vincentML
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I think if someone committed a crime, his skin colour and precise description should be described to the max! Including his ethnicity and precise shade of colour.
So I have no problem with them saying a Chinese male committed rape or something like that.
It's like when that cop shot that black guy in the car. The media should really mention he was Hispanic. If his white, sure, mention his white too.
Greta, what you may do is not what is done in American news reports and pop culture. We are talking about an incident in my country, not yours.
One of the great ironies of our history is that African slavery engendered horrific fear among white plantation owners and poor whites in the South. In order to keep their black slaves disciplined the Owners developed a Mandingo myth in which black men hungered sexually after pure white women. If slaves were ever let loose they would rape pure white women. White slavers lived in terror of slave rebellion. They had patrols of men and dogs at the ready in case a black slave got loose. Not to say there fears were not justified, just not for the reason they promoted.
That myth of the dangerous black man has morphed into into a single composite of the black man as athlete/rapper/criminal in modern pop culture and contributes mightily to racial profiling. That's why unarmed black men are more likely shot by the police than unarmed white men. That's why:
While African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population, half of all defendants exonerated for murder are black ― a rate seven times that for innocent whites. These wrongly convicted black Americans spent on average more than 14 years in prison, the report says.
Many more are innocent, but not yet cleared. “More often than not, they will die in prison,” researchers wrote.
The false murder convictions of black defendants were 22 percent more likely to involve police misconduct than those of white defendants. On average, African Americans who were exonerated waited three years longer in prison before their release than whites in similar circumstances.
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Whenever a misdeed is committed by a black man his color is reported in the newspapers, it contributes to the myth of the dangerous black man, and that myth has awful consequences for our efforts at racial harmony. You, Greta, are contributing unwittingly to systemic racial profiling in my country. That's why labeling alleged wrong-doers by color or ethnicity is wrong.
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. ~ MLK Jr.
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