LET’S SOLVE RACE RELATIONS. IT’S EASIER THAN YOU THINK.

If you read the news daily, or even just look at the news notifications on your phone, you’ll see constant reports of White people oppressing Black people. Isn’t it time for us to finally live peacefully together?

Turns out that we kind of already do.

Those of us who live in major cities see people of all races throughout the day. Guess what? We don’t care about race and we get along.

It’s sadly true that African-Americans suffered injustice in our country. Slavery was an atrocity and segregation kept Black people from receiving equal rights. Ending both has been a major step forward for our country.

These days things are very different… A Black person can legally do anything that a White person can and discrimination is illegal. Companies are even encouraged to and prioritize hiring and promoting Black people.

What do New York City, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Chicago have in common? Besides being the three biggest cities in the country, their mayors are Black:

We also have Black senators, Black judges, Black police officers, Black CEO’s…

Oh and a Black Vice-President:

We even had a Black President not that long ago:

Black people are minorities in America and yet are elected to run the most important cities and even the country itself. This (along with promoted diversity) is not common at all in most other countries.

So if a Black person can do anything that a White person can, and if a majority White country regularly elects Black people into positions of power, why are we hearing the opposite from the media?

An example is this article saying that a White man got away with killing a Black man. The mentioning of race implies that it was a hate crime, and the White man getting away with it implies systemic racism. Are you outraged?

Guess what, you were just manipulated by the article’s headline! Reading the article itself, you find out that a man shot an intruder and it was ruled as self-defense, with race playing no role whatsoever. Perceived racism is being used by many media companies for profit.

What news story would you click on? “A man shoots an intruder” or “A white man gets away with brutally murdering a Black man”? Racism gets your attention and that means money. Many politicians then use it to present themselves as solutions and get elected… the vicious cycle continues.

Black communities are being manipulated and exploited with the idea that “the system” is still against them. Since it WAS true in the past, it’s not hard to believe that it still is, especially if it comes from supposedly reliable sources.

But wait isn’t it true that the police is targeting Black people? What about the racial disparity in jails? What about George Floyd?

First, take a deep breath and remember that your outrage over injustice is being used to manipulate you. Those media companies and politicians lying to Black communities, don’t expect you to do any research to know that you’re being deceived.

The truth is that the police force is interracial and that there are thousands of Black police officers. Some cities even have minority-majority police forces! It is also important to remember that our entire judicial system is diverse, with Black judges, prosecutors, jurors and lawyers.

The disproportional crime statistics that show Black people as the majority of inmates in jail, are easily explained by the below statistics (as of 2023):

West Garfield Park is a neighborhood with the highest crime rate in Chicago. 87.3% of its residents are Black.

Brownsville is a neighborhood with the highest crime rate in New York City. 61.4% of its residents are Black. See more here.

Tioga-Nicetown is a neighborhood with the highest crime rate in Philadelphia. Black people are 91.25 % of its residents.

Roxbury is a neighborhood with the highest crime rate in Boston. It is 48% Black.

Model City is a neighborhood with the highest crime rate in Miami. It is 82.69% Black.

It’s basic common sense that the higher crime in a neighborhood, the more arrests there are going to be made there compared to other neighborhoods. It’s also basic logic that if the majority of people living there are of a particular race, then people of that race will be arrested the most. There are no laws saying that the police should prioritize arresting Black people.

What about George Floyd? During his killer Derek Chauvin’s trial, the Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said: “I wouldn’t call it that [“hate crime”] because hate crimes are crimes where there’s an explicit motive, and of bias. We don’t have any evidence that Derek Chauvin factored in George Floyd’s race as he did what he did.”

All of those media reports about how this was a crime motivated by racism were LIES. YOU were lied to and manipulated to believe it, while your donations were used to buy mansions.

So how can we have a peaceful future?

1. Don’t fall for the media’s race-baiting. Racism is a hot topic and they’re exploiting it to divide us.

2. If you’re White, don‘t look at Black people as “victims”. Look at them as fellow humans instead. Getting offended for them implies that they’re weak and need your help. That’s not equality, that’s a racist “White Savior” complex. Don’t be a “White Savior” telling Black people what to think.

3. If you’re Black, understand that the vast majority of White people don’t hate you and that the government isn’t against you.

Let’s embrace unity not division.

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