An Observation

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Aug 15, 2021 11:05:20 GMT @saintray said:

Aug 15, 2021 10:48:57 GMT @flan327 said:

Yes

Because the statement about el Dumpo has been PROVEN to be true

Can you cite that information?

Helsinki proved flans opinion.

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Aug 15, 2021 10:56:14 GMT @saintray said:

Aug 15, 2021 2:29:00 GMT @im2 said:

You have that already. It's funny how you think. Everything you post is right in line with right wing racist thought but you say you're not that. You don't think yoi have white privilege becauae yiur ass got stopped one time for a busted taillight. I've been stopped nearly 100 time for nothing. In broad daylight. No busted tail liht, no speeding, nothing but DWB.So ease off on the snark. Because you do not face what blacks do regarding law enforcement or anything else no matter what you don't want to believe.

Consider this when you decide that what blacks and people talk about racism in policing.

. On July 17, 2016 Annalisa Merelli wrote an article on the quartz.com web site titled, “ More black people were killed by US police in 2015 than were lynched in the worst year of Jim Crow.” The title speaks for itself. Take a look at some of the facts she presents:

“According to the historic record “Lynchings, white and negroes” (pdf) kept by Alabama’s Tuskegee University, a total of 2,911 black Americans were lynched between 1890 and 1965, when the so-called Jim Crow laws were enforced. Beginning in the 1890s, these racist laws segregated black Americans in several states until about 1965. During this time, black Americans were often victims of unspeakable violence, and infamous extrajudicial lynchings.”

“On an average, 39 black people were lynched per year under Jim Crow. In 1892, the worst year, 161 black Americans were lynched.”

“More than a century later, the numbers have hardly improved. In 2015, 258 black people were killed by US police, representing over 26% of deaths.”

“For 2016, the trend seems similar. As of July 7, US police have shot dead 509 people this year, of whom 123 were black.”

“Even counting only the deaths of black people who were unarmed, the results are staggering. A conservative count puts that death toll at 38, right in line with the average during Jim Crow.”

In 2006, the FBI warned America about the infiltration of white supremacists into police departments. They were able to do so by using what are called ghost skins to apply for jobs in police departments. A ghost skin is a white supremacist who hides his/her white supremacist beliefs to blend into society and covertly help to further a racist agenda. These ghost skins operate in every occupation in America society, such is why claims of racism being in the past remains untrue. But the fact that white supremacists are wearing badges, are handed guns and given permission to end lives based on their discretion should concern all truly anti racist people.

“Although white supremacist groups have historically engaged in strategic efforts to infiltrate and recruit from law enforcement communities, current reporting on attempts reflects self-initiated efforts by individuals, particularly among those already within law enforcement ranks, to volunteer their professional resources to white supremacist causes with which they sympathize.”

Danielle Schulkin, White Supremacist Infiltration of US Police Forces: Fact-Checking National Security Advisor O’Brien, June 1, 2020, www.justsecurity.org/70507/white-supremacist-infiltration-of-us-police-forces-fact-checking-national-security-advisor-obrien/

Alice Speri, The FBI Has Quietly Investigated White Supremacist Infiltration Of Law Enforcement, The Intercept, January 31 2017, theintercept.com/2017/01/31/the-fbi-has-quietly-investigated-white-supremacist-infiltration-of-law-enforcement/

Michael German, Hidden in Plain Sight: Racism, White Supremacy, and Far-Right Militancy in Law Enforcement, August 27, 2020, Brennan Center for Justice, www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/hidden-plain-sight-racism-white-supremacy-and-far-right-militancy-law

“White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement”, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 17 October 2006, oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/White_Supremacist_Infiltration_of_Law_Enforcement.pdf

 Annalisa Merelli, More black people were killed by US police in 2015 than were lynched in the worst year of Jim Crow, July 7, 2016, qz.com/726245/more-black-people-were-killed-by-us-police-in-2015-than-were-lynched-in-the-worst-year-of-jim-crow/

I'm beyond arguing using my opinion. There is evidence that exists that shows there are white supremacists wearing police uniforms. So you can whine about a broad brush all you want, but nobody is painting a picture, we are holding up mirrors for people to face reality. 

I don’t deny that a substantial amount of racist people become police officers. Would you say those police departments that hire a large number of black officers are also racist towards black people? (Apple is racist- it keeps suggesting ‘black peoples’) Are all of those officers “Uncle Toms?”

Are there justifications for these DWB traffic stops? Typically, they come up with BS as an excuse for randomly stopping someone. Did those stops evolve into a search of the vehicle?

I have experienced those things, but admittedly not hundreds of times.

"Because most whites have not been trained to think with complexity about racism, and because it benefits white dominance not to do so, we have a very limited understanding of it (Kumashiro, 2009; LaDuke, 2009). We are the least likely to see, comprehend, or be invested in validating people of color’s assertions of racism and being honest about their consequences (King, 1991). At the same time, because of white social, economic, and political power within a white dominant culture, whites are the group in the position to legitimize people of color’s assertions of racism.Being in this position engenders a form of racial arrogance, and in this racial arrogance, whites have little compunction about debating the knowledge of people who have thought deeply about race through research, study, peer-reviewed scholarship, deep and on-going critical self-reflection, interracial relationships, and lived experience (Chinnery, 2008). This expertise is often trivialized and countered with simplistic platitudes, such as “people just need to see each other as individuals” or “see each other as humans” or “take personal responsibility.”

White lack of racial humility often leads to declarations of disagreement when in fact the problem is that we do not understand. Whites generally feel free to dismiss informed perspectives rather than have the humility to acknowledge that they are unfamiliar, reflect on them further, seek more information, or sustain a dialogue" (DiAngelo & Sensoy, 2009)."

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Aug 16, 2021 4:43:05 GMT @junes1 said:

Aug 15, 2021 3:33:37 GMT RichardInTN said:

How do you know that she does? I don't. No button on my keyboard is labeled [RETURN].

now you're just being silly!

No I'm being accurate.

I have an HP Omen Laptop. Here's an image of a keyboard for that laptop:



Take as much time as you like hunting for ANY key on there labeled [RETURN].