02-07-2016, 04:30 PM
(02-07-2016, 04:01 PM)Aquapod770 Wrote: Generalizing people based off race is exactly the problem. Individual experience differs widely.
Agreed, but way too many people fail to see that the biggest protests are over "institutional" racism.
A perfect example of this was all the times during the Treyvon Martin debate certain people brought up cases where black people killed white people and demanded to know why there were not protests over them. And in almost every single case the black shooter had been immediately arrested and charged. these people did not even know that the reason there was so much outrage over the Treyvon Martin case was not that a white (kind of) guy had shot a black kid. Instead it was over the fact that the police refused to even investigate the case.
It was difficult to have a meaningful discussion when many people on the other side did not even recognize the issue was about racism in the institution (police) instead of just the shooter.
