Jennifer R. Povey
2 min readApr 18, 2021

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1. "Racist" is not a slur. The N word is a slur because you can't change the color of your skin. You can change your behavior. A word that refers to the way you are talking and acting is not a slur.

2. So, your defense of the police is "Black people are really that bad." And you don't see how that is racist?

3. It's also bad that cops are more likely to shoot men.

4. You are massaging statistics to make them mean what you want them to mean.

5. Murder rates are not directly connected to the problem, and are far more strongly driven by poverty and income inequality than race:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/income-inequalitys-most-disturbing-side-effect-homicide/

Here's another paper which talks about household crowding as a predictor of murder rates (remember, in most murders, the victim and the perpetrator know each other):

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/388813

But again, this isn't related to the problem for this simple reason:

We aren't talking about the cops shooting murderers.

In the most recent incident, the cops pulled a man over for expired tags and a blocked rear view mirror and ended up shooting him.

George Floyd was killed over a $20 bill that might or might not have been counterfeit.

Look, people are not protesting situations where a Black guy draws down on cops and they shoot him. They are protesting situations where Black people are being killed for expired tags, for counterfeit bills, because the wrong name was on a warrant.

It's not the US, this article talks about disproportionate arresting for minor offenses in Toronto, Canada. https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/12/world/toronto-police-racism-trnd/index.html

Black people are four times more likely to be arrested than white people for the same thing. This article has a chart showing arrest rates in the Bay Area. https://abc7news.com/police-arrests-bay-area-systematic-racism/6243588/

Black people are more likely to be arrested for things like loitering, smoking marijuana, and more likely to be jailed for it.

You don't want to see the systematic bias and bluntly, your excuse is that Black people are criminals, which demonstrates YOUR bias.

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Jennifer R. Povey
Jennifer R. Povey

Written by Jennifer R. Povey

I write about fantasy, science fiction and horror, LGBT issues, travel, and social issues.

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