12-12-2019, 11:32 PM
(12-12-2019, 10:33 PM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: From your perspective, it wasn't racism because it happened to you first. That's okay. However, there's no guaranteeing his circumstance was identical or as bad as yours. Maybe you blatantly hit the red light whereas he hit the yellow light. Maybe the cop called him "boy" or was otherwise disrespectful to him, triggering his suspicion.
I can definitely see that, from your perspective, that guy was wrongfully claiming racism because of your own ticket but, unless you have more details, I don't even think your "gotcha" example is all that convincing to not be racism. It is all contextual.
He admitted rolling through the light after it turned red just like I did. Yet he blamed the ticket on a racist cop instead of on himself breaking the law.
If you really cared about "context" then you would consider the context of Corey Booker being a Stanford Grad and US Senator If Bloomberg called a random black guy he had never met before "well spoken" then you could argue that Bloomberg was making the comments because of racism, but it is absurd to claim Bloomberg was surprised that a Stanford grad and US Senator was "well spoken" because he was black. But when you have no facts to back it up you blame it on "subconscious" racism.
You only want to talk about context when it supports your claims of racism, but ignore it when it does not. That is exactly what I am talking about when I talk about blaming everything on racism. All it does it create more dissention between the races. There is now a large portion of the black community who have painted Bloombrg as a racist with no justification other than complimenting a black man.
