America: Racist Policing Isn’t A Bug, It’s A Key Feature!
Click here for reuse options![Powell] said in a video released this week by AJ+ that in the U.S., institutional racism has made the role of the police “to keep white people safe from the black community.”
Addicting Info reported that Powell marked the anniversary of the death of unarmed teen Michael Brown by pointing out the systemic racial inequities still present in American society.
“Through our practices, through our culture, and certainly through our policing, we send a message every day that black lives don’t matter,” he said. …
People may believe that they are not racist, he said, but can still hold “implicit racial biases.” And white people aren’t the only ones. Black people have these biases against each other and themselves, as well, because they are ubiquitous in society and almost impossible not to internalize.
A conversation on race is a good place to start, Powell said, but the issues in our society are “cultural and structural” and it will take a concerted effort from all sides to dismantle them.
Copyright 2015 Liberaland
By: dave-dr-gonzo
David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.
* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.
5 responses to America: Racist Policing Isn’t A Bug, It’s A Key Feature!
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tracey marie August 10th, 2015 at 18:22
Everytime someone tries to start a dialog they are called a race baiter or are called the N word, thug and so much more. The right pulls up brietbarted statistics to bolster their racism.
Suzanne McFly August 10th, 2015 at 18:34
We can’t talk about race. If we do, then that acknowledges it and makes us admit it is taking place. We are so much happier behind the curtain in our pretend world.
greenfloyd August 11th, 2015 at 01:17
You are correct, “We can’t talk about race,” but we can write about it as much as we like. :)
blockpasser August 10th, 2015 at 19:46
The Bezerkley quackademic has never worked a day in his/her/its life, unless you count putting stupid ideas to paper as work. Like the Obamaphone lady, he/she/it subsists on the taxpayer teat.
greenfloyd August 11th, 2015 at 00:51
Prof. Powell isn’t stating anything new. We know “institutional racism” is the “New Jim Crow,” which is thoughtfully explained by Michele Alexander in her book by the same name. We’ve known it for years! Decades! It’s the one thing, if there were the political will, we could actually do something about; end New Jim Crow! End the Drug War!
The “message” isn’t just black lives don’t matter, it’s any one who falls victim to our Drug War militarized police state in place like Ferguson, or it’s anyone who runs afoul of local Gangsta-culture… black, white, it don’t matter to Gc!