Originally Posted by
Jerry Oz
Profiling is a bullshit tactic. A long time ago, my Dad and my uncle drunkenly tried to talk me into their belief that Black people shouldn't be trusted. "You're more likely to be killed by another Black man," my uncle told me on my way out the door. I told him that he was wrong, and here is what I laid out:
If you watch TV, you'll learn a ton of statistics about the troubling state of Black men. You'll hear that the rate for AIDS is higher for me because I'm Black. But I'm neither a drug user nor someone who engages in unprotected sex, so my chances are minimal.
They say I'm likely to father kids by multiple women. But I already told you why that wouldn't happen.
They say I'm more likely to do drugs, but I've never even smoked a joint, let alone done hard drugs.
They say I have a better chance of being alcoholic, but I learned from my Pops and my uncle why that's not cool and I've never been a drinker.
They say I'm more likely to be incarcerated, but if I've done good to keep my nose clean.
They suggest that I'm more likely to drop out, but I was already in college by then.
And they say that more likely to die at the hand of another Black man, but I don't associate with people who are likely to kill me. Most murder victims knew their assailants, so associations are the biggest variable for that and I keep an g&geye on my friends.
They didn't have answer, but they were a little drunker by then. If you look at it closely, 99% of the problems faced by Black people are behavioral. And those behaviors are influenced by socio-economic circumstances. Rather than address Black folks' standard of life, they paint me with the same brush as the worst of us. That's what makes me the angriest. "All cops aren't bad," people say but they give them a pass for assuming that all Black people are. What a lazy assed understanding of the world.