[lbo-talk] Beaten Black Man's Death a Homicide (Cincinnati)

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Steven:
> It is not that "the NAACP and other 'black' civil rights groups" cry
"wolf"
> every time an African American male "gets in trouble with the law," it
is
> that these groups take legal action when police power utilizes obvious
> excessive force, usually resulting in the death of the arrested.
> 
> You are right, prejudice is alive and well in America, and your post
is just
> another illustration.
> 
> This is very disappointing.

Let's see.  A guy high on cocaine and other drugs goes into a fast food
restaurant and starts trouble.  The management calls the cops.  The guy
starts a fight with the cops and since cocaine is known to cause
uncontrollable aggressive behavior, the cops use force to subdue him.
The guy has a bad heart and dies.  The NCAAP and other groups put it
under the rubric of "racism" and "police brutality" - which implies that
the guy's behavior was OK by "black" standards, while the police action
was not.  

With the NAACP condoning the behavior that enacts a racist stereotype of
an "irrational violent black male" in this manner, who needs the KKK
anymore?

PS.  As they say, a social conservative is a liberal who's been mugged.
After 11+ years of living in inner city Baltimore, I've seen enough to
stop whining about "police brutality."  In fact, I feel much safer when
I see police arresting drug-crazed and violent hoodlums.  

Wojtek