rootube said:
Except he has released a statement and he supports our players.
Acting like there is significant racism in our country in 2020 is ridiculous. The most significant racism I have seen over the last two months is by BLACKS. George Floyd? It was wrong, but why are we suggesting it is racist? He had a history of treating EVERYONE badly. He was a bad cop. Is it just because he was white and the victim was black? If that is true, then white people should be the ones claiming racism because far more blacks kill whites than vice versa. Rayshard Brooks? The dude resisted arrest, punched a cop, fought with them, stole one of the two officers tasers and was pointing it at the officer while running away when he was shot. Acting like that was an unjustified shooting is stupid. With 20/20 hindsight, you can suggest ways to have dealt with the situation differently, but in the heat of the moment, after being attacked by Brooks, and while having a weapon (a taser is a weapon and can kill you if used wrong) pointed at you, firing was a reasonable response.
So where is the racism against blacks? Yes, there are some racist in society, both black and white. It is wrong and society views it as wrong. However, this is the extreme minority. Yes, there is a problem with police brutality. Some people are attracted to being police officers by the power the position holds. That can result in getting some of the wrong kind of people. It is going to be tough to identify the bad ones before they are hired, but we should try and we should do a better job of trying to identify bad cops. We do have to be careful not to start firing good cops over things they should not though. There are many reasons blacks seem to be targeted more by the police (though more whites are killed by police than blacks). First, the media highlights every incidence of it and plays the race card. For black on white cases, it is hardly reported and they generally don't even mention the race of those involved. Second, blacks commit, as compared to a percentage of the population, a disproportionately high amount of violent crimes. At only 13% of the population, blacks commit more total murders than whites. If you commit more crimes, you are going to have more interactions with the police. More interactions with the police is going to result in more problems. Does the color of your skin make you more likely to commit murder? No. I am confident it is the socio-economic position in society and cultural. Third, when you resist arrest, bad things happen. Sometimes those bad things are justified (Rayshard Brooks). Sometimes they are not (George Floyd). But in all cases, resisting arrest is a recipe for disaster. I have no idea if blacks resist arrest more than whites, but in most of the high profile cases of blacks being killed by whites, the situation was escalated by the victim resisting arrest. Fourth, blacks are probably profiled to some degree. Some of this might be a general bias. Unfortunately, some may be based on the real data where blacks do commit a disproportionate amount of crime. Some may be police officer racism.
Is the evidence of "significant racism" simply that blacks, as a whole, haven't been as successful in society? If you go back far enough, it is expected blacks would be starting at a lower socio-economic status. It is harder to be successful if you are born poor. That is true for blacks or whites. That isn't racism. Programs to help poor people who really put in the effort to improve their situation are reasonable, but they should not be race based. There is also a cultural problem. Single parent families are far more likely in the black community. They shouldn't be looked down upon, but it does make it significantly harder for children who do not have a father heavily involved in their life. Black on black crime is insanely high. It is going to be harder to get out out of poor communities when you are killing each other. Education has to be stressed. The Asian community stresses education far more than whites. That is why they go from poor to middle class so quickly. The more you stress education, the more likely you are to be successful.
Unless the change we so desperately seek is to reduce police brutality and to help blacks stop viewing themselves as victims and take responsibility for their own success, then I don't know what Jimbo is looking for. All of other stuff, tearing down statues, renaming syrup, etc. isn't going to change anything.