Racism is ruining what should be martyrdom for liberty. On most days, right wingers go around disparaging government power and fervently believing that the beast should be reigned in. Left wingers, on the other hand, praise central power and advocate the use of State violence to correct alleged disparities. But then a white government employee guns down an unarmed black citizen and everyone swaps sides. The government chooses not to even have a trial for the pale faced gunman. The right wing cheers.
Of course, white people get beaten, robbed, and shot by the police all the time too. Beating, robbing, and shooting is pretty much all the State does. But the left wing of the media rarely takes notice of this phenomenon. They feel that white people are inherently privileged and that such occurrences are not news. So, the media plays up the whites vs blacks scenario and people choose their sides based on how they feel about whiteys. The real story is mostly ignored. The real story is the police vs the citizenry.
The police have a lot of power and authority as agents of the State. If I were to gun down an unarmed man (regardless of skin tone) because he had hit me and I was frightened, I promise you I would be indicted. Even if the victim had been moving toward me. If I had choked an unarmed man to death because he wouldn't stop terrifying me by remaining on his feet, I promise you I would be indicted. I also imagine that I, a white man, would be convicted. But cops are hardly ever indicted for the violence they mete out. And when they are, they're rarely convicted. This doesn't make sense to me. We should be much more vigilant about making sure the government isn't abusing the citizens it is paid to protect. Every police shooting should be scrutinized very closely. Right now public opinion seems to consider anyone who the police beat or shoot as guilty until proven innocent. Well, perhaps it is the boys in blue who should be presumed guilty. Perhaps they wouldn't resort to the pistol so quickly.With great power comes great responsibility and ish.
It probably doesn't help that the government street soldiers (aka policemen) are always depicted as the good guys on television and movies. Oh sure, every once in awhile a few bad eggs have to be taken out by internal affairs, but the heroes in this scenario are still cops themselves. We are also taught, as children being educated in government schools, to have an automatic respect for men in uniform. But as I have noted before, even if he is a nice man, the policeman qua policeman is not your friend. His job is to use violence in order to deter you from doing anything that is deemed impermissible by your duly elected panel of bureaucratic busybodies and rapacious swindlers.
Maybe the left wingers are correct. Perhaps I've downplayed the racial aspect a bit too much. There very well might be a disproportionate amount of police crime against black men. Or maybe the right wingers I hear complaining of disproportionate black violence are correct. But there is one thing that I know for sure. I have never personally been the victim of a black man's crime unless he was a member of the State. I have been pulled over, harassed, and ticketed by many a white officer. And day after day, year after year, I am systematically robbed and bullied by white politicians. If a black man were to rob me, and then be captured, he would be put on trial. There will be no such justice for the flatfoots and scumbags who occupy central banks, white houses, and capitol buildings.
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