The problem is with the biases. It’s like that experiment made not long ago. A white guy walks down the street with a rifle (in a state where it’s legal to open carry one), keeps walking until a cop drives by. Cop calmly stops and asks him some questions. White guy says he has a license and he’s not doing anything illegal and asks what the cop wants (all of this is being filmed, the cop knows as they’re not hiding the camera). Cop says it’s all good and gets back into his car and drives away.
Then they do the exact same thing with a black guy carrying the exact same rifle, walking until a cop drives by. Once a cop does, the cop jumps out of the car, pistol drawn and screams at him to get down on the ground and to push his rifle away, all the while pointing his gun straight at him. All this is being video taped as well in plain sight. Cop then calls for immediate backup, 2 or 3 cars show up and they’re all “containing” the situation with guns drawn. Meanwhile, the black guy is complying but trying to explain he’s licensed to openly carry, etc. Cops completely ignore him and obviously treat him as a criminal.
Exact same rifle, exact same area, both being filmed. The difference of how the white guy vs. black guy was treated was night and day. That is what a bias is. We all have biases but cops seem to have pretty extreme ones.
Obviously, if you’re being arrested for walking down the street and your rights are being thrown out the window, you’re going to get pissed off. Most white people don’t seem to “get” the fact that blacks are pulled over or stopped on the sidewalk and harassed at a disproportionately high rate compared to white people. But hey, when white people are convinced that racism doesn’t exist because they’ve personally never experienced it (being white and all), what can I possibly tell them. Unless they’ve experienced discrimination themselves, they simply won’t get it/believe it.
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