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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course I do as do most people with means/choices/money. Life shits on poor people and minorities so why would I want to be anywhere near them and get collateral damage. I am a 40 year old white guy and drive a S550 and when I get pulled over it is "sorry Mr XXXXX here is a warning and please be careful as there are other cops looking for ABC out today". When I got pulled over a couple of weeks ago in PG county driving out to Chesapeake beach to go fishing with a black coworker it was "do you have any drugs in the car would you mind if I search?"

[b]Until African American and all under severed minority people find a way to pull their demographic away from being a perpetual punching bag, [/b]people like me who don't want to get hit with a stray punch or more importantly don't want their kids getting disproportionally policed and hanging with kids who gave up college dreams in middle school due to SES considerations will create little villages.

I get it, the whole it takes people like me to break down the systemic systems that keeps people being perpetual punching bags but I am not convinced that bucking the status quo which is designed to keep me and my family comfortable and in power would actually do anything but make room for another white or token minority family to hop aboard.  Statistically my job is to put my family in the best position to accomplish their dreams and in upper class mostly white areas, schools and networks which are where tomorrows leaders come from. I am not quite enlightened enough to vote with my feet against my own self interests.

I do remain open to people on an individual basis without prejudging and don't discriminate which allows me to consider myself (not raciest) but I actually have no problem taking advantage of the White boys club that has provided me a pretty comfortable life and a high SES with only avg talents and work ethic at my disposal.   I guess that is the part for Libs (like me) to reconcile that you can like all people AND the benefits of raciest systems....as long as it was others who had to do the dirty work.  [/quote]At least you're honest but what bothers me is the way you're blaming the victim.  Instead of the police behaving professionally and learning to treat people as individuals, you say it's black people's fault that the police abuse them as a group.  Nice.[/quote]

It is always the Victim's fault is the sad truth.  Obviously not morally but righteousness only gets you so far in life. Is it the hungry frog's fault for eating the fly and taking it away from it's family and friends and ending it's life prematurely?  It sounds silly to think about it that way but it really isn't any different in human existence. The climb up the ladder of life is on the backs of others and someone will always be the stepper and someone will always be the stepped on. It behooves people not to be easy targets just as some flies have become bitter to frog's tastes it is an evolve or die world and weakness will ALWAYS be exploited by the strong end of story.  The only exception to this mandate is strength in numbers or advantageous position.

We teach our kids not to be easy targets to bullies on the play grounds, our girls not to leave their drinks unattended and to not buy from snake oil sales people. This is a manifestation of reality for blaming the victim because that it the person who must bare the costs of exploitation. It is really no different at the race level as whatever has been done by Africans for the past 600 years or so hasn't worked and playing by the white rules trying to inflict change has been a tedious and slow process at best and paper progress at worst.

Again morally I agree with you and the people taking advantage of people is wrong. That said it will keep happening until they do something about it on their terms because THE rules will never allow them parity as it stands today and progress is made so very slowly to allow work around which more or less keep the status quo. Any other frame of thought is idealistic or naive, one can also stand righteously pointing to the evils of the oppressors but when their voice weakens they must still go home and prey they don't get pulled over. [/quote]

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