Self-defense: a white privilege?
 

tl;dr : no-knock raid by cops; home-owners shoot intruders; white guy gets self-defense, black guy gets murder charges.

Man Shoots at Intruders, Turns Out it was a No-Knock Raid. Now He Faces the Death Penalty | The Free Thought Project

These are just two anecdotes and don't represent statistical fact... but it's fairly well known that blacks are profiled by police.

Somehow I just don't believe that.

Yes, white privilege does exist although some white people will tell you otherwise.

It is pretty sad really when a race can not acknowledge that they were born into a privilege because of the color of their skin. It is sad that they do not see how their skin allows them advantages that minorities will always be at a disadvantage simply because they are not white.

For the record, I love everybody and thank God for everyone because we all deserve equality and respect regardless of what race we are but there is simply no denying this social construct that I often see white people in denial about (which proves even more the entitlement and ambivalence with white privileged).

I will just say this and end it, if those 3 teenagers that were shot multiple times and killed in Ferguson were white, all hell would have broke lose but I guess since they were black teenagers in low class/underprivileged neighborhoods its "not that big of a deal".(Like with most racial crimes that involve young black men in America)

If that cop was African American and those three teens were white in a upper class neighborhood, best believe it would have been a different story....

Man, when can news actually be something that's positive? Oh wait, then it wouldn't be news.

It's no big deal guys, let's go riot and protest for no good reason besides having a jolly good time.

^ lol Hey sweets :), you wanna come with me to a protest? If you are interested just let me know. You can see for yourself what a protest is and what it is not.

I wonder would you have this same opinion if the police were tear gassing your neighborhoods and violating your civil rights....probably not.

You seemed to have missed the point. People are making a big deal out of this, not writing it off as you imply.

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If they were making a big deal out of this all 3 of those cops would have been thrown in jail. They oddly are still free.

Justice has not been served.

Once again, this goes back and supports the white privileged construct.

Oddly enough the US judicial system waits until the grand jury investigation or trial concludes to put people in jail. Weird I know.

Well you obviously don't watch crime dramas. :pimp: