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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy are people so determined to claim racism wasn't involved?
Copying/pasting my signature here in this post because THIS is why:
Awareness of unfairness undercuts unfairness. People who perceive that the social system discriminates against racial minorities are more likely to support policies to reduce that discrimination. Racists know this. That's why denial of racism is a time-honored tactic. -Jim Loewen, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
smokey nj
(43,853 posts)Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)because it is the unvarnished truth. i am not sued to seeing that.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)A lot of racists I see, even 'round here.
Very sad.
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)at very deep, very large levels.
Awareness of their hatred would cause them to see that their entire identity is a lie. This would cease their existence as they know it. This would be intolerable to the racists. Hence they must maintain their lie at all cost.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)They're a terrorist organization and scary outfits help.
I think other racists try to claim they aren't because they know at least some people will dismiss them if they come right out and admit them.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)Yet the first reason is to hide their true identities.
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)who know what they are doing is wrong, that is why they hide...like cowards.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)Skittles
(152,964 posts)that lets them off the hook for being racist
Spazito
(49,750 posts)Response to gollygee (Original post)
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Cha
(295,899 posts)Mahalo gollygee
alittlelark
(18,886 posts)because they are R%^&*#cist ???
Just a guess.......
certainot
(9,090 posts)maced666
(771 posts)First shooting ever for this particular cop?
Black witnesses backing cops testimony of story?
Forensics backing witness and cops story?
Black Attorney General Holder came away empty handed?
Deceased had committed robbery just before incident?
Take your pick.
Fact is there are no facts - NONE - in this case, that point to this being a racist cop who went out to kill someone black that day.
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)a real, live denier.
1) wilson, along with the entire police department of Jennings, MO was fired for...wait for it..."tensions' between the department and the black community. the city council actually disbanded the department and fired everyone. some officers were late re-hired, wilson was not among them.
2) the prosecution claimed there was only one "credible" witness. i am not sure which one they those, but i assume it is the one that backed wilson.
3) per AG Holder, the federal investigation is ongoing.
4) no robbery complaint filed by the owner of the store.
FACT: you are a dupe. the fucking KKK supported this asshole, so i assume you think that's because he's sucha great friend to the black community. Now we find out the fucking PROSECUTOR was raising funds for wilson.
total FAIL.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)Sounds like a murdering thug to me. YMMV
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)IkeRepublican
(406 posts)The police overall don't generally pick color. They pick situations where they can get away with it.
You go down to some of the most hick areas of WV and VA and they harass, shoot at and sometimes kill whites under very suspicious circumstances - and they always get away with it because the little towns' hierarchy are usually all related by blood or marriage.
So, how do they vote Repuke? Because they're told over and over it's the police union that allows it.
AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)That, at least, is especially true of us liberals.....why, 60 years ago, most Americans didn't want to believe that some of our resident racists really could be as outright nasty & downright mean-spirited as so many of the ultra-nationalist groups that ran around Europe during the Twenties and Thirties.....
Conservatives on the other hand, often do this because they have some sort of agenda in mind.....which is usually an explicitly anti-progressive one.
I do agree with Mr. Loewen, though: Indeed, a good many Americans, once they realized that Jim Crow really was shitting on African-Americans, decided that they couldn't abide by that, and some of those folks actively and openly supported the Civil Rights Movement. And, to be honest, this quote is probably even more true in this era.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)That's probably the best place to start from.