Rams: The whole Black sheriff thing was what Brutus actually claimed about a year ago. That there is no reason for people to protest in his home state and county. That they have Black cops and sheriffs there, so whatever problem there was with Chauvin and Floyd, was a local Minneapolis problem and the protests should be confined to there.
This is massively symptomatic. There are droves of whites who are mentally stuck in the 80s or somesuch who abhor racism because they think racism means Kunta getting flogged in The Roots and angry white Alabamans setting buses on fire. The concept of racism has meanwhile shifted, or rather expanded, light years without them even noticing. The behavior they consider fine and practice regularly is actually seen as wildly racist by the "anti-racist" tone-setting vanguard, but still those whites are nodding along because they think they are on the same page with BLM or Ibrahim Kendi etc. But "racism" is now so firmly established as the supreme, all-defining evil that it has become a magical bullet and most whites will agree to almost anything, all you have to do is say the magic word.
At least, that brings me to Eddie, is how it's here in NYC. Maybe it's different in the Dakotas or rural Arkansas. I don't have any tale of woe. Nobody's done anything to me. I live in a very diverse neighborhood, I'm about the only white (not really, but there's very few of us), mostly Blacks, mostly homegrown, but also Caribbean, some Hispanics, some Haredim and yes the commuting Asians who run the stores here, but live elsewhere. I'm also married to a part Japanese, part WASP, so I have some insight on specifically the Asian-Black relations from there too. One big lesson from living in that neighborhood and NY general was exactly that exactly that every group is "racist", in that it has in-group preferences. And everybody except whites openly brags about it. Whites here regularly drop racially self-deprecating comments and remarks into conversations for no reason, just to signal in advance that they are not racist. I've heard on numerous ocassions people saying stuff like Whites should have fewer babies, that they have no culture, that they should never ask Black people about Black culture or history, because that means the White is appropriating the Black's time and effort. You are supposed to educate yourself by googling, you're not even allowed to ask for literature. It's racist. That whites have a moral obligation to not call the police when they are criminally (including violently) victimized by blacks, so as not to put them at risk of being mistreated by cops. That Whites should not hang out with Black people, because it's invasion of Black spaces. And everybody nodded like those were the most obvious things. They were not outliers, I hear **** like that all the time. I went to th BLM protests last year, to see for myself. People were completely unironically and in plain words calling for killing cops.And for abolishing the police. Yes unambiguously abolishing, not just defunding a little and redirecting the funds to social work as the media tried to spin it.
NY is of course not the enitre America, but the angles and talking points of 90% of national media are closer to the NY ones than the Bum****, Wyoming ones.
