(05-28-2020, 09:15 PM)lastonealive Wrote: Unfortunately you come across as more upset that it is being classed as racist than the death itself. Maybe some self reflection?

I don't think you fully understand how racism works. A person doesn't need to be spouting racist slurs or even be consciously thinking it.

You don't get to ask me to be self-reflective when I am addressing a false narrative driven, in part by selfish politicians and a greedy corporate media. If you don't want it addressed, don't support others who are exploiting his death to advance an agenda. I get tired of this hyper-partisan environment that has become better at creating rhetoric than solving any issue. How about you ask your peers to be self-reflective and stop peddling this LIE. How about you address the facts I am presenting instead of using emotional appeal to try to get me to fall in line. Do you even care that millions of black Americans are being worked up into a literal frenzy by people who are manipulating their emotions? More lives are going to be ruined by this deceptive practice than those who are shot by police. There are 42,000,000 blacks in this country and a majority of them fear for their lives every time they get pulled over by a cop, even though their likelihood of dying is statistically zero. That's a tragedy.  

I guess I have to use the activist version of racism, too. Just like everything else, it's a hijacked a term and used it to advance an agenda. EVERYONE has biases. Blacks definitely face prejudices and levels of intrinsic bias, and you will never hear me suggest otherwise. I am totally down to have this discussion as a stand alone issue. There are ways Americans can improve racial animus. It's not going to be one sided, though. And it's never going to improve when corporations and politicians have too much to gain by keeping it around. You can think what you want about it, but I don't care about your buzzwords. I have studied this topic extensively.

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