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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]malaise
(267,800 posts)100. You nailed it
but if middle class and upper middle class White kids started getting killed for no seemingly good reason, we would see things start to change.
or if cops were called on white professors in their own homes, etc., etc.
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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