New York Times managed this with eloquence.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s probably already been said, but that event is White Privilege personified. The fact that you have so little interaction with law enforcement, not even any real negative interaction, and see all the white badasses in movies able to not get shot when they’re the Badass In The Right and the Dumb Cops Don’t Get It, so they let you by…

    Think how many stories of minorities getting serious abuse, fear, or even just killed. Those stories become the infamous “Talk” some PoC parents have to have with their kids about interaction with the police. It’s generational. They’d know the chance of being shot is real.

    But this white chick? Nah. Not gonna worry. The shock from everyone surrounding the issue is just further proof.

    Not trying to make this a race thing, but just SMH at the whole wildly different worldview some people have.