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What do you mean by "sympathy"? They should go to jail for what they happened to have done. Just like white racist should go to jail when they commit such acts.
When white racists murder people and burn down buildings they go to jail the overwhelmingly majority of the time. There are times they dont, but black racists killing white people get off at about the same rate. There's just inherent imperfections in the justice system where clearly guilty people walk free because a determination has been made that its preferable to let a few guilty people walk to preserve these protections. Sucks, but that's the way it is. Maybe once upon a time it had a lot to do with race, but it doesn't anymore.
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You and your compadres spent the better portion of a week trying to justify the actions of two guys that chased a jogger in a pickup truck,, pulled weapons (the only people with weapons by the way) and then shooting and killing the guy. You tried to provide a rationale for the bullshit. To the best of my knowledge no one is doing that here.
He wasn't just "going for a jog", really. Nobody jogs in work boots. Those guys knew each other and had some issue, they resolved it by murder. An outcome far too common in this country. Either way, they are all going to prison.
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Lastly you may not have noticed but there were also a number of whites doing the protesting and looting too. The kids that attacked the cop and his partner were not black.
This is definitely true. There are white people using this as an excuse to cause mayhem, it is undeniable. But what has fostered these conditions where people like that are acting with relative impunity is black rage.
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There are economic anxieties which predate the shutdown. For blacks in particular, these anxieties go back centuries in this country. People like you constantly ignore and make excuses for it. If you want to see this sort of behavior change then there has to be changes in the system which seek to prevent it.
The "difference" (as you asked)in the black and white racist is that the white racist has power and influence. The white racist can ascend (even in 2020) all the way to the White House. The black racist is more than likely to need a public defender once he receives his assault and theft charges.
But so many of the people who support these issues will laugh off the economic anxieties white Americans felt which got them to elect Trump. I want to be clear, I dont think the economic argument for whites or blacks holds any water at all. Median income among exclusively lower income Americans is greater than overall median income in the UK, Israel, New Zealand, Japan, Finland and Italy. People around the world make do and are happy with less money than even lower income Americans have, and I will tell you from personal experience it was
way more expensive to afford rent and food in New Zealand ($250/week rent in Wellington to have just a room) than America. Food was about 1.5x as expensive and gas about five times as expensive.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/28/how-muc ... earns.htmlIt is abundantly obvious to anyone with any sort of perspective that more money, or a bigger piece of the pie, will not make people in America happier. So I just dont buy the economic anxiety argument anymore. Not when white people do it, not when black people do it.