Well Informed Race Baiting

Mathew Cooke got into race baiting and talked about how it has been part of our country ever since people started coming to the Americas.  It all started off as a class issue more then a race issue.  People in Europe were told they would be taken to the knew lands of the Americas for free and of course all the people who were not doing to great in Europe wanted to go, but a lot of them were forced to become slaves for petty crimes and just because of there wealth.  whites and blacks were both slaves until our country decided to make it a race thing.There was like a three tier system, poor African Americans which were slaves, poor whites who did not have much besides their freedom, and the master who were in charge of everything and the people who enforced slavery.  Most of this was all because of wealth and just who won the fight or war and there was more whites with more advanced technology, so of course they were the ones who won.  People will say this is not right, but back then it really was just a dog eat dog world and who ever was the most powerful made the rules.  He also gets into how even though slavery was abolished racism was not and it is still a problem today.  He talks about how 60 percent of the prison population is made up of African Americans and how an African American is more likely to go to prison for being in possession of drugs more so than a white person even though white people are statistically more likely to sell drugs.  And all though slavery has been ended it has just been replaced with prisons and some people may say this is not okay and locking people up is not always the right way to handle things and then there are others who say if you are going to do the crime you better be ready to do the time.   He also gets into how there is still a three tier system in the country we live in today and it is the exact same as it use to be, poor blacks are at the bottom, then poor whites, and the masters.  Although there is more of a middle class i today's world the system is still at a disadvantage for the poor, because the system is designed to keep those who are poor, poor still because even though they are trying to get out it just is not that easy , because the system is designed for them to stay there.  Police brutalities happen to all races and to get everybody to just be equal he thinks we need to all become one to take out the master and some people might not completely agree with this because they just do not see everybody truly working together for the greater good.  The media makes race baiting so much worse when we all need to just stand together.


I think Mathew made some very great points and brought some things to my attention that i just did not know.  I did not know that an African American was more likely to go to prison or get more time then a white person is.  To me that just does not make sense and is definitely racist.  As far as race baiting goes i think the media just makes things a lot worse than it really needs to be.  there are police brutalities against every race, but the media makes it look like all cops are racist when i do not see it like that and a lot of these police brutalities could be avoided if people would just cooperate with police officers instead of act like they are all lawyers and sit there and argue with cops, because you will not win that battle.  Just do what the officer says and fight it in court if you feel like you were treated unfairly.  I also think race plays way to big of a role in our world today when we are all just people.  For example the OJ Simpson case.  They turned that whole double homicide case into a race thing and to me that was just completely unnecessary.  I do agree that to overcome racism and the three tier system that we have, we will have to come together, but right now our country is so divided that I just can not see everybody coming together sadly.






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