(October 10, 2021 at 4:19 pm)Lawz Wrote: Rather than denoting anti-black looking racism as being the cause of racial disparity in income/crime etc etc etc, is it not more likely, especially given that racism of that type is vociferously and utterly condemned across virtually all Western media and culture for at least the last 40 years, that hatred of "the white man's game" causes black looking people's disenfranchisement, and rage, causing crime and further disenfranchisement?
It is also, sadly, an unavoidable truth that Black Lives Matter etc etc etc, where anti-black looking racism by white looking people is denoted to be ubiquitous in both occurrence and profundity, will only serve to strengthen and reinforce those feelings of rage and reluctance to "play the game" of the "straight and narrow white path."
If I were a black looking man, living in the states, and believed the BLM narrative to be true, I think I'd be unwilling to comply with mainstream "white" culture too...I'd also be tempted to buy a gun out of misanthropic rage, in all likelihood, maligned as I would feel from mainstream (white looking) society at large.
What brought this post on? Watching the 2021 remake of Candyman - woke isn't the word....BLM narrative hysteria blown out of proportion more than the (appalling) killing of George Floyd himself, more like. Ill advised in the extreme, basically - beyond divisive, given the meat drawn in this thread.
Controversial, I know, but the truth, as I see it, must out.
I hate the word "controversy", when there is none. In science, scientists have, throughout history, had competing ideas about how to solve a problem. But there are some things, once settled in peer review, that do not need to be questioned, like gravity and evolution.
You are not being controversial, you are being ignorant.
You might as well argue "If they would only act white".
Floyd's death was not "blown out of proportion". It is a data fact that between blacks and other minorities, when dealing with police, they get treated harsher by police and the courts.
