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In reply to the discussion: About that young lady the cop brutally attacked over the pool party.... [View all]gollygee
(22,336 posts)This incident encapsulates the problem with racism in this country. 1) White people see black people and assume, incorrectly, that they don't belong in the neighborhood (most of them actually lived in the community and they were invited by a resident to the pool; 2) white people assume the black folks live in government subsidized housing; 3) white people assume that they themselves DON'T live in government subsidized housing, even though I bet every damned one of them took a mortgage interest deduction this year; 4) white people then call the police on black youth and insist that the unarmed black youth were a threat to the safety and lives of armed police; 5) white people yell racial slurs at black people but still consider the black youth the aggressors; 6) white people defend a cop when he violently assaults a black youth and pulls gun on others; 7) rinse, repeat...