Huey_Freeman:
Your response tells me one thing: you’re incapable of engaging in a serious discussion about race. The first strike was claiming to understand racism because you’re a tri-racial American and because your partner is person of color. Why would you say this? Let me answer that for you. You say this because you’re trying to provide us evidence both to your commitment to objectivity and evidence of your ostensible lack of racism. I reject your evidence. I reject your evidence because the evidence assumes that racism derives from the individual, when, in reality, it emanates from the very foundation this country was built upon. Racism is systemic, pervasive, and institutional. Did you know the star-shaped badges that the military arm of white people wear are derived from the star badges the slave catchers used to wear? That’s a little black history for you. Let’s move on. The second and third strike was the age-old emphasis of intention over impact; you write, “…the judge was quite frustrated, and acted out of frustration.” This is typical. Very typical of white folks. It doesn’t matter that judges’ behavior was humiliating, degrading, and dehumanizing, it doesn’t matter that having a defendant sit there gagged, bound, and surrounded by armed white folks fits the narrative of a violent, dangerous black man that is conjured so easily; no, what matters is that the judge intended to be objective but was frustrated at the persons of color’s demeanor.
It’s ridiculous to think one group has a monopoly on bigotry. Anyways, how is living while black in America working for you and would another location be more suitable? If I lived in a place that was actively hostile towards me I’d look for a nicer area.