That little girl literally had the “look into the camera like Jim on The Office” reaction.
-Mod Q
I don’t know if this is a worthy addition to this post or not. But this is one of the starkest examples of white privilege that I’ve ever myself experienced.
Look at that little girl. That baby got it. Immediately. She’s so tiny but she knew her mother had just been microaggressed.
I’m officially in my thirties. I listened to this clip more than once. I had never heard this stereotype before. If I’d heard this conversation in any other context – without the comments below it, without highlighting the little girl’s reaction… I probably wouldn’t have even realized there was a “joke” being made.
I see attempts made all the time to protect ignorant white teenagers from having to learn about racism, even when they are themselves being actively racist. Even explaining to them that they’re being rude is apparently too mean. So we are allowed to become grown-ass adults who still don’t know the first thing about racism, can’t recognize it when it’s happening right in front of us unless people have gotten out their white hoods.
And while we’re bending over backwards to ensure ignorant white people like me don’t ever get our feelings hurt by learning about racism in the abstract, claiming that nineteen and twenty-year-olds are “still children” and should be treated with kid gloves, we can’t be bothered to protect the innocence of actual babies like this little girl.
She doesn’t even look ten years old, and she knows more about racism than I– I was gonna say “did”, isn’t that funny. No. She knows more about racism than I do. She knows more about racism than I ever will, even now that I’m actively seeking this stuff out, and she has learned it all the hard way.
In a public statement released today, a Burger King district manager said the Chicago Police Department forcefully entered one of their restaurants and deleted 86 minutes of security camera footage that showed their killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. The footage ran from 9:13 PM to 10:39 PM on the night of October 20, 2014. McDonald was killed at approximately 9:50 PM.
Police officers blatantly murdering people on camera is what happens when you’ve let enough bad cops get off after committing acts that would put the average person away for life.
This guy probably went home and slept well knowing that he murdered someone earlier in the day.
The sociopaths in blue.
You can watch the video here. The final scene is extremely outrageous when the cop kicks a hand of the dying boy.
SPREAD THIS LIKE WILDFIRE. THERE’S NOT ENOUGH AWARENESS. WAKE UP PEOPLE.