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[–]usehername 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Who are all these racist anti-black people she referred to?

She still never said all white people.

But that will require them to accept that many of their problems come from within their culture.

I'll agree that whitey is sometimes used like a boogeyman for everything that's going wrong for black people in the U.S., but at the same time, we need to recognize the impact slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, redlining, and other racist policies since have negatively impacted them. Plus, racism on an individual level is still very much alive.

they're overrepresented relative to population but underrepresented relative to crime rate.

I see what you're getting at here, but most police killings don't happen while the suspect is committing a violent crime, the majority of them happen when an officer responds to a report of a non-violent crime, no crime, or a traffic violation. https://policeviolencereport.org/

why is it all about Floyd?

I agree. He was a terrible person. I can't believe they put a statue of him up. The reason everyone flipped out about him instead of someone better like Breonna Taylor was because of the long, graphic video. Then, they released the bodycam footage so there were two angles. People just obsessed over the footage, and it was horrible.

What about the kids hit by stray bullets that never make national news?

They should broadcast that as a deterrent. Right now, gang activity is seen as cool and young people with underdeveloped brains and mental illnesses get into it without understanding the consequences. It doesn't absolve them of responsibility when something does happen, but if the consequences (other than incarceration, which just makes things worse and many young people think is cool anyway) were broadcasted more widely, I think we'd see less violent gang activity. No one wants to publicize the negative side because they want to seem woke.