Exactly this shit ain't nothing new, tryna say it's a public image problem is ignorant. Was it a public image problem in the West Coast when they started killing us the moment we migrated from the South in the 40's and 50's?
@NoJive
Do you got any idea at all why the Black Panthers were started in the 60's? Lol folks don't know the history but want to talk about what black men should be doing...
The superthug image is a creation of Ronald Reagan that began with the War on Drugs in the 80's. It took decades of blaming black men for all crime, drug dealing, drug use, etc. in America to create the image they now use to blame any case of police brutality against a black man on that same black man. You're right that latinos do not share the "image" that we do despite the fact that they get arrested for the same shit... Y'all are political punching bags too but enough of y'all look white where they ain't gonna go the extra mile to make you the public face of degeneracy and failure. Instead of joining the club blaming black men for an "image problem" that we did not create, take some time to actually learn the history and find out for yourself that a lot of Western and Midwestern cities imported their police officers from the Deep South back in the day because they WANTED brutality against us.
The superthug image is a creation of Ronald Reagan that began with the War on Drugs in the 80's. It took decades of blaming black men for all crime, drug dealing, drug use, etc. in America to create the image they now use to blame any case of police brutality against a black man on that same black man. You're right that latinos do not share the "image" that we do despite the fact that they get arrested for the same shit... Y'all are political punching bags too but enough of y'all look white where they ain't gonna go the extra mile to make you the public face of degeneracy and failure. Instead of joining the club blaming black men for an "image problem" that we did not create, take some time to actually learn the history and find out for yourself that a lot of Western and Midwestern cities imported their police officers from the Deep South back in the day because they WANTED brutality against us.