In NZ we have a week of navel gazing over micro aggressions, in America Cops beat and shoot
Here’s a juxtaposition.
In NZ we had a week on the micro aggressions between a middle class 23 year old and a rich white working class bloke at an exclusive winery.
A week.
7 days.
Longer than it took God to make the Universe folks.
Compare our one week of screaming racist at Peter Leitch with what they do in America.
See if you can pick the micro aggression here…
Police tackled and beat a black man suspected of stealing a car. It was his
Pinned to the ground by officers who kneed and struck him, Lawrence Crosby screamed whatever he could think of to convince them that he was a law-abiding PhD student, not a violent car thief.
“This is my vehicle, sir,” he said, his voice captured by the dashboard-camera video in October 2015. “I have evidence . . . I purchased this vehicle Jan. 23, 2015, from Libertyville Chevrolet.”
It wasn’t enough. The officers placed him in handcuffs in the driveway of a church, two blocks from the police station in Evanston, Ill.
Police released the dash-cam video earlier this week, detailing the half-hour encounter that sparked a civil suit from Crosby and a discussion about race and policing in this city of 75,000, just north of Chicago.
…now clearly the US Police are Condesplaining and Heterosplaining in a gender binary manner a hate crime against this African-American cismale but I’m more concerned about the Internalised superiority and Internalised oppression that’s obviously on display.
The preciousness with which cultural elites use social media to con the mainstream media into focusing on their cultural rules is fake news at its most divisive.
Everytime someone screams racist at Peter Leitch, two old people vote for Trump.
Kia ora Martyn,
Don’t tell Maori what to be upset and vocal about.
No, no, you don’t understand, we’ve got to placate the racist arseholes who are just moments away from ruining everything. We can’t be anti-racist, that’ll just make racists know they’re racist!
Whilst I agree with what you are saying Martyn, you do need to move on from this idea that “old people” are the source of all the problems in the world.
Blacks in America are literally fighting for their lives, every day. The international community should band together and condemn the state of race relations in America. One can only imagine what that man has endured and continues to endure.
That said, New Zealand’s own discriminatory race relations are cause for disgust.