My husband is a white man who is not a racist - married me (a tribal member), for example. Yesterday, he was scrolling through social somewhere and caught an Instagram post where two black men in a car are having an ordinary conversation as they drive somewhere. A third black man "rolls up" on them and one of the two in the car shoots him dead for "disrespecting" him. I'm sure there's more to the story. My husband, who grew up in a Staten Island neighborhood of mostly black and Puerto Ricans during the bussing era and then spent several years in Ossining (where a lot of brown corrections officers and their families live) is certain there's more to the story too. But that's a view of black urban culture that is often on full display in common culture (and reflects on what Glenn was saying about the prevalence of crime and violence in the black community). And then if you listen to the lyrics of rap music, it's so often focused on the "gangsta" lifestyle - hanging with the hommies, beating your bitches, drivebys, etc. that it's easy to get the impression that this is the majority of black culture. I know it's no more that than country music's concentration on unrequited love and pickup trucks is indicative of white rural Americans' entire culture, but if that's all you know, that's all you know. And, of course, if you're a truly informed person, we've just spent a year watching black people loot (often) black-owned businesses after white wokesters sets nearby businesses on fire, so again -- easy to get that impression unless you seek out broader news sources.
I was in a taxi driving through Times Square (NY) several weeks ago, We stopped at a stop light., I looked out my window and actually witnessed a black guy pop off another black guy and knock him out cold. The guy that was out just drifted to the ground. A few people walked up to him to see if they could wake him - and then we sped off. Who knows if he died or not. You see stuff like this on TV but not in real life...until I did.
My husband is a white man who is not a racist - married me (a tribal member), for example. Yesterday, he was scrolling through social somewhere and caught an Instagram post where two black men in a car are having an ordinary conversation as they drive somewhere. A third black man "rolls up" on them and one of the two in the car shoots him dead for "disrespecting" him. I'm sure there's more to the story. My husband, who grew up in a Staten Island neighborhood of mostly black and Puerto Ricans during the bussing era and then spent several years in Ossining (where a lot of brown corrections officers and their families live) is certain there's more to the story too. But that's a view of black urban culture that is often on full display in common culture (and reflects on what Glenn was saying about the prevalence of crime and violence in the black community). And then if you listen to the lyrics of rap music, it's so often focused on the "gangsta" lifestyle - hanging with the hommies, beating your bitches, drivebys, etc. that it's easy to get the impression that this is the majority of black culture. I know it's no more that than country music's concentration on unrequited love and pickup trucks is indicative of white rural Americans' entire culture, but if that's all you know, that's all you know. And, of course, if you're a truly informed person, we've just spent a year watching black people loot (often) black-owned businesses after white wokesters sets nearby businesses on fire, so again -- easy to get that impression unless you seek out broader news sources.
I was in a taxi driving through Times Square (NY) several weeks ago, We stopped at a stop light., I looked out my window and actually witnessed a black guy pop off another black guy and knock him out cold. The guy that was out just drifted to the ground. A few people walked up to him to see if they could wake him - and then we sped off. Who knows if he died or not. You see stuff like this on TV but not in real life...until I did.