All these “It’s not racist. Cops are brutal towards everyone!” takes are basically Niemoller in action. White people didn’t care and even cheered it on when POC were the victims. We sat in front of our TVs and cheered as we watched COPS.
And now they’re coming for us, and we’re shocked and try to pretend it isn’t normal or that we need to be just as afraid. Nah. It’s just not normal for us. We still don’t need to give our boys that talk as soon as they’re out of the stroller. Hell, plenty of white people don’t even know what talk I am referring to. Nearly every black person does.
Refusing to recognize that doesn’t make it go away. Willful blindness doesn’t erase the problem.
I do, and will admit it. If I get pulled over, I’m far less likely to get searched, or pulled out of my car, or tased or shot, than my darker skinned brothers and sisters (being a middle aged, frumpy white lady has it’s privileges!). Hence, I would not act like a jack ass like this woman, because I can understand that, unlike some others here in this thread, who believe that a white person having to sign a ticket is nazi germany, at the exact same time that black kids are getting shot for nothing, and kids being brought here out of desperation by their parents are being thrown into overcrowded cages, which is something we shouldn’t get too worked up over, because it’s not death camps.
But hey, I’m the real asshole in this thread! 
Yeah, but you’re self aware enough know that I wasn’t addressing you.
It’s some other folks up in this thread who clearly require ‘the obvious’ to be stated in big, bold, type.
True enough, I guess… or I hope so.
Oh, but you’re not talking about them, cause they are one of the good ones! /s
I admire your fortitude no matter how much willful ignorance and egocentric pretension is thrown your way in perpetuity. I lack the immense patience and altruism that you demonstrate on a regular basis; that’s why you’re the professor, and I’m a ‘huckleberry…’
Honestly, I’m equally awed by your strength and wisdom!
Yeah, you’d think they’d be drilled to say that “you always can appeal the ticket - follow the directions on the back.” It would save them a lot of time in hassles/escalations.
And now I’ll quit derailing; as I’ve already said all I have to say about the gross inequality in how citizens are treated by LEOs in the US, just depending upon their skin tone.
Well, is it not also an “age” thing? Do think he would have treated a 65 year old black woman any more harshly than he did her? He did pull his service handgun on her, wrassle her to the ground, tase her, cuff her. If she’d been black, exactly how much more violent could he have gotten?
No. It’s not.
My point from post one has been that HER actions were in part dictated by her whiteness. But yes, the cop might have been more likely to shoot her if she’d been black. If you want, you can go look up stats on how LEO treat black and white citizens differently, if you’re not fully up to speed on how LEO react differently to people of color.
Never ask “how much worse”; it can always be worse.
Hell, if you’re Black, or Brown, five will get you ten that whatever mistreatment you receive, it WILL be MUCH worse.
I don’t even know how much evidence needs to be shown to prove that white people are generally speaking treated differently, with more regard, than people of color by our legal system. You’d think that nearly 100 years of state supported lynchings and then a few decades of media since then publishing on the issue would convince people (Emmett Till, Rodney King, Eric Garner, Sandra Bland, and all the thousands of other human beings I’m disrepectfully forgetting their names)… But there always needs to be more, more, more, more proof that the systems we live under generally exists to benefit some to the detriment of others… Yet there is almost NEVER enough proof for some people. Never. And we wonder why we can’t fix even the most trivial of social problems with people constantly denying what is literally right in front of their faces.
It’s amazing that the wisdom of a couple of thousand years ago (or whatever) is still applicable today. I wonder what they says about us as a species.
Yeah, that stance while correct in a strictly legal sense; leaves no allowance for how thing work in the real world that people live and work in.
