Racism and Character
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 by Jonathan R. Gibbons inCooler heads prevail because they judge those rioting by their poor character and not by their race. Poor social and economic circumstances such as the absence of two parents and the subsequent poverty that results, combined with an unintentionally-racial war on drugs, has created an atmosphere of poorly educated, deeply impoverished, and chronically incarcerated assholes who hate the police and think their problems stem from their race. Popular media exacerbates the misconception by focusing on race, and so to do those who blame the rioting on race. Just being black or white doesn’t make one a rioter. If you think race dictates one’s character, you’re indeed a racist, for that is the essence of what it means to be such.
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