How come only white people are racist?

[Halibut 12]

Shut happens sometimes things don't work out how they should,you have shown us one instance but how many black people comply and walk away alive?

 

Get with the programme dobby. If you're trying to claim that institutionalised racism doesn't exist in the US of A, have at it, fire away.

[Waldo 96]

https://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/20/us/philando-castile-shooting-dashcam/index.html

 

Police officer asks for ID, black man reaches for the ID, police officer fatally shoots him.

So does complying guarantee that a white cop won't shoot a black person in the USA, no, not in the slightest.

 

He did not comply though. After telling the officer he had a firearm, he was told not to reach for it / don't pull it out; 3 times. The officer clearly thought he was reaching for a gun, not ID. I'm not saying any of this justifies shooting him; just that it's not as clear cut as you suggest.

 

I believe the advice for when stopped by police in the US, and you have a firearm; is to keep your hands on the steering wheel, announce you're carrying, and then only move if/as directed by the officer (who may ask where the firearm is, and retrieve it himself).

 

Also, police in the US do get shot at and killed. Not that that justifies them shooting and killing people, but you can see how it escalates the severity of the situation when the person you're dealing with announced they're armed, and ignores your instruction not to reach for it.

 

I'm thinking an instruction just to keep your hands on the steering wheel would have been more appropriate here. I imagine that the chap in the car heard "don't reach for it", and thought the officer meant "don't reach for your gun", which he wasn't doing. I can't help but feel a simple instruction in the positive (hands on steering wheel), could have prevent this.

Edited June 2, 2018 by Waldo

[El Cid 210]

I never hear of anyone who isn't white, being described as racist, or accused of racism. I'm curious, is racism something that only white people are capable of?

 

I guess minorities insulting the majority, it just bounces off. And its the white men in grey suits that are rich and powerfull.

[Bob Arctor 11]

Shut happens sometimes things don't work out how they should,you have shown us one instance but how many black people comply and walk away alive?

 

The problem is that this stuff happens to black people disproportionately. There's Stephon Clarke, shot dead by police for being on his phone. Happen to white people much?

[ukdobby 223]

Get with the programme dobby. If you're trying to claim that institutionalised racism doesn't exist in the US of A, have at it, fire away.

 

Tell us how many police officers have been shot this year or are you just one way,racism exists all over the world and both ways,the article shown was over a year ago.

I'll tell you 21 in the 1st 17 weeks of 2018,would you be nervous if a blAck guy reached in his pocket,you wouldn't last 5 minutes in the job.

[Waldo 96]

To answer the OP, this is why some people reserve the term 'racism' for white bigots in a white-dominated country. I'm not entirely sure where I stand on that, but that is how some people see it.

 

That's a good point and I think it's certainly a factor as to why we find (in the UK) white on non-white racism more unacceptable than other forms of racism.

 

I'm thinking also of the historical context, white people have been in power for ca long time (in the western world) and generally pretty much abusive to non-whites. I'm wondering if there is some kind of collective guilt white people feel today, because of how some other white people treated non-white people in the past?

[ukdobby 223]

The problem is that this stuff happens to black people disproportionately. There's Stephon Clarke, shot dead by police for being on his phone. Happen to white people much?

 

Ask pc Blakelocks family.

[Waldo 96]

I guess minorities insulting the majority, it just bounces off. And its the white men in grey suits that are rich and powerfull.

 

Sure.

 

However, I as an individual am not rich and powerful. Is it more acceptable for me to be racist to a black chap who is richer than me, than it is for him to be racist to me?

[Bob Arctor 11]

Ask pc Blakelocks family.

 

The riots in London at that time were a direct result of police racism against black people. That some black people took revenge on police doesn't disprove the racism. In this thread you are trying to deny institutional racism in the USA, a country founded on the genocide of native Americans by white Europeans, then built on slavery and followed by segregation. As far as I am concerned, that can only be attempted by a racist.

[ANGELFIRE1 10]

The establishment isnt going to call non whites Racist because its not politically correct to do so .

 

I suspect that is the correct answer to the the question.

 

Angel1.

[spilldig 185]

Good question.

 

Off the top of my head; I'm thinking discrimination for or against a person, because of their race. Also, not holding all people to the same standard of behaviour, again, because of race.

 

I'm also thinking, and this is perhaps not direct racism, but, not being critical of a person from a different race; because you don't want to be percieved as racist. So, fear of others percieving their race being the reason for your critisism or dislike of them, rather than their behaviour.

 

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Of course all lives matter. I don't think BLM, at all implies that *only* black lives matter. It's clearly a response to the growing number of shootings of innocent black people in the US, by their police; and to raise awareness of the issue etc.

 

I think you are right In so far as, you can criticise a white person for something but you can't criticise a black person for anything because you are accused of being raceist.

[Bob Arctor 11]

 

I think you are right In so far as, you can criticise a white person for something but you can't criticise a black person for anything because you are accused of being raceist.

 

It's absolute nonsense that you can't criticise black people for anything. Ask Raheem Sterling.