The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #155651   Message #3683165
Posted By: GUEST,Rahere
06-Dec-14 - 07:43 PM
Thread Name: USA, Black Lives Lost in Police Actions
Subject: RE: Another Black Man Shot by Cop
WYSIWYG, i think you misunderstand me: I started out saying that each of those harmed in this failure of justice is an individual and must be treated as such, which is your point. We must not treat them as part of a class, but as individuals, with their successes and failures. The failures of the justice systems are not something which can be addressed by yet another program, that has happened and if it still fails, anything more is putting a sticking plaster on a suppurating wound, more radical measures are needed, and that starts with the Police dealing with citizens as people. Not as minorities, not as perps or crims (not even gracing them with a presumption of innocence or even the real word, because the real word condemns them for failing to do so), nor even as us-and-them, but as individuals. The real failing is that we allow the headline of the meme being "Another black man shot by cop" rather than "Another man shot by a racist cop". It's not the colour which matters, but the racism, and collecting your data according to the wrong criterion lets those really responsible off the hook.
I think, therefore, that what you may have fallen victim to is reflecting your own weaknesses in your reading of what I posted.