Joe Biden has called on Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, moments after shocking police video was released showing an Illinois officer fatally shooting Sonya Massey after she called police fearing a home intruder.
In his first public statement since dropping his bid for re-election, Biden said the shooting of Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman, by white Sangamon county sheriff’s deputy Sean Grayson, in her home in Springfield, after a dispute over a pot of boiling water, “reminds us that all too often Black Americans face fears for their safety in ways many of the rest of us do not”.
Biden, who is recovering from Covid at his home in Delaware, said Massey, “a beloved mother, friend, daughter and young Black woman … should be alive today”.
Conservatives hate being called racist. What exactly is this legitimizing?
When you make an incident… that had nothing to do with the victims race, entirely about her race… everyone sees that.
They learn lessons from that… They do that for their own reasons…
It’s stupid and wrong.
I feel like I’m asking the same question twice: what lessons do they learn?
That it’s ok to make issues about a person’s race . Even if race has nothing to do with it.
So the problem with calling too many things racist is that… people think about racism.
Think about it how? What are the consequences of people thinking more things are racially motivated than there are?
As I said, if you are willing to do that… and claim it’s ok.
The bigoted racists will do the same… and point to this as justification.
Cos frankly… It is. It’s just as racist.
Okay, so, the world you imagine is that bigoted racists will point to this cop-murder and say “Hey, they said this killing was racist, but it wasn’t. That means we need to be more racist?”
I don’t think there’s much point in explaining it to you again and again so this will be my last time.
The woman clearly gets killed because of her behaviours and if it were a white woman the same thing would have e occurred.
If well meaning people try make it about race, everyone can see what you are trying to do… And it cheapens the whole important discussion around incidents that are racially motivated.
No, it doesn’t. Nobody believes this.
Cops don’t sprinkle cocaine over white women.
Now, because I know I’ll have to explain this to you, that’s was something called a “figure of speech.”