Meanwhile, a crowdfunding campaign set up to support Neely’s family has raised just $123,000.

  • LGOrcStreetSamurai [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    It’s very strange how people here aren’t focusing more on the racial aspect of this. IMO, this was mostly racial. Can you imagine some Black man choking a blonde chick to death out in public while a crowd of people just stood there doing nothing? I don’t think there’s any circumstance, outside of the Black man being a cop maybe, where people would just stood there and watch it happen while doing nothing.

    Respectfully, I can't imagine such a scenario. I'm not trying to be an edgelord, not trying to stop the conversation, nothin' like that. In fact, I would like to continue talking about this (even though it's a rather uncomfortable, complex and nuanced hypothetical), but I can't imagine such a scenario happening. Could a situation happen? Certainly, but I can't imagine a black man (or at the very least none that I know) putting a white person, in a public space, in a chokehold for 15 minutes. Unless there was noticeably clear and present damage (a gun, a knife, something spooky), I can't see that level of committed violence happening in a public space by choice.

    Again not trying to shut you down or anything like that, but my larger put is that white supremacy isn't just poor black man vs vigilante white man, it's more than. My point I hope I'm making is, that the black reasons why the black man is poor are the greater threat to black people than individual man horrific act. The many failings that put Neely on the streets are the things are the great threat to Black men.

    I really hope this comes across as constructive and conversational, not trying to block you or do some weird internet sharp witted shit. I respect you bring up the point.

    (This all of the top of the dome by the way, pardon my grammar, typed this on my break)

    • macabrett
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      1 year ago

      Doesn't your response that you literally can't see the situation occuring lend credence to the idea that a huge part of this is racial?