What Racism Looks Like

Which ones burned, looted and rioted, you clueless reject?

What are they protesting? The systematic police brutality that disproportionately affects black people? Or being temporarily inconvenienced for the greater health and safety of everyone? Y'all said we weren't allowed to kneel at a football game. What do you suggest we do?

What's your evidence that blacks are disproportionately affected by 'systematic' police brutality? Besides yer feelz?

How about protesting without violence? Kaperf**k was more than welcome to protest outside of his millions of dollars paying job, you know, without shitting on the anthem of the country that made him a multi millionaire and famous.

See, you're part of the problem. That's the attitude that creates an environment where those who want to fight against social injustice have no other choice but to riot. "Go protest peacefully! No, not like that, go find another way!" That's what oppression looks like and you are contributing to it.

Seriously, though, what specifically would you suggest? Nothing happening in the streets is more egregious than what we all saw take place on video. What upsets me the most about the mass protests is the potential threat to public health during a pandemic. Do you feel the same about the lockdown assault rifle-wielding gatherers whom were protesting their "injustice" while jeopardizing the health of everyone?

You lost me with all that victim stuff. The reality is this. The conservative right rejected our wakeup call and right to protest peacefully on a football field. The underlining message was buried and they hijacked it and twisted to make it about the flag and the military. All so they didn't have to acknowledge and confront what it is actually all about. If we're not allowed to protest peacefully, how are riots not inevitable?

Oppression is saying people shouldn't burn and loot? Okay there. No other choice but to riot lol

You failed to back your claim. What evidence do you have that blacks are being disproportionately affected by 'systematic' racism.

Hey look, autopsy says he wasn't asphyxiated. What will you say if it's found that Floyd died from an OD?

First off, don't be the idiot who defends the officers in anyway shape or form. Secondly, without even looking at the numbers, how ignorant can someone be to suggest black people are not the most disproportionately victimized race by police brutality than any other BY FAR? One can only choose to be so ignorant. Since you clearly have no concept of what it's like to be a black person in America (I'm going out on a limb here and assuming you are not black), just try to process these numbers: (Link to sources at the bottom)

According to latest census, African Americans make up 12.6% of the US population. Whites make up 72.4%. In 2019 370 whites and 235 blacks were shot to death by police. What that means is 29% of Americans who were shot to death by police last year were black, despite making up only 12.6% of the population. 46% of Americans shot to death by police were white, despite making up 72.4% of the population.

This means that African Americans are 36 times more likely to be shot to death by a police officer than a white person. And that's only accounting for shooting deaths. It does not account for all excessive force, including what happened to George Floyd. The only reason this officer was charged is because someone took a video, which contradicted the police report. Cell phone video has only existed for about a decade so one can only imagine how much police have gotten away with over the stretch of history, in a system that is designed to protect them.

When the black community claims they've been harassed unfairly by police for generations, these numbers back up that claim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States

https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/

I love how he lectures me about not being black and being ignorant. I thought he might provide some personal experiences. I like to hear anecdotal evidence in cases like this, but of course, he''s a white sjw.

'First off, don't be the idiot who defends the officers in anyway shape or form"

You got no idea about how justice is supposed to work. Innocent until proven guilty applies to everyone and unfortunately for your mind It is even more imperative than normal that it's adhered too with such unequal and biased representation of the situation. I know what it looks like but it has nothing to do with defending percieved actions of a previously violent arresting officer.

How justice is "supposed" to work is subjective. I know how the US justice system works and all defendants are entitled to representation. This is the internet, not a courtroom. All we have is the video and statements from the Chief of police. There was nothing in the video that suggests the officers were justified in any way, IMHO. If any normal person can't see that, I suspect there are other motives at play.

So, it's your 'humble opinion', yet only people not normal would disagree with your 'humble opinion'?

Holy shit are you a feral leftist.

Sarcasm dude... it was pretty obvious.

Hmmm, basically calling people racist if they don't swallow the narrative... sarcasm... hmmmm...

Wow, there have been some crazies who've commented on my posts but you're the first unequivocal racist. Congrats!

Congratulations man on being called Racist!

Relax, dude. 3.6%, not 36%. I left out the decimal, honest mistake. Still a staggering number. Nice catch though! While we're at it, since you CLEARLY understand numbers and data analyses better than I do, perhaps it was just a slight oversight to take my 29% and make it 23% by assuming that "unknown race" means non-black. Since "unknown" is given no explanation as to why it is unknown, you cannot assume anything about that set of data. I chose to omit it but since you want to include it, the correct number lies anywhere between 23 and 43%. Look at that, even someone who knows everything can be wrong once. Do you spend this much time fact checking Trump's outlandish claims? You could make a career out of it!

"Black men not being men... has something to do with it"... Yeah totally not racist. Also assuming I must be black and brainwashed because I speak out against racial injustice... yeah doesn't pass the smell test.

Over 19,000 comments... do you do anything else with your life? All that knowledge and intelligence can't be put to better use?

Yes, as a straight, white male I am most certainly privileged and recognize that privilege. I also believe racism is bad and still prevalent, regardless of to what degree. You're right, things were much worse for the black community before the civil rights act was passed. It took riots and civil unrest to make that happen.

Now address how about 7% of the population commit 50% of all murders and the majority of violent crimes, with around 90% of blacks being killed by blacks.

A young black man is FAR more likely to be killed by another black man than a cop. Yet I never hear a peep about that.

Perhaps not so many blacks wouldn't be killed by police if they weren't vastly over represented in the act of commiting crime.

Those cops had bodycams that have been viewed.

The autopsy also says Floyd WASN'T asphyxiated. What are you going to say if Floyd died of an OD?

I'm not saying there aren't problem with bad cops. But it doesn't just happen to black people. And blacks aren't being slaughtered in the streets by out of control racist cops like the racebaiters want you to believe.

Ok so now we've gandered into socioeconomics. That's a lesson for another day.

For whatever reason, the Right loves to bring up the term "black on black" crime, as if we should just ignore years of systematic racism that has plagued this country since its foundation. We taxpayers do not fund this "black on black crime" you speak of... well, at least not directly. Again, that's a bit off-topic so we'll save it for another time.

The Right is always trying to shift the conversation with distractions like "OMG they're disrespecting the flag and our troops!" without ever addressing the issue at hand. And it is because white conservatives are scared to admit that they've had it pretty good for so long. They don't have to worry about going for a jog, or wearing a hoodie at night or asking someone to leash their dog (the list goes on and on) without the risk of getting murdered out of fear.

We pay police salaries. We pay them to serve and protect us. They enforce the law and should be held to the highest standards. What happened to George Floyd should NEVER happen EVER. Yet it continues to happen time and time again. Is it just a few bad apples that need to be removed? Or is it the training programs that need to be overhauled? Either way, we cannot accept this as normal. Something must change and maybe we've finally reached that point as a society.

And dude, are you REALLY defending a cold blooded murderer and his accomplices? Are you totally fine with what happened? Either you didn't actually watch the full 10 minute video (totally possible since you have a history of siting articles without actually reading them) or that's some deranged shit right there dude. But hey, if someone's gonna defend every move Trump makes, maybe this isn't so far fetched after all.

"Almost 6,000 is a much bigger number than 235."
Hahaha, stop it ha. You're dreaming man!

The number is actually anywhere between 23% and 29% since there were 202 cases with unknown races. Nice catch!

Funny I'm the one being "pissy" when you're the one coming onto my post, using condescending terms like "boy, kid and son." How old are you dude? If you're going call me out and accuse me of making "such bold and inaccurate claims," then you shouldn't make such bold and inaccurate claims in your attempt at doing so... and then blatantly ignore it when I call you out for it.

You say you want to have a "serious discussion" but all this has turned into is a pissing game of 'gotcha' and correcting grammar/autocorrect/typos all so you can say "look how how stupid you are and how smart I am!" Who's really the child in this case? "Serious conversation"? Give me a break, dude.

I keep ignoring your "black on black" killing statistic because it is completely irrelevant to the topic at hand. This meme and topic is about racism. If you want to talk about socioeconomics, then we can talk about all the "black on black crime" you love to bring up (albeit the Right only likes to bring it up when the issue of racism comes to the forefront. Not an issue they actually care about). But it has literally nothing to do with police brutality and systematic racism. Just because Problem A may be worse than Problem B doesn't mean we should just ignore Problem B all together. Groups that raise awareness for breast cancer aren't evil because they are ignoring heart disease, which causes more deaths.

I believe that despite race being less of a factor than it was 50 years ago, it still remains one today. Even if your words are true in that racism "barely wields any power," I believe that would still be too much in 2020. I don't like seeing riots in the streets across America, but I believe it was the Right's attitude and reaction to the kneeling during the anthem that has created a need for it and was the root cause of it. You're all for peaceful protest as long as it is done out of your site, which defeats the purpose of a protest. But at the same time you support the lockdown protests when instead they could be protesting by sharing a facebook post, while keeping others safe.

Look dude, we're obviously not going to agree on this. I believe that we still have a ways to go for racial equality and that belief is shared by half the country. The fact is this issue will never go away and these people will not go away until there is systematic change, and that is something you will have to accept, just as I will have to accept that empathy is not a characteristic shared by all humans.

You protest injustice by engaging in theft, which is an injustice.

Y'all said we couldn't kneel at a football game...