Until White America looks at Tamir Rice and sees their own children...

Salon (Who Else?) ^ | 12/29/2015 | Chauncey Devega

[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.

[anton]

I’m guessing that when you were a lad it was less common for teenage thug drug boyz to shoot each other over the rights to a street corner? For my part, I am pretty much ok for anyone in a public park pointing a realistic looking gun at me to be shot. By me or the police.

[gundog]

I can see why The Beast would rather converse with Sherman than with the sports media.

[anton]

You mean this orange toy identifier:

http://www.pyramydair.com/s/m/Colt_1911_A1_CO2_pellet_gun/136

[JimRed]

You mean whitey's accomplishments like the Holocaust?

How many U.S. whites (from all "white" cultures) reject the Holocaust as evil? And how many U.S. blacks (from all black cultures) reject thug dress and behavior as evil? You may find a disconnect there. Like "most" vs. "some", for instance.

[A_perfect_lady]

Any white kid who brandished a toy gun at a cop would get nothing but a Darwin Award from the white community.

[Jim from C-Town]

The twelve year old in question was 5’7” 175#’s and brandishing a weapon. The weapon was an air soft pistol. It was not a toy.

The boy was also pointing the weapon at random people in order to frighten them. The 911 caller said he is scaring the Sh!t out of strangers. He said the gun may be fake, but the dispatcher didn’t say that to the cops.

I know where this is, I live less than four miles from that rec center and am in the area at times.

That kid had pulled that gun on me and stuck it in my face and I would have shot him dead as I carry ANYTIME I go to that neighborhood.

[Billthedrill]

I stopped reading at “White America”. These days you might as well because you’ve read what follows a hundred times before.

[Popman]

Tamir Rice was committing what crime ?

If being young and stupid is a crime..
This case does give me pause to wonder if justice was done

[A_perfect_lady]

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.

Wow. Now that you mention it... you're right.

[bigredkitty1]

To many in the black community, personal responsibility is to them like holy water and crosses are to a vampire.

[WhirlwindAttack]

Black Americans, The most racist and entitled people on the planet. Cut the dole, Kill the thugs and most of this will go away.

Then start on the queers.

Roll me back to the 50's.

[Yaelle]

You’re kidding, right? I teach my children to respect the police and be very careful how they behave around the police because it’s a tough job and police deal with bad guys every day. Bend over backwards to be kind, no sudden moves, etc. THUS THIS WOULD NEVER HAPPEN TO MY CHILD as long as he remembers this and behaves properly. And I have already told them that if they mess up and behave inappropriately to the police, then they deserve what they get. You won’t find me saying “Not my baby,” if he’s caught doing something horrible.

It’s called civilizing your children so they never offend the public. It’s my job.

[anton]

“Tamir Rice was committing what crime ?

If being young and stupid is a crime..
This case does give me pause to wonder if justice was done”

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Heck. What was I thinking? Pointing a pellet gun that no one could tell from a real 1911 should not be a crime . . . as long as he was pointing at your wife and kids and the cops.

[Osage Orange]

So....you say they should have pulled back some distance..so they could tell it was a toy gun???

That makes no sense at all.......

Brandishing a firearm in the way he did...is a crime in many areas of the country.

[SauronOfMordor]

The unfortunate thing is that it is not that unusual to find 12 year old shooters killing people these days. Drug gangs routinely use young people to kill, since they will spend less time in prison.

If I was on the street and a 12 year old black male pointed a realistic-looking gun at me, I would blow him away without hesitation.

[cripplecreek]

They do exist. Too few and too far between but they do exist.

Retired nurse saves Steve Utash's life, steps in when driver was getting beat

It should also be noted that the Black Detroit police chief ended up shaming the white mayor into honoring Debora Hughes and he also publicly noted the absence of Sharpton and Jackson and no grand speeches from Obama.

[DBrow]

All the reports I have read have said that the gun was the type that was sold with a orange safety tip. If that’s true then someone removed it.

Yes, if you buy a real pellet gun, CO2 or compressed air, in most states it does not get a safety tip.

[Graybeard58]

For example, they didn’t have to pull up so close. They could have been a bit farther back, giving them time to observe that it really was just a kid playing with a toy gun.

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Alternatively, they could have simply shot the gun out of his hand, like they do on t.v.

[thackney]

You have a good night.

God Bless

[Nationale7]

With you completely. Cops messed up. Kid did not need to DIE.