Trump administration officials on Sunday echoed White House National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien’s denial last week that systemic racism is an issue in law enforcement agencies across the country.
It’s not systemic, it’s automatic.
They wouldn’t know how to do otherwise.
White man attempts white wash, fails.
Black man unaware that police forces are already worse than vigilante groups.
“some” law enforcement officers… abuse their jobs who need to be held accountable
Agreed.
But every time, every time, the department assures us the police did nothing wrong and the dead guy was not killed with malicious intent. Never malicious intent.
So, the “problem” is the color of people’s skin.
Next case?
To confess the truth and the reality of systemic racism would mean they’d have to do something about it. They don’t want to and they won’t.
“painting law enforcement with a broad brush of systemic racism is really a disservice to the men and women who put on the badge.”
Says the assholes with the broad brush painting all minorities ‘thugs and rapists’.
You know - until the so-called GOOD cops start turning on the FEW BAD COPS - they’re all complicit - which means it’s systemic.
One of the most astounding things about this administration is the way that they keep missing what should be easy victories. It would have been easy to co-opt a good deal of the outrage about George Floyd’s death at the hands of police officers by admitting that we have to make changes. They could have even blamed local authorities. (That wouldn’t have been accurate, but it would have been totally in keeping with the “blame everyone else” philosophy of the admin.) All this bunch had to say was “we are developing a plan to address any systemic problems in our policing” and then kicked it down the road until after the election. They could have easily continued the practice of the administration, which is to claim that you have a plan that never materializes. They could even have him claim to have done something since actually having achieved something is not an issue with this bunch.
Instead, they are denying what is clearly obvious to everyone. Now, I realize that part of the victimization scheme is to claim that white people are the most abused people in the system, but that could have easily been incorporated the scam. All they would have had to do is to claim that their research indicates that white people are actually more victimized than people of color, and shuffled off to Buffalo for a victory tour. And it goes without saying that the push-back during the interviews would have been mild if not nonexistent. Thinking people would have still asked questions, but that isn’t the audience they are addressing.
Martha Raddatz mentioned that black Americans are killed by police at more than twice the rate of white Americans, Wolf said that he does not think that the country has “a systemic racism problem” with law enforcement officers
This is one of the greater failing of modern journalist, the refusal or inability time wise to ask the right there begging to be asked follow up question. WHY then does Wolf think black Americans are killed at twice the rate of white Americans by police if there is no systemic racism as he claims? I think that answer would be highly illuminating to Wolf reasoning (or lying) but we’ll never know because too many ‘reporters’ are just ‘show moderators’ now.
These folks are not arguing honestly of course but, to be charitable, they may not be aware of it.
Why back when I studied systems theory, a useful heuristic was to focus on outcomes: what does the system do? If you begin your analysis by treating that as what the system is, that that is its real function, that whether it was purposely designed that way or not, it is the fact(s) you must account for then you have a better chance of getting somewhere.
One of the outcomes of the current system is the differential ill-treatment of the poor and POC; that is what it does. That is a fact. Begin there.
…a disservice to MOST of the men and women…
Same with protesters, isn’t it, officers?
Bad Call.
Bad Call at the worst conceivable time…
Which ensures the protests will continue.
Until McConnell becomes the main focus, nobody else matters.
Of course, the white, privileged, well-paid authorities in the administration are completely blind to the systemic racism that is rooted in over the 400 years of American history. Its going on every day and it is so commonplace, to them, and they are so accustomed to the denial implicit in white racism, that guys like creepy Bill Barr can say, ". . .I don’t think that the law enforcement system is systemically racist” and keep a straight face.
And I am a white man and I have been seeing this for about seven decades.
Barr: reduced immunity… “would result certainly in police pulling back.”
Maybe if there weren’t so many guns floating around out there, our neighborhoods wouldn’t be viewed by the feds as war zones.
Barr is advocating the status quo. We need change.
Yep. Been saying this for ages: Hey, Popos, want to feel less threatened? Get behind gun control.
It’s not systemic racism. It’s just entire departments exploding with rage and attacking huge crowds of peaceful demonstrators who have the temerity to suggest that the police not murder innocent black people.
I wish we’d listened to Dwight Eisenhower. We didn’t take his warning to heart and the Military-Industrial Complex has had their way with us.
We are so militarized, so constantly pressured to look at everyone in a uniform as a hero and everything in American life as a kind of warfare. We’re all supposed to be warriors against some damn thing - and mostly our own ageing and deaths. We are always at war with whatever the fuck has rolled up.
Despite what John Roberts has claimed, systemic racism remains a huge issue and exists in the population of this country
Where do the police come from? The population.
Yeah. And when we’re encouraged to fetishize the police and the military, we’re being groomed to accept authoritarians in power, wielding those forces and silencing any doubts about them. Fuck that noise. And Fuck Trump.