Anyone else have concerns about how one-sided these societal debates are?
Nobody wants to see suspects of any color killed in police custody.
But as we parrot back the mantra that black lives matter, there are major issues we are not allowed to talk about.
One key issue was the fact that unfortunately blacks commit a disproportionate amount of crime in this country. That translates into more blacks proportionally being arrested or having contacts with police in the first place. But we aren’t allowed to talk about high rates of black criminal activity compared to other groups of people.
We aren’t allowed to talk about the fact that 93% of black murder victims are killed by other blacks. , we aren’t allowed to talk about the fact that a black man is far more likely to be killed by another black man than he ever is to be killed by a white police officer.
We are only allowed to talk about this is very very narrow number of black men who are killed were abused while in police custody. While that subject is worthy of discussion, we as a society are missing a much bigger picture if we’re only going to focus on that.
But our media and politicians are so damn afraid of violating political correctness, that we are not allowed to have candid conversations about major problems of the black community.
The facts in your post: very upsetting. And in an activist group they would be slapped down with some other reasons. We white people should be studying and learning about all our faults. But it doesn’t go far in any other direction. I never want to blame the victim. But I read an analogy the other day, and found it absolutely true. But upsetting.
Someone posted on social media that having to be careful around a police Officer if you are black To avoid brutality is like having to be careful about your clothing as a woman to avoid rape. Which is exactly the same. On its face. Yes, both things can determine whether you get treated properly.
But here is the difference in the analogy: men won’t get raped even if they are topless at the beach or wear tight see through shorts. (Men being the “opposite” of women in the analogy). Whereas white people ALSO have to have great behavior around cops. My very polite low talking White teen son said something appropriate but his volume in speaking is so low that the cop thought he was being derogatory and called me up saying he was talking smack and had a bad attitude. Once I got there, I understood the situation. But it is not true that whites can be disrespectful to cops with no repercussions.