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Originally Posted by graciegirl
In this day and age, all races should be treated equally. But no race should be given advantage just because of their color, such as affirmative action, That isn't fair. If a person does something wrong than they should be punished. I don't know the statistics of white versus black crime and I don't care. Just that each are punished for breaking the law.
The shooting in Orlando appears to be accidental but we don't KNOW what really transpired in Ferguson. When I see this guy steal things and push around the shop keeper I am not thinking positive no matter WHAT his color is. What IF he did climb in the police car and try to beat up the police officer? We don't know what happened yet completely. I am prejudiced because I was raised by a police officer and I have always respected the law and officers of the law.
If this police officer deliberately killed this young man, what was his motive?
If he struggled with the victim and the victim was trying to hurt him, his adrenaline would have been high.
I think we need to keep an open mind and try to be color blind. It is just as bad to blame one race as it is to blame the other. None of us had any choice in the color of our skin. But we have choices daily in how we act. Being enslaved was a long time ago, just as the second world war was a long time ago. This is now. None of us had any say in people being enslaved or Germans killing Jews. No one I know would have agreed with either thing. Everyone I know find both things abhorrent.
I find it awful that people use this as a screen to loot and steal. That is very wrong to me.
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Gracie, I have to disagree with you about affirmative action. A little history first: while slavery in this country ended in 1865, blacks still had to live under de facto segregation (Jim Crowe laws that began during the reconstruction period of 1865 to 1877) and continued until 1965, which was only 49 years ago. Affirmative action was needed to even a playing field that had been uneven for so very long. I think a much better argument would be whether or not it has gone on long enough to achieve its goals and that to keep practicing it amounts to reverse discrimination. I would agree with the premise that it's time for it to end, but I can't agree that it was never needed or necessary. I also stand by my previous point that comparing the shootings in Ferguson and Orlando is superficial and has racist overtones. Perhaps it's because what I think some people are implying is that the two shootings were the same thing, but look what those animals in Ferguson are doing while we civilized folks in Orlando are cool.