Comments by "RiC David" (@RiC_David) on "Cop Goes Nuts When Told "God Bless You"" video.

  1. Reginald Benton  Unarmed black Americans are roughly five times more likely to be shot to death by police than white Americans per capita. There IS a police state problem and this problem IS affecting black Americans to a drastically greater degree than it is white Americans. This does NOT mean white Americans have it fine, it means that racist police behaviour is further compounding the issue and for people like you and the OP to dismiss that as "political correctness" (which makes no sense whatsoever and is a complete failure to understand the language he uses) is maddening. It's not one or the other, it's not racism or no racism. That line about stories of racist behaviour of police making people racist? Please get the hell out of here with that, it's the same logic that convinces some appalling people that "it's not the near constant stream of police public executions that's making black Americans angry towards police, it's the people protesting those executions that's causing unrest". Will some hopeless idiots with binary minds think "racist cops? Racist white cops? White cops are white...I should hate all white people!"? Yes because there will always be some hopeless idiots but if you are not one yourself then you are not dictated by their reactions. source: http://news.yahoo.com/police-killed-john-crawford-walmart-155002241.html (scroll down to 'Police are more likely to kill black people') Nobody is disputing that these things also happen to white people, if YOU were five times more likely to be murdered by the police I can't imagine YOU would say "let's call it equal". Political correctness my fucking arse, it would be political corectness to pretend it were all equal to avoid rocking the boat - THAT IS PRECISELY WHAT POLITICAL CORRECTNESS IS.
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  2. Anonymous Legio Again you're perpetuating the claim that acknowledging the racism is making people racist. Racism is a thought process, a (lazy, self serving) way of interpreting the world - things don't make people racist, they bring out the already existing racist way of processing situations: "Jim isn't racist so long as no [race] people with bad attitudes make him angry" <--- Jim is a racist person who doesn't always display his racist tendencies. Your proposal of ignoring the racial element has not worked. That's been what's done for years despite black Americans being extremely disproportionately harrassed, arrested, given harsher sentences, being threatened, being assaulted, being beaten, being murdered and there are case studies upon case studies upon case studies to confirm this, in case anyone thinks that all these millions of black Americans are just lying - Ryan S do not lie to yourself and lie to everyone reading this: I just showed you the damn statistic that shows how black Americans are 5x more likely to be killed by the police - THAT'S a damn race issue so how dare you tell me that doesn't exist? "most of the cops are good" is a meaningless statement when the hard evidence shows that you have an epidemic problem with police brutality and on the spot public executions: "most of the cops are good" doesn't do jack shit for the millions of victims, does it? Legio, you're going to tell me that not pretending the appalling treatment of black Americans at the hands of police exists is what's causing civil unrest? Don't spit in my face. What's causing civil unrest is the roaming death squad that is murdering citizens on a regular basis, five times more so (and in less time) if their skin is black. There's a cancer in your society, and I do not use that term lightly; when you sit there and say "let's not focus on that tumor", you enable it to grow and to kill more and more because you are trying to discourage efforts to remove it. You're damn right this affects Americans of all ethnicity but the reality is if your skin is black then you are VASTLY more likely to experience it. Non black Americans have the luxury of saying "let's not focus on that" - well I wish the police wouldn't focus on ethnicity but until THEY stop seeing race, hell no we should not stop seeing what's in front of our eyes. Problems do not get fixed by being in denial - when your son or daughter is five times more likely to be murdered by a thug in uniform, you tend to give a damn.
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  3. Cerebral Brain How so? And how would that be doing the world a favour?
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