Because we usually assume the person deserved it.
And as a percentage of the white population, it is a small number and we don’t see as much of it.
That’s because blacks, though 14 percent of the population, are involved in overwhelming numbers of crimes compared to their percentage of population.
I think if a number of white kids were shot in very suspect situations by cops in the same area, we would get riled up.
That has not happened, that I know of, to white OR BLACK folks.
It’s just easier to riot and attack and burn and loot when you’re lazy, useless, have been taught nothing else, mom abuses roxys or percs or xanax or alcohol (crack is more the old days), dad can be any one of 30 guys, there is alcohol and narcotics in plain sight in the average household....etc.
Is that a guess on my part?
No.
I recently stopped dating someone from the projects after 3 years. A Hispanic woman.
I saw WORSE than what I mentioned in many apartments.
It was a regular “West Side Story” relationship...
And then I remembered what happened to Tony and I left!!!
I guess no singing and dancing either.
I met Robert Wise at a film director’s seminar (the guy who directed “West Side Story” and “The Sound of Music”).