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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and riot like animals in malls (see kentucky mall)
Well just bring on the white jacket, jackass
When you have a whole (mostly) race who have no respect for authority of any type they are going to have issues when they come into contact with people in authority.
Two were long time thugs and one pulled a toy gun on a cop after in a very tense situation.
These problems would have been solved long ago if they were my children.
Thank you, and mine wouldn’t either. Maybe someone should tell black America to teach their children to behave in a civilized manner and not break the law.
http://www.amazon.com/Race-And-Culture-World-View/dp/0465067972 This has ALL been covered before.
Did you watch the videos of this. They drove up leaped out and opened fire. They were in the wrong.
Maybe the answer to racist jerks like this writer is to stop referring to people as simply "white" as if polish, russian, libyan, ainu, italian, greek, icelandic, etc etc etc are a monolithic group marching in lockstep on issues of race.
He did indeed. But the “Hands up, don’t shoot” crowd and the “Black Lives Matter” idiots have LIED to blacks and have convinced them to ignore their own failures as they grandstand on the unfortunate death of a little boy who was never taught basic life skills.
Like “do not point a gun at the police.”
I think most white do think blacks are worthy of empathy. I don’t believe that most blacks feel whites are worthy of empathy.
And that guy in Illinois, LaQuan(SP)...they show a picture of him in a graduation cap and gown. That’s real accurate...SSZ
>>After 20+ years on this site, I have watch this site go from a place where good intellectual conversation was the norm, with internet nonsense the exception, to internet nonsense the norm and intellectual discussion next to impossible to find.
In that same 20+ years, the rest of America has degenerated MUCH more than FR. In a rapidly changing society, it is insane to think that anything should stay the same for 2 decades! 20+ years ago, most people didn’t even have internet access. If they did, it was from a desktop PC with no smartphones, tablets, or mobile wifi and they were mildly affluent and somewhat educated.
No reason most whites would see Tamir Rice in their own children.
Around here teenagers do stupid teenager crap but generally aren’t dangerous or malicious. They aren’t holding up the party store or mugging our elderly neighbors. They certainly aren’t challenging the sheriff’s deputy assigned to our little town.
I agree and thanks for being honest, lucky for me the darker skinned folks in my family act like hard working Americans and shun ghetto rats, and so do I, there is no reason why I need to associate with individuals that are stupid enough to not stay away from the hood mentality, there is nothing great about it, it destroys individuals.
Americaâs police also somehow believe that harmless objectswhen held by a black person are transformed into lethal items such as guns and knives.
I guess I missed the part where he pulled a carrot and
pointed it at the officer.
I had a BUNCH of toy guns that were SPECIFICALLY designed to look real when I was a kid. ALL we did was run around and point them at each other.
Amazingly, no crime was being committed and no one got shot.
We’ve become a country of hoplophobes.
+1
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