US police brutality item

[Rev. Rye]

Mr. Freeman’s comments notwithstanding, I think it’s perfectly acceptable to identify race in a story about racism. It’s immaterial at this point whether the racism is real or perceived.

It would be lovely if everyone could be colourblind in the interest of racial harmony, but we’re not there yet. And we won’t be as long as white cops keep murdering black people with impunity.

Boru

I actually don't see the merits in being 100% colorblind. Are people so irredeemable as to require blinders in order not to hate? It's okay to notice someone looks different from you. It's just not okay to treat them differently or expect them to have different rights because of it. I love admiring the diversity in our appearance. It would be a shame if we had to pretend not to notice because racists can't handle having more than one type of sneech on the beach.

Given that A) the concept of race as we understand it exists solely because people were fucking with other nations whose people looked very different from them And wanted an easy excuse to treat them as less than them, and B) the concept is still going strong even as we figured out colonialism and slavery were bad things, it makes a hell of a lot of sense to me. And, frankly, if, after over a half a century of us trying to overcome that hurdle, with society trying to drum the issue that racism is bad into our heads, we still end up with a President whose platform consists solely of vague bullshit and racism in varying levels of ambiguity (after a campaign of over 16 months spent of him doing nothing but acting like a wrestling heel very publicly, mind you), I fear we might have actually just reached that point of irredeemability.

That said, doing so will be little more effective than ignoring the big fucking African Elephant bull that’s going through musth on the other side of your room, but it’s not like the last eight or so years have helped in this regard.