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title: ""One thing I think greatly harms the ability to find solutions to the…"
date: 2020-06-06
source: facebook
type: Archer T. Ships updated his status.
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# "One thing I think greatly harms the ability to find solutions to the…

*June 6, 2020 · Facebook*

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\"One thing I think greatly harms the ability to find solutions to the ongoing issue of police brutality, which has been a complaint from blacks since police came into being, is that no one in the media is exactly stating the truth of what happens and why people are ticked off. That\'s true on both the left and right. Broadly, the left promotes the narrative of black deaths and terrible injuries at the hands of police that is disproportionate to that of whites. The right counters with statistics showing that this is largely not the case, given the relative crime rates. I don\'t think that actually matters because I don\'t think it\'s the real issue. It\'s just a convenient placeholder because pictures or specific events are easy to focus on.\
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The real issue, commonly experienced, but is hard to rally behind because there are few good visuals, is consistent, extremely poor customer service. Every black male I know has been treated badly by cops. Might be getting cursed out when you have done nothing. Might be getting stopped multiple times per week and sent along your way, taxing your time in an unpredictable fashion. It might be getting hit, even. Complaints are scary because many of those same people, rightly or wrongly (I think rightly) fear reprisals or at least a complete waste of time should they complain.\
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Few things are as maddening as getting crappy customer service and knowing that you are being forced to pay for it. That you can\'t change providers. Blacks in the south got terrible customer service from local mom \'n\' pop shops. For a long time, they had no choice. Then the Sears catalog came, and blacks utilized it in droves. Not only to get nicer goods without local whites destroying them because they were \"too nice for a n\-\-\--r,\" but also to get things like guns, whereas the practical ability to buy a gun from a local shop had risks, especially if those guns were good against anything but small game. Sears may well have prevented untold chaos by enabling blacks in the south to obtain weapons that were effective against two-legged predators.\
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The rallying behind deaths and videos is just anthropomorphized terrible customer service, without options to patronize competitors. That\'s the real issue, but it\'s a tough nut to crack, because neither the left nor the right are interested in alternatives to police. Doing that would cause you to seek alternatives to the state generally, and politicians and party wonks are certainly not interested in that.\"\
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\-- \@robert.a.wicks
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