Tony StarkJan 29, 2023

Everyone wants public safety. What we have isn’t it. Setting up armed groups to roam the streets in search of traffic violations in order to find some imaginary worse crime leads to this.

Police forces across this country are rooted in white supremacy and are also overly militarized and train and exist in an institution that primes them to see Black people as a threat to be eliminated.

No one can argue a traffic violation should carry a death sentence. If and until there is true police reform, meaning use of force is the last recourse, not the first, then unnecessary killings will keep happening.

And what some want to pass off as political discourse makes it worse. Rather than treat others with a certain degree of respect, their norm is attempts at erasure and threats. Who passes legislation called "stand your ground" and “anti-woke?” We should be teaching acceptance and deescalation of conflict.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23574206/tyre-nichols-death-memphis-police

Tyre Nichols: Memphis releases video of his brutal beating after a traffic stop

Memphis police beat Nichols brutally; a video of the incident was released Friday.

Vox
Show threadMJJan 29, 2023

@TonyStark
White supremacy is why and police, regardless of ethnicity, are the enforcers of it.

I appreciate those who are speaking out loudly about these topics. We need to turn this on its head.

Show threadEarthlingJan 31, 2023

@MJ @TonyStark

Sorry, I respectfully disagree.
White supremacy is about racism.
Tyre Nichols died from violent, toxic masculinity, not from white supremacy. George Floyd died from both. As long as we live under the rule of the patriarchy you will find agressive, violent males among all races. Every year, women are killed in ALL countries by toxic violent men (femicide), differing only quantitatively. In Brazil about 10 times more than in the US, for example. 😡

Show threadAccretorJan 31, 2023

@Raven47 You're arguing with people who are furious and in pain because Black people are targeted by white supremacist police officers that they should set the racial issues aside.

Maybe make your own post to talk about toxic masculinity. They're both problems, but replying to tell people the issues they care about and are motivated by are the wrong issues isn't going to be very persuasive or kind to my way of thinking.

@MJ @TonyStark

Show threadMJ

@accretor @[email protected] @TonyStark Thank you. I ended up blocking that account as the person didn’t want to take in that policing is definitely white supremacist in nature in the US and that the race of the officers just makes police management quiet.

So many white folks want to explain racism to me. Too funny.

Shifting it off to toxic masculinity is missing the point.

Thanks, again.

Jan 31, 2023 at 11:13pmWeb
Show threadAccretorJan 31, 2023

@MJ I felt the same way reading it that you did, and I wanted your voice to be heard. Thank you. White folk like me who benefit from the white supremacy have the hardest time just listening to and amplifying the people who experience the other side of it. Until we do, we are complicit.

@TonyStark

Show threadTony StarkFeb 1, 2023
@accretor @MJ Thanks from me, also, for helping out. All of what you say is true.