...how long do you think it's going to take Congress to have a special session making concealed carry of a folding chair by Negroes a federal offense?
I have been most places in the USA - a lot in Europe and some in the East (never going back to India). When I was first an attorney I went everywhere, just about every region. I also used to be really involved in Civil Rights litigation as an attorney.... then was involved as a prosecutor against organized crime, primarily in the Midwest and now my strong interest is the homeless. Like a moth to the flame - As for Alabama, I almost moved to Georgia near the Alabama border - while people were nicer and I generally enjoyed my time there, outside of Atlanta, the history of segregation continues to impact black people in the area - Mississippi and Alabama and parts of Louisiana are really bad.
I admit I'm uneasy with the seeming celebration of the guy with the folding chair and that others might be copying him. I understand he's a black man who stepped into a situation where a black man doing his job was being beaten by white racists that doesn't mean what he did was right. As someone who teaches the use of violence there are certainly times when violence has to be used. There are also times when you shouldn't. Beating a sitting woman who wasn't attacking anyone and very possibly was trying to defuse the situation isn't one of those times. It doesn't make you a hero, it makes you someone who got emotional and can't control themselves. It means you're a threat to others and even your own safety who should be held to account.
... it's been a long day for everybody, @rocketsjudoka. ...why don't you take a seat and rest up a bit, hm? ... I'll loan you mine.
I mean we live in an imperfect world. When people get violent often they bring with them pent up frustrations from the past. I'm not saying the man doesn't need to be prosecuted but people become more sympathetic. Yes it can be dark and unsettling. Many people meming it are also expressing years of pent up frustrations facing discrimination and dealing with these type of people. The pent up frustrations can often be channelled incorrectly like looting, riots etc. I get you you find it unsettling. I don't think that lady deserved that hit by the chair. It's unfortunate but I also understand why people are sorta celebrating it.
Well the people making the chair gentleman out to be a hero aren't the sharpest tools in the shed and many of them are most likely racist.
Yes there are many Black people in Alabama that probably don't like white people. Their parents and grandparents told them how they were tested by them, they experienced hostility their entire lives from those evangelical white communities. They hear what they say about black folk. There are a lot of things that go into racism and it's causes. For most racist white people the cause of racism stems from a different motivation. Either from narcissism needing to latch onto a "superior" trait like their race or a fear of losing their place in the socioeconomic hiearchy. Like you can imagine the fear of Southern white families right after the civil war. The population they just held as slaves for multiple centuries outnumber them and are free. That's scary. You are outnumbered by people you know very well have strong resentment and hatred for what happened to them for the past centuries. How America's views on law enforcement especially in southern states was shaped was from this massive fear of being out manned by sheer numbers by former slaves.
Yes I understand people are frustrated but think about what they are celebrating. They are celebrating an adult man hitting a helpless woman with a chair. That it happens during an overall fight that started with several white men assaulting a black man who did nothing wrong and was just doing his duty doesn't change that a women who wasn't fighting and might've even been trying to break things up was hit deliberately by a chair. Consider that there have been several attacks on Asians often elderly in recent years and in many cases by black men. There is frustration in the Asian community and there are some Asians who feel very distrustful of black men. If a situation like this happened where several Asians stepped in and defended an Asian but during the melee an Asian man hit a black woman with a chair I doubt there would be the celebration of it. I suspect that the reaction would be more of shock and condemnation of that. Pent up frustrations do exist but when someone acts on them to harm someone who isn't a threat that isn't an excuse. If this man did actually strike the women because she was white and he was angry at white people that would be grounds for a hate crime.
I think the type of things Asian Americans(I am one myself also) face in terms of harm committed by the black community are isolated incidents of violence. The overwhelming vast majority of Asian Americans haven't had their social and economic status change because of black people. They aren't systemic problems that lead to socioeconomic divide that make them feel the effects of it in their day to day lives like with the Black community. What previous generations of white people did to their communities effect their wealth opportunities, education opportunities, pretty much every aspect of their lives so it's much easier to internalize hatred and resentment.
