Running racism in America thread

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For the First Time, America May Have an Anti-Racist Majority

 

Rochester chief resigns. The command staff retired.

Rochester Police Chief Resigns After Accusations of Cover-Up in Prude Case

Mr. Prude arrived in Rochester by train from Chicago and to his brother’s home on March 22. He was behaving so erratically, paranoid and hallucinating, that his brother, Joe Prude, had him admitted to a hospital for evaluation. But Mr. Prude was released hours later, and early the morning of March 23, he bolted from the home and into the streets.

Officers found him naked and ranting; a witness said he heard Mr. Prude claim he had the coronavirus, then on the sharp rise in New York. He was handcuffed without incident, seated in the street. But when he began spitting and ignored orders to stop, officers pulled a so-called spit hood over his head.

Mr. Prude became agitated and tried to rise, and officers restrained him by pushing his head into the street and placing a knee on his torso, according to footage from the body cameras. He stopped breathing and his heart stopped beating. Paramedics revived him and took him to a hospital, where he died March 30.

Hours after the incident, Mr. Singletary told Ms. Warren that a person had suffered a drug overdose while in custody, Ms. Warren said last week. But a county autopsy report labeled Mr. Prude’s death a homicide caused by complications of asphyxiation in a prone position.

 

What are 3 policy changes you hope from this moment?

 

Always quick with a question, but never an answer.

 

The story isn’t solely (or even really) about police departments. It’s about politics, and the Democrats’ ability to seize the political moment because the nation has never coalesced around anti-racism like it is at this moment. Since we as a board were told to “read this” I figured policy queries were fair.

 

When beating a negro, do not strike the head.
Instead of taking all the colored’s money, leave him 1/4th.
Blame more Hispanics and Asian for crimes that either you committed or a white friend did.

There you go. “Progress.”

 

This has been bouncing around in my head but has finally distilled down into a coherent thought:

Was talking to some colleagues recently (who are at least 4th gen white) and they had been voicing jokes about how signs, monikers were "anti-white privilege". It niggled in my mind and was somewhat bothersome but I didn't respond.

My realization (perhaps wrongly) is that this thinking is based on a "zero sum" analysis. If you're supporting or recognizing BLM or hell any type of affirmative action, that means that somehow you are diminishing or taking away from the "white" achievements. It doesn't have to be a zero sum game. I"m ready to duck the flames coming.....(I can take it, that's why I throw it out here)

 

Why would I entertain questions from a person who’s convinced A, I’m a horrible person and B, finds my questions beneath them?

 

A. You're a poor mind-reader.
2. I don't think you're a horrible person. I just disagree with you a lot of the time.
d. Ask better questions. It's not that I find them beneath me. It's that I don't believe they're asked in good faith.

 

Based on this message...

1. I’m using your city as a pawn
2. I don’t care if people die

Which question was I supposed to answer in that post? Are you as heartless as I think you are?

 

No thank you.