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kind9 posted...

You say that as if that was always the sole purpose for the protests when in actuality the vast majority of people showing up to those protests were peaceful. Of course people show up to take advantage of the situation. That seems to be the nature of large protests in general. Tell me, how do you feel about police brutality and systemic racism?

Police 100% overstep their authority and abuse it in the name of the law. I find a large majority of police to have certain characteristics and they widely abuse their authority definitely overly brutal in their execution of the law. They have an internal buddy buddy system where they protect their own as well. I am not a fan of police as a whole. On the flip side however if they are going after someone with a known history of violence, a criminal wrap sheet a mile long, a level of force out of the gate should be expected.

I do find most systemic racism claims to be misjudged and what is often deemed and accused as racial discrimination is often actually wealth discrimination. The all mighty wealthy that influence and have a heavy hand in the laws and regulations of the country I really don't think are doing it based on the color of the skin or a the culture. Its more about keeping the poor poor their goal to make themselves more wealthy and maintain it. Keep the poor down while elevating themselves up. It just happens that minorities make up a major chunk of the poor.

I just think racism claims as a whole today are often misrepresented. Go to any poor white neighborhood and they don't live any better and they are just as discriminated against by law enforcement. You go to any poor/run down part of town of any racial makeup and that whole area has a preconceived stereotype of its inhabitants. In the city I live in we have two major "bad" areas of town, which is the areas with the more run down parts of the city and high crime rates. One is the area that is mostly comprised of minorities and the other is the where all the "white trash" lives. They are both looked at with preconceived notions. I for a number of years lived on the outskirts of said latter place and have had situations where I had dealings with the police despite not having any criminal history, just the fact I lived in the area, I was prejudged by them as just a piece of white trash not worth helping in a case where I needed and then was accused of things in other cases.

There are clearly real examples of actual racism in the country and world, but I find that people tend to throw the "racism" card out at anything that doesn't go the way they think it should. Its incredibly hard to not become desensitized to it. The Boy that Cried Wolf scenario.

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