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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
I didn't know that "black people being *shot* by white police" was the issue, so much as black people being chased, shot, tazed, accused, jailed, charged, beat up, battered, physically assaulted by white police, more than white people who were under suspicion of the same crimes.
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What you said appears to be the common thought among CERTAIN GROUPS but if you watch Orlando's evening news consistently, it is obvious what is really happening.
Or if you watch Cincinnati's evening news, as we did for a very long time it was obvious as well. Cincinnati used to publish once a year in our Newspaper pictures of all people murdered and it was a shock.
Many people are not racist in the fact that they try very hard NOT to attribute certain negative events to groups of people.
When it is brought to the attention in a public way of the high rate of crime among certain groups, there are many who explain that poverty is a contributing factor, also that some groups do not have the opportunity for good jobs that others have. And certain groups have had a history going back well over a hundred years of terribly unfair and inhumane treatment.
I try very hard to be fair but now I hear some local campaign speeches by the person who seems to be another Aramis Ayala who is berating the well connected wealthy people as if it is a crime to be financially successful.
I have never been other than white, but I have been poor. I have only lived where there was no segregation for most of my life. There was no people who were Indian or Asian that I knew in school and only five black students in our graduating class of 366.
I think that many of us have gone over and over in our minds if we are racist after the huge propaganda campaign BLM. It doesn't ring true to me that police forces are unfairly singling out black people. It appears they are following people a lot who leave known high drug areas and may stop them on a non working tail light, but I don't think they target people in cars in the dark whose color is not visible. Not most of the police officers. This whole new defunding the police seems to me to be some sort of retaliation against police by people who have been in trouble with the law.