Okay, I really thought I should be nice here, but jesus, the number of terrible posts just skyrocketed here
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And this conversation was such a nice back and forth for a while!
This is a truly painful post.
Your take is... I don't even get it. You, a white doctor who drives a nice red Mercedes, have just as much a reason to get nervous when a cop pulls up behind you, so black people shouldn't be so sensitive or something...
And these particular famous black advocates, who are supported by basically the entire African American community, who donate time and money to black causes... they are full of shit and just... manipulating those dumb black folks, who now unfairly think the world is against them... and that's why black people are so ****ed up, it's because of themselves.
You are a self-absorbed buffoon. You always struck me as such, but it's pretty much confirmed.
Thanks for having the knack of ruining every serious thread you show up to.
It has NEVER just been about police killing unarmed black people. This is a moronic take that some conservative white people are latching on to because they feel they have one or two stats that can prove that all of these black people who say things are messed up are wrong and their experiences... well, they probably deserved whatever happened to them.
The issues that the African American community has dealt with in terms of their relationship with the police, in the injustices that started back when cops were returning runaways during for the Fugitive Slave Act and went up through segregation, when cops were beating protestors and siccing attack dogs on them and taking part in lynch mobs and then protecting the attackers, and then up through the uneven, oft-aggressive policing of our cities... THIS has been the issue. These murders that we've been seeing over the last few years on social media are the straws that break the collective backs, but come on now.
I swear to God, people are just ignorant, and don't want to listen. Go out there, read what African Americans are writing, listen to what they are saying. Just open your ears.
When you spend your life learning about a topic, and then even going so far as to teach about it, you will be *much* more well informed about said topic, and will have spent *much* more time analyzing said topic, and will have a *much* better historical understanding of said topic, than the average person who is talking as a "casual".
There is this awkward thing, where people think that experiences and information and education only matter in certain "practical skills"... like, to be a good electrician, you need to have experience and understand electricity... and that in much more broad areas, where things like understanding historical context and complex systems are SO important... eh, we can all just say our thoughts and those thoughts are all equally important and informed and valuable.
They aren't.
Just like a combat instructor will know more about combat than a regular person who sometimes goes shooting on the weekends...
... or a doctor will know more about medicine than a regular person who sometimes puts on a bandaid...
... a teacher will generally know more about their particular area of expertise than someone who thinks they know something about the topic, but really never deals with it at all.
(And that's not even getting into a teacher who literally studied the subject that they teach, which is not always the case.)