Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "How to deconstruct racism, one headline at a time | Baratunde Thurston" video.

  1. It's standard to call the cops in a lot of cases, the ones you hear about in the paper are usually ones which are ridiculous. Many of those situations don't even justify talking to them, just that the people involved keep walking. Although, Starbucks was completely right to ask those men to leave, they were trespassing.
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  2. He's mostly right, except for the racist cops. The reason why you see a disproportionate number of people of color shot by police is that people of color are exposed to police a disproportionate amount of time. If you actually control for that, the rates aren't that dissimilar. Or, to put it a different way, when white people get shot by police, it rarely makes the news for more than a day or so. When people of color are shot by police it's often a much bigger deal. The reason being, that there are fewer of those incidents and as such, they actually are news. It's the amount and type of exposure to the police that's the main problem here. As long as there's more contacts, there will be more shootings, regardless of intention.
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  3. The local paper probably has them digitized. I know that my local paper has digitized archives going back to at least the mid-80s as I looked. I'm not sure when they started doing that, but I know that decades ago, journalists were already using computers and submitting things via modems.
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