Posted on 06/12/2020 5:59:45 AM PDT by karpov
Turmoil in the United States over police violence is the result of a distorted representation of the problem, says Brown University economist Glenn C. Loury. According to Loury, an African-American, the “empty thesis of racism” distracts us from the real problems of black Americans. Below is an edited and translated conversation that Loury had with Peter Winkler, U.S. correspondent for the Swiss daily newspaper Neue Zuercher Zeitung (NZZ).
Peter Winkler: Professor Loury, hundreds of thousands of people in American cities have been protesting that police treat black people more harshly than other populations. The reason, they say, is systemic racism. What do you think?
Glenn Loury: This is a representation that has developed a life of its own. The claim is: the police are hunting black people, black people are at risk, there is an epidemic of violence against black people—unarmed, innocent black people.
There is a problem, but I think its scale is exaggerated. There are approximately 330 million people in the United States, and there are many tens of thousands of encounters between citizens and the police every day. We take half a dozen, maybe a dozen, admittedly outrageous, disturbing incidents of police violence, and we form this into a general account of how people are treated. I think that’s dangerous.
Winkler: But wasn’t the incident in Minneapolis extraordinary in its nonchalant brutality?
Loury: I don’t want to understate it: the case is terrible. It is difficult to look at the images. There was nothing good about it; it’s certainly not good policing. But you still don’t know what exactly happened. This requires an in-depth investigation. Even so, people have started to call it a lynching, and to say that it characterizes the nature of racial relationships in America today. This is a kind of collective hysteria.
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He must be destroyed.
Blacks had best come to understand that AS A BLACK PERSON, THERE IS NO BETTER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD LIVE IN THAN AMERICA!
EVERY BLACK PERSON IN AMERICA SHOULD PRAISE GOD THAT THEY LIVE HERE!
Yes, unfortunately he is marked by the mob.
“You Ain’t Black...”
~ Joe Biden
That headline is the most true fact that I have seen in a LOOOONG time.
That is the bottom line.
Freedom of opportunity = American dream
That was the OLD America. The NEW post-floyd amerika is:
Endless gibmedats = black amerkian dream
When will this guy learn he can’t speak for the ‘bruthas.’
I don’t think Joe realizes he can’t speak without someone else feeding him his lines - and his fruit cup.
Facebook wont allow it to be shared there.
Bump
Winners accept responsibility for their lives and circumstances. With that responsibility comes the power to shape that life to a more desirable one.
Losers deny responsibility and thus lose power over their own lives.
Black people have been encouraged and enabled to embrace the way of the loser.
Accept responsibility. It’s the only way.
King’s CONTENT OF CHARACTER admonition should come into play. Judge them on their ATTITUDE and BEHAVIOR.
Much like Booker T Washington’s thesis in his essay “Drop Down Your Buckets”
It was the same then and the same now. Nothing learned in the past 150 years thanks to the Democrats. Unfortunately they have been very successful in re-enslaving the black population.
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