The REAL Problem with McKinney

[sheshe2]

We are supposed to protect our children. Hell, if I saw a little girl that I didn’t know being thrown around like a rag doll, I would intervene, at the risk of getting my head bashed in. I’ve done it before. That’s what decent people do. We all live here, folks; and we all should be taking care of each other. Unfortunately, there is way too much “them-ism” when it comes to black people. I don’t know what it is, but when most white people (and yes, even a whole lot of liberals – I’ll get to that in a minute) see black people, they see “unruly.” The neighbors who called police didn’t see a bunch of teenagers having a good time; they saw a bunch of “savages” causing trouble. What is it with white people – and I don’t just mean here in the United States; it happens in other countries, too – that makes them fearful when they see black people just trying to enjoy life? The only thing I can think of is, they must be worried that black people will want to do to white people what white people did to them for many years.

I hate to break it to you, white folks, but they make up about 14 percent of the population; if they wanted to cause some shit, they could cause some serious shit. Yet, they don’t. You don’t actually see gangs of black people roaming the streets of Beverly Hills and burning down homes. You don’t see them moving into formerly white neighborhoods and trashing their property; if you see garbage in the front yard and a car up on blocks, I can almost guarantee the owner is a fat white beer-swilling redneck. Have you been in a trailer park? Those are not usually inhabited by non-white people.

And while many white liberals are thinking right now, “Well at least he’s not talking about me,” well, think again. Many white liberals are almost as bad as a typical modern-day Republican. Black people don’t need us to treat them like they’re children who need our help to survive. Advocate to help them change the system so they can live their own lives in whatever way they see fit; don’t pity them and be patronizing to them. “They” don’t need our help to live; they need our votes and our advocacy to make the system stop screwing them.

And let’s be real, folks; going to college, getting a degree and studying sociology does not make any white person understand the black experience. You can’t; it’s impossible. All you can do is observe. White privilege is not something someone made up, and white liberals who deny its existence infuriate me. It has nothing to do with your wealth and your upbringing. it has nothing to do with how hard you had to work to get where you are.

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I can’t imagine what it’s like to be black, and I would never insult a black person by pretending that I do. Our purpose as liberals is not to understand it, but to acknowledge that things are not equal and work to fix that. What happened in McKinney had everything to do with race, and the divisions that exist and continue to be propagated. I’m sorry, but if you side with that police officer in that situation, the only thing I can say for you is, you have no compassion. That officer was treating that little girl like no one should ever be treated, period. And police were called by someone who only did so because those kids were black, and, let’s face it; black people who are having a good time are “unruly,” according to a whole lot of white people. Every year, when a white college wins a championship, white people go crazy, loot stores and turn over cars, but the word “riot” is only used when black people are killed by police for no good reason in “black cities” like Baltimore and Ferguson.

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It is well past time that we address these issues. We must help advocate change.

[freshwest]

1. 'Star sixty-nine reality!' n/t

[sheshe2]

2. Love ya, freshwest.

[jaysunb]

3. +1 n/t

[tblue37]

4. I wish someone with technical talent could tweak the video of Casebolt's out of control

behavior and cussing and his assault on the young girl so that the kids he was shouting F-bombs at were white and the young girl he outrageously manhandled actually did look like a blonde, white 14-year-old in a bikini, and so all her friends who tried to rescue her were also white.

If the most deliberately clueless people could see the same assault and the same overreaction against her friends being committed against white kids, I bet they'd recoil in horror and disgust.

Oh, and just to make the racism more obvious, suppose Casebolt were a black cop assulting a blonde teenaged girl, twice smacking another white girl in the face, and drawing his gun on two white boys the way he did to two black kids in this video. Do you think those same people would be saying that the cop was justified and the kids were "animals" who deserved to be abused that way?