IsaacNewton
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"Black Run America". A direct quote from the article.
This is the self-blindness that the author does not get. No human being could, with a straight face, utter such a sentence. Notice what is missing, all the black men murdered by police for no reason. A man with his girlfriend and a 4 year old child in the car tells the police officer he has a conceal carry permit and that 'he will get it'. Murdered, because the white cop is terrified of his own job and the man was black. If this were an isolated incident you could say 'well this is going to happen now and then'. It happens over and over and until there were video cameras in everyone's hands, as there are now, this type of incident was regularly reported by black comedians over the last 5 decades, but it was just laughed off as 'oh it's just a joke'. It isn't. We SEE the videos now nearly every day on the news. And for every unwarranted murder you know there are thousands of incidents where the black person involved was pulled over for no reason, harassed, or beaten. There are videos of this as well.
My neighbor is black and works in an office. If you saw him in street clothes you'd think he looked like Al Roker. Same look, same always there smile, same demeanor. You can tell just by looking at him he couldn't harm a fly. His car was in the shop (a nice new car) for two days a while back and he had to take the bus. Dressed in a suit and carrying a brief case he stood at the bus stop nearby with about 8 other people, all either white or hispanic. A cop stopped in front of the bus stop, went up to only him and asked "what are you doing here".
I do agree with some of the article, that people need to take responsibility for their own lives. But when was the last time any politician was on video walking into a depressed neighborhood with 1,000 jobs so the area could lift itself out of poverty? Absolutely people need to take responsibility for their lives and their kids, but let's not pretend all areas have equal access to a way up the economic or social ladder.
So people are tired 'of hearing it'? I guess so, just as they're tired of caring about another mass shooting at a school, or a Las Vegas casino, or mall. When they see another school shooting on tv they say 'I'm out' and turn the channel. It's easy to ignore people who constantly say they are trampled on, and held down, mistreated far more than the rest of society at the hands of the authority in that society. Yeah and some of them just complain to get something. But most don't. Most are sincere and we now have a library of videos that document the reality they say they have to deal with.
You can ignore those who are just 'gettin what they can get', gaming the system, jumping on the bandwagon for a free ride as long as it lasts. But the people that are in earnest, sincere, speaking the truth about systemic mistreatment, abuse, and even murder by the society around them cannot be ignored. History is rife with populations of people that were mistreated and abused by another group, over a long period of time, and rendered second class citizens and sub-humans by society. And it is also rife with the answer from those mistreated and abused by a society. They eventually come to see the deck is stacked against them in all areas in perpetuity. That even when they DO play by the rules, work hard, live a clean life they are still awarded with abuse. Until finally THEY say to that society 'I'm out, I don't care what you say anymore'.
“The American people have this to learn: that where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither person nor property is safe.”
- Frederick Douglass -
This is the self-blindness that the author does not get. No human being could, with a straight face, utter such a sentence. Notice what is missing, all the black men murdered by police for no reason. A man with his girlfriend and a 4 year old child in the car tells the police officer he has a conceal carry permit and that 'he will get it'. Murdered, because the white cop is terrified of his own job and the man was black. If this were an isolated incident you could say 'well this is going to happen now and then'. It happens over and over and until there were video cameras in everyone's hands, as there are now, this type of incident was regularly reported by black comedians over the last 5 decades, but it was just laughed off as 'oh it's just a joke'. It isn't. We SEE the videos now nearly every day on the news. And for every unwarranted murder you know there are thousands of incidents where the black person involved was pulled over for no reason, harassed, or beaten. There are videos of this as well.
My neighbor is black and works in an office. If you saw him in street clothes you'd think he looked like Al Roker. Same look, same always there smile, same demeanor. You can tell just by looking at him he couldn't harm a fly. His car was in the shop (a nice new car) for two days a while back and he had to take the bus. Dressed in a suit and carrying a brief case he stood at the bus stop nearby with about 8 other people, all either white or hispanic. A cop stopped in front of the bus stop, went up to only him and asked "what are you doing here".
I do agree with some of the article, that people need to take responsibility for their own lives. But when was the last time any politician was on video walking into a depressed neighborhood with 1,000 jobs so the area could lift itself out of poverty? Absolutely people need to take responsibility for their lives and their kids, but let's not pretend all areas have equal access to a way up the economic or social ladder.
So people are tired 'of hearing it'? I guess so, just as they're tired of caring about another mass shooting at a school, or a Las Vegas casino, or mall. When they see another school shooting on tv they say 'I'm out' and turn the channel. It's easy to ignore people who constantly say they are trampled on, and held down, mistreated far more than the rest of society at the hands of the authority in that society. Yeah and some of them just complain to get something. But most don't. Most are sincere and we now have a library of videos that document the reality they say they have to deal with.
You can ignore those who are just 'gettin what they can get', gaming the system, jumping on the bandwagon for a free ride as long as it lasts. But the people that are in earnest, sincere, speaking the truth about systemic mistreatment, abuse, and even murder by the society around them cannot be ignored. History is rife with populations of people that were mistreated and abused by another group, over a long period of time, and rendered second class citizens and sub-humans by society. And it is also rife with the answer from those mistreated and abused by a society. They eventually come to see the deck is stacked against them in all areas in perpetuity. That even when they DO play by the rules, work hard, live a clean life they are still awarded with abuse. Until finally THEY say to that society 'I'm out, I don't care what you say anymore'.
“The American people have this to learn: that where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither person nor property is safe.”
- Frederick Douglass -