https://theconversation.com/how-hollywoods-alien-and-predator-movies-reinforce-anti-black-racism-127088
Of all the movies that I suspected to be targeted I did not anticipate that Alien would be one of them. The article reads like a satire.
It's just as well that Lambert's rape wasn't made all the more obvious.
shareThis movie isn't being "targeted." A random rant by a moron doesn't equal anything being targeted. The article is what it is--a random rant.
And that article is a shining example of one of the biggest issues I am having now with the internet. The guy who wrote that piece of crap is a foreign national--a Canadian. So, we have a Canadian moron who really doesn't know much about American culture or American-based racism concocting this insane nonsense about how Alien is anti-black. So, what do you think happens? White Americans read that crap, see a black face and then go, "There they go those African-Americans again," when most African-Americans have probably seen and enjoyed Alien.
Good grief, that was more retarded than I had anticipated. I thought maybe it would argue that Parker was some sort of black stereotype (he was probably the best character in the movie), but man....
share"Although Black men are killed by the police more than any other group, Black women are regular targets of police violence even though this fact is often rendered invisible. "
Guy is a straight up liar. More white people are shot and killed by cops EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/
And the leading cause of death for black males ages 1-44 is being killed by another black male:
https://www.cdc.gov/healthequity/lcod/men/2016/nonhispanic-black/index.htm
He’s not a liar. I think you need to reread your source. It says the rate of blacks being killed by police is much higher than any other ethnicity. It would make sense that more white people were killed by police in a given year since they’re the majority population, but considering black people are only 13% of the population they’re still statistically more likely to be killed by police.
shareYou might want to look up what the words more than mean.
"considering black people are only 13% of the population they’re still statistically more likely to be killed by police."
Only 13%, you say?
Murder is the #4 cause death of black men and #1 for black men ages 1-44:
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/leading-causes-of-death-in-men#Most-common-causes-of-death
"According to the FBI, African-Americans accounted for 55.9% of all homicide offenders in 2019, with whites 41.1%, and "Other" 3.0% in cases where the race was known.[52] Among homicide victims in 2019 where the race was known, 54.7% were black or African-American, 42.3% were white, and 3.1% were of other races.[53][54] The per-capita offending rate for African-Americans was roughly six times higher than that of whites, and the victim rate is a similar figure. Most homicides were intraracial; where the perpetrator's race was known, 81% of white victims were killed by whites and 91% of black or African-American victims were killed by African-Americans.[54]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_States#Homicide
Well, uh, okay, but my point wasn’t about the incarceration rates of blacks (which is high, because, ya know, there’s always going to be racial and economic bias in our judicial system), it was that black people are just more likely to be killed by police than white people. So my point still stands.
share"it was that black people are just more likely to be killed by police than white people. So my point still stands."
Not true. If more whites are being killed by police than blacks, then a black person is not more likely to be shot by police. For example, if 100 people were killed by police in a year, and 60 of those were white, and 40 were black, statistics show that white people are more likely to be shot by police.
The point I think you were trying to make is that blacks are over-represented in the killings based on the fact they only make up 13% of the population. But even that is a misrepresentation of the statistics. Because police aren't just randomly going into people's homes and killing people. In general, police kill people who they encounter as part of their job. Which usually means they're confronting people who are engaging in criminal activity.
So to get the true statistics of white/black killings by police, you have to look at the ratio of each race who are participating in criminal activity, and compare that to the ratio killed by police.
We’re talking about per capita. It’s in relation to their population. If we’re going by ethnicity, black people are killed at a higher “rate” or more frequently by police, in comparison to other races. White people are obviously the greatest population in the US so it makes sense that more of them are killed by police in terms of total population, but black people are killed at a higher rate.
Now I get the purpose of your second paragraph. You are saying that black people are over represented because they are committing criminal activity, however this still doesn’t account for the fact that police are still killing white people at an alarming rate as well, in fact they kill everyone at a far higher rate than other developed countries, it’s just they disproportionately target blacks, indigenous, and POCs. So even if you removed the number of black people being killed, the number would still be far too unacceptably high. In fact, police are more likely kill a young and unarmed person, black or white, compared to anyone else. However, it’s still a fact that unarmed black men are 3x as likely to be killed by police than a white man. In fact, since the rate of people killed in the US is
Much higher than any other other developed
Country, it stands to reason that unarmed people are killed at a higher rate too. Aggressive policing is shown to increase major crime, and overuse of lethal force obviously increases deaths. In fact, 1/4 people killed by police are experiencing a mental health crisis. So the real issue is what constitutes a crime, or a crime worthy of lethal force, how do we judge that a police officer was reacting with reasonable force to a situation. When looking at the names of the 229 black
People killed by police since 2020, it is easy to see with each case that the suspect may have been innocent of any crime, or at least undeserving of being killled, and was in fact targeted by police (the same would go for white people as well).
If you look at the the rate that black people in the US are killed police in the US, it correlates with the rate that black people commit crime. Obviously you are unlikely to get killed by the police if you are minding your own business, and most police shooting involve some kind of altercation. So there is no evidence as far as I can see that blacks are targeted any more than any other race.
White men are much, much more likely to get killed by the police than black women by the way. How are we to explain this fact? In general being a man in the US makes you 10 times more likely to get killed by the police, being black makes you twice as likely as being white. Asians are less likely to get killed than white people.
Most deaths caused by the police are: traffic accidents.
People shot by the police are more likely to be shot by a police officer of the same race. Because the ethnicity of the police force in a given area tends to reflect the ethnicity of the population of that area.
The US police do seem to be far too aggressive, which can be partly explained by the gun culture in the US, which means they feel more threatened, and people who are scared do stupid things. And probably partly just due to a culture in the US police force. But this is not a race issue. In a country of 300m people you are going to find an incident somewhere of a police officer acting horribly. There have been about 10 videos in the last decade of the police commiting horrible murders of civilians in the US (many of them black). This has been exploited to create a narrative that is entirely fictional. Police violence is an issue, but it is minor compared with black on black violence, which is the real issue.
wow.. ok
shareI've always had that suspicion
shareI'm not gonna lie. I didn't bother reading the linked article.
Why are you promoting it?