The police told the guy not to follow anyone.
The 911 operator told him not to follow the kid.
If he had let it go as he were instructed, the kid with skittles and iced tea would still be alive.
I will refrain from calling you an asshole because I believe you misinterpreted my post. You really put a lot of words in my mouth.
I was responding to someone who is not from the USA who had some strange generalizations about us.
The 911 operator told him not to follow the kid.
If he had let it go as he were instructed, the kid with skittles and iced tea would still be alive.
you are so full of shit!
I am a middle class white male living as a minority in a mostly black community. It's like having a special pass from the cops. I am very aware that my black neighbors are treated very different by the cops.
If there is no systemic racism, please explain why so many more black people than white people are arrested for cannabis possession, despite the fact that rates of use among blacks and whites are pretty much the same.
I am very aware of the special privileges I have due to the color of my skin.
As for the assertion that Zimmerman "is not white", come on, who are we fucking kidding here??? Go to any Latin American country and you will quickly realize there are white people there with special privileges. The classes came from a rigid, government enforced caste system based on eugenics style racial theory. Being "Latino" does nothing to explain away the real situation facing black people in the USA.
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He's white. His life has not been spent under constant suspicion. He belongs instead to the group doing the suspecting. This man belongs to the same club I belong to. The white people club. When I talk to a cop, I look him in the eye, I always speak with confidence, and I know my rights. If I were black, the rules would be totally different. I would have to lower my gaze, never challenge the authority, and I would have to be obsequious at all times. If I were a parent of black children, I would have to prepare them for how to deal with the police according to the rules black people have to follow.
Think about it. How many of you with kids have to have a realistic talk about how they will be singled out for extra scrutiny because of the way they look? As a kid, I had to MAKE myself look different to "look suspicious". It was exciting for me to be perceived as "up to no good". But eventually I was able to cut my hair and dress "normally". Black people are stuck being black for life.
sounds like some of us think "latino" means only the unskilled labor you see immigrating to the US from southern neighbors.
I will refrain from calling you an asshole because I believe you misinterpreted my post. You really put a lot of words in my mouth.
I was responding to someone who is not from the USA who had some strange generalizations about us.