[lbo-talk] Noam Chomsky is losing it

[Carrol Cox]

In Black officers sometimes help, sometimes not. (After all, a large 
number of Vietnamese were fighting _against_ the liberation forces.) 
There were Black officers in the crew that murdered Hampton and Clark. 
At one time a Black 'caucus' (I don't remember its name) in the Chicago 
PD was helping some.  I think it still exists. Halle in the account Lou 
fwd to Pen-L describes the beating of a Black man among the Wall Street 
marchers. Has anyone that youknow of  done a study of Black police 
officers and the extent to which they do and don't make a difference

Carrol

On 9/28/2011 2:24 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> On Sep 28, 2011, at 3:12 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
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>> subjective racism, or sheer hatred of Blacks  _does_ characterize many if not all Police Departments in the U.S.
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> There's no doubt that the NYPD does lots of nasty shit to black and brown people, mostly young men, but the NYPD was, as of 2009, "47.5% Caucasian, 28.9% Hispanic, 17.9% African American and 5.5% Asian." I'm quoting Wikipedia; can't find a primary source right now. I can tell you that my neighborhood in Brooklyn is full of black cops. The reasons behind the maltreatment of young men of color have to be more complicated than "subjective racism or sheer hatred."
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> Doug
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