On Monday of last week, a horrified world watched Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin kill a handcuffed George Floyd by kneeling on his neck while he pleaded for mercy. My first question is: Why wasn’t Chauvin arrested for murder until Friday?
My second question is: How does anyone know racism made Chauvin do that? Because the cop is white and the victim was black? Could Chauvin be an equal opportunity brute? Looking for evidence that he’s racist, all I could find was a Mercury News interview with the owner of a nightclub at which, ironically, both Chauvin and Floyd worked, Floyd as a bouncer. The owner said Chauvin was overly aggressive with black patrons who were fighting compared to Hispanic patrons who were.
Since you can't figure out "what the heck systemic racism" is, you need to read up on American history before putting pen to paper. If you had, you would know that it was the backs of slaves who built much of colonial America and the civil war was fought to preserve systemic racism. The Jim Crow Laws that legalized segregation was systemic racism. The Drew Scott decision of 1854 was systemic racism. Separate bathrooms throughout the south and blacks being required to sit in the back of the bus were all acts of systemic racism. Denial of voting rights is systemic racism, on-going segregation, unequal employment opportunities, and the disregard for black lives are all examples of systemic racism. Systemic racism is NOT a left vs. right issue but rather a stain on our democracy as it violates a fundamental right that all men are created equal and equal justice. Go and read General Mattis op-ed and also Prime Minister Trudeau's statement on the topic and perhaps you will gain an understanding that to deny systemic racism exists in America is the same as denying the holocaust existed.
"Denial of voting rights is systemic racism, on-going segregation, unequal employment opportunities"
If you're pretending that these things are actually still happening then you are the lost one. Like systemic racism, these things no longer exist. Step out of your victim-minded bubble.
And as for the disregard for black lives, you should call out the media on why they only report on the few that are wrongfully killed by police, but they ignore all of the victims of black on black crime.
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Since you can't figure out "what the heck systemic racism" is, you need to read up on American history before putting pen to paper. If you had, you would know that it was the backs of slaves who built much of colonial America and the civil war was fought to preserve systemic racism. The Jim Crow Laws that legalized segregation was systemic racism. The Drew Scott decision of 1854 was systemic racism. Separate bathrooms throughout the south and blacks being required to sit in the back of the bus were all acts of systemic racism. Denial of voting rights is systemic racism, on-going segregation, unequal employment opportunities, and the disregard for black lives are all examples of systemic racism. Systemic racism is NOT a left vs. right issue but rather a stain on our democracy as it violates a fundamental right that all men are created equal and equal justice. Go and read General Mattis op-ed and also Prime Minister Trudeau's statement on the topic and perhaps you will gain an understanding that to deny systemic racism exists in America is the same as denying the holocaust existed.
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"Denial of voting rights is systemic racism, on-going segregation, unequal employment opportunities"
If you're pretending that these things are actually still happening then you are the lost one. Like systemic racism, these things no longer exist. Step out of your victim-minded bubble.
And as for the disregard for black lives, you should call out the media on why they only report on the few that are wrongfully killed by police, but they ignore all of the victims of black on black crime.
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