1) This video is just more feel-good politically correct social justice warrior type stuff. As I've mentioned before, there were white slaves in the South (the Irish were called negroes inside-out); there were black slave owners in the South; and there were slaves in Northern states. The reason why slaves were predominantly black had nothing to do with skin color back then and everything to do with the fact that it was African kings and tribal leaders that were willing to sell off their people to Muslim slave traders in the Middle East (cue the usual BS about how I hate Muslims or something along those lines). Can you picture the Europeans doing the same thing? Doubtful. Racism didn't really emerge until the post-war reconstruction era and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, Jim Crow laws, etc. It continued in force for the next 100 years or so, which, as others have pointed out, was when the Confederate Flag, for example, emerged as a symbol with a new meaning. That century is the darkest period in our history when it comes to racial issues, by far.
Our incarceration system is f*cked up without the need for the racial story; same with the war on drugs. Both are measures to fight crime and both have failed quite miserably. It's not all that surprising that a larger percentage of blacks are incarcerated than whites - just look at the demographics of Baltimore, Detroit, Dorchester in Boston, Oakland in CA, etc. All are poor areas that have large African American populations so the fact that they get arrested more isn't exactly news-worthy. What
is worth a discussion is
why such poor high-crime areas are predominantly black. I think part of it is culture - trailer-park rednecks (mostly white) are surely going to behave differently than the inner-city project-raised poor (mostly black) simply due to the environment, rather than skin color itself.
The bit about how likely a black infant is to end up in jail can be summed up as follows, imho:
Also, finish high school. There is a massive drop in incarceration and poverty rates between African Americans who finished high school and those that dropped out.
"Failure to use a turn signal or lacking a front license plate" bit. I recently heard a cop say that the best advice he'd ever gotten was to not let the small violations go unnoticed because very often upon closer inspection you can find much, much more serious violations. Just sayin'.
The videos of arrests, tear gas, etc is largely feel-good, as well, without knowing the backstory to the footage. I'll sit back and wait for someone to bring up Trayvon Martin or Mike Brown before addressing this further. Suffice it to say that police militarization and brutality are a nation-wide issue that goes far beyond any racial discussion.
50% poverty rate? Not unless you take into account different countries' different criteria for poverty. The poorest in America are far better off than probably half of the world.
"The system is engineered to push them down and keep them down." Yeah... bullshit. And I'm a prime example of it being bullshit. I wish people would stop blaming all of their life problems on others or on "the system" so much. Those may be valid but on a much smaller scale than what we've witnessed, especially from the millennials.
Towards the end - there's nothing wrong with being proud of who you are. Nothing.
Aaaaand there it is. White straight male privilege. Predictable. And there's the Trayvon Martin mention :lol: Masters of the world economy? That is some Alex Jones quality NWO stuff.
More after work. I'm already running late.