superodalisque
Well-Known Member
as a POC i have never understood why there was so much pretense of fear surrounding black men. violence, domestic terrorism etc... in this country has always been the domain of white males. the average criminal here has pretty much always been white males between the ages of 25-35 in my entire lifetime. the police are more likely to be killed by white males. yet, the image of the fear of violence in this country has always been portrayed with the face of a black male.
it's in the face of college bound Mike Brown who Ben Stein described as being big and scary as a reason why an unarmed man should be shot for jaywalking and similar reasoning was used when a new york policeman choked Eric Garner, a father desperate for money, to death because he was also evidently big black and scary, for selling one of his own cigarettes. civilian George Zimmerman, a man who once assaulted a policeman and was passing himself off as a neighborhood watchman was released after he shot an unarmed college bound Trayvon Martin to death much the regret of a hind sighted jury who did not have all of the facts that society at large did, for being suspiciously black in a middle class neighborhood. Michael Dunn, a drug abuser who regularly beat and abused two wives and a stepson said he felt threatened by the music of an SUV full of young black men at a gas station claiming that he thought he saw a gun after he started an argument. he shot randomly wounding the boys and killing college bound Jordan Davis.
these types of attacks are endemic to a very tenuous human rights position for black males in america who are very likely to be victimized or to be shot while unarmed by not only the police but stand your ground advocates so much so that the situation as it exists has been recognized by Amnesty international and the UN as a systemic and institution wide abuse. not only are they likely to be shot or arrested but so are their supporters and the press who captures evidence, like the priests, nuns and even a ninety some odd year old holocaust survivor was in Ferguson who were arrested or shot with rubber bullets and caught on tape being called the N word and N word lovers by the police.
i've always wondered where the unreasoning fear came from. there isn't an instance in american society where black males have ever carried out the purposeless mass nation wide violence they've been accused of. where does it come from? why does it exist? and why is it that white males, though much more of a criminal threat to american white society are never willingly viewed in that way even while rampaging through society pointing state sanctioned guns and killing indiscriminately in schools and movie theatres and blowing up buildings with daycare centers? why all of the fear for something that doesn't exist for the white community anywhere near the levels of hysteria?
it's in the face of college bound Mike Brown who Ben Stein described as being big and scary as a reason why an unarmed man should be shot for jaywalking and similar reasoning was used when a new york policeman choked Eric Garner, a father desperate for money, to death because he was also evidently big black and scary, for selling one of his own cigarettes. civilian George Zimmerman, a man who once assaulted a policeman and was passing himself off as a neighborhood watchman was released after he shot an unarmed college bound Trayvon Martin to death much the regret of a hind sighted jury who did not have all of the facts that society at large did, for being suspiciously black in a middle class neighborhood. Michael Dunn, a drug abuser who regularly beat and abused two wives and a stepson said he felt threatened by the music of an SUV full of young black men at a gas station claiming that he thought he saw a gun after he started an argument. he shot randomly wounding the boys and killing college bound Jordan Davis.
these types of attacks are endemic to a very tenuous human rights position for black males in america who are very likely to be victimized or to be shot while unarmed by not only the police but stand your ground advocates so much so that the situation as it exists has been recognized by Amnesty international and the UN as a systemic and institution wide abuse. not only are they likely to be shot or arrested but so are their supporters and the press who captures evidence, like the priests, nuns and even a ninety some odd year old holocaust survivor was in Ferguson who were arrested or shot with rubber bullets and caught on tape being called the N word and N word lovers by the police.
i've always wondered where the unreasoning fear came from. there isn't an instance in american society where black males have ever carried out the purposeless mass nation wide violence they've been accused of. where does it come from? why does it exist? and why is it that white males, though much more of a criminal threat to american white society are never willingly viewed in that way even while rampaging through society pointing state sanctioned guns and killing indiscriminately in schools and movie theatres and blowing up buildings with daycare centers? why all of the fear for something that doesn't exist for the white community anywhere near the levels of hysteria?
