Re:Ford employees ask the company to stop making police cars
by dx87 on Thursday July 09, 2020 @02:23PM
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> the entire African American community
Claiming that every single black person in America thinks that ever single police office in America is bad discredits whatever point you're trying to make. You must spend your entire life in a bubble if you truly believe that.
Re:Ford employees ask the company to stop making police cars
by frandroid on Thursday July 09, 2020 @02:56PM
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It's not that black people believe every single cop is bad, it's that they MUST assume that a cop can do bad things to them. America is truly a police state for Black people. It doesn't matter if 90% of cops are good, if 10% can get away with brutalizing you and worse, all cops are suspect.
It's the old dilemma: There's 1% chance this beer can kill you: Do you want to try your chance and drink it? Of course not. But you can't not interact with the police. Just being black is enough to get bad cops' negative attention.
Re:Ford employees ask the company to stop making police cars
by tibbydudeza on Thursday July 09, 2020 @04:19PM
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"Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday acknowledged a “widespread phenomenon” where communities of color are treated differently by police in the US."
Really bubble much ????.
Millions of people in defund the police / abolish the police, and the entire African American community, along with many other marginalized communities; may consider that a very privileged perspective.
The police, with the broken laws and systems in place, could very well be universally bad. I think that’s an obvious point of contention at the moment and is a long standing belief that we are reconsidering.