The Coming Race War Will Not Be About Race
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Time
Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
By focusing on just the racial aspect, the discussion becomes about whether Michael Brown’s death—or that of the other three unarmed black men who were killed by police in the U.S. within that month—is about discrimination or about police justification. Then we’ll argue about whether there isn’t just as much black-against-white racism in the U.S. as there is white-against-black. (Yes, there is. But, in general, white-against-black economically impacts the future of the black community. Black-against-white has almost no measurable social impact.) hen we’ll start debating whether or not the police in America are themselves an endangered minority who are also discriminated against based on their color—blue. [Note: I do not agree but this is an interesting article.
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Wednesday 20 August 2014 - 11:00:26