Joe Biden has called on Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, moments after shocking police video was released showing an Illinois officer fatally shooting Sonya Massey after she called police fearing a home intruder.
In his first public statement since dropping his bid for re-election, Biden said the shooting of Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman, by white Sangamon county sheriff’s deputy Sean Grayson, in her home in Springfield, after a dispute over a pot of boiling water, “reminds us that all too often Black Americans face fears for their safety in ways many of the rest of us do not”.
Biden, who is recovering from Covid at his home in Delaware, said Massey, “a beloved mother, friend, daughter and young Black woman … should be alive today”.
I feel like I’m asking the same question twice: what lessons do they learn?
That it’s ok to make issues about a person’s race . Even if race has nothing to do with it.
So the problem with calling too many things racist is that… people think about racism.
Think about it how? What are the consequences of people thinking more things are racially motivated than there are?
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Okay, so, the world you imagine is that bigoted racists will point to this cop-murder and say “Hey, they said this killing was racist, but it wasn’t. That means we need to be more racist?”
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No, it doesn’t. Nobody believes this.
Cops don’t sprinkle cocaine over white women.
Now, because I know I’ll have to explain this to you, that was something called a “figure of speech.”
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Then you would be interested in why people think this is racist because false negatives are just as damaging as false positives.
Do you think a hurricane warning is improved by people loudly calling for others not to listen?
“Ah, but hurricane issuers do care about accuracy.”
And what exactly makes you think that we don’t?
I’m not gonna help you with this one. You’re going to have to sit in the dunce corner and really think about it.