logical_art wrote:Nobody has yet to satisfactorily explain why when a white person kills a black person its nearly infinitely times worse in the eyes of black people and the median compared to when a black person kills a black person. More than 10x the number of black people were killed by other black people. Very few people care or know the victims names. Who can name the people killed last weekend in Chicago?
If you are concerned about black lives, the statistics starting point is black on black murders. These are facts.
So why is it that people only care about black lives when its a white killer, even though the problem of white on black crime is far far less significant than black on black crime?
That's a different story that I, like yourself, didn't get. The problem is, the systemic oppression of blacks, and really anyone who's darker than orange in this country. I don't know if I agree with the name "Black Lives Matter" for the campaign, because like you, I as well as a ton of people, bring up the same question you posed.
The outcry is for systemic oppression to stop. The whole, "as soon as a cop passes by I tense up as a black person" thing is real. This country has conditioned many people to look beyond it, including minorities. I remember as a Hispanic 5 year old, my dad always wanting me to look straight, never look a cop in the eye and always answer clearly as if I were already guilty. Black people have had to deal with slavery, with not getting equal opportunities (look at Kaepernick), as being treated less than equals. Blast rap music from a car as a black man and see how quickly they get pulled over. Blast Taylor Swift as a white person, and at most the cops chuckle.
Systemically, this country has conditioned everyone to think less of minorities, give less to minorities and worst of it all, fear minorities. The movie Crash does a decent job of giving people glimpses such as the scene when Sandra Bullock's character tenses up as two black men are walking on the same block in an opposite direction approach.
This country has a huge issue. And our president has nothing to calm anyone down. He wants to use force against our neighbors when love is what's required. And when that doesn't work, he wants to use more force. Then he goes out and calls the people of Michigan "good people" when they protested Stay at Home orders because they wanted to get a haircut. Look at how white terrorists like Dylan Roof are treated vs anyone darker than Trump.
I don't know how to fix the problem and I won't act like I do. The only thing that can fix it is love and respect for one another. But that's something that will never happen in America. Not in my lifetime.
