They all do. By they, I mean the illiberal leftists that preach tolerance, love, and empathy but practice none of the above. I would venture to guess they 90+% of the people cheering Charlie’s death have never watched a whole 5 minute clip of him in action. They passive that they’re the righteous ones, they’re the ones saving the works from monsters like Charlie. Almost all normal Americans have way more in common with Charlie than we do with the hatred they spew.
Actually, I believe it's 7% total males. But if counting only the "youth," then perhaps like 3%. And that percentage concentrated in a very few densely populated neighborhoods in very violent cities. Which is not to say the problem is small--but that it is small enough that it could be solved if the leaders wanted it solved. One of the most unintentionally-hilarious articles I have read lately (MSNOW repeated at Real Clear Politics) is that Blue City mayors are uniquely situated to deal with urban violence because they are so much more experienced with it than are mayors from Red Cities.
The 3% are black men 14-49 years old. Black males are ~7%. Total black population ~13%. And the 3% of the population contributes roughly 1/2 of all violent crime. So sad.
I sat on a NYC grand jury two years ago. 19 of 21 cases had video evidence of that 3% committing serious crimes. I was shocked and had a word with the prosecutors after. This was no aberration. That’s the way it always is they said. And this in one of the most diverse cities in the country. Truly tragic.
Look at the root cause, not the color of the skin. Young black males in inner cities rarely have a complete family. They hunger for acceptance and some type of father figure. They find that in a gang. The gang demands their allegiance including initiations that often involve stealing and violence against others. This process can and has happened to every race. It was the same process in the 1860s New York with Irish and Germans. The play "West Side Story" dramatizes the same problem with Puerto Ricans in NYC in the 1950s. When blacks escaped the plantations in the 1860s and 1870s a lot of those families ended up in big northern cities. They were hard working people and they manned the factories of the industrial revolution in the 1880s - 1920s and the families were strong. Then came WW2, Korea and Vietnam and the men were enlisted in the military where many died. This left families fatherless. The 1960s welfare programs which favored women having children without fathers made matters worse. That is the genesis of crime in the big cities with inordinate numbers of black youth at the core. Again, it has nothing to do with race. That is a historical coincidence
At what point exactly are people responsible for their own behavior? Do blacks not have agency? You know who else doesn't have agency? Children. The developmentally disabled. Are you seriously claiming that blacks still can't be held accountable because of their skin? That's the true racism.
Ah, yes, those famous "root causes," always a reason/excuse why nothing can be done except shovel yet more money to those grifters who pretend to deal with root causes. You may well be right, at least in part, about root causes . . . but we are well past where that matters about the actual effects and danger. Plus, my poor white trash forebears never owned slaves and never formulated or benefited from the Democrat policies of making black families totally dependent wards of the state.
Along with absent fathers, to this list of causes I would add a series of community "leaders" post-MLK (Jackson, Sharpton, etc.) who reinforced a victimhood narrative and drummed it into them that white racism is the source of all their ills and they are helpless. Basically, the opposite of what MLK preached.
The gangsta rap, cop-hating culture (don't laugh). Yes, that has been a huge influence on black youth over the past four decades.
The same dynamic seems to be playing out from the perpetually online REDDIT and 4Chan influenced young white men. The absolute number is very small, but I’d stop killing people. Most adolescent men are occupied by relationships, sports, or work. Some of those that aren’t with a lot of idol time are finding the dark side online and it becomes their family/friends/gang.
Now, I'm not following that logic. If they did, you'd think they'd ignore statistics. They do ignore, and they're not getting money from them. Did I miss a piece of the logic?
I think the point may have been that young black men don't donate to political campaigns, so elected Democrats don't give a crap how many are murdered in our cities each weekend and refuse to admit that it's a major problem. Same also for any whiff of crime statistics that include race.
I wait in vain for Progressives to update “BLM” (Black Lives Matter) with the more-accurate phrase “PUBLM” (Politically-useful Black Lives Matter). It is obvious that Progressives care NOTHING for black lives in the abstract, or they would be vigorously attempting to stop gang violence in big cities. Instead, Progressives do everything they can to stop Trump’s efforts to stop gang violence, while beating us normies over the head with the minuscule white-on-black violent crime. PUBLM indeed.
In this case, your reader is the racist. This had nothing to do with race.
Her point about his rhetoric regarding guns is irrelevant. He spoke the truth. The 2nd Amendment blesses/curses us with guns. The need to defend ourselves against homicidal maniacs like the one who killed him is the price we pay for that bittersweet liberty. He tried. He failed. The murderer will be prevented from killing again. That's how our system works.
I don't believe the 2nd Amendment will ever be repealed, but repeal would be of no avail. Aren't drugs illegal? How many Americans die from them every year?
The way to respond to Kirk’s murder is for people like your reader to banish the hate from their hearts and tone down their lying provocative rhetoric falsely accusing people like Kirk (and you in this case) of racism.
Feel free to tell the reader just that on my behalf.
There are over 40,000 vehicular deaths a year in the US. We, as a country, have decided that level of deaths is worth the trade off. Similar with gun deaths, the trade off is worth the sacrifice.
Why does someone shoot at kids in church. Why does someone shoot to kill a guy talking to students. Both white guys. Why does a man cut the throat of a woman in the seat in front of him. I hate guns but for god’s sake, these are messed up people in different ways. Maybe the answer isn’t Gun Control! Maybe the answer is paying attention to the needs of these people before it goes too far. We have money for everything else.
But it will also require an attitude adjustment from the people who think it is just fine for the human animal to roam at will, and live in deprivation and squalor.
At this point in our history Whites are the victims. Especially hetero Christians. Decades of pandering to the victims classes with shitty policies that encourage rampant fatherless homes and un self -regulated women has given us the new victims classes- raging criminals. And race is a huge factor. If Whites should feel guilty of anything, it’s going overboard with LBJ policies that propagated this disaster over the last 60 years.
This was not just an attack on you, Sasha, it was an attack on us normals who are just unable to see the evil that this writer believes exists in us, not their side. Evil is amongst us. It has always been. What is different is the far left has changed the definition of evil to include all beliefs save theirs. It is that simple. Words are not violent or evil, in and of themselves. What is evil is killing ANYONE because you do not like the words they speak.
Perfectly stated. Growing up in Santa Monica, we were told not to be racist. Unfortunately, the black kids were not taught to be loving towards whites. So we weren’t taught racism by our parents, we were taught to be afraid of blacks and not to trust them, because whenever we came in contact with a black, it was usually in a negative way. Had black kids in the theater throw popcorn at us and call us crackers. Had three black kids chase me through Venice, trying to rob me. Had a black guy on a motorcycle chase me and my best friend. So the real world taught us what the liberals would not teach us, namely, that we were more likely to be robbed or assaulted by a black man than by a white person.
Any white person (especially female) that has riden public transport in a major city has been a victim of racism. I have been physically intimidated and verbally abused by black people and the women are especially hateful. If you mistakenly say this to an affluent white female liberal that has never lived outside of their suburban bubble, they will not allow themselves to believe it, rather it is just my own imagination and fears, not my actual lived experience.
I can't count the middle-class liberals I've met who would never live in a heavily minority or immigrant neighborhood in a million years but are the first to scream racism the minute you criticize a minority.
Working in Los Angeles most of my life, I’ve been called “cracker” many times by black guys. I’ve been called “gringo” by Hispanic men. For the record, I’m not a “gringo” in my own country. To the leftists I say, don’t talk to me about racism. I know my experience doesn’t compare to others who have faced violence based on their race, but racism exists everywhere there is fear of the other and hate.
My children would (and have) told a similar story. Because I’ve carried the burden of being raised by racist parents, I did everything in my power to be sure my children were never taught those beliefs. Unfortunately, their life experiences on the school bus, in the lunchroom and classroom, and on their jobs have convinced them otherwise. Black folks have taught my children racism.
I have a similar story regarding Mexicans, when we lived in El Centro, my son went to a school, which was 80% Mexican and 20% Anglo, the kids kept threatening him, and starting fights with him, we finally had to pull him out and homeschool him. You don’t want to be a gringo in a border town school.
I have believed for some time that white racists (and they exist) are not racist because they hate black people, but because they think black people hate THEM.
How many previously non-racist white people were made racist by the 2020 BLM riots and the concurrent maligning of white people? Already-racist were just made more racist. Movements like that actually foster the very racism they complain about.
What I found interesting is , you understood- I think- the email you’re responding to. I couldn’t figure out what the point was . It struck me as very muddled.
Glad I wasn't the only one. Especially the part about "If a prominent conservative was shot" or something like that. A prominent conservative WAS shot, it's not a hypothetical.
Did the person really mean to say a prominent liberal?
Some seem to believe they know all about others when they never will. If Sasha is a "racist" because she has her eyes open, then she has some good company. And thanks for not blocking and facing the whirlwind with honest good faith. That's why we love you, babe.
I dont fear anyone because of their skin color. I fear the shadow of terror hiding in plain sight. I do not blame guns, I blame the shooter. Guns have also saved many lives. Knives are very useful but there has been no cries to ban knives.
Your response is heartfelt and educational. Thank you Sasha. Thank you.
These people like your reader are realizing they have been willingly indoctrinated and easily brainwashed — and are striking out in their desperation.
Them seeing an insanely violent black man who was released back into society by a black magistrate who is not even a lawyer — seeing him kill that young unsuspecting migrant woman after her work shift — and seeing the MSM cover it up for over a week — was all a nuclear attack on everything he and millions of others like him have fell for the last 50 years.
"If you don’t trust a white tweaker on a train, don’t trust a black guy hearing voices either. This is important information that every young woman should know." Makes perfect sense. Why on earth should it be anything but good advice?
We have spend the last however many years making sure people who weren't racist or wouldn't have been, were. White or black. My daughter has a friend who up until her sophomore year of high school was just another kid with all the same experiences (but for family-same church, same school, etc. And also what a great family: amazing hard working parents lovely sibilings close aunts/uncles/cousins. Immigrants and first gen kids all going nowhere but up and what role models!). But in the last year or so, in has crept that, " oh you know they said that about me because I'm black" thing which is not true and if her mother heard it she would put a fast stop to it too. And fwiw our school is at this point minority majority so she isn't, you know, singled out. ( I was going to say token but then South Park jumped in my head and I did wonder how bad that would sound even though I meant it in the true sense of the word. Have to think and rethink everything all the time lol). Thank you social media and BLM and DEI. (Not). Maybe our kids at the say 23 and down ages can escape this somehow. But go older and it is endemic. Also honestly ridiculous. I saw one brief Charlie Kirk video where he was talking to a black college student who asked about white privillege. He asked her if there was anything he could do that she could not and she replied no there isn't anything I can't do if I put my mind to it- and he said see?? there you go. Yup. That is real life not all this manufactured stuff and all the victim culture and dependency perpetuated by the dems since jfk/ lbj and onward (that's a longer discussion though).
ALL these loaded terms: racist, misogynist, facist, ****-phobe, etc....they no longer really hold any weight, semantically. They are now terms used only propagandistically, and are therefore not only useless and ineffective, but linguistically dead. Thought terminating cliches have no place in any intelligent discourse.
I sometimes shake my head when I hear a black man explain the conversations they've had with their children if they get pulled over by the police.
Guess what - I am a redneck from Texas, and had the same conversations with my sons - be respectful, keep your hands on the wheel, follow their orders and it will not lead to escalation. Interactions with police are about common sense, the cops have a hard enough job without a skillethead mouthing off to them
He presumes so much, doesn't he?
I have to laugh at leftists insisting we all give up our guns when they're shooting at us.
Leftists obsess over identity, but they never actually know the identities of the people they talk about. They just make stuff up.
Like their "empathy", they're just creating unfalsifiable rationalizations for what they want.
They all do. By they, I mean the illiberal leftists that preach tolerance, love, and empathy but practice none of the above. I would venture to guess they 90+% of the people cheering Charlie’s death have never watched a whole 5 minute clip of him in action. They passive that they’re the righteous ones, they’re the ones saving the works from monsters like Charlie. Almost all normal Americans have way more in common with Charlie than we do with the hatred they spew.
And they don’t really want to give up their guns either. Just all the people who don’t agree with them.
From my cold dead hands !!!
Great point!! Why have we have we never thought of that!
Black men account for 3% of the US population and 54% of the murders.
Facts aren't racist.
Actually, I believe it's 7% total males. But if counting only the "youth," then perhaps like 3%. And that percentage concentrated in a very few densely populated neighborhoods in very violent cities. Which is not to say the problem is small--but that it is small enough that it could be solved if the leaders wanted it solved. One of the most unintentionally-hilarious articles I have read lately (MSNOW repeated at Real Clear Politics) is that Blue City mayors are uniquely situated to deal with urban violence because they are so much more experienced with it than are mayors from Red Cities.
The 3% are black men 14-49 years old. Black males are ~7%. Total black population ~13%. And the 3% of the population contributes roughly 1/2 of all violent crime. So sad.
I sat on a NYC grand jury two years ago. 19 of 21 cases had video evidence of that 3% committing serious crimes. I was shocked and had a word with the prosecutors after. This was no aberration. That’s the way it always is they said. And this in one of the most diverse cities in the country. Truly tragic.
Since 2017 in CA — we all know here
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/bart-withholding-surveillance-videos-of-crime-to-avoid-stereotypes/
Look at the root cause, not the color of the skin. Young black males in inner cities rarely have a complete family. They hunger for acceptance and some type of father figure. They find that in a gang. The gang demands their allegiance including initiations that often involve stealing and violence against others. This process can and has happened to every race. It was the same process in the 1860s New York with Irish and Germans. The play "West Side Story" dramatizes the same problem with Puerto Ricans in NYC in the 1950s. When blacks escaped the plantations in the 1860s and 1870s a lot of those families ended up in big northern cities. They were hard working people and they manned the factories of the industrial revolution in the 1880s - 1920s and the families were strong. Then came WW2, Korea and Vietnam and the men were enlisted in the military where many died. This left families fatherless. The 1960s welfare programs which favored women having children without fathers made matters worse. That is the genesis of crime in the big cities with inordinate numbers of black youth at the core. Again, it has nothing to do with race. That is a historical coincidence
At what point exactly are people responsible for their own behavior? Do blacks not have agency? You know who else doesn't have agency? Children. The developmentally disabled. Are you seriously claiming that blacks still can't be held accountable because of their skin? That's the true racism.
Ah, yes, those famous "root causes," always a reason/excuse why nothing can be done except shovel yet more money to those grifters who pretend to deal with root causes. You may well be right, at least in part, about root causes . . . but we are well past where that matters about the actual effects and danger. Plus, my poor white trash forebears never owned slaves and never formulated or benefited from the Democrat policies of making black families totally dependent wards of the state.
Along with absent fathers, to this list of causes I would add a series of community "leaders" post-MLK (Jackson, Sharpton, etc.) who reinforced a victimhood narrative and drummed it into them that white racism is the source of all their ills and they are helpless. Basically, the opposite of what MLK preached.
The gangsta rap, cop-hating culture (don't laugh). Yes, that has been a huge influence on black youth over the past four decades.
The same dynamic seems to be playing out from the perpetually online REDDIT and 4Chan influenced young white men. The absolute number is very small, but I’d stop killing people. Most adolescent men are occupied by relationships, sports, or work. Some of those that aren’t with a lot of idol time are finding the dark side online and it becomes their family/friends/gang.
They really wrote that? Goodness what retards.
Because they are doing such a fine job now! That’s hilarious 😂 .
I think that young black men which makes it worse.
That is exactly why democrats ignore the statistics. Young black men don't send democrat politicians money.
It is why the Left resorts to violence and murder; reason and facts are not on their side.
Now, I'm not following that logic. If they did, you'd think they'd ignore statistics. They do ignore, and they're not getting money from them. Did I miss a piece of the logic?
I think the point may have been that young black men don't donate to political campaigns, so elected Democrats don't give a crap how many are murdered in our cities each weekend and refuse to admit that it's a major problem. Same also for any whiff of crime statistics that include race.
Figures dont lie, and liars dont figure!
And how many murder victims percentage wise AND totally are black?
Disproportionate number of blacks are murdered, almost entirely by other blacks.
But it's not their fault, it's systemic racism's fault. They have no agency because they are oppressed.
Blue city democrat politicians oppress black voters by keeping them uneducated, unemployed, intimidated by violence and reliably voting for democrats.
I wait in vain for Progressives to update “BLM” (Black Lives Matter) with the more-accurate phrase “PUBLM” (Politically-useful Black Lives Matter). It is obvious that Progressives care NOTHING for black lives in the abstract, or they would be vigorously attempting to stop gang violence in big cities. Instead, Progressives do everything they can to stop Trump’s efforts to stop gang violence, while beating us normies over the head with the minuscule white-on-black violent crime. PUBLM indeed.
In this case, your reader is the racist. This had nothing to do with race.
Her point about his rhetoric regarding guns is irrelevant. He spoke the truth. The 2nd Amendment blesses/curses us with guns. The need to defend ourselves against homicidal maniacs like the one who killed him is the price we pay for that bittersweet liberty. He tried. He failed. The murderer will be prevented from killing again. That's how our system works.
I don't believe the 2nd Amendment will ever be repealed, but repeal would be of no avail. Aren't drugs illegal? How many Americans die from them every year?
The way to respond to Kirk’s murder is for people like your reader to banish the hate from their hearts and tone down their lying provocative rhetoric falsely accusing people like Kirk (and you in this case) of racism.
Feel free to tell the reader just that on my behalf.
There are over 40,000 vehicular deaths a year in the US. We, as a country, have decided that level of deaths is worth the trade off. Similar with gun deaths, the trade off is worth the sacrifice.
If only murder was illegal.
If only...
It is supposed to be!
WELL SAID
Why does someone shoot at kids in church. Why does someone shoot to kill a guy talking to students. Both white guys. Why does a man cut the throat of a woman in the seat in front of him. I hate guns but for god’s sake, these are messed up people in different ways. Maybe the answer isn’t Gun Control! Maybe the answer is paying attention to the needs of these people before it goes too far. We have money for everything else.
But it will also require an attitude adjustment from the people who think it is just fine for the human animal to roam at will, and live in deprivation and squalor.
But Sasha is also racist, because "racist" means wrongthinker.
Beautifully said.
I'll say it again. Pattern recognition and threat awareness are not racist.
Indeed. Read "Black Men and Public Spaces" by Shelby Steele, a prominent black author.
At this point in our history Whites are the victims. Especially hetero Christians. Decades of pandering to the victims classes with shitty policies that encourage rampant fatherless homes and un self -regulated women has given us the new victims classes- raging criminals. And race is a huge factor. If Whites should feel guilty of anything, it’s going overboard with LBJ policies that propagated this disaster over the last 60 years.
UNCONTROLLABLE WOMEN? Strange statement.
He said un self-regulated. Not uncontrollable
You had me but you lost me at "uncontrollable women."
Who is supposed to control those women?
Themselves
This was not just an attack on you, Sasha, it was an attack on us normals who are just unable to see the evil that this writer believes exists in us, not their side. Evil is amongst us. It has always been. What is different is the far left has changed the definition of evil to include all beliefs save theirs. It is that simple. Words are not violent or evil, in and of themselves. What is evil is killing ANYONE because you do not like the words they speak.
Perfectly stated. Growing up in Santa Monica, we were told not to be racist. Unfortunately, the black kids were not taught to be loving towards whites. So we weren’t taught racism by our parents, we were taught to be afraid of blacks and not to trust them, because whenever we came in contact with a black, it was usually in a negative way. Had black kids in the theater throw popcorn at us and call us crackers. Had three black kids chase me through Venice, trying to rob me. Had a black guy on a motorcycle chase me and my best friend. So the real world taught us what the liberals would not teach us, namely, that we were more likely to be robbed or assaulted by a black man than by a white person.
Any white person (especially female) that has riden public transport in a major city has been a victim of racism. I have been physically intimidated and verbally abused by black people and the women are especially hateful. If you mistakenly say this to an affluent white female liberal that has never lived outside of their suburban bubble, they will not allow themselves to believe it, rather it is just my own imagination and fears, not my actual lived experience.
I can't count the middle-class liberals I've met who would never live in a heavily minority or immigrant neighborhood in a million years but are the first to scream racism the minute you criticize a minority.
Working in Los Angeles most of my life, I’ve been called “cracker” many times by black guys. I’ve been called “gringo” by Hispanic men. For the record, I’m not a “gringo” in my own country. To the leftists I say, don’t talk to me about racism. I know my experience doesn’t compare to others who have faced violence based on their race, but racism exists everywhere there is fear of the other and hate.
At least you don't get "privileged white woman."
What do you expect when their "leaders" are the likes of Maxine Waters. Garbage in, garbage out.
And I've seen terrible incidents of racism directed at blacks by Mexicans. Nobody talks about that.
My children would (and have) told a similar story. Because I’ve carried the burden of being raised by racist parents, I did everything in my power to be sure my children were never taught those beliefs. Unfortunately, their life experiences on the school bus, in the lunchroom and classroom, and on their jobs have convinced them otherwise. Black folks have taught my children racism.
It sickens me.
I have a similar story regarding Mexicans, when we lived in El Centro, my son went to a school, which was 80% Mexican and 20% Anglo, the kids kept threatening him, and starting fights with him, we finally had to pull him out and homeschool him. You don’t want to be a gringo in a border town school.
I have believed for some time that white racists (and they exist) are not racist because they hate black people, but because they think black people hate THEM.
How many previously non-racist white people were made racist by the 2020 BLM riots and the concurrent maligning of white people? Already-racist were just made more racist. Movements like that actually foster the very racism they complain about.
What I found interesting is , you understood- I think- the email you’re responding to. I couldn’t figure out what the point was . It struck me as very muddled.
Neither could I. I think the writer was trying to sound very smart, but it was lost on me.
Thanks for saying that. I was baffled!
I wondered how Sasha could even reply since it made no sense!
Sasha is brilliant! The more I listen to her the more impressed I am. Her writing is amazing!!
Glad I wasn't the only one. Especially the part about "If a prominent conservative was shot" or something like that. A prominent conservative WAS shot, it's not a hypothetical.
Did the person really mean to say a prominent liberal?
Things that make you go Hmmm....
Some seem to believe they know all about others when they never will. If Sasha is a "racist" because she has her eyes open, then she has some good company. And thanks for not blocking and facing the whirlwind with honest good faith. That's why we love you, babe.
I dont fear anyone because of their skin color. I fear the shadow of terror hiding in plain sight. I do not blame guns, I blame the shooter. Guns have also saved many lives. Knives are very useful but there has been no cries to ban knives.
Your response is heartfelt and educational. Thank you Sasha. Thank you.
banning of knives is occurring in the UK....cuz that's next after guns
Eventually they’ll have to ban rocks and fists. Because killers are gonna kill
And motor vehicles
An excellent retort, you have a special gift, so keep sharing it!
These people like your reader are realizing they have been willingly indoctrinated and easily brainwashed — and are striking out in their desperation.
Them seeing an insanely violent black man who was released back into society by a black magistrate who is not even a lawyer — seeing him kill that young unsuspecting migrant woman after her work shift — and seeing the MSM cover it up for over a week — was all a nuclear attack on everything he and millions of others like him have fell for the last 50 years.
"If you don’t trust a white tweaker on a train, don’t trust a black guy hearing voices either. This is important information that every young woman should know." Makes perfect sense. Why on earth should it be anything but good advice?
We have spend the last however many years making sure people who weren't racist or wouldn't have been, were. White or black. My daughter has a friend who up until her sophomore year of high school was just another kid with all the same experiences (but for family-same church, same school, etc. And also what a great family: amazing hard working parents lovely sibilings close aunts/uncles/cousins. Immigrants and first gen kids all going nowhere but up and what role models!). But in the last year or so, in has crept that, " oh you know they said that about me because I'm black" thing which is not true and if her mother heard it she would put a fast stop to it too. And fwiw our school is at this point minority majority so she isn't, you know, singled out. ( I was going to say token but then South Park jumped in my head and I did wonder how bad that would sound even though I meant it in the true sense of the word. Have to think and rethink everything all the time lol). Thank you social media and BLM and DEI. (Not). Maybe our kids at the say 23 and down ages can escape this somehow. But go older and it is endemic. Also honestly ridiculous. I saw one brief Charlie Kirk video where he was talking to a black college student who asked about white privillege. He asked her if there was anything he could do that she could not and she replied no there isn't anything I can't do if I put my mind to it- and he said see?? there you go. Yup. That is real life not all this manufactured stuff and all the victim culture and dependency perpetuated by the dems since jfk/ lbj and onward (that's a longer discussion though).
TRUTH outloud
ALL these loaded terms: racist, misogynist, facist, ****-phobe, etc....they no longer really hold any weight, semantically. They are now terms used only propagandistically, and are therefore not only useless and ineffective, but linguistically dead. Thought terminating cliches have no place in any intelligent discourse.
A clueless, racist reader. That’s who that is.
I sometimes shake my head when I hear a black man explain the conversations they've had with their children if they get pulled over by the police.
Guess what - I am a redneck from Texas, and had the same conversations with my sons - be respectful, keep your hands on the wheel, follow their orders and it will not lead to escalation. Interactions with police are about common sense, the cops have a hard enough job without a skillethead mouthing off to them
One more piece of advise from a retired cop….you will never win an arguement on the side of the highway.
My parents never said anything.
I'm not a moron.
Why would I make sudden movements in front of a guy with a gun and a badge any more than I would facing, say, a rattlesnake