Michael Brown

[NegaStoat]

Originally Posted by feanan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's like the old joke/question "are you an alcoholic"
whether you answer yes or no, it proves you are one.

if you are white, you need to be full of white guilt, and admit you are a racist.
if you don't admit that, it just proves just how big of a racist you are!

you lose either way. give up now.

Bingo. I'm white and grew up in a conservative household with an extended family who widely held the opinion of "we're best 'cause we're white". It wasn't overt at all. It was subtle, but it was there.

Later in life I worked as a manager of a video game arcade and I met a lot of parents of kids who were hard working, loved their children, and weren't afraid to discipline them in public verbally if they used bad language or were rough housing. I'm sad to say, a lot of the time, it was the white families whose kids were the most trouble.

My outlook on asians, blacks, hispanics, etc, changed a lot and undid a ton of the conditioning I had. People are just people, and their actions speak for what kind of persons they are.

A kid that's on drugs that strongarmed a store for stolen goods that is yelling at a cop "You're too much of a pussy to shoot me!" while threatening him is going to end up dead.

Do I agree that the above is exactly what happened? Hell no. But the question is turned away from an issue of race into an issue of the facts of the matter and what really happened. And I fucking hate the media for taking it away from that direction.