tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3859118341865282720.post635056238827227684..comments2024-03-16T22:30:32.183-04:00Comments on Hampton New Hampshire Mad Dog Democrat: Policing For Profit in Pagedale, MO: Kafka LivesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3859118341865282720.post-22375630997831079942015-11-17T17:44:51.814-05:002015-11-17T17:44:51.814-05:00Maud,
It's not your grand daddy's racism. ...Maud,<br />It's not your grand daddy's racism. It's more a socioeconomic status related race related oppression. You can just see those white police and white townsmen not preventing Blacks from voting or preventing Blacks from using the public swimming pools or toilets, but they know they don't have to treat them as people who might have any power. In some ways like the way women were treated when they were more powerless, less economically potent, or the ways poor people of many ethnic ancestries are treated. The police and petty bureaucrats know these people don't have the money for lawyers, so they just beat up on them.<br /><br />Mad Dogthe phantom speakshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01629183077961716582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3859118341865282720.post-62867844962451022522015-11-17T14:22:14.120-05:002015-11-17T14:22:14.120-05:00Mad Dog,
Agreed, a horrid story of police miscondu...Mad Dog,<br />Agreed, a horrid story of police misconduct and one more reminder that the idea that blacks experience life in this country the same as whites-that they have the same opportunities- is a myth. There isn't anyone I know who would not be incensed if they were betrayed by their own town officials like the people in this little Missouri town. How do they teach their kids that the police are there to help and protect them when the reality is the police are there-at least in their neighborhood-to arrest them in order to financially survive. Being killed by law enforcement gains the headlines, but there are other smaller, more common abuses, like the ones in Pagedale, that chip away at the soul as well.. <br />Maudmaudnoreply@blogger.com