#1 2014-08-15 07:27:35
This isn't about color, I tell my son's the same thing without the racist overtones.
My arresting officers put their hands on their side-arms because I was being "too polite", we just have too many tin gun tommy's in the police forces again.
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#2 2014-08-15 10:06:07
I would have suggested just the opposite tack. Instead of teaching young black men to assume that they will be treated with suspicion and prejudice, and to play their part in that little drama, I would tell them to take a page from the libertarian or Ghandi-esque playbook. Calmly defend your civil rights and never back down from a confrontation with bureaucracy just to ease the job of the bureaucrat. Hold the officials as accountable for their actions as they hold the citizen accountable for theirs, document everything and follow up with calm but persistent protests on the bureaucrats home turf; the city council meetings, the candidate forums, etc. Don't let the police take the fight to your neighborhood, take the fight to theirs.
What Ferguson was missing was a Tiananmen Square moment.
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#3 2014-08-15 11:55:54
Goob, that was great. Thanks.
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#4 2014-08-15 12:33:47
GooberMcNutly wrote:
Calmly defend your civil rights and never back down from a confrontation
I would rather just have my sons alive thank you very much; bullets don't much care about civil rights.
And yes my family is as white as the driven snow.
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#5 2014-08-15 16:13:40
As much as I hate to say this, when a minority person tries to calmly defend their right to have their civil rights respected, they run the risk at minimum of being charged with resisting arrest. As a White Gay Male, I know from experience that the police are not my friends. My being easily pegged as gay removes my humanity as far as most policemen are concerned.
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