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BecomingV -> RE: Fearful Of Police (3/8/2014 12:39:46 AM)
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http://newsone.com/2023676/police-brutality-against-blacks/
This article was written in 2012 and it highlights some of the matters that, I think, prompted your OP. While I admire the career of the writer, she does point to the 4th Amendment in the Bill of Rights as if it were still intact. Has she not heard of the Patriot Act and how it squashed the 4th Amendment into history?
I'm involved in human rights' activism so the racial/police/justice system problem comes up a lot. I'm white, I'm aware and I care. More than platitudes, I educate myself on the issues and vote accordingly. I sign petitions. I donate money and time and skills. Often, to no avail. I'm going to keep trying. I am not okay with black people's systemic oppression in my country.
I must admit to an intellectual resentment of black men, though. Way back when, black men and women joined with white women to get the vote. The black men saw that if they dumped the women, they could advance. They betrayed us. For that reason, the issue of racism, while very important, is not my personal priority. Women's rights are.
I also want to agree with the poster who said that if you treat cops like you and they are on the same side, then you won't tap into their trained paranoia. Let them know all is well.
I'm trying to be careful and clear. I don't want to come off like those who say women need to dress differently or they need to accept at least some responsibility for the rape-y nature, choices and actions of the predator who attacked them. Baloney! Get the focus off of the victims and onto the sick and damaged rapists. Oh, and get their brothers to man up on the subject, too.
Anyway, I do think there is a failure to prepare young black people to assimilate into American culture. Slavery descendants may feel motivated to reject the society which enslaved them, but I posit that their parents need to step up and help them get over it. Be angry, act civil and intelligent and make changes... but don't live in anger.
I see, in my daily life, black people who double park, disrupting the flow for others. I see slow, meandering walks in front of moving cars with a confrontational stare added in for what? Ego? Is that how power is attained? How pathetic and what a waste. Oh, and they look stupid... you know, Darwinism and all that. They reflect poorly on their elders in this way. I also sit in my own house and my teeth vibrate because some entitled idiot decides to blare their radio with what I think should be unlawful levels of bass.
So, I generally see, in my city, black people who refuse to act in ways that respect the rights of others. If I were a cop, who was trained to spot criminals, I don't know how I would not recognize the hostility and aggression in these acts.
Maybe in other cities, people are experiencing the racial interactions differently?
In short, I don't know that black people fear cops so much as reject and hate cops. It's a global statement, of course, which implies exceptions.
Another take on this is that I am white. Do I fear black cops more than I fear white cops? Maybe. I do check to see if the black guy is putting out racist vibes.
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