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Here we go again
http://news.yahoo.com/justice-for-ma...122825386.html
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this is getting ridiculous... soon, cities will burn, thousands will riot, marches will be organized all because of some slightest injustice - be it real or imagined - that is carried out against a black guy. white dude cut a black dude off in traffic - burn down half of Chicago white dude stole a black dude's parking spot - March on whatever White dude shot and killed a black dude in the middle of an armed robbery - start a twitter campaign and hashtag the crap out of everybody are white people not arrested by the police and hauled into jails with blood on their faces? are white people not shot dead by officers? sure they are, but generally you have an entire society of white folks saying that the POS got what they had coming thank the officer and get back to whatever it is they were doing when it happens "on the other side of the tracks" however, society is suddenly imbalanced, injustice only happens the brown people, white privilege is to blame etc so where does madness of this kind end? and where does personal responsibility begin? If the police single out the African-American (i abhor that term by the way) segment of our society then how is it that i can personally know so many of them who haven't ever even had a run in with the authorities outside of a speeding ticket identical to the ones white folks get? If there is so much white privilege in the United States these days, how is it that 3 of my last 5 bosses were black men and women easily earning twice the annual salary i make? is it that socioeconomic condition is color blind? is it that justice is color blind? I always look at these images with a grain of salt. I have people in my family who i haven't seen in ten years because they are still in prison. on the other end of the spectrum i have a good number of police in my family. an astoundingly high number of injuries sustained during an arrest are self inflicted. ie... you did that to yourself trying to escape through that plate glass window... you did that to yourself jumping off the second floor balcony... you did that to yourself running from the police into busy traffic. or more commonly in facial injuries - you were like that when we got to the scene of the bar fight you were in. others just see a bloody black dude and want something to march about. Im willing to give the Martese's of this world the benefit of the doubt, really i am, because sure, its possible that the ONE skinhead, hillbilly, neo-nazi cop in Charlottesville out to put the hurt on a black dude responded to the call, or better yet just said screw it and walked into a random bar and started wailing on the first black dude he came upon... but lets get the whole story before we start going insane in the streets with rage, marching on police stations, applying broad brush strokes to police officers, occupying campuses etc. our society is so reactionary to these sorts of things. 9 times out of 10 we dont even know what the circumstances behind the incident are until several weeks or months later yet we feel compelled to do something NOW. the time to march, hashtag, pep rally, self immolate etc is when it is proven that the actions taken by police were in fact unjustified - not the day after the incident takes place. for all we know this guy was either a) binge raping puppies in front of an orphanage or b) is the victim of senseless police violence can we not wait until one of those possibilities is eliminated before we raise the roof of up in this place?
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