Released Sunday night, the nearly four-minute video from the Sergeants Benevolent Association, says officers face worse treatment than those judged by their race.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nypd-blue-racism_us_599b037ee4b0e8cc855f162a
When I first read about this I kept reading, waiting to find a punchline. But there wasn't one. I was thinking this is THE ONION. It's satire. But it wasn't.
Police are CHOOSING a profession
and putting on a uniform,
which they can remove at anytime.
And somehow the white officers
that made this video thought to themselves
"it is like racism" ...
when the public criticizes police
for almost always circling the wagons
around that small yet deadly
number of police officers
that are murdering and planting
evidence on citizens
--especially if those citizens are not white.
And the police, police unions, and prosecutors that don't prosecute have been somewhere upwards of 90% successful at protecting police officers who murder and essentially claim cowardice as their defense for shooting an unarmed person.
This video shows that black and brown lives that police officers have taken mean less than nothing to the white officer behind this video. (We knew that already, right?)
But now they've announced it and they didn't hear themselves say it.
And they didn't hear themselves say "We are white supremacists" because they do not understand the definition of white supremacist(s) is a lot simpler than many white people can conceive of.
AGAIN,
WHITE SUPREMACY IS
THE BELIEF THAT WHITE PEOPLE
ARE BETTER AND MORE VALUABLE
THAN PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT WHITE
Sometimes white supremacy involves the feeling of hate. Sometimes it doesn't
Sometimes white supremacy involves the n-word. Sometimes it doesn't.
Sometimes (or all the time) white supremacy involves the satisfying flush of feeling that comes when on feels powerful based on feeling superior to someone else.
Sometimes numbers tell the story of white supremacy. And it's like these white officers don't know perfectly damn well they shot 258 black people in 2016 and were only 11% short of half of them being unarmed.
And they think we're too stupid to know that when Chad uses his badge to shoot somebody who is not white because he or she is not white, Bucky (Becky's husband) often follows up by claiming he didn't see anything. Then Biff the prosecutor comes along and winds up being a better defense attorney than the guy the police union hired for the cop murderer
I've been calling the police the leading edge of white supremacy for a while now. But this shocked me.
Verbal violence does not surprise me from white supremacists Physical violence would not surprise me from white supremacists. And, frankly, I and most black folks have been expecting Charlottesville and something far uglier from white supremacists for a long time. In fact, I was sure the second term of President Obama would set a group just like alt-Right all the way off.
But they needed Trump to pour gas on them and tell them it was okay to come out with their white supremacy.
White supremacists who would ordinarily shun Kluxers and Nazis needed somebody to tell them the they don't have to be "politically correct" anymore. They needed somebody to tell them they can say it out loud,
"White people are the real victims here."
And I'm using "cop" and "white people" interchangeably because I'm thinking the black cop union and the latino cop union are going to part ways with the white cop union again, same as they did when the (predominantly) white cop union endorsed Trump....if this story gets any traction at all.
This is industrial strength white entitlement. Let there be no doubt.
Not only did cops get caught planting evidence on people in Baltimore recently, they act like they don't know police are the ones shooting people down for reaching for their driver's licenses then clapping when their "brother" gets off in court.
August 21 headline
Baltimore State's Attorney announces third body camera video of 'questionable' police conduct
And they really can't figure out why we don't trust any of them anymore? Really?
"Blue Racism" might be dumber, whiter, and more racist than something Trump could have come up with on his own.
You know what? I've been afraid of cops my entire life. I've always known that if something really bad was happening in my house and I had to call them, I'd be praying just as hard for the cops to not abuse me as any robber, rapist, or murderer. Our lives mean nothing to police. And this video proves it.
This isn't just about not knowing what the word "racism" means.
This is a civilized quiet way of saying the same thing alt-Right was saying during Charlottesville. This video is way of denying that racism exists in police departments or anywhere else.
They are actually demanding that people be more grateful, when they've done damn near nothing to weed out the murderers from their ranks.
Very few cops are even vocal when one of their cop brothers are caught on video murdering someone. It's so rare that when a cop does stand against the murderer in their department that person is held up as a hero....because its so damn rare.
For people of color, cops are just another gang.
I get that white officers are going to segregated neighborhoods and ignoring how extreme poverty, and being denied access, and being overcrowded affects people --especially when cities make sure cops are low education on purpose. But, this is total disrespect for people of color when you make a video like this knowing your own group is killing people...and walking away, most of them not even going to court.
I don't care if there 1,000,000 interactions per minute with cops that are good. When they murder they black people were over-represented by 200% in 2016 and 11% short of half of those black people unarmed.
Black Twitter's response to "Blue Racism" ought to be something that means F U and the horse you rode in on with this self-serving, self-centered, ignorant, empathy-less, evil bullsh**
