"Microaggressions are the everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, which communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target persons based solely upon their marginalized group membership"
Take a multi-cultural class and you'll understand the phrase.
Comb your hair or wear a hood. Problem solved. I can not change my skin and telling a young black boy to put a hood on is signing a death certificate.
Yeah I won't lie a part of me is racist as all hell when it comes to white people. Want to know why because people of color no matter what we do we have to be better and we have to work a lot harder to even be considered or seen as something equal to the whiteman. That kind of resilience is something quite marvelous if you ask me.
"The New York Civil Union (NYCU) has collected a large amount of data on Stop-and-Frisk since its enforcement in 2002. In 2004, out of 160,851 citizens that were stopped based on the legislation, only 12% were White while 54% were African American and 31% were Latino Americans. Even a decade later, these statistics have stayed somewhat consistent. In the first half of 2014, out of the 27,527 individuals stopped, 53% were African American, 28% Latino American, and 12% were White citizens."
Those numbers are a lot higher now let me find you something more recent so you don't have a heart attack.
"On the other hand, from 2002 to 2011, black and Latino residents made up close to 90 percent of people stopped, and about 88 percent of stops – more than 3.8 million – were of innocent New Yorkers. Even in neighborhoods that are predominantly white, black and Latino New Yorkers face the disproportionate brunt. For example, in 2011, Black and Latino New Yorkers made up 24 percent of the population in Park Slope, but 79 percent of stops." - Sheesh crazy isn't it. Hell I know Park Slope white as hell and yet look who gets targeted tsk tsk. You are more than welcome to find these stats in your city if indeed you do have stop and frisk.
"here has been an increasing amount of deaths in black communities due to police officers firing their weapons at them. in 2012, the Malcolm X Grass Roots Movement, an organization of “New Afrikans†whose mission is to defend the human rights of African American people and promote self-determination in their communities, created the report “Operation Ghetto Storm: 2012 report on the extrajudicial killings of 313 Black people by Police, security guards, and vigilantesâ€. The report was published half way through the year 2012, but after year concluded, the report was updated; they came to the conclusion that an African American citizen is killed every 28 hours in the U.S. Several cases, when investigated, concluded that the police officers involved were innocent of any crimes or misconduct" -
Pitiful every 28 hours. Every 28 hours can you imagine that. Sad when I have to hear a black mom give her son the talk about how it is that he is suppose to reach into his pocket for his wallet or an ID.
"CNN legal analyst, Sunny Hostin, who is an African American woman, on a segment about “Raising Black Children in America†stated that “any parent of color, Latino or African American parents must have these conversations with their children. It is just really a reality. It’s the same conversation, I think, that many parents have about ‘stranger danger’. It’s the same conversation that parents have with their children about ‘look both ways before you cross the street."
^ You can go ahead and call me a racist for telling you that you will never understand what that is like for parent or child. Like I said you can comb your hair or put a hood on we can not change the color of our skin or blend in to be something else.
http://youtu.be/t5S2qRcO8Qw - Eric Garner there is your evidence. That officer was acquitted. "I can't breathe, I can't breathe" You count and let me know how many times he said "I can''t breathe". Two months ago he was selling looses and the punishment is murder? Well damn
http://youtu.be/MSNbpvX1qYc - MAYBE 20? Lawd that is a 12 year old baby. Hell my question is did they really ask him to put his hands up or just shoot? Let's not forget how fake gun was never mentioned.
http://youtu.be/saQ8wW4DwkY - Seems a little funny to me I've surely never seen a cop go to the passenger side to ask for a License. His hands were up don't forget that.
http://youtu.be/C0FH5SBEmG4-Is that what we call policing? Let me know?
http://youtu.be/eZMUnAJTuFA - Feared for their life? XDXD Oh man. Let's not forget the resisted arrest part. Hell I should be shoot and stomped for resisting arrest it seems.
http://gawker.com/unarmed-people-of-color-killed-by-police-1999-2014-1666672349 So how many more of these are needed before there are legislations and policies passed that seriously crack down on police brutality? If you can't see the majority of these people did not receive any justice TC. Makes me wonder whpo it is that is really entitled to be served and protected in this country. Hell I wake up everyday knowing that it could be a brother of mine, cousin or even more friends on this list.
Shit and I sure as hell know that that list should be a lot longer. I mean every 28 hours man.
A little scary when you hear people like Angela Davis (and if you don't know who she is pick up a book on her life or on the Black Panthers and you'll know) are saying that today it is worse than it was in the 60s and 70s because of police brutality. Hell really makes you think especially if you know your history.
I can continue with this forever really. I have no problem sending you more formal research you let me know.
Now let me be clear I'm not saying let's get rid of cops, I am saying they are abusing their powers and there needs to be policies put in place to keep them in check. Hell let's start with the police body cams maybe that will work. Again to be clear I am also not saying white people aren't harassed by the cops or that some of these unjust deaths weren't cause by cops of color but the point is cops/policing as a whole needs to be on a tighter leash.