{"id":7767,"date":"2013-07-18T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T17:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=7767"},"modified":"2013-07-18T13:06:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T18:06:05","slug":"guest-post-fail-to-understand-when-non-white-people-distrust-the-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/07\/18\/guest-post-fail-to-understand-when-non-white-people-distrust-the-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Failing to Understand When Non-White People Distrust the Police"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Screenshot_1\"<\/a>When white Americans are in\u00a0trouble, they rarely hesitate to call the police. That’s because most of them trust the police. They rarely realize the significance during encounters with the police of their own protective “white” skin.<\/p>\n

Many white folks also have trouble understanding the deep distrust of the police in other racialized communities. That’s because they fail to realize how quick many police officers are to harass non-white people, and how much less they tend to value non-white lives.<\/p>\n

White Americans should listen, with sincerity and respect, to the reported experiences of others with the entrenched racist attitudes among the police, and the rampant abuse such attitudes inspire. They should also listen to the corrosive effects on non-white communities of the relative impunity<\/span><\/a> with which police repeatedly harass, and murder, non-white people.<\/p>\n

In the following short film, Stacey Muhammad’s “I AM SEAN BELL, black boys speak,” black Americans effectively explain their reasoned fear, distrust, and dismay regarding the police. I think that for starters, this film is perfect discussion material for all American classrooms. And any other gatherings that include white eyes and ears.<\/p>\n

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See a complementary post, featuring a great clip from Michael Moore,\u00a0at Stuff White People Do here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[h\/t: Kai @ Zuky]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Originally posted in 2009. Re-posted in solidarity with the African American community; regardless of the truth of the Martin\/Zimmerman confrontation, it\u2019s hard not to interpret the finding of not-guilty as anything but a continuance of the criminal justice system’s failure to ensure justice for young Black men.<\/em><\/p>\n

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About himself, Macon writes, “I’m a white guy, trying to find out what that means. Especially the ‘white’ part. I live in that heart of the heart of American whiteness, the ever-amorphous ‘Midwest.'”\u00a0 Macon’s blog,\u00a0Stuff White People Do<\/a>, is an excellent source of insights about race and racism.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When white Americans are in\u00a0trouble, they rarely hesitate to call the police. That’s because most of them trust the police. They rarely realize the significance during encounters with the police of their own protective “white” skin. Many white folks also have trouble understanding the deep distrust of the police in other racialized communities. That’s because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":56362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,2056,55,2099,2090,778,283,285,1760,1754,1757,341,133],"class_list":["post-7767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-crimelaw","tag-gender","tag-gender-childrenyouth","tag-gender-violence","tag-intersectionality","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-latinos","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans","tag-ruralurban","tag-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/04\/Screenshot_1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7767"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8236,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767\/revisions\/8236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}