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Calling the cops has turned out to be a death sentence for Black people too often.
by devdas 6y ago
Calling the cops has turned out to be a death sentence for Black people too often.
- steveeq1 6y agoIt's overplayed: https://i.stack.imgur.com/WogKi.png https://i.stack.imgur.com/WogKi.png
- bob33212 6y agoI don't think your are well informed here. They are protesting the systemic racism that makes some cops feel like they can get away with leaving their knee on a black man's neck for 8 minutes killing him. Maybe you don't think that systemic racism is a major problem or maybe you think that people should focus on other issues instead? But your graph is incorrect.
- steveeq1 6y agoI feel that the "systemic racist" is overplayed, yes. And the graph is sourced.
- bob33212 6y agoNeither of those sources prove that BLM is only about white on black murder. Check out this source if you are interested in learning about the goals of BLM https://blacklivesmatter.com/about/ https://blacklivesmatter.com/about/
- defnotashton2 6y agoBut it's nuanced and more than can be defined on a page with vast sub cultures and groups all lobbying for power. As is any social movement, I think there are some problems inherent with it, like the inability to criticize aspects of the movement without being considered a racist.
- 0xB31B1B 6y agoBLM isn't specifically about white people killing black people, its about the systemic disadvantage of black people in the US. The US had segregationist senators until the 2000s [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond], San Leandro California, a bay area suburb where lots of folks in on this board live, had an FBI injunction in the 80's because they still had segregationist housing policy. Our communities now are more segregated today than they were in 1890. Modern medicine has an insane mount of racial bias baked into it today [https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2021693 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2021693]. Everything from illness diagnosis to painkiller prescription, to prenatal care is very much tilted against black people getting equivalent treatment to white people. This is due to the bias of caregivers at point of care. The whole point is that race matters, we need to respect that, and understand that.