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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are we even carrying on about this when this is DC, which for decades has been AA run, with AA mayors, majority AA council, majority AA police department, et cetera.  If AAs are getting targeted by police in DC, then it's by AAs.[/quote]

Have you heard of the distinction between personal racism and institutional racism?[/quote]

Yes, of course.

[b]But what are you saying with regard to the relevance of that in DC?  That it's institutional racism against AAs even though the city is run by AAs?  That doesn't make sense. [/b]

Or instead are you suggesting that it's personal racism, that somehow a handful of white cops in DC are routinely able to act out personal racism in DC and get away with it even in the midst of AA partners and even in the midst of a majority AA police department and likewise a majority AA run city?  If that's the case what does it say about your fellow AA cops, council members, officials, et cetera, who apparently turn a blind eye to it when they have the power to stop it?

Sorry, but either argument is fraught with huge problems.[/quote]

Why doesn't it make sense? DC is not on its own little planet, with its own little personal history that started with a blank slate in 1975.

Yes, many of the people who run DC are African-Americans. Yes, there is institutional racism in DC. These two statements are not contradictory.[/quote]

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