Thoughts don't hurt people. Actions do. I am allowed to think whatever I want, and if I want to be scared of a young black kid in a hoodie on a dark night, then I have that right. No, I am offended by how you set yourself on the moral high ground. You say that my thoughts are unwelcome here as if you have been chosen on high to be the judge of morality. I find that kind of arrogance offensive. And I have given my words a deep evaluation. My conclusion is that statistics have more weight than emotions. You are a bleeding heart who wants to see everyone as being exactly the same, and I have statistics provided by the FBI that prove that not everyone has the same probability of behaving the same. You are trying to bully me out of my position by calling me a racist, and I am telling you right now that scare tactics won't work on me because I know in my heart that I am not a racist. Do I hate black people? No. Do I hate young black men? No. Do I hate the wannabe criminal sub-culture? Yes. Can I read a graph that lists crimes by race? Yes. The thing about you people is that you see race as something sacrosanct, that you can judge anything as long as it's not a human being: we're all equal, and it's people like you who truly exacerbate the problem. People like you say that nothing is wrong with the decaying family structure in the black community; it's just their culture, and cultures can't be bad or good. Problems in racial communities are an ugly topic, and you want to be on the happy side of things. I face reality and am called a racist by people like you. What do you say to my statistics? That's my only argument as far as I'm concerned. You pit your idealism against my numbers. Who's more likely to commit a crime in your eyes? Someone wearing a hoodie at night or someone wearing a polo and slacks? Also this conversation is about whatever the topic says the conversation is about. It's still about Ferguson, and it's still about cops jumping too quickly to lethal force. You can't attack my character and hope to win. And when I say that there's nothing we can do, I mean that there's literally nothing we can do. What can I do about over-zealous cops who shoot first and ask questions later? What can you do about crime rates in inner-cities. All we can do is talk and convince ourselves that we are right or wrong, and that's why these conversations are ultimately so depressing. No matter which of us "wins" the problems won't be solved. That's my point. So what do you think is the prime reason behind why poverty in the black community begets mostly poverty? I've listened to several people who come from these communities and made it out successfully, and they all say that family is the biggest thing. If you have a family to give love, kids won't look to gangs for a sense of belonging and self-fulfillment. I'm not saying that blacks are the reasons blacks are poor in the inner-city. I'm saying that families need to stay together. The black community isn't some colony or hive mind that can act as a singular force. Everything starts with individuals. Surely you can agree with me that families are the most important part of a child's life - not schools or the government, but their families. Let kids listen to all the rap they want as long as they have the parents giving them positive messages. I'm not saying that kids are being brainwashed by the media or anything. That's just the kind of person I am then. I dress to blend in with the crowd, and it doesn't matter what my skin color was; I'd do the same thing to try and not soak up attention. Should everyone be like me? It would make things easier, but I suppose it would be wrong. I'm upset because I hate arguing, and I'm also obsessed by how people see me. When people see me as something that I'm not, it bothers me. And we do all stereotype and profile. There are certainly people you'd stay away from on a dark night. We do this with everything, but for some reason it's not okay to do it with people. Also I don't discriminate because discrimination is an action. My thoughts are merely thoughts. I don't own a business and refuse to hire people. And just to be clear, if I saw a white guy walking toward me in a hoodie on a dark night, I'd be wary with him too. If you absolutely have to call me something, call me typeist. I can't be racist because I have no problem with black people. I don't even have a problem with young black men, but again, on a dark night, if I see a young black man, looking at me, dressed in a shady manner, then yes, I'll get worried. That's my type. So go ahead and say that I'm bigoted towards people who look scary. It doesn't matter what their skin color is as long as they look scary. Does that work? I don't and have never had any black friends. To be fair, I barely have any friends, and most of them are on the internet. And I'm trying my best to not be offensive. I'm going off of statistics and being blunt about it; that's all. I figure that if I only go off numbers and be as logical as possible, no one can claim I am being guilty of an emotional thought-process like racism.
Still chuckling at people calling Brown a thug when he clearly pays for the cigars in surveillance tapes that the police conveniently didn't show. Like wow, guys, it's almost like the police are corrupt holy ****
It's not really that clear unfortunately. That extra footage doesn't really look like an average transaction. It's just pretty difficult to conclude exactly. It IS certainly possible he did pay, but the way he reaches across the counter and the minor altercation with the clerk/owner kinda proves there was some form of disagreement. It may have been just that Brown was scolded to not reach across the counter and nothing really illegal took place. What helps back that up in my mind that he didn't steal is that another customer called 911 and not an employee. At this point though, it's all pretty irrelevant if he bought or stole the cigars. Wilson didn't even know about the [alleged] robbery until after he murdered him. Sent from my XT1080M using Tapatalk
You call me an arrogant, idealistic bleeding heart, but I think that assessment in turn is arrogant and idealistic. You, too, have set yourself on the moral high ground. I provided some reasoning (drawing on history, correlations and causality) that I thought to be easy and straight-forward; if you disagree, that's one thing. We're speaking across a chasm right now. It's clear that we don't agree. I do not, for the record, see you as being racist, as I stated before, because I don't think your argument can be summed up that way. You're upset because you see me as condescending, so what do you do? You condescend right back. At this point I am willing to move on and agree to disagree. I apologize for my words which have offended you. As for thoughts versus actions: speaking your thoughts is an action. Therefore, thoughts can hurt people.
