As a rational starting point, may we possibly agree that everything bad that happens to a Black person at the hands of a white person is not presumptively due to the Black person's race?
If a Black person points a gun at a white police officer and the officer shoots the Black gun-wielder, is the shooting caused by his race? Is race even a factor?
The current "demonstrations" are supposedly the result of a Black man dying at the hands of a white police officer. The Black man was high on something (at the time nobody knew what), he had been engaged in illegal - though not violent - acts, and we later learned that he was a felon with a rather long record of illegal conduct, although it is not apparent that the officer knew about that at the time.
Is there any evidence in the public record that the victim's race had anything to do with the police officer's conduct? Has the police officer in question received complaints about his ill-treatment of, for example, white suspects? Is there anything in his record to indicate that he is a racist?
If there were any such evidence, don't you think the NYT or CNN would have discovered it and brought it out by now? It is almost reasonable to conclude that there is no such evidence, and the presumption that Floyd's death was DUE TO RACISM is nothing more than empty speculation.
And the young man in Atlanta yesterday. Do you think that if a white suspect pointed a black thing (probably a TASER) at an armed police officer, the officer would have just shrugged it off and let himself the tazed? There is no rational reason to conclude that the shooting had anything to do with race.
Or maybe white people are just smart enough to know that you don't point black things at armed, agitated cops. Maybe.
The relevant statistics do not support the Narrative of white cops killing Black suspects disproportionately...unless you completely discount the firm and shocking statistics of Black criminality and their consequent number of interactions with police. The relevant statistics do not support any rational fear by innocent Black people of being harmed or shot by police, particularly when that meager data is juxtaposed with the data about Black people shooting and killing each other.
I won't dialog (not a verb, incidentally) with people who ignore the relevant facts and refuse to be logical.
Sorry.
If a Black person points a gun at a white police officer and the officer shoots the Black gun-wielder, is the shooting caused by his race? Is race even a factor?
The current "demonstrations" are supposedly the result of a Black man dying at the hands of a white police officer. The Black man was high on something (at the time nobody knew what), he had been engaged in illegal - though not violent - acts, and we later learned that he was a felon with a rather long record of illegal conduct, although it is not apparent that the officer knew about that at the time.
Is there any evidence in the public record that the victim's race had anything to do with the police officer's conduct? Has the police officer in question received complaints about his ill-treatment of, for example, white suspects? Is there anything in his record to indicate that he is a racist?
If there were any such evidence, don't you think the NYT or CNN would have discovered it and brought it out by now? It is almost reasonable to conclude that there is no such evidence, and the presumption that Floyd's death was DUE TO RACISM is nothing more than empty speculation.
And the young man in Atlanta yesterday. Do you think that if a white suspect pointed a black thing (probably a TASER) at an armed police officer, the officer would have just shrugged it off and let himself the tazed? There is no rational reason to conclude that the shooting had anything to do with race.
Or maybe white people are just smart enough to know that you don't point black things at armed, agitated cops. Maybe.
The relevant statistics do not support the Narrative of white cops killing Black suspects disproportionately...unless you completely discount the firm and shocking statistics of Black criminality and their consequent number of interactions with police. The relevant statistics do not support any rational fear by innocent Black people of being harmed or shot by police, particularly when that meager data is juxtaposed with the data about Black people shooting and killing each other.
I won't dialog (not a verb, incidentally) with people who ignore the relevant facts and refuse to be logical.
Sorry.