Karen gonna Karen! wrote:
Let it Rupp wrote:
Cops kill people, but when it's a black person it's an example of America's inherent racism, but when it's a white person it's an example of bad policing. Why? Because confederate statues and Trump, apparently. Makes a lot of sense, I have seen the woke light! THANK YOU, COMRADE!!!!
...another example of someone apparently completely ignorant of our country's past and present.
Do you understand that the US's history of violent and state sponsored systemic racism against black people is different than their history of systemic racism against white people?
Do you understand that that context can cause outwardly similar events to carry different weight in public perception, especially when it involves armed government authority?
Is this something you are capable of understanding?
No, your points are completely incoherent. The U.S. has a history of systemic racism, that we can agree on. Explain to me how the country's racist past makes it so if a black person is killed by the cops it means it is done out of racism, but if a a white person dies at the hands of an officer it isn't? I am aware that blacks suffered racism in the past but there is no evidence to point that every time a cop kills a black person they were being racist.