Posted on 01/30/2023 7:57:52 AM PST by Twotone
Left-wing CNN commentator Van Jones authored an opinion piece suggesting that the former police officers charged in the death of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols may have been tainted by racism, even though the officers are black, as was the victim.
The five men, who have all been fired from the Memphis Police Department, were charged with second-degree murder, aggravated assault, and more. Video footage of the Jan. 7 incident was released on Friday. Nichols died just days after incident.
Jones contended that the black officers could have been influenced by racism.
"In short, racial animus can still be a factor, even when the perpetrators are all Black," he wrote.
"At the end of the day, it is the race of the victim who is brutalized — not the race of the violent cop — that is most relevant in determining whether racial bias is a factor in police violence. It's hard to imagine five cops of any color beating a White person to death under similar circumstances. And it is almost impossible to imagine five Black cops giving a White arrestee the kind of beat-down that Nichols allegedly received," Jones asserted.
"One of the sad facts about anti-Black racism is that Black people ourselves are not immune to its pernicious effects. Society’s message that Black people are inferior, unworthy and dangerous is pervasive. Over many decades, numerous experiments have shown that these ideas can infiltrate Black minds as well as White. Self-hatred is a real thing," he wrote. "That's why a Black store owner might regard customers of his same race with suspicion, while treating his White patrons with deference. Black people can harbor anti-Black sentiments and can act on those feelings in harmful ways."
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Does that mean Clarence Thomas is White?
To liberals, yes.
I know some middle class blacks who sound like KKK members after they have had a few drinks and they trust you.
It is hilarious.
One sanitized comment I remember:
“I would never get on that city bus. It is all crazy ......”
‘Black people can harbor anti-Black sentiments’:
I’ll say. They’re always calling each other “nigga”....and I’m told that’s racist.
Kewl ...
His skin has just about the lowest albedo of any White Man I have ever seen.
Leftists’ evil has driven them mad.
White suprema-cyst rhetoric strikes again. What CAN’T it do? 😵🐎💩
Those who despise cultural bad behavior are often those closest to it. I’ve met some “Italian-Americans” who can get downright prickly about mafia stereotypes.
In the political haste to glorify all that is colored be it good or bad, there is a significant population that is always purposely overlooked.
Never mentioned and always excluded from discussion is the presence of an American Afro-Heritage Minority-minority. The Minority-minority are assimilated Afro-Heritage Americans many, perhaps most, of whom have made significant achievement. In Black Speak, these successful citizens are derogatorily termed “Uncle Tom’s”. They are Republican with a Christian conservative bent.
When the Trump campaign noted a significant capture of the Afro-Heritage vote, the Democrat powers that be were scared to literal death. Loss of the Black vote was and is existential to the tyrannical Democrat cabal. The result of that fright was the creation of Black Lives Matter. It was a political necessity to destroy segments of America rather than lose the Black vote
The Ultimate Rap Song....
(Language)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0itOCgJtNVU
(Reading the comments alone are worth it!)
Sure, it has NOTHING to do with the likelihood of robbery, shoplifting, going berserk and destroying the store, or assault.
Uh oh. Is Jones saying Blacks can be racist now? File this under Crumbling Progressive Wall of Lies
The only thing they are influenced by is evil and the black thug culture. Worse than a pack of dogs.
There is a reason you go to the other side of the street when you encounter a black. It is because you are smart enough to recognize a threat. I’d do the same with a grizzly bear or a wolf.
Wait. I thought only white people could be racist!
“I’d do the same with a grizzly bear or a wolf.”
Remember—their hostility to humans is due to centuries of human hegemony and speciesism.
You should willingly let them attack you—it is just reparations!
blacks don’t like the feral’s anymore than we do...
So IOW it doesn’t matter who does what to whom it is ultimately ‘whitey’s’ fault no matter what it is. Blacks are never responsible.
Got that white man?
A Freeper posted yesterday that there was story that the victim was targeted because he was dating a girlfriend, or wife of one of the cops?
Maybe they need to hire left wing white college students to police the black Community?
A weak excuse for risking a law enforcement career, to say nothing of a murder conviction.
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