BurtWorm
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Thu Jul-23-09 10:55 AM
Response to Reply #20 |
| 24. Then how did we get to the point we're at? |
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Why are a quarter of black men arrested? Are a quarter of black men criminal? Are too many cops too eager to arrest people because they're black? Or is something fundamentally fucked up with the way law enforcement works in African-American communities?
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| -Is American law enforcement fundamentally racist? |
BurtWorm |
Jul-23-09 10:21 AM |
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Bah. I only clicked this thread to see the word "tumultuous". |
BlooInBloo |
Jul-23-09 10:22 AM |
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Thank you for being the first to use that word in this thread. |
BurtWorm |
Jul-23-09 10:25 AM |
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Be prepared for very disappointing poll results. |
BlooInBloo |
Jul-23-09 10:38 AM |
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As long as our law enforcement system is based on violence, |
Critters2 |
Jul-23-09 10:22 AM |
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And Classist |
Echo In Light |
Jul-23-09 10:24 AM |
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Absolutely! |
catbyte |
Jul-23-09 10:42 AM |
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Fundamentally Racist? No... Universally Hostile and Alienating? Yes! |
Sen. Walter Sobchak |
Jul-23-09 10:26 AM |
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+1 |
ProgressiveProfessor |
Jul-23-09 10:45 AM |
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I'm just stunned at such a blanket statement |
Donnachaidh |
Jul-23-09 10:33 AM |
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The statement you are objecting to is...what? |
BurtWorm |
Jul-23-09 10:34 AM |
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all law enforcement are racist. |
Donnachaidh |
Jul-23-09 10:38 AM |
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The question is *is* law enforcement racist: is the system racist. |
BurtWorm |
Jul-23-09 10:51 AM |
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White folks commonly object when asked to call other white folks racist.... |
BlooInBloo |
Jul-23-09 10:40 AM |
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I have no problem with it |
booley |
Jul-23-09 10:55 AM |
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That is just like asking are all Black folk fundamentally homophobic. |
xultar |
Jul-23-09 10:34 AM |
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... and then dividing the "no" answers between three choices. n/t |
lumberjack_jeff |
Jul-23-09 10:36 AM |
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No, I don't think so. |
BurtWorm |
Jul-23-09 10:41 AM |
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Well of course the law is for everyone so the law system isn't. But maybe some cops are but it |
xultar |
Jul-23-09 10:44 AM |
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Then how did we get to the point we're at? |
BurtWorm |
Jul-23-09 10:55 AM |
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I think there are racist cops amongst the mostly good. I also think the black community |
xultar |
Jul-23-09 11:14 AM |
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Our prisons contain a disproportionate number of blacks and Latinos. |
EFerrari |
Jul-23-09 11:06 AM |
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That doesn't make Law Enforcement the blame...there I see poverty...or class |
xultar |
Jul-23-09 12:18 PM |
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This shit is deep and it isn't only about law enforcement. |
EFerrari |
Jul-23-09 04:55 PM |
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Like at Shawshank. Everyone there is innocent. |
N7255Q |
Jul-23-09 12:22 PM |
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I'm not talking about innocence, although the Innocence Project |
EFerrari |
Jul-23-09 04:57 PM |
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Law Enforcement as a concept, no. The practitioners... |
TCJ70 |
Jul-23-09 10:36 AM |
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Doesn't an analysis of the way the law is enforced show that this is definitely true? |
redqueen |
Jul-23-09 10:37 AM |
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no |
ccharles000 |
Jul-23-09 10:39 AM |
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Stops and arrests are ubiquitously, disproportionately biased against blacks. |
HiFructosePronSyrup |
Jul-23-09 10:41 AM |
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Without question it is. |
VMI Dem |
Jul-23-09 10:44 AM |
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Many seem to be missing the real issue |
booley |
Jul-23-09 10:50 AM |
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You're right about authoritarians but racial profiling is a very real issue. |
EFerrari |
Jul-23-09 11:10 AM |
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It is a problem but |
booley |
Jul-23-09 12:43 PM |
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The question is, if Gates were white, would the outcome have been different? |
BurtWorm |
Jul-23-09 11:15 AM |
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How tragically sad that he couldn't manage to connect those dots. |
redqueen |
Jul-23-09 11:16 AM |
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Yes and no. |
booley |
Jul-23-09 12:48 PM |
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With black men, it seems like a matter of course. |
BurtWorm |
Jul-23-09 12:55 PM |
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The two aren't exclusive |
booley |
Jul-24-09 02:02 PM |
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remove two words and one letter and you have your answer |
CBGLuthier |
Jul-23-09 10:58 AM |
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The entire criminal justice system is. |
rucky |
Jul-23-09 11:22 AM |
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Course not. Grossly higher proportions of non-white people go to |
daninthemoon |
Jul-23-09 11:44 AM |
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It sure the hell is in many places. |
hunter |
Jul-23-09 11:45 AM |
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Racist, and Sexist, here |
doodadem |
Jul-23-09 12:00 PM |
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Anyone know what % of law enforcement is made of minorities? |
timeforpeace |
Jul-23-09 12:20 PM |
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I don't think the INSTITUTION is racist, but a lot of the members of that |
old mark |
Jul-23-09 01:10 PM |
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Yes, and what's weird is many non-white cops adopt the same attitude |
Cleita |
Jul-23-09 01:16 PM |
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They sure are here in Idaho |
cayanne |
Jul-23-09 03:05 PM |
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Yes |
merh |
Jul-24-09 02:05 PM |
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More classist than racist. |
LostInAnomie |
Jul-24-09 02:07 PM |
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