An RNC Speaker Said Cops Would Be 'Smart' to Racially Profile Her Own Son

[demmiblue]

One of the Republican National Convention’s top speakers said in a recent video that it would be “smart” for a police officer to racially profile her biracial son, because “statistically, my brown son is more likely to commit a violent offense over my white sons.”

“I recognize that I’m gonna have to have a different conversation with Jude than I do with my brown-haired little Irish, very, very pale-skinned, white sons, as they grow up,” Abby Johnson, a prominent anti-abortion activist, said in a 15-plus-minutes video posted to YouTube in late June, after weeks of nationwide protests against the police killing of George Floyd.

“Right now, Jude is an adorable, perpetually tan-looking little brown boy,” said Johnson, whose husband blogged, in 2015, about adopting their biracial son at his birth. Johnson is white. “But one day, he’s going to grow up and he’s going to be a tall, probably sort of large, intimidating-looking-maybe brown man. And my other boys are probably gonna look like nerdy white guys.”

But the fact that the police could one day view her sons differently, simply due to the color of their skin, doesn’t make Johnson mad, she said. Instead, it makes sense to her.

“Statistically, I look at our prison population and see that there is a disproportionately high number of African-American males in our prison population for crimes, particularly for violent crimes. So statistically, when a police officer sees a brown man like my Jude walking down the road — as opposed to my white nerdy kids, my white nerdy men walking down the road — because of the statistics that he knows in his head, that these police officers know in their head, they’re going to know that statistically my brown son is more likely to commit a violent offense over my white sons.”

“So the fact that in his head, he would be more careful around my brown son than my white son, that doesn’t actually make me angry. That makes that police officer smart, because of statistics.”

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/935me3/an-rnc-speaker-said-cops-would-be-smart-to-racially-profile-her-own-son?utm_source=vicenewstwitter

[Nevilledog]

1. That kid is fucked.

[soothsayer]

2. Not to put too fine a point on it

[Faux pas]

3. Kickin' with disgust!

You know you're effed up in the head when you are willing to sacrifice your brown child for your white ones.

JFCOAGDFC.

[SWBTATTReg]

4. the rnc is dwelling on trying to quiet charges that it's the party of racists, bigots, etc. and I

think that they are failing miserably on this count. Every time only of these idiots speaks at this idiotic convention, they simply prove to all again and again that they are, indeed without question, the party of racist bigots, family be damned, etc.

[SharonClark]

5. Poor Jude. He's been adopted by a raving racist.

[BannonsLiver]

6. Sometimes adoption is bad for children. That's my takeaway here

[unblock]

7. mother of the year. statistically, the police is more likely to pointlessly kill your biracial son.

but go on, encourage them to stereotype and use skin color to form biases they could eventually jeopardize his life when they're just "walking down the street".


good police work relies on facts and information relevant to actual crimes. why is "profiling" even necessary? how about reacting to actual crimes and looking for the actual perpetrators?

[LisaL]

8. This child is adopted.

Gotta wonder why they would adopt him if that is what they think about him.

[gopiscrap]

9. how much are the repukes paying her

[MoonchildCA]

10. Statistically, there is a higher proportion of African American males in our prisons,

Because of racial profiling, and because of the lack of justice in the way they are treated, prosecuted and sentenced, not to mention the lack of services and investment in the communities many of them grow up in.

I feel very sorry for her “brown” son.

[Solly Mack]

11. Damn.

Disgusting. Horrifying.

[qwlauren35]

12. There is some sad ignorance here.

The majority of white people who commit violent crimes serve shorter sentences. And there are black people in jail for violent crimes who didn't do them. We already know that some poor guy in LA who stole hedge clippers in in jail for life.

If this is what she wants for her son she is a sick b*tch. And "B*tch" is appropriate, because she is a mother.

[Alacritous Crier]

13. WTaF????!!!

Disgusting!

[OneBro]

14. Does she not understand who it is that compiles the statistics she so believes in?

The racist police agencies that rode side by side with the KKK in ages past are the same racist police agencies that send in unverified, slanted data about crime in their jurisdictions. I don't have the stomach to watch the RNC white power rally, but does she suggest that her white sons should be profiled because school shooters and domestic terrorists are OVERWHELMINGLY white males? Does she suggest that Catholic priests be profiled as presumed pedophiles since no other entity in the history of the world has more documented cases of child rapist on its payroll? Surely she did, right?

[durablend]

15. There's no bottom for these people

None whatsoever.

Wonder if Ms. Johnson would be fine with her kid being beaten or shot and killed?