Unthinking Majority wrote:Of course they're being racist, and yes a lot of it is hatred and resentment. I'm giving you the reason why many of them are. I'm sure there are some if not many police who are just straight up racist a-holes and would be no matter if white people made up 90% of all criminals. But there are many police, even normally good people, who have worked for years and start racially profiling based on what they deal with every day. As I said, when you work for years & see that one particular demographic is committing crimes far more than other groups, you can grow prejudicial, and this can quickly turn into resentment and even hatred.
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Around 50% of the crime including violent crime in the USA is committed by blacks, who make up only 13% of the population. Among this 13%, the large majority is committed by poor young black males. Of course there's a crisis. They are human beings too, and we need to empathize with them, and ask why they are doing this. One of the key reasons is poverty, which has largely been brought about by generational racism throughout history.
This argument is completely bogus. Over-policing of black communities inflates black crime rates as more blacks get arrested than whites for similar offences. Black communities are over-policed because of institutional racism, not because individual officers believe black people commit more crimes. Racial bias in police encounters is real, but that's not why there are regressive policing policies in black communities.
I think all 3 are a crisis, and all 3 create a feedback loop that perpetuates each other.
To say that there is a national crisis of criminality among a racial minority group is some pretty cringe karen tier fash shit.
Unthinking Majority wrote:How do you not understand how racism has been reduced in the US since the 1960's?
I'm not saying there's still isn't a lot of racism in the US, but it's certainly leaps and bounds better than the 60's. For instance, a black POTUS would never have been elected in the 60's or 70's.
Discrimination has been greatly reduced, as with overt bigotry and prejudice among a great deal of the populace. But I don't think you understand what racism is if you think it hasn't worsened during the nearly four decades of attacks on public programs and social security that have decimated black communities and incarcerated millions.