Agree. Look at the stage we are in right now. People get on their soapbox and proclaim 'being white, you never had to hear the deadly serious talk about how you must mind your P's and Q's when encountering the police' and we are expected listen politely. It is impossibly arrogant for them to claim they might know such a thing. I don't recall any microphones around the kitchen table broadcasting our conversation to the public.
Nor were fears about being on the wrong end of abuse of other kinds of authority unheard of. My brother would tell us of friends who got slapped around by their faculty, hall monitors and others, in Catholic school. You could be in world of trouble if they didn't care for the way you were speaking to them.
The whole conversation has morphed into a type of mania.
To your other point: the person who has the option to use force and never falters in judgment is a popular myth. Lucas McCain, for example. But that's fiction. Again, keeping peaceful society is a collaborative effort. We have to remember that while the police can be miscreants, more often, they are just humans possessing the standard imperfections.
Agree. Look at the stage we are in right now. People get on their soapbox and proclaim 'being white, you never had to hear the deadly serious talk about how you must mind your P's and Q's when encountering the police' and we are expected listen politely. It is impossibly arrogant for them to claim they might know such a thing. I don't recall any microphones around the kitchen table broadcasting our conversation to the public.
Nor were fears about being on the wrong end of abuse of other kinds of authority unheard of. My brother would tell us of friends who got slapped around by their faculty, hall monitors and others, in Catholic school. You could be in world of trouble if they didn't care for the way you were speaking to them.
The whole conversation has morphed into a type of mania.
To your other point: the person who has the option to use force and never falters in judgment is a popular myth. Lucas McCain, for example. But that's fiction. Again, keeping peaceful society is a collaborative effort. We have to remember that while the police can be miscreants, more often, they are just humans possessing the standard imperfections.