Dude, hate her all you want, Maxine Waters has been fighting for civil rights her entire adult life. She has a big mouth and isn't afraid to speak her mind. I know that irks you and gets under your skin. I get it. When she uses the phrase 'confrontational,' it's what Rep. John Lewis referred to as good trouble. It makes people uneasy.
You seem oblivious to the reality that African-Americans are still fighting the cause, the incessant cases of police brutality and mistreatment of African Americans is real, and causes constant fear, heartache & pain for this segment of the community. And that too, seems to make you uncomfortable, because in your immediate orbit you see no racism. That doesn't mean it's not out there, and for millions of Americans around the country, it continues to be a real struggle.
Dr. King said, 'the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.' It shouldn't shock you there are some who won't rest until they get there, to a more equitable society. Instead of reacting negatively to it and having hurt feelings about it, you should join the fight for a better version of America.
I think where the disconnect lies is in the fact that racism has been politicized.
So much so that as I stated previously, it’s now more important to “support the team” than it is to address the real issues.
Unfortunately, racism does in fact exist. However, it is NOT just limited to white people being racist against black people. Blacks hate whites, whites hate browns, browns hate yellows, etc. The problem isn’t group against group, as much as politicians and the main stream propaganda for ratings/click machine want to make it.
Turds are turds. They come in ALL shapes/sizes/colors/affiliations. But it’s an individual problem. Police don’t take classes to be racist. No “group” does. They may have learned it from a parent/their upbringing/environment from someone or people they were close to, but not systematically taught. I didn‘t learn it in school.
There are several issues here. The first is black lives only seem matter to these protesters/politicians/media hacks when it’s a white cop that kills a black civilian.
Where is the outrage/protests/riots/demands for justice with the record number of homicides in Chicago of black lives? There’s none because it’s at the hands of another black person? That’s insane and illogical.
The other part is whenever a black person dies at the hands of a white person it is INSTANTANEOUSLY racism. No other possibility, it MUST be a racist act. Forget finding out facts. Forget interviewing all the witnesses. Forget watching all the videos. Is Derek Chauvin racist? Maybe. But he was racist IMMEDIATELY without trial, interviews, digging into his past. Talking to friends/family/colleagues. No research. He was racist, period. Not even possible he’s just an *******. Not possible he’s a poorly trained officer. No chance he was instructed incorrectly how to subdue someone. No other possible explanation. He’s just racist. And that’s completely unfair. And again, he may have Klan hoods in his basement. I don’t know. I just know he was branded as soon as the first report came in and he was already “guilty” of being racist from the jump.
And this is part of the hypocrisy and defending the “team” rather than addressing the issue, researching, fact finding, asking real questions.
Remember when the cops stopped the professor trying to get into their own home? And Obama called the cops idiots? And everyone said the cops were racist? The cops were actually doing their job. The racist ******* in this story was the Gladys Kravitz neighbor that called the cops on her black neighbor she didn’t know lived there, or did and was being a turd. But nobody brought the nosey ***** neighbor up once. It was the professor and Obama blaming the cops and the media piling on. There should have been outrage in this story. And racism should have been pointed out. It was just handled poorly and unfairly.
WE THE PEOPLE have SO much to be outraged by and angry about.
The problem, more times than not, is us listening to our teams rather than our hearts and brains. When we see outrage for one death but not another when they’re identical but it hurts our teams identity so we don’t draw attention to it, we get locked in this vicious cycle of chasing ghosts and missing the obvious and tackling that head on.
