RE: Critical Race Theory
January 11, 2022 at 4:51 pm
(This post was last modified: January 11, 2022 at 4:52 pm by Spongebob.)
@Ahriman
Examples of white police officers and other white people making bad assumptions about black people is so numerous that one would need to be willfully ignorant to not be aware of the issue. The entire BLM movement of last year was all about this issue, being sparked by the killing of black people like George Floyd and Amhad Arbury. But for every murder of a black person, there are probably hundreds, if not thousands, of minor incidents involving police, business owners, bankers, or just any old Karen, who treat black people like second class citizens (or worse). How an you be unaware of this?
Example:
The trial of a former suburban San Diego police officer who is facing felony charges of falsely documenting a controversial 2020 arrest finished its closing arguments on Wednesday, Dec. 8. The trial began more than 18 months after viral videos first showed an encounter that began with the cop mistaking a cellphone for a cigarette.
On May 27, 2020, La Mesa, California, police officer Matthew Dages approached Amaurie Johnson as the 29-year-old Black man was standing outside of an apartment building waiting for some friends to come out and join him.
Johnson had been using his phone, and Dages, who is white, had been in the area with other officers who were on a trolley fare enforcement operation near the Grossmont Transit Center in La Mesa. The officer explained his version of the encounter during his testimony on Wednesday.
“I thought he was smoking from where I was standing,” Dages said on the witness stand, explaining that he mistook the action of Johnson lifting and lowering his phone as smoking.
When Johnson replied that he wasn’t smoking and was merely using his phone and waiting for some friends to come out of the apartments, he went from being questioned to detained, as he explained in his own witness testimony last week.
The officer was eventually fired and the charges dismissed. Johnson got lucky in this case. This is just plain racism, I'm not even invoking CRT at this point but CRT is at the root of this behavior.
People can't be forced to care about anything. But you can admit when you are wrong.
Examples of white police officers and other white people making bad assumptions about black people is so numerous that one would need to be willfully ignorant to not be aware of the issue. The entire BLM movement of last year was all about this issue, being sparked by the killing of black people like George Floyd and Amhad Arbury. But for every murder of a black person, there are probably hundreds, if not thousands, of minor incidents involving police, business owners, bankers, or just any old Karen, who treat black people like second class citizens (or worse). How an you be unaware of this?
Example:
The trial of a former suburban San Diego police officer who is facing felony charges of falsely documenting a controversial 2020 arrest finished its closing arguments on Wednesday, Dec. 8. The trial began more than 18 months after viral videos first showed an encounter that began with the cop mistaking a cellphone for a cigarette.
On May 27, 2020, La Mesa, California, police officer Matthew Dages approached Amaurie Johnson as the 29-year-old Black man was standing outside of an apartment building waiting for some friends to come out and join him.
Johnson had been using his phone, and Dages, who is white, had been in the area with other officers who were on a trolley fare enforcement operation near the Grossmont Transit Center in La Mesa. The officer explained his version of the encounter during his testimony on Wednesday.
“I thought he was smoking from where I was standing,” Dages said on the witness stand, explaining that he mistook the action of Johnson lifting and lowering his phone as smoking.
When Johnson replied that he wasn’t smoking and was merely using his phone and waiting for some friends to come out of the apartments, he went from being questioned to detained, as he explained in his own witness testimony last week.
The officer was eventually fired and the charges dismissed. Johnson got lucky in this case. This is just plain racism, I'm not even invoking CRT at this point but CRT is at the root of this behavior.
(January 11, 2022 at 4:42 pm)Ahriman Wrote: Man, you can care as much or as little as you want. People shouldn't be forced to care about things.
People can't be forced to care about anything. But you can admit when you are wrong.
Why is it so?
~Julius Sumner Miller
~Julius Sumner Miller
