-=> Quoting Ryan Bagueros to Carol Shenkenberger <=-
 RB> But it is wrong to assume that it is not racism. Racism is
 RB> psychological and  subtle. If a white cop shoots a black youth, how
 RB> much of it is in the cop's  head? How much of it is seeing a young
 RB> black man and seeing a swaggering rap  star? Americans have a very
 RB> negative imagine implanted in their head about  black males - and that
 RB> factor is crucial in times of stress or when you have to 
 RB> act on a gut instinct. Acting on impulse means acting without
 RB> rationality a lot 
 RB> of the times - and that means relying on a knee-jerk, racist idea.
 RB> Even if the  cop is not "racist" - has black friends, etc. - perhaps
 RB> the shooting was  racially motivated.
Well Ryan, perhaps you can educate us all on racism and explain how it is
that all cops are racist.  Your example always seems to involve a white
cop and a black male "victim".  I am curious how a non racist (white?) cop
with black friends is inclined to kill black males as a function of racism
when you  you have already indicted that he is not racist.
The last time I saw a news report of a cop shooting a black male, the cop
was black. Was he racist? There was a police shooting of a man in Toronto
last year. The man who was shot was Chinese. Some people have tried to
insinuate that there was racism involved. Perhaps the racists were the
people who summoned police to deal with a violent man in a public place.
Could you please give us a rating of the racism in various groups. Which
of Whites, Blacks, Japanese, Chinese, Hispanics and Native Americans are
racist. Could you please provide us with a relative rating for each of these
groups so we will know which are racist, which are not so racist, and which
for some reason, could not ever be racist.
FWIW.....I have heard a lot of racist remarks in my life, but the most
overtly racist act I have seen in the last few years was by a Mexican
toward a Black.  Perhaps your hypothetical examples should involve
Hispanic cops and black males .
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