Re: Police brutality?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mj2evans</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Juggle animals acting like the animlas they are. Saw it in public school (nothing done then) and now society calls this behavior a "culture." Bullshit. You are either a citizen or a trouble maker - and the "black community" embraces trouble. Monday morning QB-ing the cop is pointless. </div></div>
Yup, a "culture" cultivated to sell records, clothes, shoes, ridiculously large rims etc. and convince black street youth that their true identity is that of an ignorant thug.
I think much of the blame lies with tipper gore and the medias fascination with vulgar gangster rap in the late 80's. The negative attention sold lots of records to suburban white kids and since there was money to be made it has snowballed ever since.
These kids have been taught that this is cool. That if they cant be a pro athlete or a highly paid "badass" musician that tough ass gangster is the only other option. Its a rockstar complex that I think lots of kid, regardless of race, have been developing the last 10 or so years. The difference it the support structure that encourages kids from different communities to grow out of it. In this case you have a community and leaders who make excuses and perpetuate the problem instead of saying to the girl in pink "what the hell made you think it was ok to charge a police officer to defend your friend who was resisting arrest?"
When teaching I once had to take a cellphone away from a black kid who could have pounded the shit out of me. It was in the hall between classes and I looked around for help and there wasnt a teacher to be seen. He reached into my pocket to grab it and pushed me around and I had to passively evade him the best I could while fearing his friends may jump in. They didnt.. they convinced him to move on. When the issue later came up with the admin and liaison officer his otherwise less-than-upstanding friends were honest said he was completely out of line and things got worked out.... unlike the dumb bitch in pink who rushed the cop and just made life harder for both her friend and herself. No foresight, no consideration for consequences. Meanwhile people look on and the guy videotaping just waits for the cop to slip, completely blind of everything before and after the punch... just like the people calling for the cops badge. Was the outrage at my school when two kids attacked the liaison officer and went for his gun? Nope, nothing to see here....
I never got that worked up about this stuff until I spent some time as a teacher. Its like being a cop minus the "potential for grave injury and death every day" part.