If you were a minority, you'd 100% be part of the upper right circle.
The police aren’t racist. I promise. SOME maybe sure. But most aren’t. Most people in general aren’t racist. The police are without a doubt however poorly-trained, under-vetted, and overly militarized. It’s a fucking weird job. I don’t know if any human is even cut out to do that job. And it’s sooo difficult to do that job well. And it’s not easy. At all. And it should be one of the hardest to get. But it’s not. It’s very easy to become one. And they typically don’t want smart people who think for themselves working there. They want mindless brainless people who follow orders and keep their mouths shut.
It’s not a racism thing. It’s not even a minority thing. It’s a class thing. Poor people that don’t have many options or opportunities in their lives tend to turn to crime at a much high rate% than those who grow up with middle class or upper middle class or upper class backgrounds who have many options and opportunities at their disposal.
When my ancestors came here from Italy in the early 1900s, they were all dirt poor. And more than a few of wound up where? As criminals in something called the mafia. They didn’t see a whole lot of options at first, they were treated like shit- and then banned from coming into the US entirely- and many turned to crime. That’s why there were so many jokes in the 1970s by comedians like Richard Pryor and George Carlin that not all Italians were in the mafia, but all of them worked for the mafia.
Italians were a small % of the population then. At that point about 10% of the population. But as a % of the population they were disproportionately engaging in serious crime. Sound familiar?
We have a class problem. We have an income inequality problem. There is an entire class of people who have very little options or a way out. And when many of those people turn to crime to make a living because they want to make a real living and not work a bullshit job that pays them next to nothing- well they’re going to run into police at a much higher rate than people who don’t lead a life of crime.
The police brutalize everyone. Not just black people. Want to cut the amount of police brutality in half- get rid of unconstitutional stop and frisk laws, cut the police force drastically, legalize drugs and end the ridiculously stupid “war on drugs”, de-militarize the police and have them get rid of all their military grade weapons and equipment, get rid of ticket quotas and eliminate cops pulling people over for bullshit reasons just so they can write bullshit tickets, prosecute police for brutality and murder when deserved- stop shielding them with immunity basically- vet candidates way better- make it aloooooot more difficult to become an officer- and make all current officers take polygraph, iq, and personality tests and fire the ones who aren’t fit for the job.
That will all largely end police brutality. For everyone. But will it help pull black people out of poverty? Will it fix completely run down and broken black neighborhoods like Detroit? Probably not. Rich people typically speaking give zero fu***ks about poor people. And the elites in the Democratic and Republican Party have all been captured by big monied interests. And that is who they always take care of first. Barack Obama gave two squirts of piss about the poor or minorities. Just like every president before him. He had Citigroup and Black Rock on speed dial doe.
/End Rant
