gun they refuse to teach common-sense gun safety and basic etiquette (it’s not polite to point).
Oh, no. Just that blacks, whites, asians are all races of the same animal. Apes are quite adept at genocide if you can’t get far enough away from them. Their population will absorb or destroy neighbors.
So was the pop tart. So were all my toy guns when I was a kid. Again - no one got shot.
Was the 911 call a case of hoplophobia run amok or not? Please point to reference material indicating what the caller actually complained about.
Who was he menacing? In what way? Did someone just see him standing over there with it, or did he walk up to someone and say, “I should f*cking kill you right now whitey!”
Please provide actual details, with a link to a reference.
Bzzt.
I saw the video. He already had the gun out when the cops pulled up, so obviously your version of the story flawed.
Nicely put.
I nominate Tamir for a "Darwin Award - Posthumous Category"
What they want is to condemn a people who’s ethnicity they despise while maintaining the illusion of moral superiority for themselves.
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