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Police Called On 3-Year-Old Black Boy Because He Was Too Good At Soccer (blacksportsonline.com)
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[–] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I did add context that one of the primary political parties — the one in power, in fact — is openly white supremacist and xenophobic. Hate crimes surged in 2016 by 68% and haven't dropped since. Literal lynchings in the US have become conspicuously more frequent.

Even before Trump, police and the justice system have been demonstrably dangerous to black Americans.

So, yes?

Maybe if we wanted to take interracial tolerance in the US for granted, we shouldn't have voted a white supremacist into office, which Americans did twice, specifically for his racist and white supremacist views. Maybe the response to Brianna Taylor and Heorge Floyd should have followed through on police reform.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    I'm not claiming racism doesn't exist, or doesn't exist in America, or that the police force isn't often racist (intentionally or otherwise).

    My claim is after looking into all the details of the situation, it's the unfortunate reality that the kid WAS literally just too good. It's funny to say but it's the actual fact. He was too good, and didn't belong. On top of that the parents were being problematic which is the real reason the cops were called. If the parents just chilled and acted like reasonable adults then nothing would have happened.

    A blanket perspective of "A bad thing happened to a non-white person, therefor, the bad thing happened because they are non-white" is barley better than the full throated maga racists and it infantilizes and removes autonomy of non-white people. Sometimes the reality is that non-white people DO deserve the cops called on them. It's not the case that the police involvement is ALWAYS racist.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    They called the police in a situation where the need for police is implausible. There were parents there, yes? I assume they were sober. Why didn't they manage the situation as might mature adults?

    No, they escalated to state intervention, and that means question of equal accommodations can be raised, if the state has laws mandating them.

    But it also raises the question of racism, especially if that was the only black family in the group.

    Racism doesn't merely exist in the US, it's the dominant culture right now. So yes, it's entirely appropriate to expect it and catalog when it happens.

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