Confronting Racism

[Brownshoe]

(02-07-2016, 04:30 PM)fredtoast Wrote: 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.    

What do you mean the police refused to even investigate the case? They handcuffed Zimmerman and took him to the police station. They said they didn't have enough evidence to arrest him after that, due to the stand your ground law. There was even a FBI investigation to see if Martins civil rights were violated due to the "lack of investigation" and they couldn't continue that investigation after 35 months, due to the fact they didn't have any evidence supporting that. Oh, and BTW Zimmerman wasn't white, and he didn't even look "kind of" white.