I am specifically talking about the cities that have had large scale riots over the past few years
Baltimore, STL, Atlanta, Chicago, Oakland, etc. are all majority black
the only outlier is Portland, which has been one of (if not the most) Liberal cities in the country for decades now... so if there is "systemic racism" it is an indictment on the Left
So I'm going to go on a slight ramble and I don't know if any of it makes sense but just want to put my thoughts down.
So my family is mixed. My aunt married a black dude, one of the absolute best human beings on the planet, and their two kids, my cousins, are mixed obviously but an obvious black to them. And so growing up, like racism is just not a thing in my family, was never even considered, like my family is fantastic. My uncle isn't around anymore, he passed from Leukemia last June but like we had a massive family gathering one my aunt's side, my side, and his side, just huge mixed family gathering. Shared memories, laughs, cries, hugs, you name it, it was great. And so this is in the midst of just being shortly after the Omaha protests/riots that happened in May. So tensions are obviously still there in society. But, we all get together and this "racism" thing just doesn't exist.
Now, does racism exist? Yeah, we all know that. My grandparents used to live in South Georgia when I was a kid and when I got older I would hear stories of places around them that were very notoriously racist and KKK ran strong. But, obviously formed my opinions as I got older as well. Never thought much about racism at all given how I was raised. Plenty of different ethnicity friends in school, just general 21st Century shit. So after last summer, I did start to think about it a little and my thought was that based on just what I saw growing and how I was taught and things like that, sure racism exists, but most of it is very opportunistic for people to shine light on it. That's my opinion.
My black cousins are very anti-Trump, think he's very hateful, racist, you name it. All 2020 my cousin was just blasting facebook with this shit and making his opinion very well known. But, it's funny, and drives home my point of being opportunistic, because when my family gets together, before 2020 and during my uncle's passing, that shit didn't exist, white and black was nothing, it's just family. But he hates Trump for being "racist"......so what that says to me is that some people are pieces of shit, and some aren't. And I fully agree with that. Full disclosure, I do not think Trump is racist but I didn't wanna argue with him cause of standard arguing about Trump shit goes no where.
Now, in using that same concept, we can use that towards cops. Some cops are good, some suck dick. Have that in every profession. Now why doesn't that work with Liberals? Probably because they don't actually think for themselves most of the time. I know a few cops that are very good people, that are about my age that I went to school with, and were around some of the same people I was with different ethnicities. Guess what? Didn't fuckin matter their skin color, all friends. Now some are cops. That good person mindset doesn't change.
I live in Sarpy County, which is the Burbs of Omaha if you're not from around here. I live far enough away that it is definitely not Omaha, but still close enough to where I was slightly concerned for community safety last summer. I believe my parts are considered mostly red, which is good in my opinion. My best friend is on the Omaha Fire Department and several times he would send our close friend group texts when to stay home and inside if they had tips on things getting testy. It only happened like twice, more often than not a bunch of rumors.
Main point, racism is opportunistic more often than not, and the Left pushes that agenda each and every time the opportunity presents itself. Need less of those opportunities.