Some of the replies to that post (and the obvious trolley therein) are just brilliant.
Facts DO matter.
So I wonder…
How you expect to solidify that message using hyperbole and stats out of context?
Expectations are felt. People know when they aren’t welcome. People do what they must to survive.
You don’t know many people of color do you?
Like, really know them.
If you did you would stop. You would care. You would have empathy. You would listen to them and not buy the bullshit rhetoric that is keeping us stuck.
Your “facts” are half truths at best and blatant spear campaigning at worse. Your post looks like this:
“If women would just keep their legs closed or stop wearing provocative clothing, they wouldn’t get raped!”
STOP BLAMING THE VICTIM!
STOP IT! STOP IT! STOP IT!
This makes me so angry I am physically shaking. No one deserves to get shot during a routine traffic stop! No one deserves to get shot for jaywalking and/or manhandling a shop owner so they can steal cigars!
That is not the way we do things in this country. It is not lawful for any one person to act as judge, jury and executioner.
If they can do that to black people, they can do it to you!
If this is what our society is about than why didn’t Bernie Madoff — who stole MILLIONS OF DOLLARS from MILLIONS OF PEOPLE die in a hail of bullets?!?
THERE IS NO JUSTIFICATION FOR THIS BEHAVIOR!
There just isn’t.
You are in the wrong. You are going to be on the outside looking in, because I am done being understanding and patient with willful ignorance.
It is socially unacceptable to condone indiscriminate killing while using childlike reactivity as an excuse.
Sell crazy somewhere else; we’re all stocked up here.
