> From a Pennsylvania State Police helicopter, Philadelphia Police Department Lt. Frank Powell proceeded to drop two one-pound (0.5 kg) bombs (which the police referred to as "entry devices"[1]) made of FBI-supplied Tovex, a dynamite substitute, targeting a fortified, bunker-like cubicle on the roof of the house.[5]
Does it mean that because black and democrat people do it too that its "more justified" because all combinations of people in power find reasons to use force against us residents including disportionately against the black ones, or that because they do it too its not a problem worth paying attention to because state violence perpetuated by non-black people could therefore not be a prejudiced, or something else? if it was a general issue with the state apparatus the race/ethnicity/political affiliation of the perpetrator would not be useful or relevant at all.
I've never really understood which point people thought they were making (assuming you were making one at all, it just looks like the similar points made in other discussion forums. like "look black people are killing each other so why spend any energy on this other issue I don't want you to spend energy on!")
The question is cause and effect. Terrible things happen for a variety of reasons - sometimes because leaders want terrible things and sometimes because leaders want good things but are fools - I won't try to list every possible reason.
The notion here is that a black mayor probably didn't want bad things to happen to blacks, so this specific incident probably was caused more by mistakes than malice on his part. Further, blacks and whites probably makes mistakes at similar rates. So, some incidents with white mayors may have also been caused my mistakes, not malice, we've now agreed there's a baseline level of mistake making.
The point is, intent matters. If Joe Biden passed the 94 crime bill because he hates blacks, that's different that Joe Biden passing the 94 crime bill because he thought it would do good, and turning out to be incorrect.
Fwiw, I've never understood how anybody could not get the point here. It's obvious, just incomplete and kinda hand wavy.
> It's obvious, just incomplete and kinda hand wavy.
So with it being incomplete and hand wavy you can’t see how anyone would assume any of my points either?
I’m going to wait for the person I initially replied to, to clarify
Do you have a source?
While taking responsibility, he always claimed he wasn't part of planning the specifics. FWIW I'm skeptical.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/10/when-i...
Although "black democrat" seems more relevant to some people than others and I'm not exactly sure why.