Dear White Folks, we've got to stop killing each other!! How're blacks supposed to see us as responsible and credible on the issue of racial profiling by police if they know damn well we're killing each other everyday in our all-white neighborhoods? How're they supposed to respect us if we don't respect ourselves? And it's not because we're inherently more violent: we're Christian, just like they are; and our white brothers and sisters in Norway, Sweden, Germany, England... you name it, aren't killing each other like animals in their streets, homes and offices like we are. We've just got to LOVE our white brothers and sisters more... And for God's sake, we got to stop selling each other meth, heroin and other opioids! Those drugs are worse than anything outsiders could do to oppress us! It's an epidemic! We have to clean up our own communities before we can expect blacks to give us a sympathetic hearing. I'm just saying, we white folks can't just be complaining all the time about the burdens of reverse racism; nor can we lay all the blame at our economic station or the condition of our all-white schools and neighborhoods. First we have to take some responsibility for ourselves and end the violence. Peace!
White-on-white murder in America is out of control
By Matthew Yglesias
February 20, 2015 | Vox
URL: http://www.vox.com/2014/8/21/6053811/white-on-white-murder
Showing posts with label police brutality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label police brutality. Show all posts
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Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Taibbi: NYPD protests by making arrests 'only when they have to'?!
Before you jump with a knee-jerk reaction in defense of the NYPD because they saved the universe on 9/11, you should keep in mind that "... the protesting [NYC] police have decided to make arrests "only when they have to." (Let that sink in for a moment. Seriously, take 10 or 15 seconds)."
Yeah, think about that. Isn't that how we want police to do their job all the time?
By Matt Taibbi
December 31, 2014 | Rolling Stone
Sunday, June 23, 2013
T-shirts show semi-fascist police culture
Like many people, I don't like the police. They make me nervous. They give me speeding tickets on empty roads. They talk in that ridiculous, officious police-report diction. They are inherently politically conservative. And I doubt their motives for becoming policemen in the first place: inferiority complexes; the desire for power over others; the right to brandish a gun and use violence, etc.
Nevertheless, I admit our police are necessary. And I'm sure, objectively, that most cops want to serve and protect people, not bully and intimidate them. What I don't like is the increasing militarization of our police; and this separation between "us" and "them," especially in big city police forces that often look on local residents as an enemy force.
Radley Balko's article is fascinating and, at first glance, there does seem to be a connection between all these violent, semi-fascist T-shirts popular among police, and instances of police brutality and false evidence. Check it out!
By Radley Balko
June 21, 2013 | Huffington Post
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