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Originally Posted by hulkrogan
Unless I'm oversensitive to this stuff, the male anchor there was displaying a very uncomfortable amount of open racism on national TV. How does this still happen today!?
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You are not over sensitive to it. It is a shocking level of open racism, but that is part of the point; the level of racism is so apparent and so ingrained that if you tried to clue that guy into what he was saying, he wouldn't follow along.
If you can be on national television on a broadcaster the size of fox entertainment and say something like that, what kind of inherent racism do the people of ferguson deal with in every police encounter?
When faced with the systemic nature of politicized racism in the us, it becomes impossible to ignore or give the benefit of the doubt to law enforcement in situations like this. The climate is too charged, the history is too significant and the impressions are too fresh.