Thanks KK. I am 56. This fear of being labelled racist has been around since I was a child at school. So 45 years at least. It has been the worst brush to be smeared with. And once smeared it’s all but impossible to lose the label Hence the enormous length that people will go to, such as ignoring the final breaths of a dying boy and two tier everything , to not be racist.
While I agree that the system that trains such police officers must be held accountable but so there must be reckoning for the police officers that let a human being bleed to death and drown in his own blood while being handcuffed. An apology? This is way past that.
Where are the anti-racism activists now? They seem awfully quiet. Have they gone on holiday? Are they afraid that there is now staggering ironic evidence that they have created "black privilege", which is presumably something that their "equitable" society needs to do something about? And let's remember that, unlike Floyd, Nowak wasn't pumped full of drugs, didn't have a criminal record, and the police hadn't been called out because of him passing counterfeit money earlier - so this is actually a HUGE example of "systemic racism" against white people? Isn't that something to do with "social justice"? Dear me. Will wokeness finally disappear up the backside of its own disgustingly biased hypocrisy? Will we be able to recover decent policing and a sane society yet?
It seems one really does have justification in fearing the police as a white person. Personally I have little respect for any of our institutions since the DEI fanaticism took over. The black community want retribution they don’t want equality. They want reparations and they want to see white people suffer. They most certainly do not want to return to their countries of cultural origin. The police had one job to do when they found a man stabbed in the street, and that was to save his life. They utterly failed, and heaped insult to injury. They should be ashamed.
Ashamed? They should face a court of law like the policeman who was accused of the death of the black man in the US who actually died of fentanyl. I won't say his name, because career criminals don't deserve the lauding he has received.
Well said, this case shows how young white men in Britain are decriminated against by the system. Everyone irrespectve of race, colour or creed should be dealt with the same and the Police need to go back to Policing for the common good.
I equate, "I don't think you have, mate", to, "child prostitute." Nothing to see here but a racist."
It is the police, yet again turning a deaf ear on the people they should be protecting so they don't look racist.
White guilt is what is getting whites killed.
We keep blaming the system but such a system could not be built in a society who don't easily get high on a guilt trip.
White people feel guilt for doing well.
For having better, safer, cleaner neighbourhoods. Whites feel guilty of their past like no other nation who has a history just as equally bad or worse.
We can't have equality because there is no equality of guilt felt.
Whites are to blame for this. Not because we are racist but we feel more racial guilt.
A black or brown man will never feel ashamed about being called a racist, and that is a fact.
A man who has no shame or feels no guilt will always have power over a man who has shame and feels guilt.
White guilt got Henry killed.
If we didn’t have racial shame and guilt, that Sikh man would not have had a knife, or he would either even have been here to kill Henry, or he would have better integrated into British society.
Stop blaming the system. The system is there because we allow it. We need to see the flaws in our nature before the system can be changed.
We need to take responsibility for this instead of finding someone else to blame.
Please, do not feel guilt or shame over, "white guilt got Henry killed".
Here's the thing: "Never take the blame or shoulder the shame, but always take responsibility."
Every white person is responsibile for Henry's death. This is why we weep together. Can you feel the gravity of those words? With that comes the power we need to change the system.
" The murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer..."
While a good essay, it starts off with a falsehood. George Floyd was not murdered. He died due to a combination of heart disease and drugs. It was only called murder by a partisan medical examiner who said the obvious heart disease and positive tests for fentanyl and methamphetamines had nothing to do with it. Nothing to see here.
I usually wouldn't belabor the point, but this is how a violent, drug-using criminal was somehow turned into a martyred saint.
The Buck Stops Here: The Chief Constable of Hampshire Police is Alexis Boon QPM - sorry Alexis, with high status and remuneration come responsibility. It happened on your watch; consider your position…
The police who were never racist against black men are now institutionally racist against white men.
Thanks KK. I am 56. This fear of being labelled racist has been around since I was a child at school. So 45 years at least. It has been the worst brush to be smeared with. And once smeared it’s all but impossible to lose the label Hence the enormous length that people will go to, such as ignoring the final breaths of a dying boy and two tier everything , to not be racist.
While I agree that the system that trains such police officers must be held accountable but so there must be reckoning for the police officers that let a human being bleed to death and drown in his own blood while being handcuffed. An apology? This is way past that.
Where are the anti-racism activists now? They seem awfully quiet. Have they gone on holiday? Are they afraid that there is now staggering ironic evidence that they have created "black privilege", which is presumably something that their "equitable" society needs to do something about? And let's remember that, unlike Floyd, Nowak wasn't pumped full of drugs, didn't have a criminal record, and the police hadn't been called out because of him passing counterfeit money earlier - so this is actually a HUGE example of "systemic racism" against white people? Isn't that something to do with "social justice"? Dear me. Will wokeness finally disappear up the backside of its own disgustingly biased hypocrisy? Will we be able to recover decent policing and a sane society yet?
It seems one really does have justification in fearing the police as a white person. Personally I have little respect for any of our institutions since the DEI fanaticism took over. The black community want retribution they don’t want equality. They want reparations and they want to see white people suffer. They most certainly do not want to return to their countries of cultural origin. The police had one job to do when they found a man stabbed in the street, and that was to save his life. They utterly failed, and heaped insult to injury. They should be ashamed.
Ashamed? They should face a court of law like the policeman who was accused of the death of the black man in the US who actually died of fentanyl. I won't say his name, because career criminals don't deserve the lauding he has received.
Excellent post on a grotesque example of the unintended consequences. Thank you Konstantin.
We are forever doomed with the idiots we live with.
Well said, this case shows how young white men in Britain are decriminated against by the system. Everyone irrespectve of race, colour or creed should be dealt with the same and the Police need to go back to Policing for the common good.
I equate, "I don't think you have, mate", to, "child prostitute." Nothing to see here but a racist."
It is the police, yet again turning a deaf ear on the people they should be protecting so they don't look racist.
White guilt is what is getting whites killed.
We keep blaming the system but such a system could not be built in a society who don't easily get high on a guilt trip.
White people feel guilt for doing well.
For having better, safer, cleaner neighbourhoods. Whites feel guilty of their past like no other nation who has a history just as equally bad or worse.
We can't have equality because there is no equality of guilt felt.
Whites are to blame for this. Not because we are racist but we feel more racial guilt.
A black or brown man will never feel ashamed about being called a racist, and that is a fact.
A man who has no shame or feels no guilt will always have power over a man who has shame and feels guilt.
White guilt got Henry killed.
If we didn’t have racial shame and guilt, that Sikh man would not have had a knife, or he would either even have been here to kill Henry, or he would have better integrated into British society.
Stop blaming the system. The system is there because we allow it. We need to see the flaws in our nature before the system can be changed.
We need to take responsibility for this instead of finding someone else to blame.
Please, do not feel guilt or shame over, "white guilt got Henry killed".
Here's the thing: "Never take the blame or shoulder the shame, but always take responsibility."
Every white person is responsibile for Henry's death. This is why we weep together. Can you feel the gravity of those words? With that comes the power we need to change the system.
I'm afraid an apology doesn't cut it. These miscreants need to be charged with the British equivalent of negligent homicide.
" The murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer..."
While a good essay, it starts off with a falsehood. George Floyd was not murdered. He died due to a combination of heart disease and drugs. It was only called murder by a partisan medical examiner who said the obvious heart disease and positive tests for fentanyl and methamphetamines had nothing to do with it. Nothing to see here.
I usually wouldn't belabor the point, but this is how a violent, drug-using criminal was somehow turned into a martyred saint.
The Buck Stops Here: The Chief Constable of Hampshire Police is Alexis Boon QPM - sorry Alexis, with high status and remuneration come responsibility. It happened on your watch; consider your position…