The New York City Grand Jury decision not to indict a white police officer for...some sort of crime...in connection with the chokehold death of an unarmed black man...was a travesty of justice...as was the Grand Jury decision not to indict another white cop in connection with the death of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri.
Why should a perfectly law abiding, African-American citizen be fearful and anxious of a Caucasian police officer? Cops across America are generally good. Not all Americans are racists...and neither are all police. But that being said, why do some policemen resort to deadly force against black males? Law enforcement officers cannot be biased against anybody. However...it's obvious there are different standards for whites in our country than there are for blacks. Black men - specifically young black men - are in many, many cases and in many, many cities...automatically perceived as a threat. The unfortunate disgrace is that black males are thought to be guilty until proven innocent. The results in the future can be - as they have been in the past - the deaths of two African-American men...(or more). In plain, simple terms...that's racism. That's bigotry. That's despicable.
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What planet are you living on? To say in some ways racism in the US is worse today than it was 50 years ago. 50 years ago if there were the protest that has been going today they would have been turning the fire hoses on the demonstrators or worse. Today the peaceful ones are free to march and the crazy ones are free to burn down buildings and fire bomb police cars. Isn’t that progress?
ReplyDeleteI think you are wrong with putting the Michael Brown case and the Eric Garner case together. With the Brown case all of the physical evidence and all the forensic evidence backed up the officers account of what happened, it should never have even gone to a Grand Jury. As for the Garner case I believe the officers used excessive force and should have be tried for that and maybe involuntary manslaughter, not murder and not racism. On the scene when they attempted to arrest Garner was a Black Female NYPD Supervising Sergeant, was it racism on her part she was in charge at the scene.
You made the following comments: “Why should a perfectly law abiding, African-American citizen be fearful and anxious of a Caucasian police officer?” Are you talking about Brown or Garner as law abiding, Brown had just robbed a store and ruffed up the owner and Garner had been arrested 32 times, both good law abiding citizens.
As for the idea that police target or as you put it “resort to deadly force against black males” makes it sound like black males are the only ones that get shot by the police. It is the opposite more whites are shot by police then blacks: data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 1999 to 2011 over the span of more than a decade, 2,151 whites died by being shot by police compared to 1,130 blacks. Once again a little thing called facts.
You make the statement “The unfortunate disgrace is that black males are thought to be guilty until proven innocent” I’ll let you know something from the many police officers I know or have known, Officers are trained to look at everyone (black, white, yellow, red, brown whatever color) that they are arresting as guilty to protect themselves and others. This does not mean they are guilty, that is up to a court to decide. If these two young men has obeyed the instructions of the police officers or did not commit the crime they would be alive today.
People like Al Sharpton, Jessie Jackson, Eric Holder and yes even President Obama must take part if not most of the blame for the increase in poor race relations in this country. I would never say there are not racist in this country, there are and it is terrible. Just remember there are as many black racist as there white racist, both being a small percentage of the population. But what is worse, in the last 6 years is the race relations and the above mentioned are a big part of that problem, labeling everything and everyone racist before knowing the facts.
First of all - what I said was - "There is racism, bigotry and prejudice in the United States and - in many ways - it's worse today than it was 50 years ago before the Civil Rights Act became the law of the land. It's definitely worse since the majority of our nation's voters twice elected an African-American to be our President." I still hold to that fact that in MANY WAYS... You don't seem to get my point...and that is that our nation elects an African-American President not just once, but twice and yet racism remains rampant and very bad throughout our country. I live on the planet Earth, but for this area of our globe, sadly there is racism against blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and others plus antisemitism against Jews, and hatred for many, many more Americans by those who simply are not the same for one reason or another as those who are doing the hating. Racism is a lot worse than you may think. Just open up your eyes and ears. GBD
DeleteI don’t know how anyone can say in any way that the racism is worse today than 50 years ago. I don’t believe your statement that “racism remains rampant and very bad throughout our country”. I would never say there is no racism in this country but it is much better than 50 years ago but I would agree it has gotten worse over the last 6 years. Many of these recent problems of racism have been cause by people like Al Sharpton, Jessie Jackson, Eric Holder and yes even President Obama. Much of the current problems also have been caused by the few crazy people (few meaning small percentage) who will always hate anyone different, you will never change these people. We have also seen a rise in many people blaming racism on everything. There is no evidence showing that racism was in anyway involved in the Brown shooting or the Garner incident. In the Garner case, let me say I believe that an indictment should have been made on some lesser charges such as abuse of power or maybe involuntary manslaughter, but not a hate crime not a race crime. As for the Brown case, he had just robbed a store ruffed up the owner and attacked a police officer, no racism there! The left and the media have to stop using race and racism to make stories bigger and get better ratings. Why must they always say the “white cop” or the black victim or black perpetrator? Why not just police officer and perpetrator or victim. If the police were as racist as the left is claiming the police would not have shot and killed twice as many whites then blacks over the last 10 years. Open up your eyes and ears and find out the USA is not as bad as you and the left try to make it out to be.
ReplyDeleteI never said the U.S.A is bad. That's a horrible statement for you to make. And I also don't think "the left" - as you call us - make it out to be that way whatsover. It's just the racists who are bad...and there are plenty more of them than you realize...or that you want to admit. GBD
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