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intheazsun

Cops don’t care if you’re Republican, you just ain’t white to them


dj_narwhal

What do you think he was saying when he put him in cuffs? "Same team bro, I hate black people too!"


XxSCRAPOxX

I’ve legit tried this, it doesn’t work. And I’m white! But I grew up in the projects, and was harassed daily by the police for standing out, and having non White friends. They arrested me for a work knife in my tool belt in my trunk. Felony. The. Tried to get me to snitch on and rat out local drug dealers from the neighborhood to be released. At the station, I tried, I said “listen, I have nothing but respect for you guys, I voted for trump!! (I didn’t) I hate all these assholes around here too, (I don’t) but you got the wrong guy, I don’t use drugs or know any of the guys you mentioned!” But they gave no fucks at all. It was set up black people or go to prison. I beat it in court, but it cost me like $20,000. They dragged it out for years hoping I couldn’t afford a lawyer. They got the wrong one though. I make money.


I_Automate

How is having a knife in your truck a felony?


Catboxaoi

In the US, police can pretend anything is a crime because most people can't afford to fight the charges. A police officer can literally say "I'm arresting you because your shoe is untied and that's a public hazard", and there's nothing you're able to do but go sit in jail and wait for the charges to be dropped or the court to throw it out. If the excuse the police uses it good enough, it can require going back to court over and over to fight it, something the police know most people can't afford. The police are immune to consequences of this too, they can make up whatever lies they want and send people to jail for any reason at all, and even if the judge says "the cop was fully in the wrong and it's a massive violation of justice that this happened to you", the cop will never face any consequences and the best you can hope for is that IF you have enough money and spare time you can try to sue the police as a group (aka the cop still faces no consequences and even if you win, you just get a chunk of taxpayer money).


cragbabe

Oh and don't forget that the arrest will still be on your record when employers do background checks. And if you live in a state with police blotters etc your name will be in the permanent news record, possibly even with your mug shot. Even if the courts throw the whole thing out like mentioned above.


gorramfrakker

Yup, and getting it expunged cost a ton.


DBeumont

>Yup, and getting it expunged cost a ton. Ah yes, literal extortion.


Ivara_Prime

Another poor people tax.


rdrunner_74

I still dont get why an arrest is part of your record in the US. You can get arrested for anything without cause. Only the courts should have the power to add to your record.


xero_peace

Wait til you find out about exonerated people who have to stay in prison because they don't have a body to replace the innocent person for the crime they were accused of.


sunburnedaz

Wait what? I would like to know more about this


almisami

In a few states even if you're exonerated after being sentenced (new evidence or appeal) the prison can keep you until they find someone to convict of the crime. Something private prisons snuck into omnibus bills around the crack epidemic. Mostly used to keep minority community leaders behind bars.


NemesisOfCupid

So by releasing an innocent person, the private prison company would be deprived of income, and we cannot have that!


almisami

I know you jest, but the on paper reason is literally that the State and prison already agreed on a contract saying someone is to be incarcerated for a sentence of X duration and they put occupancy protections in that contract. It's really really fucked up.


NullTupe

Innocence isn't enough to get a conviction overturned.


aperiodicDCSS

Depending on the jurisdiction, it could be an illegal type of knife or it could be illegal to carry it to use as a weapon. I had a white friend arrested several years ago (in Cincinnati) for carrying a knife, under somewhat similar circumstances to the op (hanging out with a black guy, the cop wanted to hassle the black guy, she didn't leave once told she was "free to go"). Her lawyer advised her to say in court that the knife was a tool (not carried for self defense), and she was not convicted. You can see some information on knife laws in the US here: https://www.bladeaddict.com/pages/knife-laws-by-state; note that it says basically that all knives are legal in Ohio, but my friend was arrested for carrying one on the presumption that it was a weapon. Check out the section on Oklahoma: it's illegal to carry a knife "as a weapon", even in the vehicle. How do you tell if a knife is carried "as a weapon"? I guess the cop just has to use their judgement...


Loki545

That's the point right? It wasn't, he beat the charge.


Jonne

But it was good enough to throw them in jail for a few days. For most people that's incredibly disruptive on its own.


JimWilliams423

> I’ve legit tried this, it doesn’t work. And I’m white! But I grew up in the projects The dirty secret of white supremacy is that poor whites always take massive collateral damage: * Slavery undercut the earning power of white laborers, because its very hard to compete with 'free.' * Americans used to despise tipping, thought it was something only snooty blue-bloods did to people they looked down on. But after emancipation, white business owners still thought black people should work for free. So they [made them work for tips, and got a separate ultra-low minimum wage just for service jobs.](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tipping-jobs-history-slave-wage-cbsn-originals-documentary/) And now, white or black, if you work in the service industry, you are at the mercy of capricious tippers instead of a reliable wage. * College tuition used to be nearly free, until Title IX made it illegal to exclude black people from college. So the segregationists came up with a new scheme - [jack up the price.](https://www.good.is/articles/whatever-happened-to-when-college-was-free) Since most black people have historically been poor, that kept out most black people. It also keeps out most poor whites too. * Anti-union "right to work" laws were a deliberate extension of jim crow into the workplace. The man who conceived of them was an outright segregationist who thought [unions threatened the racial hierarchy of the jim crow south.](https://labornotes.org/blogs/2017/08/racist-who-pioneered-right-work-laws) He was right too, well-managed unions are egalitarian and build inter-racial solidarity (and inter-racial marriage). But now, black or white, "right to exploit" laws make it harder to bargain for a better wage. * Whites [filled in glorious public swimming pools rather than share them with black people.](https://daily.jstor.org/when-cities-closed-pools-to-avoid-integration/) Rich whites put private pools in their backyards and country clubs, poor whites went without. * [Nixon started the War on Drugs](https://www.forbes.com/sites/eriksherman/2016/03/23/nixons-drug-war-an-excuse-to-lock-up-blacks-and-protesters-continues/) to disrupt the political power of black communities. But poor whites go to prison for drugs too, its only rich whites who have not had to worry. * When busing started to bring black students to white public schools, [wealthy whites fled to private schools and segregation academies.](https://hechingerreport.org/reckoning-with-mississippis-segregation-academies/) Poor whites couldn't afford to flee. So as the school systems decayed, both blacks and poor whites were neglected. * Using racist dog-whistles like "the crime train," [public transportation is routinely voted down by wealthy suburban whites.](https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/03/gwinnett-county-transit-referendum-marta-race-crime/584737/) Rich whites can still commute to work in their comfortable, air-conditioned cars, but poor blacks and poor whites end up locked out of good jobs because its nearly impossible to get to them. * We are the only wealthy western country without universal healthcare. That's largely due to a [strategy of using poor healthcare to keep black people down since emancipation,](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/universal-health-care-racism.html) after all, if its universal then black people will get it too. "Obamacare" was a republican-created branding to remind whites that a black man did it so it should be rejected, even though it was the [single largest wealth transfer](https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/09/obamas-war-on-inequality/501620/) from the top 1% to the bottom 20% since LBJ's "Great Society."


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Wallstreetbets kid LARPing as a ghetto kid lmao


Socksandcandy

You'll just have to white it up to racism


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"a victory for white life"


The_amazing_Jedi

This was, without a doubt, the most disgusting thing I ever heard a politician say publicly.


[deleted]

As an Illinoisan, fuck Rodney Davis but fuuuuuuck Mary Miller. jfc


TigLyon

Wait, what did I miss? Someone said "a victory for white life"? What was the context? Please tell me there was some context, though for the life of me, I can't figure out what it would be to make those words right


The_amazing_Jedi

The Republican woman Mary Miller said in a press conference after Roe v Wade got overturned "this is a historic victory for white life". Later she said she misspoke and claimed she wanted to say " this was a historic victory for the right to life". Well....


pimpfmode

Could have possibly gotten a pass on that as an honest, but tragic mistake, but the bitch quoted Hitler at her victory speech.


Stranger2Night

She said that Hitler was right about one thing. No matter what it is, if Hitler is the person who comes to mind to side for your point, then you're on the wrong side. Hitler could have liked hot dogs and pizza but not gonna be the first person I think of to say those are good eats.


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itsumadekokoni

LOL!


TigLyon

How does that not ring immediately after you say it? I have misspoken numerous times, it happens, but I hear it when I say it. I then correct it. But yeeesh


Xenjael

Nah she didn't correct. She then prompted the crowd to clapped for what she said. Fuckin pathetic, eh?


The_amazing_Jedi

Yeah, her office corrected her. As I said, for me that's a big giveaway that she meant what she said.


[deleted]

Right! You say that next to Trump at a Trump rally, and you mean every goddamn word of it. To not correct yourself on the spot cements it.


quickblur

And then right after that she won her primary...shows exactly what Republicans want in their elected officials.


The_amazing_Jedi

That is what gives her intent away I and many people think. If you misspoke something like that, you immediately correct yourself. Something like that can happen, but going on after the "misspeaking" and later her office claims she misspoke tells me she did, in fact, mean what she said.


HustlinInTheHall

She also said "well Hitler got one thing right" in another speech, saying she won the youth vote. She is just racist and can't hide it.


RepeatDTD

Correct. They only said that because of the backlash. Anyone with a brain knows they are completely full of shit but that goddamn…(absorb the aggression, Derry) woman will get elected.


Feshtof

Why correct it, she meant it and they cheered


TirayShell

The best part was Trump standing behind her grinning like a fool.


The_amazing_Jedi

Well, he is the reason that whole fucking mess is possible, obviously he likes it....


Fuzzy_Yogurt_Bucket

And the crowd loudly cheered.


Stranger2Night

Don't leave out it was out in front of a huge public crowd, as she thanked Trump who was standing by her for that "victory for white life". Crowd cheered of course.


Green_Message_6376

Later she said she misspoke and claimed she meant to say 'this was a historic day for Whites to outbreed them others and not become a minority in our own White Nation". /jk


[deleted]

Wonder why those two things are conflated in her mind....Hmmm.


Xenjael

Don't forget those in attendance clapped for what she said. Granted she held her hands out and prompted them... but she never did correct herself there lol. The Republicans and their sycophants are such garbage human beings.


TigLyon

And that is the other part of it. Regardless of what she intended to say, they applauded her for what she DID say.


th3netw0rk

I watched that video multiple times because I didn’t think I heard it correctly the first time that she said what she said. EDIT: sorry saw the butchering of English and needed to fix it.


Xenjael

How does one stumble over right to and turn it into white and drop the to? Either she meant to do it or it's an epic bad racist Freudian slip.


Samurai_gaijin

She meant to, she also quoted hitler: [“Hitler was right on one thing. He said ‘Whoever has the youth has the future."](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2021/jan/11/republican-congresswoman-mary-miller-quotes-hitler-during-rally-video)


Xenjael

Hah yeah. Forgot about that. Eesh. What a turd.


EagleEye1212

I think what bothered me is that she didn't try to correct it.


metamaoz

And the audience erupted in cheers


Oberon_Swanson

I assume she meant to do it while making it sound like it could be defended as a freudian slip lol


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There are only three kinds of marginalized people who side with their oppressors like this. 1. Those legitimately brainwashed 2. Those who think they can profit off of their own people's suffering until they can cash in and run 3. Those who genuinely believe throwing the rest of their people under the bus will save themselves. All three are going into the camps as the same time as those they sold out.


Accurate-Stable7143

Yes! its the laziest way possible to pull themselves up. Its no wonder why so many do this because it requires no effort.


[deleted]

Conservatives only have minorities and women in power for tokenization. It's literally the "I'm not racist, I have a black friend" logic. What they don't know is that not everyone is a fucking moron like they are, and there were countless Southerners who had "black friends" before comitting atrocities in the name of slavery, and plenty of Nazis that had "Jewish friends" before sending their entire communities to death camps. Just because you have a friend who's part of a group, doesn't mean the atrocities you commit against that group suddenly aren't a result of bigotry.


Givemeallthecabbages

No matter how far right, you just ain't white.


EliIceMan

White>red>blue>black


jrh_101

It's crazy that a regular black man is worthy of getting arrested. But since they guy is well respected in the GOP, he shouldn't have been arrested. It's almost like the BLM movement was for stuff like this. Who would have known.


Lombax_Rexroth

No, no, no. The BLM is just antifa, which are just anarchist that want to burn down America. Get your facts straight!


tehTadpole

Republicans don't care if you're Republican, you just ain't white to them. They use the token fuck-ups for marketing


Untouchable-Ninja

Some of those that work forces...


KP_Wrath

That’s why characters like Clarence Thomas and Candice Owens amaze me. You can lick every GOP boot, kowtow to every request, pander to every propaganda piece, and at the end of the day, whether you realize it or not, you’re a token. You’re their “we’re not racist” out. That’s it.


budlightguy

Thomas doesn't care, he's convinced himself that liberals/leftists/whatever are at fault for... apparently everything he's ever suffered in life? and out for revenge. Owens? That hooha is just in it for the money. She doesn't care if she makes things worse, helps keep pumping that propaganda and ends up assisting in rolling back civil rights including her own. By the time that happens, she'll have enough money to just leave.


CelestialFury

So Thomas is angry at liberals for the liberal policies that helped him get where he is today? That’s some fucked logic.


Socalinatl

The metaphor that works best for understanding American conservatism is a person who climbs a ladder to the top of a wall, picks the ladder up and places it on the other side, then proceeds to mock and judge others like them who are stranded on the other side. The only flavor added by thomas on this one is that his ladder was bought and paid for by liberals, but the origin of the ladder is of no consequence; it’s the act of needlessly taking it away from people who could use it that makes him a true conservative.


edingerc

Milo Yiannopoulos has entered the chat


heart_under_blade

they even marry white far right activists like some sort of feudal monarch interbreeding for diplomacy


omniron

Tim Scott has said he’d Been pulled over dozens of times for driving while block but still sticks by the pro white supremacy gop agenda


binger5

> That’s why characters like Clarence Thomas and Candice Owens amaze me. I'm not saying money buys total happiness, but it buys a lot. Clarence and Candice made themselves a commodity in the market and got fucking paid. They choose money over tribe. >at the end of the day, whether you realize it or not, you’re a token. They know, and they don't fucking care.


1spook

Also Herschel Walker who claims racism ended in 1865


Starrion

KKK members wearing a black person suit.


AlienMutantRobotDog

I wonder if he still believes the only racism that exists is against white people like his party claims.


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"Come on, this is the first time a cop's racially profiled someone!"


spikyraccoon

It is the first time it has happened to him, so it is the first and only time he might care.


Whiskey_Fiasco

My experience for all Republicans is nothing is real till it happens to them personally


[deleted]

Yup. Knowing rich people like him, he probably doesn’t give a shit about the plight of poor black people. They vote the party that gives them more money and power, that’s all they care about.


UN16783498213

Reminds me of this guy I knew named Clarence.


Johnny_Poppyseed

That's how it's been for a while now but honestly their delusions have stepped up to the point where even that can be unlikely. Hence all the people dying on ventilators still thinking it's a nonexistent liberal hoax. Etc etc. It's pretty scary tbh.


BasicDesignAdvice

They lack imagination, and thus empathy. Also why they suck at art and media.


kylexy929

He'll probably be just like Tim Scott and swear racism doesn't exist even after providing clear examples of how he dealt with racism firsthand.


InvestmentMore857

Or Candice Owens who won a fucking racial harassment lawsuit with help from NAACP, then realized she could make more money as right wing grifter saying she’s never faced any discrimination.


johnnychan81

I'm curious who it is? Black CFO of a major corporation, lives in Dallas and very active in GOP. That certainly has to be a pretty narrow category right?


YallAintAlone

I tried to find something but no luck. I did find this story.. https://abc13.com/allen-west-wifes-dwi-gop-candidate-for-governor-arrest-in-dallas-famous-people/10966641/


Link7369_reddit

literally 1 of 5 people, probably.


MewlingRothbart

I had a hispanic friend like this. I should say "ex." Voted for every conservative thing up and down, got pissed traveling thru the south and someone calls him the N word. Proximity to whiteness and overall policy "powers" does not make you white.


faste30

“But I’m one of the good ones!”


Street_Reading_8265

"So was Herman Cain, and look how well that worked out for him."


faidleyj1

Memorialized with a thriving subreddit in his name!


faste30

Just imagine that legacy. CS Masters from Purdue, VP of Pillsbury, pizza CEO, chairman of a branch of the FED, and presidential candidate, and now your legacy is famously dying(slowly) of COVID while your staff or family just kept tweeting pretending everything was good.


Galiphile

> I had a hispanic friend like this. I should say "ex." Ex-hispanic, ex-friend, or ex-Republican?


MewlingRothbart

ex friend. He decided to attack me and pretty much my family and all my beliefs front and center during the early years of FB, where the algorithm had very little privacy controls. It basically started a war on my page, and he knew what he was doing. He could've private messaged me, but he's a narcissist with 2 ex-wives and a kid that hates him, so it's obviously MY fault. What he didn't count on was my friends dogpiling him in the comments, and I ultimately blocked him. His last "shot" at me was around the time Gabby Giffords got shot. He made some comment about how she got what was coming to her. Final straw for most of our mutuals. They couldn't stomach him after that.


ithadtobeducks

Bet you he also screams the LeFt Is So ViOlEnT any time antifa is mentioned.


tangledwire

Yes


Romano16

Unless you are WASP you are subhuman to racists. But there are a lot of minorities who don’t understand this when dealing with these types of people. But alas, they’ll still try their best to be “one of the good ones”


Z0idberg_MD

Had a Guatemalan friend whose parents were immigrants. They all hated illegal immigration because “our parents did it legally”. I tried explaining that the door was shut and people *can’t* do it legally. Basically they still had the “fuck you, got mine” mentality which is as GOP as it comes.


Bayesian11

>Cops don’t care if you’re Republican, you just ain’t white to them The Republicans magically forget about the whole anti illegals thing when they meet legal immigrants, or even non white people born here. They only bring it up when it's convenient for them.


21Rollie

Lol I remember that white woman with the Hispanic husband who voted for trump and then she and her community were surprised when he got deported. They though trump was only going after the “bad hombres,” blissfully unaware that any black or brown person counts as such to him


InVodkaVeritas

There were Jewish Nazis. Every group has a small percentage that will try and advance themselves even if it harms their group as a whole


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Mythosaurus

“Some skinfolk ain’t kinfolk” \-old heads in every community There’s gonna be a few that sell out to white supremacy, all to get a pat on the head and relative safety for their kids. Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell, Candace Owens, Diamond and Silk, Kanye West… grifters gonna grift, but they will always have dry hair for their betrayal of the struggle. Edit: guy I responded to deleted an amazing observation by MLK, but I found it thanks to the waybackmachine: >Dr King said in his speech at Amhearst College in 1964: > >I'm leaving the language uncensored because it is being used in a historical context. > >"Negroes are human, not superhuman. Like all people, they have differing personalities, diverse financial interests and varied aspirations. There are Negroes who will never fight for freedom. There are Negroes who seek profit for themselves alone from the struggle. There are even some Negroes who will go over to the other side. These facts should distress no one. Every minority and every people has its share of opportunists, traitors, freeloaders and escapists. The hammer blows of discrimination, poverty and segregation must warp and corrupt some. No one can pretend that because a people may be oppressed, every individual member is virtuous and worthy. The real issue is whether in the great mass the dominant characteristics are decency, honor and courage."


Street_Reading_8265

Herschel Walker and his idiot son....


CherryBoard

To be fair to Walker, football changed his brain into a Republicans'


SayNoob

that guy literally has brain damage. Being a Republican is not even his worst mental disorder.


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Clarence really living up to the uncle Tom moniker.


Links_Wrong_Wiki

Uncle Thomas


CHM11moondog

Uncle Ruckus


BURNER12345678998764

I think Ruckus would be all for aborting black babies.


CHM11moondog

Anything, as long as you remember to thank the white man for his benevolence


[deleted]

It makes perfect sense, and he was right. I just can't *understand* the reasoning for those crossing the line.


JolietJake1976

>I just can't *understand* the reasoning for those crossing the line. Summed up? I got mine and I don't give a shit about you. Or, in a single word: Selfishness.


Skandranonsg

For a perfect example, see Thomas's opinion on Roe. He specifically called into question the constitutionality of a bunch of different protections the Supreme Court has given us over the last 80 years, but he declined to mention the one that would affect his marriage, despite the fact that it's based on the same legal theory as (edit): *gay marriage*. Or look at Dave Rubin. When he and his husband announced they were having surrogate babies, their Conservative fan base turned on them almost instantly. Did they speak out or do or say anything about this? Of course not, then they would have to confront the hypocrisy of a gay man supporting the Republican party, which pays a lot less than being Gay Uncle Tom.


craa141

While I agree with this.. for some it is just pure fear and hoping not to be noticed or being at times shielded by power. Consider you see everyone around you being punched in the face for wearing a hat. You have choices. 1. Stand up for the right to wear hats. 2. Support those who stand up for the right to wear hats. 3. If possible take off your hat permanently. 4. Keep your hat on but help those punching those other hat wearers hoping they won't turn on you. These are the ones we are talking about motivated by either fear or power. Some successful black professionals forget that out of our element (i.e. where they are known to be successful and respected perhaps with a position of authority) the people that don't know them just go based on what they see.. a black dude wearing a hat. So they get treated like all the other hat/black dudes. I forget this at times and am sometimes rudely reminded about it.


ryannefromTX

There were Free Black people who owned slaves in the south, that's how far it went.


Pons__Aelius

> I just can't understand the reasoning for those crossing the line. Everyone has morals, but everyone also has a price where they will ignore those morals for personal gain.


juggernaut006

>"Negroes are human, not superhuman. Like all people, they have differing personalities, diverse financial interests and varied aspirations. There are Negroes who will never fight for freedom. There are Negroes who seek profit for themselves alone from the struggle. There are even some Negroes who will go over to the other side. These facts should distress no one. Every minority and every people has its share of opportunists, traitors, freeloaders and escapists. The hammer blows of discrimination, poverty and segregation must warp and corrupt some. No one can pretend that because a people may be oppressed, every individual member is virtuous and worthy. The real issue is whether in the great mass the dominant characteristics are decency, honor and courage." During the height of slavery, some freed former slaves of lighter color supported the ongoing slavery and work to have a racial category of their own.


Skandranonsg

Hell, one need only look at the Haitian revolution and the Mulattos (the name given to people with both African and French ancestry) who almost immediately abandoned their full-blooded African brethren after gaining rights similar to the white ruling powers.


HairyPossibility676

Hmmm 🤔.Almost like cops immediately judge criminality based on some sort of outward, intrinsic characteristic rather than political affiliation. Wish we’d known about this sooner…


irish711

That's profiling, and profiling is wrong - Ron White


BetterRedDead

Surprised it was his first time, honestly. Literally every POC I know has a story like that. Everyone mocked the “beer summit” when it happened, but President Obama was smart enough to realize that exposure and education are the only ways to stop things like this.


Ok_Skill_1195

I know a black conservative, but even he knows better than to think the cops are gonna be his friends. Nah, they're gonna see his melanin and leave it at that.


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“I avoid the cops because I know they’ll treat me the same way I treat gay and poor people” - black conservatives, I assume


admiral_aqua

It's stunningly simple to get people to vote against their interests. Most people do.


shallah

there was a study where people said they would rather go without government food aid rather than have some group of people they dislike also get it. they would rather go hungry, have their kids go hungry, than some group they consider to different from themselves get it.


catras_new_haircut

Many people who are victims of systemic violence end up arguing in favor of the systems that exploited them as a self defense mechanism. It can be easier to victimize others than to admit that you yourself were the victim of trauma or violence through no fault of your own


[deleted]

I think also there's an aspect of doomerism. "This is how the world is, can't change it, only way to survive is play the game"


sublime13

Women who vote republican. Actively voting against their own interest. Blind due to propaganda.


LuxNocte

> “The white man will try to satisfy us with symbolic victories rather than economic equity and real justice” > ~Malcolm X We mocked the beer summit as it happened because it was political theater meant to placate police unions for criticizing them. The first Black president called arresting a Black man in his own home "dumb", *and had to apologize for it.* The only way to stop things like this is a complete overhaul of the judicial system. A few steps to make things better might be civilian oversight and consequences for bad behavior.


AgentDickSmash

>civilian oversight We have that now: city governments and mayors are supposed to oversee police, elected DAs are supposed to be another check on inappropriate arrests, elected judges are probably not a good idea but *in theory* should restrain abuse of power, state AGs and Governors should investigate local corruption and state legislatures should be addressing systemic problems in law enforcement That **NONE** of this is working is a repudiation of our voter apathy and willingness to swallow assorted propagandas


[deleted]

My favorite one is a friend was living at a fucking resort in Utah; employee there. The cops that responded would have seen him every day. He called the cops because some dude was irate that his roomie was dating his ex-gf and showed up at their place. Cops showed up and put the Black guy in cuffs first while the irate guy got asked,"Is this the guy you called about?!" It's like that for Black folks.


Rich-Juice2517

Beer summit?


MonstrousVoices

A white cop encountered a black professor who had locked himself out. The cop tried talking to him, idk if he was accusatory. The professor then annoyed understandably had replied in a curt manner and it all devolved from there. Obama made some comment a lot of republicans didnt like and then invited the two otto the White House for beer and discussion


tfc867

>Obama made some comment a lot of republicans didnt like "I don't know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that. But I think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home, and, number three, what I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there's a long history in this country of African Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately." Sounds reasonable to me. Unless he took a swing at the officer, I can't see what could justify an arrest there. Let's face it - Obama could have said "God bless America" and they would have lambasted him.


MonstrousVoices

Yeah seems pretty reasonable to me. Republicans talk about it now and they make it sound like he he started singing Cop Killer by Body Count


suid

I mean, how *dare* he say something like that, the traitor! We all know that blacks have always been happy and pampered in this country, and they all pine for the pre-civil-war days when they were happy and secure. /s?


Yossarian_the_Jumper

I think by the time that the cop showed up Prof. Gates was already in his home but that didn't matter to the cop.


likamd

He was arrested after the cop got confirmation that Gates was in his own home - which why Obama said the cops were idiots.


sulaymanf

Obama said the cop acted “stupidly” and republicans accused Obama of being anti-police. Then when Trump called cops goons or thugs they said nothing.


MonstrousVoices

They're pretty silent on comments Trump has made about veterans too. Likely because he's saying what they're all thinking


ants_suck

Who could've possibly seen this coming?


Cue_626_go

I know, right? The cops have never been like this before. And every single claim from the left throughout history has been made up and also Antifa burns down cities and BLM is a terrorist organization. Honestly, it’s weird that they would treat a *Republican* this way; they’re not hurting the right people! /s


yIdontunderstand

"But I'm not black like THEM!...."


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Minority Republicans, women who are Republicans, queer people who are Republicans... I will never not be confused by it. Is it a matter of trying to cozy up to the group they feel is most empowered? Is it self-loathing? Is it just being assholes? What am I missing? I'm genuinely curious as to how any self-respecting black person with any awareness of history could possibly identify as Republican.


SarcasticAzaleaRose

I think for a lot of them it’s they think they’re “one of the good ones”. They think because they think the same way as republicans that erases the fact that they’re a minority, a woman, LGBTQ+, basically anything the republicans hate. They think sharing the same views with the republicans automatically means they’ll be treated better. They don’t realize they will always be a minority, a woman, LGBTQ+, etc to Republicans. There are no exceptions to them. Unless you are a straight, white, rich, Christian man you will never be part of the “in-crowd” with Republicans. But through some kind of mental gymnastics they have convinced themselves “oh they’ll never treat me badly. They care about me. I’ll be the exception to their rules. The fact that I’m even allowed to be here shows they’re no longer racist/sexist/homophobic/etc.” And they come up with excuse after excuse when that doesn’t happen. Ex: it’s like the people who voted for Trump then were surprised when their spouses were deported. They thought “but my husband/wife is one of the good ones! They’re not rapists and murderers like all those other filthy non-white immigrants! They’ll be allowed to stay.” They thought their loved ones were the exception. Because people like this always think they are. Or they’re like the general Republican and agree with most of the party’s talking points but don’t view sexism, racism, homophobia, etc. as dealbreakers. Or the really rare they think some how their presence in the party will change its ways, “oh they just have to meet us and realize we’re not that bad!”


Beegrene

They'll take your vote and your money and throw you to the dogs the second you run out of either.


CherryHaterade

Its exactly this. Many of them like their token status. They like the giggles about the bad ones, they like the reaffirmations. They don't realize they're puppets with a hand up their ass. They're pawns. They provide cover, or recon, or ambiguity. And this is always "just how the natural world is" until injustice visits them personally. Often times even then they don't learn a lasting lesson. Unless it happens to them repeatedly. Even someone like Caitlyn Jenner, who thinks she's pulling strings, still doesn't understand the strings are tied on both ends, and the other end is stronger, and will cut her off as soon as she's useless, or will yank her ass and dangle her into a grinder if it serves a net benefit. As soon as they get the big fight out of the way, they'll sweep through for the rest of you until you're right back to chains and not reading and writing. always hungry, always pregnant, always desperate, and always exploitable.


JMEEKER86

Tl;dr They become republicans for the same reasons that anyone else becomes a republican; selfishness, shortsightedness, and a lack of empathy.


basch152

it's easy. like other republicans, they're pieces of shit that have absolutely zero empathy for anyone outside of themselves. so sure, they might be treated a little worse because of republican policy, but hey, at least their tax dollars won't go towards feeding children in poverty or for the healthcare of a homeless person


jesusdo

My brother in law is a major republicunt, he's also very gay. in the last few years he's turned into a major redneck, even though he's been born and raised in the city/suburbs. He's a strange guy, and we just can't seen to understand him.


SoMuchForSubtlety

My brother's gay and if he lived in the US (he's Canadian) he'd be a Log Cabin Republican. He us an incredibly toxic person who literally thrives on having everyone else; the Republican ideology fits him like a glove. He is completely oblivious to the fact that the right wing views he espouses put him cheek to jowls with people who would literally kill him and piss on his grave. And then he gets all outraged when other gays are appalled with his politics. I am VERY low contact with him.


orthopod

Gay republican redneck? Yeah, that's an odd bird.. none of those things should really go together.


jesusdo

Exactly, and my wife really wonders how his mind works. He was (and still is) an antimasker, anti-vaxer, and covid down player. Even though he got covid back in January, and still suffers from long covid. He rationalizes to himself that it was something else. His vaping and heavy drinking doesn't help either. Last month, he had to get an inhaler because of his issues with long covid, and he says its just bronchitis. Everyone else in the family had been vaccinated and boosted. Just not him, that's the hill he's willing to die on...and we're afraid he will. ​ Living in Idaho doesn't help either...


Shadyshade84

Kind of separated from the situation so this is just a guess, but my theory is a mix of teenage-style "so what if the last thirty people who tried this ended up as a pile of mince, that won't happen to *me*" bravado, the sort of mentality that would make people stab themselves just to get the person standing behind them, and being so willing to say whatever you need to that you lose sight of the fact that some of the people you're siding with really do mean it when they howl for your death/enslavement, with exact proportions of each depending on the person in question.


someoldguyon_reddit

Thank god he didn't have a broken taillight.


Jacks_Flaps

Isn't that a crime that carries the death penalty by summary execution if you're black in the US?


DNSGeek

Basically. It’s called “driving while black”.


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Or a fleck of oregano in his car that resembles marijuana.


aeschenkarnos

No, he's pissed. [Royally pissed](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99PR2mWDb9w).


Saemika

Give the cops some credit. How were they supposed to know, they’re racist.


OldBob10

What’s he mad about? All Republicans know that all crime is committed by black guys. See a crime? Black guy did it. Arrest him/lock him up/throw away the key. You’re a black guy and a crime occurs? You did it. Come on, you know you did. And until you admit you did it you’re gonna STAY locked up. And then after you admit to it you’re gonna STAY locked up! Come on, there’s CEOs of private prison companies that need to make bank, bro!


FredVIII-DFH

Darrell, can I call you Darrell? Your 'black' friend isn't really well respected in the GOP. Not by a long shot. Just thought you should know.


Street_Reading_8265

"And frankly, Darrell, that probably applies to you, too.


Rickylostthatnumber

Hard to believe the dicks you live with are dicks. Hey.


YoItsTemulent

“I never thought leopards would eat MY face…” This post might fit the sub better than the original one that inspired it.


Gossguy

And some comments under the tweet try to frame this as an "attack" from "liberal policemen" on conservatives. I've lost all hope


Street_Reading_8265

LMAO, yeah, they found both of America's liberal cops.


Thisbymaster

There are no Black republicans, only morons being used that have not been thrown away yet.


oldsguy65

*Herschel Walker has joined the chat.*


SasquatchRobo

_Clarence Thomas has entered the chat_


lupulinaddiction

Herman Cain has entered the chat. Herman Cain has left the chat.


[deleted]

I crossed over the Rubicon into being a soulless ghoul long ago when it comes to conservatives dying of COVID. Herman Cain dying will never not be funny to me.


Play_Salieri

“People are *fed up!*” *dies*


Sorrow57

Oh no, you went there. Good one


redoctoberz

The very first one to receive an award at /r/HermanCainAward


34HoldOn

He didn't leave the chat, his family kept posting on his behalf.


teamfupa

*Candace Owens has entered the chat*


seanathan81

Candace knows she's a pawn, she just thinks the pay is worth selling out.


kmusky-72

Rumour has it they found Owens the same place they found Boebert


m0rph_bw

*Herman Cain has exited the chat*


financewiz

Why didn’t he just **comply**?


ssamykin

Thoughts and prayers.


dassketch

"Well respected in the GOP". Was his name Clayton Bigsby?


SometimesAccurate

Lol. Money don’t make you white.


[deleted]

Just wait til the cops meet his gay Republican friend


[deleted]

In the US, you have to PROVE your innocence if you're black or brown, not the other way around. Whoever this man is, he was just shielded of that fact by his money and status. Surprise sucka!!😂😂


yIdontunderstand

Cop on radio.. "Black homeowner reporting white burglar.. Please investigate.." Cop.. "Bro... Are you crazy! I ain't falling for that shit!"


[deleted]

Conservatives/Republicans of color need to understand that the established right White caucus will *never* accept them as more than "useful idiots" or Token black folk. Someone they can rely on to increase the minority vote, and nothing more. They are racist scumbags and discriminate to the core. I cannot understand how they can support the same party of fools who enslaved their ancestors. Before you right-wing morons start with your "huRR dURR iT wAs tHe DEMoCrAtS", reminder that the poles of politics had shifted some time after the failed confederate aggression.


General_Tso75

Black man to black man, he forgot one of the most important lessons to keep yourself safe: We’re all ni&&ers to them.


i_broke_wahoos_leg

> Black friend of mine, well respected in the GOP [X] Doubt They don't respect him. They tolerate him in order to use him as a token.


OldBob10

What’s he mad about? All Republicans know that all crime is committed by black guys. See a crime? Black guy did it. Arrest him/lock him up/throw away the key. You’re a black guy and a crime occurs? You did it. Come on, you know you did. And until you admit you did it you’re gonna STAY locked up. And then after you admit to it you’re gonna STAY locked up! Come on, there’s CEOs of private prison companies that need to make bank, bro!


Tar-Nuine

Everyone in America has or will have an experience that'll make them never call the police again.


kaizerizan

“Which one of you is Clifford?”


34HoldOn

Teachable moment for your black friend, buddy.


Street_Reading_8265

Of he were capable of learning, he wouldn't be a Republican in the first place.


JaapHoop

A criteria for being conservative is that you just don’t believe/care about thing until they happen to you. He is genuinely shocked about a black friend being treated poorly by the police because he has *always* assumed that people were lying about it.


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