Parents upset 'Black Lives Matter' assembly excludes other races

[bravenak]

198. Society decides what to classify you as.

Remember that case of the young man who shot and killed people in California who was half asian but identified as white? He was not called white by anybody in the media. There were even long threads on DU where people refused to consider him white, just kept repeating that he was HALF asian even though he identified himself as white.
This is the reason there is a thing called passing. Black people who look white can pass for white. Until very recently in order to BE white - and treated as such, they had to separate themselves from their black family, even going as far as changing their names and moving out of state.
This is not about the law. This is about how people are viewed and treated under the force of law.
We have laws that say that everybody must be treated equally. That is the law. It is not applied as such.
If you look at how laws are applied you will see that the lighter you are the easier the law goes on you as far as, stopping you, searching you, harassing you, convicting you, and sentencing you. Death penalty is given way more often for black murderers than white. It is so skewed that you cannot even say the laws are applied fairly.
We have a history of racist laws and have not even begun to stop applying them in a racist manner even though we tried to end racist laws. We end up with new laws in place that target the things that black people do. A couple of examples are the hoodie banning laws and manditory minimums and that rapper who got arrested for a song. Free speech- unless you're a black rapper who raps about the crimes in your neighborhood. Another racist law is stop and frisk. T was argued that it was perfectly ok to target young black and brown men for stop and frisk. The stop and frisked almost as many people that they had living in the entire neighborhood. The entire drug war was started as a method of controlling minorities. Opium laws targeted asians. Weed and cocaine laws targeted blacks. Cocaine was perfectly legal until the black longshoremen began at first chewing the leaves for energy to help them stay up for the long shifts of taking the cargo off of the ships. These things are known. Try googling the racist history of the drug war and you'll find quotes showing the intentions of the drug war in each step. We are living in the fallout. If you need more info, let me know.