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Until White America looks at Tamir Rice and sees their own children...
Salon (Who Else?) ^ | 12/29/2015 | Chauncey Devega

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.

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To: Responsibility2nd

I foresee free one-way plane tickets and resettlement money to expatriate.


61 posted on 12/29/2015 1:46:15 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Remember how Whites raised Hell after the O.J. verdict? Well, I don’t either.


62 posted on 12/29/2015 1:46:15 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: Responsibility2nd

I look at my children and they are in my house, doing their homework, playing games with the puppies. They are not outside being feral, robbing stores, challenging police officers, pointing guns at police officers.
I am looking at my children. They are polite, respectful, obedient, learning to be PRODUCTIVE MEMBERS OF SOCIETY.
NOT welfare, criminal, drug-slinging social parasites.
My children are NOTHING like little angel Tamir and Treyvon. NOTHING like them.


63 posted on 12/29/2015 1:46:26 PM PST by envisio (I ain't here long... I'm out of napalm and .22 bullets.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“...many white people possess a deep subconscious belief which dehumanizes black people by linking them with apes and other primates.”

Hey hey, lets not be racists here. What deep subconscious beliefs do Asians, Persians, Arabs, and Latinos have on this subject? Eh?


64 posted on 12/29/2015 1:46:33 PM PST by The Toll
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To: DiogenesLamp; Tcinajeep

Salon, Slate and other garbage dumps SHOULD be posted here at FR.

How else will normal Americans know and understand the enemy position? If all you want to do is surround yourself with the truth, and ignore the hatred and the lies of the left, then you will be painfully unprepared for the dangerous days to come.


65 posted on 12/29/2015 1:47:59 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
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To: Responsibility2nd
or even worse as "takers" and social parasites.

Well, he has a point there, but then, liberals most deliberately created that class for the permanent voting block it gained them:


66 posted on 12/29/2015 1:48:23 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: Responsibility2nd
many white people do not feel that blacks are worthy of empathy

I'm trying to think of an incident where a black expressed empathy for a white. For, say, Nicole Brown Simpson, or that pastor's wife, or Channon Christian, or any other white. I truly cannot think of an instance, not even one.

67 posted on 12/29/2015 1:49:25 PM PST by Nea Wood
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To: Responsibility2nd

I wish they would just STFU I am tired of it.


68 posted on 12/29/2015 1:49:45 PM PST by funfan
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To: Responsibility2nd

Police hesitate longer when confronted by armed black suspects as compared to when confronted by armed white suspects.

https://www.policeone.com/use-of-force/articles/7653755-Cops-hesitate-more-err-less-when-shooting-black-suspects-study-finds/


69 posted on 12/29/2015 1:49:50 PM PST by Toliph
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To: bolobaby

I’m guessing you didn’t take them to a park to threaten strangers with them, while no other kids are around playing.

You probably were not so large that a 911 call would identify you as being 20 either.


70 posted on 12/29/2015 1:50:36 PM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Whites don’t need cops to kill their children to understand, blacks kill white children enough as it is.


71 posted on 12/29/2015 1:51:20 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: PGR88

For sure. If this 12 year old boy had been shot by another black boy - as happens weekly, almost daily - the reaction of the BLM basturds would be a big ol’ yawn.

But nooooo. Here is a made up crisis that these morons see as an opportunity to gin up more racism on their part.


72 posted on 12/29/2015 1:51:24 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
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To: HamiltonJay

Go back to the DUmp.

Your arguments that this was a little boy playing with a toy gun are what’s INSANE.


73 posted on 12/29/2015 1:53:57 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
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To: HamiltonJay

If you think this kid deserved to die, because of any actions he took or did not take, then you are certifiably insane.


Most major tragedies are the convergence of several things coming together at the same time. Change any one item and it might not happen.

Kid did not deserve to die but was partly responsible and part of the chain of events.

And that is the definition of a tragedy.


75 posted on 12/29/2015 1:56:31 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: BenLurkin
....many white people possess a deep subconscious belief which dehumanizes black people by linking them with apes and other primates.

Funny; I see a lot of people here denying the white man's link to greater apes. And you don't have to go back more than 70 years to find whitey doing things no ape would ever conceive.

76 posted on 12/29/2015 1:56:42 PM PST by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Ah yes, 20+ years on this site, but I’m from Democratic Underground, wondered how long it would take a troll to try to play that one. Thanks for not disappointing.


77 posted on 12/29/2015 1:57:02 PM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: wardaddy

ping


78 posted on 12/29/2015 1:57:03 PM PST by chasio649 (The GOPe can never seem to remember who brought them to the dance)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Tamir Rice was 12. He was also 5'7’’ 175#’s and walking around a playground in a high drug and crime area brandishing a realistic pellet gun. He was in the act of committing Agrievated Menacing by pointing a pistol in peoples faces. He then reached and puled his pistol when the police arrived. The evidence was incontrovertible. It was on video and he pulled his weapon.

It is a tragedy, but his crack whore mother who lost custody of Tamir years ago will certainly gin up everything she can to fleece the citizens of Cleveland for as much money as she can get.

79 posted on 12/29/2015 1:57:15 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Dear Only Black Lives Matter,

Piss off.


80 posted on 12/29/2015 1:58:18 PM PST by TheConservativeParty (Mr. Trump, You're hired!)
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