Where do you think they are today?
Just watched this for my Sociology class today and has this thought..
I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves.
working jobs, probably still blaming the White Overlord for their rent and utilities at the end of the month.. Saw a few minutes of the docu on youtube, got to say, I WAS NOT impressed.. yawn..
Racism might exist when it comes to police encounters, ect, but don't give me this *beep* that society as a whole still discriminates, cuz that is a load of *beep* The justice system is *beep* for anyone who is unfortunate enough to get ensnared(granted, a lot of blacks get *beep* with more than whites, when it comes to the cops) but.. that is more of a justice system issue; i get caught doing something, i'm branded a felon just as easily as any other race.. and yeah, in 2014, society has moved beyond racism; in fact i would say that due to affirmative action, positions are being filled by those who are unqualified, due to their "oppression" seen it first hand, i have a friend whose supervisor is loud and obnoxious and cannot write a schedule to save his or her life... but i would assume they got that position for one reason. do keep in mind this friend of mine has a black girlfriend, so before you start calling my friend racist, do check yourselves and resist the knee jerk reaction of calling racism... just BE YOURSELF... unless you run into the cops, then you are pretty much *beep*
Slave masters had black friends and girlfriends were they less wrong or ignorant?
shareI must have had a really bad day at work, then hit the liquor hard that night.. I do not remember writing this, nor do I feel that passionately about all of the topics I brought up in this post. I would say simply this;
1) The black man in this movie has anger problems and enjoys making those random white dudes feel white guilt.
2) There is a problem w/ the drug war/cop tactics in this country, that disproportionately affects African Americans/other non-white people..
3) HOWEVER.. This justice system issue, is not an inherently black/white issue.. That is a MAJOR part yet, I feel there is another aspect to the issue that is lost(as the conversation oftentimes only focuses on the race aspect to our failed justice system).
A cop will abuse their power to anyone that they feel has questioned their authority/is of the poverty stricken, criminal class/element. A cop will take you in, if you don't "show proper respect" regardless of skin color..(granted, the odds may be higher if you are black/non-white, not denying this), but a cop may feel just as entitled to shoot me if they feel I am "resisting" or "threatening their life"... Cops in our country have Externalized all risk to themselves, and passed this burden onto the average citizen, all in the name of "protecting" themselves while doing the potentially dangerous job that they Signed Up For.. I'm sorry, but if you can't physically subdue someone, w/out having to taze/shoot them(in a situation that is not even remotely life/death struggle(ex. Fruitville Train Station Incident(sp?)), then you should not be a cop. Our police force/justice system needs to get off of its own dick and they need to reassess their self image/stop recruiting trigger happy morons/bullies who only know how to escalate a situation, as it gives them a power wielding boner..
That was my main gripe.. And this fact gets lost in having tunnel vision on the purely race aspects to our society's value system. I hope this clarified my earlier, angry rant.
That Making a Murderer doc should prove that even being a white guy you can still get *beep* over by the American justice system.
Modern liberalism can only see race, it reminds me of the outrage over the police, the main problem with the police according to them is that they're "racist" plain and simple rather than the fact that they've been outfitted and told to act like an occupying military force, which is the bigger picture.
Racism is an element to these things but to pretend that's all there is to it is missing the bigger picture of a corrupt justice system/police militarization that affects all Americans, not just minorities.