Posted on 06/12/2020 12:34:06 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
The Talk.
It is one of the most difficult and painful things that anyone raising black children has to do. To sit your children down and tell them how they must behave when interacting with the police — to be calm, show their hands, avoid sudden movements, follow instructions, and always be respectful. The Talk almost always ends in tears. After all, how do you tell the young, beautiful, innocent children you love that they might be harassed or even killed by the very people who have vowed to protect them? There is no perfect time for having The Talk. Indeed, oftentimes, it is a response to a specific event — typically another senseless killing of a black person — that your child has heard about.
That was the case for me, both in first receiving The Talk from my father and later giving The Talk to my own kids. ---SNIP--- Though The Talk left me shaken and confused, it did instill in me, as a black kid, a fear of and respect for the awesome power that the police wield
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Did she tell them that it was done by a Democrat?
Sometimes the cops aren’t racist, just stupid.
White people do this too.
Cops are twitchy.
Isn't that what we're all supposed to do?
I am white, at age 14 when I got my drivers license in Kansas, my father gave me the TALK. He gave me a decal, the JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY sticker for my windshield that said, SUPPORT LOCAL POLICE.
So tired of hearing about “the talk”. Don’t think white families aren’t having this also....except for different reasons.
“...and tell them how they must behave when interacting with the police — to be calm, show their hands, avoid sudden movements, follow instructions, and always be respectful. ...”
I learned that at an early age and followed it the very few times I was stopped by the law - and I’m white.
No disrespect intended to anyone, but, do black parents also tell their children what to do and how to avoid the youth gangs that plagued so many black communities? Do they teach them to recognize who drug dealers and other ne’er-do-wells are and to avoid them?
The plain fact is that black people are in far more danger from black criminal types than they are from policemen.
I have a feeling he may have left a few things out.
The Talk: Nonblack Version
https://www.takimag.com/article/the_talk_nonblack_version_john_derbyshire/#axzz2wwon0RAz
Not this again. Hell, white and raised in the deep south, I was given “The Talk” about cops and how they would beat me to death if I gave them the slightest provocation. I was also given “The Talk” about blacks and they would beat me to death if I gave them the slightest provocation. Funny thing is, if I go online, I find the latter to be more prevalent than the former.
The mayor was black, and a democrat. So blaming racism for it is foolish. He was just a damned incompetent fool.
“Lord loves a workin’ man, don’t trust whitey, see a doctor and get rid of it.”
“White people do this too.”
+1
My father gave me The Talk when I was a teenager as I had several run ins with local law enforcement (my own doing).
The essence:
- don’t break the law
- treat cops with respect
- don’t antagonize a person wearing a firearm
I hope this clown does not “move” here..
White person here.
Having had a bad experience as a teenager with two undercover assholes with badges I told my son if he was ever stopped by the cops to:
)1 Be polite and not argue with them and to call me immediately.
2) I had him watch the never talk to the cops video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=Sskav1SEcg8&feature=emb_logo
I read it at the time, and I thought it spoke some ugly truths which people simply don't wish to acknowledge.
"The Talk." (non black version.)
https://www.takimag.com/article/the_talk_nonblack_version_john_derbyshire/
Then you would not have abused your child with fear.
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