Telling black people to 'be nice to cops' to prevent being murdered is evil as hell

[bravenak]

Why do people pretend that black folks get shot by the cops because they have BAD MANNERS? Like, what? We weren't raised right so it's fucking cool to go ahead a shoot our sons and daughters during a bullshit traffic stop if they forgot to read and memorize the "Miss Manners" book on polite police interaction?
When did people get it into their heads that it is just hunky dory to shoot and kill rude black people? From the plantation or where? Any excuse to make it seem like black people are just supernatural and so different in behaviour than 'real people'...
If the kill rate for cops was at 80 percent white people and twenty percent everybody else, would they say the same thing then? Or would it be considered an epidemic of police violence, you know, like what it actually is. An epidemic of police violence.

I'll just state this clearly so everybody can understand. Stop telling black people to 'be polite' and they won't get murdered by the police. When you do that, you uphold and enforce white supremacy and state violence directed at black humans by placing the blame for their own potential murder squarely on the victim of that potential murder. It's like telling people not to dress sexy if they don't want to be raped. How about saying, 'Dont fucking rape people!!"

Time to stop making premade excuses as to why it might be okay to murder a black person during a police stop for having bad manners. We don't execute the rude. You're dumb if you think that manners are the real reason why black people keep getting killed by cops. We been getting killed by cops since we started having cops. Because we're black. Time to reform the system instead of trying to force black people to be perfect or die.