If Only This were Doggerel

[rowens]

Since many black people are taught that police are agents of forced oppression, and many white people are taught that black men are likely to be criminals, black men and cops go around with targets on them. I think it's comfort and not priviledge that allow more white people to feel safe around cops, the comfort of not feeling like they look suspicious. Feeling suspicious makes you look suspicious. Then you have all the movies showing past incidents where cops harrassed innocent people. Culture plays into its own trap. And things are framed in a very sloppy way, so white men end up feeling like they're being lumped in with white racists, and they're getting angry, and that anger is construed as racist.