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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Personally, I'm having a lot of trouble with the way the black community is portrayed and allowing to portray themselves in these instances. They recently awarded a kid who was sentence to prison and then released on statutory rape charges, and now they're jumping on this kid as a martry to their cause.
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I think people, especially us from a very white Canada, look at isolated incidents such as the Rodney King riots and wonder what kind of people would riot because a convicted piece of scum got beaten when he was resisting arrest. People need to realize there are very good things like that happen, and a very good reason people are quick to pull the race card in incidents like this. The US is a racist, segregated place. In many places police discrimination is a big problem. While this incident might be nothing of the sort, when you've spent your life encountering people treating you differently because of your skin colour, you question everything like this when it happens. Of course riots aren't an appropriate response, but really this is a problem created by whites that is perhaps propogated by blacks, somewhat understandably. I really don't think a white person from Canada can really fully understand this though. How many of us have grown up in an all white neighbourhood when the other side of the freeway is a completely black, poor neighbourhood? It's just a different world in the US in that respect.