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“Simply put, white cops are afraid of black men. We don’t talk about it, we pretend it doesn’t exist, we claim “color blindness,” we say white officers treat black men the same way they treat white men. But that’s a lie. In fact, the bigger, the darker the black man the greater the fear. The African-American community knows this. Hell, most whites know it. Yet, even though it’s a central, if not the defining ingredient in the makeup of police racism, white cops won’t admit it to themselves, or to others.”
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Norm Stamper,
Breaking Rank: A Top Cop's Exposé of the Dark Side of American Policing
There is "physical fear" and then there's the fear that most of us white people have to deal with every single day.
That's the "fear" that comes from working with, dealing with, or just being around other ethnicities especially black people, and knowing that we have to be careful what we say, or how we act because our lives and careers are at stake if we're accused of racism.
I have become so accustomed to seeing others having their livliehood threatened, by just being accused, sometimes falsely, of saying something that was taken out of context, or simply misunderstood, that I tend to avoid persons of color whenever possible.
I have to believe that much of the time white cops dread, or "fear" dealing with black individuals for this reason.
Minorities, especially blacks, have a privilege that much of the time creates a climate of "fear".