Wait, respectable black guys don't get killed by the police? Surely this is because they stay out of trouble, obey the law, support their families, and generally behave with future time orientation, right? Nah, it's because of their skin color; it agitates those horrible racist police. Gotta be the skin.
I think it’s worse than that. There are respectable black guys that get killed by police (though I would have to dedicate some actual brain power to remembering them) and some police are scum. So it’s not that they don’t exist. It’s just that the victim peddlers don’t want to talk about them.
And part of that is probably because it happens a lot less to law abiding people than it does to gansta goons. But it also seems to me like they’re trying to scrub the idea of Black Americans as law abiding or successful Americans out of existence. And to glorify thugs, deadbeats, and goons as not just victims but anointed or righteously revolutionary.
Philando Castile is the one that jumps to my mind.
I don't understand how this one happens, and if people wanted to take to the streets to protest his death, I'd have no issue with it (still wouldn't support defunding the police since that's obviously a braindead proposition).
I'll never understand why this one wasn't more of an issue. I guess it just wasn't divisive enough.
we don't know what happened in the philando castile case. there was no body cam footage for us to see what the officer saw. for all we know it could have been justified. all we saw was that messed up video with the girl's take on it
Because they can never seem to find respectable black guys who get killed by police.
Wait, respectable black guys don't get killed by the police? Surely this is because they stay out of trouble, obey the law, support their families, and generally behave with future time orientation, right? Nah, it's because of their skin color; it agitates those horrible racist police. Gotta be the skin.
I, for one, am shocked.
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I think it’s worse than that. There are respectable black guys that get killed by police (though I would have to dedicate some actual brain power to remembering them) and some police are scum. So it’s not that they don’t exist. It’s just that the victim peddlers don’t want to talk about them.
And part of that is probably because it happens a lot less to law abiding people than it does to gansta goons. But it also seems to me like they’re trying to scrub the idea of Black Americans as law abiding or successful Americans out of existence. And to glorify thugs, deadbeats, and goons as not just victims but anointed or righteously revolutionary.
Because they want to normalize this kind of shit.
Philando Castile is the one that jumps to my mind.
I don't understand how this one happens, and if people wanted to take to the streets to protest his death, I'd have no issue with it (still wouldn't support defunding the police since that's obviously a braindead proposition).
I'll never understand why this one wasn't more of an issue. I guess it just wasn't divisive enough.
we don't know what happened in the philando castile case. there was no body cam footage for us to see what the officer saw. for all we know it could have been justified. all we saw was that messed up video with the girl's take on it
That's fair. I don't believe we saw anything to refute that either though, and the whole thing lasted like 45 seconds according to the dash cam.
To me though, this shooting was one that just about everybody could get upset about, but it just didn't get as much coverage.