As one story after another breaks of police brutalizing and killing unarmed African-Americans come out, white Americans are beginning to share the fear of police blacks have been living with for decades.
Racial Consensus
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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The cops are equal opportunity abusers. 🙁
I’m not sure,mein verehrter Lehrer, that in this case the «opportunities» can be shown statistically to be equal. One of those rare cases in which the null hypothesis doesn’t seem to apply….
Henri
Not meaning to imply a statistical relationship, I merely meant that any individual thug-like cop will make no distinction between shooting an unarmed white homeless guy and a black man running from a probable arrest.
🙁
Hey, Ted – ever play “Duke Nukem”? The cops wear jackets with LARD on the front or back. Thought you might appreciate it given your love of LA’s finest.
Much as I despise the idea of a surveillance society, these ‘breaking’ stories illustrate the upside.
After the Rodney King beating was caught on tape, I started asking people, “Do you actually think this is anything NEW?” It’s been going on for hundreds of years, the only difference is the indisputable evidence offered up by home video cameras. Today, damn near everyone carries a phone capable of shooting vids, it’s no longer a case of “the perp’s story vs. the word of fine upstanding officer of the law”
From what I read, mein verehrter Lehrer, in the US, homeless people, in particular males,seem to be, just as you say, in danger of uncalled-for violence on the part of the cops, no matter what the colour of their skin. But somehow I doubt that had Dylann Storm Roof been black, the process of stopping and detaining him after his murder of nine people would have been so very much without incident. Even in a police state, some people are more – or less – equal than others….
Henri
We agree on that point; however, I stand by my original statement and subsequent explanation.
“The [individual] cops are equal opportunity abusers.”
🙂