Black People can't be racist

It totally comes off that way. Robin Williams was the same way. They just go. You wind them up and they go.

 

Agree, using humor is a great teaching tool.

Another great teaching tool is sharing real life experiences. There have been many good personal stories shared on this site.

I can not remember Dviss 1 every sharing a story about a time he was abused by police or a victim of racism.

I would like to invite Dviss 1 to share a personal story to help us better understand racism against blacks. Not the "we deal with it everyday" line, but an example explaining what has happened to him.

 

Lol Bill Burr on the black swim team is my favorite bit. "GET OUT OF THE POOL!"

 

I know he comes off as a justice warrior in the OT forum, but he really is a great guy to meet in person.

I hope we can watch a game together again sometime soon.

 

I would like to discuss the changing role of the enforcement officers from 50 years ago to today, and their long running abuse of power.

There has always been abuse of power by the police. A dirty little secret your grandmothers do not talk about is the era they were the targets of police abuse.

Example
During the 1960s & 70, many shady enforcement officers would search pretty young white females they “suspected” of using marijuana or other drugs. Male enforcement officers groped so many young white women it resulted in the requirement of female officers had to be present during a search of a female. Times do change.


Today, I believe the politicians have changed the role of most local enforcement departments. They are now run like a business. Their real goal is to lower operating cost and increase revenues. Chasing after and giving a ticket to someone not wearing a seat belt is a higher priority than spending the resources necessary to find the drug addict that broke into someone’s car, and then paying for the high cost to imprison and rehab them.

Did you know that the local department that runs the community service work programs is one of the few government depts. that makes a profit? The more people that are on community service work programs, the more free slave labor the local government have to farm out to other agencies for a fee. I am convinced that many innocent people are charged with crimes with the goal of negotiating many of the cases down to community service. Many of the poor people are targets because they do not have the financial resources to hire good lawyers to defend them and keep them out of jail, so poor innocent people take the community service route.


There is and always has been more to police abuse than their targeting of blacks.

 

I like dviss, I've gotten way too serious a few times in threads myself. I think meeting all of you folks would be interesting and I hope to meet some of you one day. It's not easy to raise issues that we're personally invested in. I posted the comedy skits to lighten the mood, not derail the discussion.

 

great post Denny

 

dogs can sniff things out better than humans

 

I don't think you did anything wrong. To the contrary, quite commendable for a liberal

 

They're acceptable, as long as the police get life sentences or death sentences, the same as the penalties those very same policemen enforce upon you and me.

But 99% aren't punished with even a week in prison.

 

I'm sure it wasn't, and we all realize the guilt that racism and cops who racially profile and even torture blacks do to stunt progress. You can, however empathize and understand the injustice from a white perspective as well as a black perspective or any minority perspective. To discuss these issues, it's important to see folks even give a shit that something is wrong at all. When I hear of a person arrested for jaywalking, I'm probably going to mention my experience being arrested for jaywalking and not think about being white..in my view, we do live in the same universe

 

I agree with pretty much everything you said except that white people's anecdotes harm a good cause. How is that the case? I just don't see how simply talking about bad things that happen to white people diminishes anything else you said. It doesn't mean we don't respect or care that other people have it worse.

 

Low-income housing projects are NOT restricted to any one particular race or ethnic group.

 

No but in the inner cities, you're likely to only see black and Hispanic families.