I'm not sure you have the same experience with certain types of blacks that some of us have had. Black "teens" of a certain size, and class, can be extremely threatening. Maybe you don't know this. It's the same way that certain types of white folks, of a certain class, like bikers, or meth heads, can also be pretty scary- just by being who they are. Pretending that isn't true isn't really going to improve race relations or stop these things from happening. The sad thing about the black thug culture, is that it confuses people- because sometimes perfectly harmless teens look dangerous, by presenting themselves as thugs when they are not thugs (and some people, on the right, have difficulty seeing any blacks as non-thugs).
Trying to desperately paint Brown (6'4" and 270) and hanging with a 22 year old, as a "teen"- also seems a bizarre frame to me. I get it- it's all propaganda all the time, from the left AND the right. Innocent teen versus murdering desperado.
The truth might be in the middle. This was a big guy who was threatening just because of his size. It's even possible he wasn't very nice. He was unarmed- but we know that in retrospect- something which people on the left never appear to comprehend. On the other hand, cops are people, and they sometimes freak out and over react- something the right tends to overlook.
You don't like the :"frame"? How do you feel about Sharpton bringing up black culture at the funeral? You think Sharpton changed the "frame? I'm just curious. You think Sharpton was wrong? |
