9/18/2023 0 Comments Mosley pivot polisherIt's not so important when it happens to black people because of the unspoken assumption most white people are still privileged to hold: "They must have done something to deserve it." I was shocked when a Taser incident involving a white college student was given so much attention this week with so little context: Namely, that minorities are unjustly submitted to indignities and even death for specious reasons all the time, and that they are quite familiar with Taser guns. You know who "they" are, don't you? Those colored folks. There was no mention whatsoever of the fact that a black teenager was charged with attempted murder for beating someone with a sneaker in a schoolyard fight, and certainly nothing about the nooses hanging from a tree on school grounds after black kids asked why they couldn't sit there.Īnd I could just picture those all-American Fox viewers, turning to each other and saying, "There they go again." "Uneven"? Yeah, I guess you could say that. They said participants were protesting "uneven" treatment by local police, saying it was racial. I had the local Fox affiliate's morning show on as I got ready for work this morning, and they made a brief mention of the Jena 6 rally in Louisiana today. Read More: Jena 6, privilege, racism, Breaking Politics News Susan Madrak| BIO | I'M A FAN OF THIS BLOGGER
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