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Originally Posted by Celsius
Yeah the medias fault primarily, and trigger happy police. I mean, when a black person gets shot by police the media blows things way out of proportion, when a white person gets shot they do not receive the same amount of media attention. Imo.
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Originally Posted by The Rock
When a black person gets shot, black people stand up and speak.
When a white person gets shot, white people go on with their lives expecting it to make world news without speaking on it.
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We dont expect white people getting shot to make the news cuz it almost never does. Between 50-60% of the 500+ people killed by police this year are white males and you dont hear anything about it because nobody cares about white cops killing white people, including white people because most white folks are conditioned to trust the system that THEY put in place for themselves. "They musta done something wrong to deserve that"-average white response to a police related shooting.
Roughly 20%-25% of police caused fatalities are black. Why is it such a big deal when black people get killed by cops when 2-3x as many white people are dying in the same way? Simple....90% of police officers are white and only 12 percent of the american population is black. The % of black people getting killed is double the % of their population share and the person killing them is almost guaranteed to be white. The proportions are fucked....if the police force was even 60-40 white, guaranteed it wouldnt be as big a deal. but 90-10? something is wrong.
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