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originally posted by: MystikMushroom
So pointing out racial bias is being divisive?
So...we're just supposed to ignore the elephant in the room and hope it goes away? Put out heads in the sand like we've been doing, pretend like there's no problem?
I'm white and even I can see there's a real problem. Failure to acknowledge it is a far bigger crime.
Look, if he wants to do that, he should do it from another venue.
"We flood communities w/ so many guns, that it's easier for a teen to buy a Glock than get his hands on a computer."
President Obama referred to himself 45 times over the course of the speech he delivered Tuesday at the memorial service for the five police
A new study confirms that black men and women are treated differently in the hands of law enforcement. They are more likely to be touched, handcuffed, pushed to the ground or pepper-sprayed by a police officer, even after accounting for how, where and when they encounter the police
But when it comes to the most lethal form of force — police shootings — the study finds no racial bias.
It is the most surprising result of my career,” said Roland G. Fryer Jr., the author of the study and a professor of economics at Harvard. The study examined more than 1,000 shootings in 10 major police departments, in Texas, Florida and California.
www.nytimes.com...
If we hadn't swept race relations under rug after the civil rights movements of the 1960's, we wouldn't be where we are now, having these problems.
originally posted by: MystikMushroom
So pointing out racial bias is being divisive?
So...we're just supposed to ignore the elephant in the room and hope it goes away? Put out heads in the sand like we've been doing, pretend like there's no problem?
I'm white and even I can see there's a real problem. Failure to acknowledge it is a far bigger crime.
originally posted by: MystikMushroom
a reply to: neo96
I heard he was drinking or partying or whatever and no one could really figure out what Bush was up to. I'll have to watch it when I have the time.
originally posted by: MystikMushroom
It's so incredibly obvious that people are in denial about racism in America, and will do anything to ignore it and deny that it exists. No one wants to be a bad person, and everyone has to pick a side. So any time someone tries to have a frank, honest and open dialogue about race in America it turns into "RACE BAITER!" finger-pointing.