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In reply to the discussion: Chris Cuomo: Police reform won't happen until 'white people's kids start getting killed' [View all]Haven't done a thing.
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Chris Cuomo: Police reform won't happen until 'white people's kids start getting killed' [View all]
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Apr 2021
OP
I think it will happen...already beginning in the lower economic areas...there have
Demsrule86
Apr 2021
#55
Well according to Chris is was only minorities at the country and western concert on the strip. NT
cinematicdiversions
Apr 2021
#8
You do realize the difference between a statistical standard and an aberration, yes?
LanternWaste
Apr 2021
#27
White supremacist institutions hurt white people too. White people just tend to accept it, as long
WhiskeyGrinder
Apr 2021
#11
I suggest you and others here read what he said and pay attention to what he's talking about
StarfishSaver
Apr 2021
#23
After reading through the responses to this... I can't even believe what I'm reading.
MerryBlooms
Apr 2021
#51
What makes you think more white kids are killed in police shootings? Even in raw numbers.
Scrivener7
Apr 2021
#87
People sure do conflate a lot of stuff to distract here these days. +1 to what you said. n/t
OneGrassRoot
Apr 2021
#70
Statista - 241 black people were killed by cops in 2020. Black people are 13% of the population.
Scrivener7
Apr 2021
#84
Lol. Hope you aren't holding your breath. And no, your post really isn't responding to what
Scrivener7
Apr 2021
#88
If it were simply that, they'd be killing whites at the same rate they're killing Black and Brown
StarfishSaver
Apr 2021
#53
I do not see much being done even if the numbers of whites shot increase 5, 10 fold. The 2nd
Celerity
Apr 2021
#25
Just totally bizarre, though, that it seems accompanied by a willful misinterpretation of the OP.
Scrivener7
Apr 2021
#35
I'm white, and this seems to me to be happening more often now than I ever noticed
Scrivener7
Apr 2021
#40
No, I know that. I mean this hijacking of the conversations about it. What you were
Scrivener7
Apr 2021
#60
Until YouTube has hundreds examples of white people filming interactions with police
betsuni
Apr 2021
#38
Yes! Obviously it is! And yet this thread is full of replies about "all lives matter" and
Scrivener7
Apr 2021
#61
If white people's kids were shot by police at a rate of 3 times their proportion of the population
StarfishSaver
Apr 2021
#54
+1, "shot by Black cops in those numbers" ... This is what Cuomo should've said but prolly doesn't
uponit7771
Apr 2021
#56
Most white people in the country aren't affected by murders of people killed in mass shootings
StarfishSaver
Apr 2021
#79
This! This damn thread has cut a big piece out of my faith in humanity. You have put a little back.
Scrivener7
Apr 2021
#78
He's not wrong. It's like the opioid epidemic - drug abuse became a public health crisis
Politicub
Apr 2021
#120
I agree - thank you for adding that point. It has gotten worse, if anything, for POC.
Politicub
Apr 2021
#122