An RNC Speaker Said Cops Would Be 'Smart' to Racially Profile Her Own Son

[TomCADem]

Source: Vice

One of the Republican National Convention’s top speakers said in a recent video that it would be “smart” for a police officer to racially profile her biracial son, because “statistically, my brown son is more likely to commit a violent offense over my white sons.”

“I recognize that I’m gonna have to have a different conversation with Jude than I do with my brown-haired little Irish, very, very pale-skinned, white sons, as they grow up,” Abby Johnson, a prominent anti-abortion activist, said in a 15-plus-minutes video posted to YouTube in late June, after weeks of nationwide protests against the police killing of George Floyd.

“Right now, Jude is an adorable, perpetually tan-looking little brown boy,” said Johnson, whose husband blogged, in 2015, about adopting their biracial son at his birth. Johnson is white. “But one day, he’s going to grow up and he’s going to be a tall, probably sort of large, intimidating-looking-maybe brown man. And my other boys are probably gonna look like nerdy white guys.”

But the fact that the police could one day view her sons differently, simply due to the color of their skin, doesn’t make Johnson mad, she said. Instead, it makes sense to her.

Read more: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/935me3/an-rnc-speaker-said-cops-would-be-smart-to-racially-profile-her-own-son

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Wow. Here is one of tonight's featured RNC speakers:

[Withywindle]

1. I'm going to stop even thinking "OK, they can't go any lower than this."

They always, ALWAYS can.

That poor child. He already knows he's treated differently at home and he already knows why. Someone come and take him to a better family PLEASE.

[Roy Rolling]

44. FEAR

They will never stop plumbing the depths of how low they will go attempting to scare you.

FEAR

Like them, they want US to live in a paranoid state of fear. They want you and me to be scared and look to them for protection.

It’s the oldest racket in the books, the protection shakedown.

FEAR

It best works on cowards, so I don’t FEAR because I don’t want to become one of them.

[MontanaMama]

2. She's a horrible person.

No bones about it.

[3catwoman3]

3. What a horrifyingly shitty thing...

...to say!

That is child abuse.

[mr_lebowski]

4. I'm sure a brown person is more likely to be prosecuted and go to jail for a violent offense ...

Not sure the actual commission of violent acts is any higher, esp. if you control for wealth.

She should lose custody of her adorable brown boy if you ask me.

[lonely bird]

5. Then she is an idiot

Not to mention a lousy mother.

I wonder why I didn’t get profiled growing up? I ended up 6’8”. But then I am white.

And whites commit more violent crime than African-Americans.

[oldsoftie]

8. Not when accounting for percentage of population.

No, they dont. Its an inconvenient fact, but true.

[Mr.Bill]

15. There are no statistics for crimes committed.

Only for people caught committing them.

[oldsoftie]

39. Thats just splitting hairs. Many crimes arent even reported too.

The numbers are so far apart that merely "missing" arrests cant nearly account for the difference.

[lonely bird]

17. Which is the discussion of percentages

Which does not take into account policing rationales, methods, the retribution system, the school to jail pipeline, the white privilege which colors (no pun intended) how crimes are determined and who is deemed a criminal, the so-called war on drugs etc ad nauseum.

[ck4829]

59. +1

[obamanut2012]

52. Yeah, zero proof of that

Mind backing up that... interesting stat?

[oldsoftie]

55. It's easy to find.

But if you post it here, it'll get alerted on & hidden regardless of accuracy

[ck4829]

57. Ah, the good old "look it up yourself" escape hatch

Where you'll find... at least one of the chans, Breitbart, the Daily Stormer, and other crackpot sites.

[oldsoftie]

60. Meaning you never bothered to look. The Obama-era FBI isnt a "crackpot site"

But thats always the case; nobody actually tries to find the facts because they dont want to find something they dont like
So OK, I did the not-so-hard work for you. 2016 statistics:

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-2016/topic-pages/tables/table-21


https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-2016/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-3.xls

Both of these tables show the real numbers. You can easily do the rough math in your head. Does it include crime not reported? No, of course not. Because it was NOT REPORTED.

[Lucky Luciano]

6. Republicans are trash.

[pecosbob]

7. We need more effective screening to prevent people like this from adopting.

Ya know...questions like 'Are you of sound mind?'

[oldsoftie]

9. We should've asked the same question 4 yrs ago for President!

[The_REAL_Ecumenist]

10. For those who are more in the know more information about adoption than admittedly I know...

Is there ANY way that this adoption can be reversed? If this "THANG" is speaking like this about the "CHILD" she willingly adopted at birth at length IN PUBLIC, HOW TF is she treating him in private, behind closed doors? I have to admit that if I were to run across this shambling container of hot garbage in a dark alley, I whip her ass until it, aas my grandpa used to say, "ROPED LIKE OKRA".

Does ANYONE know if this child can be taken away for his own safety?

[StevieM]

19. Unfortunately not. All adoptions are final, unless you can show that the birth mother was coerced.

My heart is breaking for the child's first mother tonight. She entrusted her child with this woman. She must be in agony upon hearing about this.

[The_REAL_Ecumenist]

28. Okay, I suppose I have to accept that BUT can CPS step in & remove him from the home because of the

clear danger she poses to the child's physical AND emotional health? I just cannot believe that she's NOT abusing him, either physically, mentally &/or emotionally. Sounds like she's being neglectful at the very least....

[StevieM]

33. CPS operates differently in all 50 states.

TPRs (termination of parental rights) works differently in all 50 states.

And in both cases their workings can be somewhat random.

[The_REAL_Ecumenist]

35. He doesn't have to be snatched permanently, (although he probably should be), right away but he

should be placed into foster care while an investigation takes place & then a decision made. This is BULLSHIT! I don't care what color a potential parent is. children are children BUT WHY THE FUCK did she adopt him if this is how she felt? This WILL NOT end well, for that poor baby.

[muntrv]

11. Call child protective services. This is child abuse.

[VA_Jill]

49. Well

There is a movement on Twitter to do just that. The number of the appropriate CPS office was published and I daresay they have been inundated with calls requesting just that.

[ck4829]

58. It is

[keithbvadu2]

12. Well, she knows how she is raising him.

Well, she knows how she is raising him.

Statistically, of course.

[PatrickforO]

13. Today, I saw the video of the cop grabbing Jacob Blake by the tee shirt and then

pumping seven bullets into his body at point blank range. He's paralyzed now.

I saw the family's press conference and it tore my heart out.

Then, tonight, some guy called me asking for a donation to 'keep police officers safe.' I fear I yelled at him that I was going to be donating to Black Lives Matter instead, and asked how he could possibly justify grabbing a kid by the tee shirt and shooting him seven times at point blank range? He was polite, to his credit, but hung up.

And now there's this. I literally felt my gorge rise when I saw this article. How can this horrible excuse for a human being even think like this? I can't even imagine being 'her brown son.'

Why? Why?

Hard not to weep.

[Demovictory9]

14. Ignorant bigot..her white kids are "nerdy" looking

While her brown kid will look like a violent criminal. Thats the gist of her racist nonsense

[VA_Jill]

50. I'd like her to meet

my grandson. All-state third team OL, 6'2, 260 lbs, honor student with an overwhelming interest in STEM, probably will major in something like astrophysics or aerospace engineering in college depending on where he gets a scholarship. Oh, did I mention he's a young man of color? Yeah, that. Naff off, Abby.

[LisaL]

16. Why did she adopt the child?

I really feel bad for the kid.

[Illumination]

18. Can you say "cuckoo for cocoa puffs"? Watched some of the RNC tonight! OMG! Hope there

were no children watching!

[LisaL]

22. I read up on some of her history.

She had two abortions herself, worked in planned parenthood for 8 years, then apparently had a change of heart.
Here is the story of the child's adoption. She thinks that every child that is born is a miracle, but when her adopted child will grow up, she expects him to look large and intimidating? Who thinks about a child like that?

"Abby Johnson closed her speech with a striking observation born of her own experiences: “The society we live in today, any child that is born is a miracle.”"
https://catholicphilly.com/2016/02/news/local-news/parishioners-hear-of-womans-journey-from-abortion-to-family-life/

[oldsoftie]

40. Was ANYONE watching?

[StevieM]

20. My heart goes out to her adoptive child's birth mother.

She must be devastated tonight upon learning that this is how the woman raising her son thinks.

[NNadir]

21. Republican views on motherhood. Wonderful. Open and proud abuse.

So much for a "right to life."

[LeftInTX]

23. They won't profile her son for two reasons

He's two years old and
He isn't exactly brown

He is about as "brown" as my kids.

He is one of these. But I don't know which one. I think the one on the right end.

[LisaL]

25. Well, he is more than 2 now.

I found the photo of him on her facebook. He literally looks like a white child with a nice tan. He has blond hair. He is not the one on the right.
I would not be able to tell he is biracial if I didn't know.

[Chemisse]

34. So she was willing to say this because she quietly, smuggly knows it won't happen.

Because her adopted son doesn't even look biracial.

She is a horrible person for many reasons.

[LeftInTX]

36. Pretty much

He's probably Mexican-American and sometimes they can be fair complected, like my kids. No way would they have to worry about him being profiled. Even within that community it is how you dress, where you hang out, how you talk and who you hang around with that attracts attention more than genetics.

[LisaL]

41. Or she looks at him and sees something other people presumably won't even notice

because likely they wouldn't realize that her adopted son is biracial. She seems to make a clear distinction between her adopted son and her biological sons.

[hadEnuf]

24. In her twisted and perverted right wing mind she apparently adopted a pet that she thinks

is a potential animal.


WTF is wrong with these people?

[yuiyoshida]

27. Seems LIKE most Trump loving Republicans

are just assholes.

[Dios Mio]

29. How would she respond if the cops put a few bullets in his back?

[flibbitygiblets]

30. 😥 This 👆

Will she f**king get it then??

[LeftInTX]

37. She won't

Because he pretty much looks white
I saw a picture of him.

[iluvtennis]

31. She's an unfit parent and CPS needs to rescind her adoption of this young man. nt

[Afromania]

32. OMG, I can't even begin to parse this.

[radius777]

38. Shows you the sick way RW'ers see the world.

They expect the oppressed to adjust instead of calling for reform of the system, which they see as perfectly fine.

They simply lack a deeper understanding of the how the world works and a desire for a better future like liberals do.

[louzke9]

42. THE PERFECT SPEAKER....

TO represent Donald Trump and the RNC.....THE MOST DESPICABLE MOTHER IN AMERICA!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

43. Her white sons won't be "intimidating"? Even if just as large? Plus the stats caused by racial profi

The root cause of higher crime stats for people of colour is poverty and systemic lack of opportunity and support. Those things are caused by systemic racism.

Racial profiling increases the stats even more. If a cop stops someone, they are more likely to have an interaction, find unpaid speeding tickets, etc. Stop more brown people than white proportionally and you get more stats. Those interactions with police are more likely to end badly because of ... systemic racism. Cops are much more likely to have zero tolerance for people of colour disobeying their commands than whites disobeying. Plus they are more likely to issue harsher commands and rapid fire commands and faster commands.


People who lack critical thinking or have anti-factual agendas just write all that off and make statements like Abby Johnson. They swallow the surface facts (higher crime rates) and stop thinking. They don't dig deeper.

It's evil to not exercise critical thinking like that.

[Karma13612]

45. Well, this reminds

Me of parents who call the cops on their kids for minor stuff, just to “teach them a lesson”.

Then they “get dead.”

[onetexan]

46. They paid this horrid woman to lie. Clip here says she also suggests "household voting"

1 vote per household. WTH???

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2020/08/rnc-speaker-supports-household-voting-one-vote-per-family-man-decides/?fbclid=IwAR1PVA88eoRZYYwIUrAJPGLBovOSYhhxZQpP_dMfFESM_mweE4OHlei4tZ4

[Karma13612]

47. She might be going for an advanced

Degree, but she is still ignorant, shallow, and misinformed.

And why the heck does she have 8 kids.

And further, from her body language, I get the feeling she was obligated to do this for some reason. I’m just getting weird vibes about the whole thing.

Lastly, I find it hard to believe that her young “brown son” is in fact obsessed with the color of his skin. Surprised he isn’t just running around being a two year old. SHE is the one obsessed with the color of his skin.

[LisaL]

51. The child is either 4 or 5.

He was adopted in 2015.

[Karma13612]

56. Sorry! n/t

[llashram]

48. As a white person "I have black friends"

I feel sorry for her child...mothertrumper at work on his mind. This is sad and enraging.

[obamanut2012]

53. She also believes in Household Voting

Where the husband votes for everyone in the house. One vote per home/family.

[LisaL]

54. While her husband is sitting at home with their 8 kids, and she

is out and about giving speeches. To me it would appear she is the one making money for the household. But apparently her husband is the head of their household anyway? And he should be one voting, not her? Even though her anti-abortion activism is how they make a living?
The mind boggles.
I wonder what would actually happen if she was forbidden to vote?

[skypilot]

61. So...

...black guys grow up to be large and intimidating-looking and white guys grow up to look like nerds. I did not know this. Learn something new every day.

[ck4829]

62. Kick