They need better training when it comes to law enforcement. These officers need to go through psych evaluation every so often.
The state needs to hire a DIVERSE group of law officials that are not mostly white. Many minorities feel uncomfortable when all you see is white officers.( minorities can be officers too.) I don't believe that minorities don't want to be in law enforcement.
Minorities have been telling the America public for years that cops were mistreating them. SOME whites think that this has just recently been happening because all the video taping. Sad thing is that it been happening for a long time unchecked .
(Why didn't the believe us when we were telling them this?)
Media need stop portraying minorities as dangerous indivisuals.
Hard to stop racism when it is taught by their parents or media.
I partly agree with you, however, I think there are some problems.
1st. I think we can agree that skin color should not be a problem during a traffic stop or while buying juice at the supermarket. That is wrong.
2nd. What about a "minority' from the intercity who chooses or by circumstance of education, experience, ECT. chooses to dress and act like a "gangster" or to "keep it real."
I think an officer of the law or anyone else would be going against common sense and human nature to not be weary of that minority sub-culture. Would you agree or disagree?
3rd. All problems with Kapernicks genuine concerns, hypocrisy, or whatever else...
Dividing people too often as majority culture and minority culture is probably a bad idea in a pluralistic society.
Who is Kaepernick speaking to? It should be all Americans, because a division along different ways of thinking as a "race" or "people" means... we stop supporting difficult attempts to have an equal or fair society, and start thinking about those around us in terms of "my people."
That invites corruption, poor civic behavior, calling non-blacks or non-whites the "others" who "oppress" us when the vast majority do not care about skin color anymore, they care about living a life and making money, or having a family, ECT. like most people.
Targeting black people is unfair, but is a result of problems in "black" culture that lead to safety mechanisms among white, Hispanic, or Asian cultures to look at "black" culture and think "-they- have a problem..."
In the West, where group blame has been less and less acceptable for the last oh, 2k years, we are trying in finite ways to avoid group punishment and marginalization because we think everyone should be judged as an individual. However, groups still have an identity that they choose, and if they want to stand further and further out from the majority culture, it will help create the biases that people have.
For an easy example: good luck getting middle class Chinese migrants to want to live in a black neighborhood. And why should they want to?
That is a problem though - seeing the skin color and being unfair to the group is the easy reaction, to stop classifying people as "my people" or "not my people" is a harder distinction, and acts like Kaepernick seem to draw stricter lines between "us" and "them." In a society where everyone is supposed to be an American with equal rights and freedom, creating those Nationalists camps... of say "Black Power" and shaming of people against that mutant form of equality will cause reactionary movements, say "Make America Great Again."
Cliff notes:
Would we not be a whole lot better to say:
1. Encourage people not to judge according to skin color.
2. Encourage people not to invest in minority, majority, or any other cultural identity, but recognize people first and foremost as people. Not a group, nor a clan, nor a "black way" or a "white way."
3. Accept that cultures are different and be honest to accept that there are different ways to live life, we can respect that, however, need to talk about what works and what does not work in culture, because also actions have consequences whether we bury them in racial pride or not.
To chase after notions of "my people" becomes as destructive as those who see "my skin."
Society needs to aggressively address these dilemmas in an honest way and stop trying to save face and promote different cultural camps to point the dirty political fingers at one another.
