Whatever would Doctor King have said? Police brutality in the 21st century

DwnWthVwls · 04-19-2015, 06:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Oriphiel

This has been brought up as well, earlier in the thread:

Thanks.

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Originally Posted by Josef K

But I mean the neighborhood stuff is also about race. There are a lot of complex factors obviously, but the big reason that more violent neighborhoods tend to be more heavily minority is centuries of oppression, most recently including decades of housing discrimination.

That's kind of the point. Police brutality is a bi-product of systematic racial oppression that has been happening since this country was founded. Does eliminating racial profiling and minority deaths by cop do anything to solve the real problem? If I was a justice warrior I would be attacking the issue at it's core rather than police brutality (which in reality is a blip of a problem in the grand scheme of things). I feel like people focus on this issue because it is easier to solve and easier to blame other's for. At the end of the day racial discrimination will never change until the ghettos are dissolved or white people are the ghetto majority.

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Originally Posted by Soulflower

That post was obviously not directed at you and was directed at the immature posters commenting on the topic.

Anyone who disagrees with you is ignorant and immature. Old news.

This discussion is really no different from arguing with you about music. Have you ever thought about why you are the minority on almost every point you decide to stand behind, even though you're not the only racial minority on the forum?

Josef K · 04-19-2015, 06:38 PM

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

That's kind of the point. Police brutality is a bi-product of systematic racial oppression that has been happening since this country was founded. Does eliminating racial profiling and minority deaths by cop do anything to solve the real problem? If I was a justice warrior I would be attacking the issue at it's core rather than police brutality (which in reality is a blip of a problem in the grand scheme of things). I feel like people focus on this issue because it is easier to solve and easier to blame other's for. At the end of the day racial discrimination will never change until the ghetto's are dissolved or white people are the ghetto majority.

I agree with this for the most part. I guess I thought you were agreeing with everybody else that this "isn't about race" for some reason.

~~Soulflower~~ · 04-19-2015, 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

Thanks.

Anyone who disagrees with you is ignorant and immature. Old news.

This discussion is really no different from arguing with you about music. Have you ever thought about why you are the minority on almost every point you decide to stand behind, even though you're not the only racial minority on the forum?

Actually there are some people who actually DO agree with my stance on this issue.