Shoq 🌿On the bright side, the public can now plainly see that we don't just have a racist problem in our police culture. We have a police culture problem. #Tyre
TheJen@shoq Every single one, no matter their ethnicity, is 100% a piece of shit. Dismantle the whole system and start the hell over.
@shoq The federal agent who aimed his gun at me in Portland was a Black man.
Joel De Rose@shoq there's a reason I don't like Police and bullies.
Obsolete@shoq anyone that ever watched the show “Cops” should have known that violence is a police culture problem. Treating suspects with unprovoked violence was common. I couldn’t watch that show
Camille Tschaggeny@shoq - Police in the US originated in slave catching so it’s still a racism, specifically anti-black, issue even when black officers are the murderous pricks.
GaryRLundbergThere’s a important scene in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, August Willson’s play and movie with Viola Davis. Ma’s band getting ready for a recording session. A black band member is overtly degraded and oppressed by a white man. The studio is run by white folks. The young black man is enraged by the racism. An argument soon ensues with another black man. Young man venting his rage. It escalates. They scuffle. The young man pulls a knife and stabs. Racism > rage > violence > death. A cycle.
Eric Puryear (@[email protected])
Policing in the USA is inherently racist, based upon how the system is designed. The result is that racism will be perpetuated even if the cops themselves are black (as with #TyreNichols killing), or even if the individual police are not intentionally racist. The system in policing in America isn't broken; it is performing exactly as it was designed, which is to uphold white supremacy. More on systematic racism here: https://blog.ericpuryear.com/2020/06/10/systematic-racism-is-real/
TC Won't Give In To Lies@shoq
And Tyre Nichols's murder shows that representation is no automatic fix.
Robin Finehout@shoq maybe it’s both? Especially in the southeast