White America has such a warped view of black people that it will kill them for no reliable reason other than scare
Since it’s original sin of slavery,America has been obsessed with the scare of black men. Rather than atone for its own sins when it worried about what would happen when slavery ended, white supremacy projected its fears onto black America. It was this irrational, and unsafe scare that led to the death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice.
Consider the results of a recent study,which found that merely hearing that someone had a “black-sounding” name made subjects assume a person was bigger than they actually were, revealing through science again how black men are unfairly presumed to be threats. An officer who arrived on the scene after 12-year-old Tamir had been shot thought “the male looked to be 19 or 20-years-old”.
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Source: theguardian.com