What if...

[qwlauren35]

young white teens were arrested for doing stupid things? For shoplifting, for going crazy after football games, for messing up clubs in fights, for drunk driving?

What if our jails became crowded with young white males? What if they had criminal records?

Personally, I think some things would change VERY quickly.

I say, if you're going to arrest our boys, arrest them all. And then, if someone decides that things need to change, change them across the board.

[JI7]

1. because many don't look at young black kids as kids

it's one thing when we talk about those who are adults.

but kids, small kids are being attacked. the way girls like the one from the pool party and school are handled would have a much different reaction if it was a white girl. and especially if it was a black man that did it.

[Kind of Blue]

2. I don't think so, qwlauren35.

Just including this little video because I have to get to work and can't find ready links. The police, though we are easy pickings for them, are targeting whites as well. The prison industrial complex "has swept up all people of limited means, hunting minorities and the poor. Even if we took all of the minorities out of the equation leaving only the white majority, we would still be over incarcerated, we would still have vile police brutality. So just as the days of early slavery, we would still have a three-tiered system. The white majority is confused and make all kinds of assumptions. And the white minority who are aware of the horrors of the criminal injustice system, but unaware of the history of black America, feel themselves being lumped in with the white elites." ~ Matthew Cooke.

It just hasn't reached white America yet, just that they've come for their pockets, but believe it, the monster has to be fed and they're coming after their bodies as well. The sooner they wake the hell up the sooner we can join together as a force. But until their breaths are threatened, their pocketbook is the main concern, they overlook their own undergoing the same treatment.

As Black Elk said after visiting New York and Europe, "I could see that the whites did not care for each other the way our people did before the nation's hoop was broken. They would take everything from each other if they could, and so there were some who had more of everything than they could use, while crowds of people had nothing at all and maybe were starving. This could not be better than the old ways of my people.”

[heaven05]

4. ????

racism is very widespread in america and THE majority prison population is AA. Soft pedaling racism and providing obvious distraction from the problem(s) does not help.

[Kind of Blue]

5. Please, there is no soft-pedaling here.

I'm not sure you read or watched the video to see that police brutality will not go away even if all minority groups were removed from the prison population. The division and conflict that's sold is to keep everyone's eyes on us "inherently criminal" black people while diverting from the real fact that bodies in general are necessary to maintain the prison industrial complex. You think if they stop the killing and imprisonment of blacks that the vileness will stop there? I don't think that will change because they're brutalizing and killing whites, to a lesser extent than AAs, and killing Native Americans at a higher rate than AAs.

Furthermore, my family just came out of the most awful 5 years of police brutality and false imprisonment of my sibling. All charges dropped but we're left to help pick up shattered lives of my brother's family. This is not something that I'm new to and trying to provide a distraction for. I do not want ANYONE to ever go thru what we've experienced.

[heaven05]

6. I stand corrected

and misunderstood motive of your response. My mistake. Please accept my profound apology. I am just too hypervigilant on this site because of it racist members sneaking around and causing dissension.

[Kind of Blue]

7. Please not necessary but thank you!

I totally understand your vigilance. We have to help keep this place safe

[randys1]

3. Years ago the Black neighborhoods were targeted by CIA and others for cocaine

and drugs in general.

Addict them, control them, imprison them.

Going on to this day.