Racism has a hard time hiding.
People love to deny its very existence, but it just has a way of telling on itself. Those who harbor prejudice on the inside eventually can't help but let it out in a way, so ugly and toxic, that you soon wonder how they kept it disguised for as long as they had.
The leaked emails from Sony come to mind.
While the overwhelming majority of African Americans see some level of racial discrimination and devaluing of black life in the police murders of unarmed men like Akai Gurley, Kendrec McDade, and Eric Garner, it's become far too easy for police (and society) to deny race played even a small role in any of these homicides.
In essence, unless the police are recorded using the "n-word" or secretly walking out of a Klan meeting, they can effectively deny they have a racist bone in their body, but that's not really how the new racism works in 2014. Racial slurs and Klan meetings are used less, but some reputable polls show the majority of Americans still hold some level of racist views against African Americans. Yet we're expected to believe that those racist views are somehow never held by police and never play any role in the deaths of African Americans they kill by the hundreds year in and year out.
Like a leaking pen in the pocket of a white dress shirt, private racism just has a way of bleeding out into the public and making a mess of itself eventually. Few things smack of leaky-pen racism more than the police unions of Cleveland and St. Louis recently demanding apologies from athletes and sports franchises for wearing T-shirts showing solidarity with families of victims of police violence.the audacity of arrogance is a staple of racism with so much publicity and video they think it's reasonable that they be apologized to for murdering innocent unarmed Black males this article hits it right where it lives in the heads of those who perpetrate being their city's finest when in actuality they are the dregs.
Within hours of Cleveland Browns player Andrew Hawkins coming out to his pre-game warm up with a T-shirt stating "Justice for Tamir Rice & John Crawford," Jeff Follman, president of the Cleveland Police Union, issued a statement so incendiary that it was hard to believe. Speaking to the local Cleveland ABC affiliate, Follman said:
It's pretty pathetic when athletes think they know the law. They should stick to what they know best on the field. The Cleveland Police protect and serve the Browns stadium and the Browns organization owes us an apology.
Follman, speaking to the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, went on to say:
He's an athlete. He's someone with no facts of the case whatsoever. He's disrespecting the police on a job that we had to do and make a split-second decision. He should stick to playing football and let us worry about law enforcement. The players don't know what our job entails. Don't judge us by what you're reading in the media.when you think about it it's not really out of line for them given they obviously don't know the law themselves or so many Black men would not be gone. what is really pathetic is their attempt to portray murder as another day at the office, also when you tally the dead who are they protecting really? this is an attempt to force the White owned team to pull the chain on a Black player thereby making his statement null and void and censored you know that does sound like something White supremacist would aspire to.
as to sticking to what he knows how many of them have his credentials of higher learning they need a refresher course it seems they are sticking to what the know and it has nothing to do with job description so who's zoomin who?
