Originally posted by Cow Poke
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As a Nation we are now focused on Arbery, Floyd, Taylor and now Brooks as 4 that have died needlessly at the hand of it, but they are just symbols of the depth and breadth of the problem. And we ALL have a part to play in changing it, and the imbalance of these threads are a place to start.
This thread began with the assumption Arbery was 'up do no good' that continued throughout. That assumption is fed in part by the culturally derived and proven fact that all of us are more suspicious of a black man doing something seemingly out of place than a white man doing the same thing. It has been ingrained into us from birth just by the fact we grew up in the US. It is part of the legacy of slavery and racism in our country, and it results in a higher percentage of black people arrested and incarcerated for the same crime. This thread shows that imbalance in post after post - even after it was clear Arbery never took anything and was just out for a jog. Some here still simply will not accept that is all it was - a jog.Even after we discovered the racial slur shouted out after Arbery was killed, this thread still focused on what was wrong with Arbery. So ingrained is that cultural suspicion of a black man out of place in some way.
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