I saw this (non religious) video on Facebook and it made me angry

[Drich]

I pisses me off because it does not protray the truth. It promotes racism and hatred toward the police.

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basically the oppsite of what it is pretending to do for the sake of hits on youtube.

[Losty]

Lol Drich ILY but you are such a creep sometimes.

[Drich]

what the video with out sound and focus on the back ground, then compare what you see to what is being said about these events. They don't add up. Which means this film maker is a liar, and is playing on preceived racism to win popularity. Or to start civil unrest. This is a propaganda video.

[Losty]

What I see is exactly what is being said. A white guy breaking into a car, no one cares. A black guy breaking into a car, people looking at him like wtf is this guy doing and eventually the police coming and arresting him.

Whether or not you like it, Drich, that is reality. Now would it always happen this way? No, of course not, but you're definitely less likely to be suspected of criminal activity if you're white in America. That is a fact.

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Here is an example from New York a northern state that isn't particularly racist compared to southern states.

"In 2013, New Yorkers were stopped by the police 191,558 times.
169,252 were totally innocent (88 percent).
104,958 were black (56 percent).
55,191 were Latino (29 percent).
20,877 were white (11 percent)."

http://www.nyclu.org/content/stop-and-frisk-data


In New York in 2013, 65% of the population was white, 17% Hispanic, 15% black.
http://suburbanstats.org/population/how-...n-new-york

[pocaracas]

I see a guy, trying to break into a car. A clean guy, with a clean t-shirt, trimmed hair, clean shaven, etc... it looks like he just lost his own car keys.
Then I see another guy, hair in a mess, wearing some baggy sports outfit, not particularly clean-looking, not shaven, actually looking like a homeless guy, trying to break into a car... a homeless trying to get into his own car? what doesn't add up?

Yes, Drich, the video tries to make it look like it's a racism problem, when it's not.

[Losty]

Hmm....interesting thought. I didn't think the second guy looked homeless at all, but he is kind of scruffy looking.

It still actually is a real problem in the US, and I believe that's the point the video is trying to make.

[bladevalant546]

The issue I have with these videos is the fact that it shows a cultural issue. It is not intended racism, to be honest. It is logical judgment based on first appearances which is solely to blame on the African American culture. Maybe if the popular attire that “gangs” like to wear was not popularized by their “gangsta” rap. Then maybe this kind of profiling would not have happened. As much as I hate judgment based on cloths, you have to think about it logically. If I see a bunch of white dude with tattoos, leather and riding a motor cycle. I going to be highly suspect and try not to piss them off. Why? Because they are dressing like the freaken hells angels. The same is applied, when we are bombarded by their own culture that “gangs” dress like this. Then when we see them dressed like that, what do you think people are going to assume?

I would like to see this test done with a black guy dressed nice, maybe not in a suit but nice and modest. I imagine the difference will dramatically different. Or have a white guy dressed in wife beater, with a shaved head, and swastikas on his arms, yea what am I going to assume? The blind sympathy for race is annoying. I know racism exists, I live in the freaking South. However, I have learned that racism is born partly out of ignorance, and partly out of cultural reinforcement.

[Mister Agenda]

I believe there was a study that indicated that clothes have more of an impact than race in most people's evaluations of character based on appearance.

[Minimalist]

[Dystopia]

Hmm....interesting thought. I didn't think the second guy looked homeless at all, but he is kind of scruffy looking.

It still actually is a real problem in the US, and I believe that's the point the video is trying to make.

My mum throws out the typical mean joke often - What's a black guy driving a car? A thief.