I get that it's easy for this to be considered overblown and purposefully provocative but, in all reality this type of thing happens to people all the time.
In this case it's happening to a black guy who looks like he's out on a date. Shitty thing to happen and shouldn't be the case - I think we're all down with that.
The scab that is being picked here though is that the whole George Floyd thing started with a teller contacting the police because he paid for this purchase with a bill above his apparent pay grade.
Pushing the black care instead of the white trailer trash card might be popular at the moment, but biases based on prejudices are a thing and should be brought up when they are unjust.
That said, some prejudices keep you alive - so it's not free passes for not grooming* a little when you can.
*Washing, shaving, keeping yourself kempt - not the tranny stuff.
I can say the whole rigamarole shown in the clip isn't even a uniquely race thing.
I've seen plenty of my white trash friends and relatives go through similar "passive aggressive trying to get rid of you." Its a class thing, with the general assumption being that the poor and/or less sophisticated will bring trouble and aren't even worth associating with, but you can't outright tell them to leave without creating a scene. The problem of course being, every black person looks poor and/or like they will bring trouble so it is a much more common thing on their end.
I don't even blame the people for doing it, because most of the time they have good reason to do so and not a lot of reasons not to prevent the risk.
Theatre does tend to exaggerate themes to get the idea across to idiots - it's par for the course - and so you are right that it is a heavily implied reality moreso than what is normally observed.
The justification for this is that if it goes too far then the compromise will be more in line with what was originally intended to be the goal.
It's garish, trite and more than a little condescending to many but that's not who their intended audience to educate is.
Now that ^ is what the next question should be as it is shitting on the great work done by civil rights activists in the 1950's by presuming that people are as ignorant as they were then.
A modern racist isn't being so from a lack of understanding or empathy A modern racist is being so on purpose - and that goes regardless of the colour of your skin.
The scab that is being picked here though is that the whole George Floyd thing started with a teller contacting the police because he paid for this purchase with a bill above his apparent pay grade.
And the teller pointed them at a convicted armed robber in the middle of a drug deal. How can you argue that George Floyd was the victim of racial profiling without making it evidence that racial profiling works?
Nobody gets called out for being black, you DO get called out for being black and SUSPICIOUS though. You’d think this would make the black community act more carefully and culturally competent but instead they think everyone else is the problem and that they should embrace thug culture as a counter movement. Meanwhile any actual competent black people get called “uncle Toms” for wanting their race to not be seen as violent animals.
How can you argue that George Floyd was the victim of racial profiling without making it evidence that racial profiling works?
George Floyd was a scumbag. But, according to the teller, he didn't know who George was and so profiled him on the twenty (A dodgy looking note) and his manager's say so.
Profiling is human nature and is often right. In the US it is racial profiling that is the focus of the advert and that is what they are trying to bring into the front and centre of discussion.
Of course their teller was white, because they've got their own racist agenda to push while trying to say that racial profiling is wrong - it's all bullshit.
He knew who Floyd was insomuch as he knew he was the guy who just tried to pay with a counterfeit bill. That alone is perfectly valid grounds for calling the cops, you don't have to call it "profiling"?
I'm trying to illustrate that George Floyd being black wasn't his problem. It was that people knew he was a bad guy and took appropriate steps.
The video at the top is trying to suggest that it's the black thing when it isn't.
Sometimes people get profiled wrongly, for whatever reason. To mirror the physical currency being rejected as a means of bringing up racism is a dick move by those who produced it.
I get that it's easy for this to be considered overblown and purposefully provocative but, in all reality this type of thing happens to people all the time.
In this case it's happening to a black guy who looks like he's out on a date. Shitty thing to happen and shouldn't be the case - I think we're all down with that.
The scab that is being picked here though is that the whole George Floyd thing started with a teller contacting the police because he paid for this purchase with a bill above his apparent pay grade.
Regardless of where you are on the Derek Chauvin handling of the situation, where the bill came from and the young black clerk who had to report it to the police show that it's a problem that's endemic in the US.
Pushing the black care instead of the white trailer trash card might be popular at the moment, but biases based on prejudices are a thing and should be brought up when they are unjust.
That said, some prejudices keep you alive - so it's not free passes for not grooming* a little when you can.
*Washing, shaving, keeping yourself kempt - not the tranny stuff.
I can say the whole rigamarole shown in the clip isn't even a uniquely race thing.
I've seen plenty of my white trash friends and relatives go through similar "passive aggressive trying to get rid of you." Its a class thing, with the general assumption being that the poor and/or less sophisticated will bring trouble and aren't even worth associating with, but you can't outright tell them to leave without creating a scene. The problem of course being, every black person looks poor and/or like they will bring trouble so it is a much more common thing on their end.
I don't even blame the people for doing it, because most of the time they have good reason to do so and not a lot of reasons not to prevent the risk.
Theatre does tend to exaggerate themes to get the idea across to idiots - it's par for the course - and so you are right that it is a heavily implied reality moreso than what is normally observed.
The justification for this is that if it goes too far then the compromise will be more in line with what was originally intended to be the goal.
It's garish, trite and more than a little condescending to many but that's not who their intended audience to educate is.
Now that ^ is what the next question should be as it is shitting on the great work done by civil rights activists in the 1950's by presuming that people are as ignorant as they were then.
A modern racist isn't being so from a lack of understanding or empathy A modern racist is being so on purpose - and that goes regardless of the colour of your skin.
And the teller pointed them at a convicted armed robber in the middle of a drug deal. How can you argue that George Floyd was the victim of racial profiling without making it evidence that racial profiling works?
Nobody gets called out for being black, you DO get called out for being black and SUSPICIOUS though. You’d think this would make the black community act more carefully and culturally competent but instead they think everyone else is the problem and that they should embrace thug culture as a counter movement. Meanwhile any actual competent black people get called “uncle Toms” for wanting their race to not be seen as violent animals.
George Floyd was a scumbag. But, according to the teller, he didn't know who George was and so profiled him on the twenty (A dodgy looking note) and his manager's say so.
Profiling is human nature and is often right. In the US it is racial profiling that is the focus of the advert and that is what they are trying to bring into the front and centre of discussion.
Of course their teller was white, because they've got their own racist agenda to push while trying to say that racial profiling is wrong - it's all bullshit.
He knew who Floyd was insomuch as he knew he was the guy who just tried to pay with a counterfeit bill. That alone is perfectly valid grounds for calling the cops, you don't have to call it "profiling"?
I'm trying to illustrate that George Floyd being black wasn't his problem. It was that people knew he was a bad guy and took appropriate steps.
The video at the top is trying to suggest that it's the black thing when it isn't.
Sometimes people get profiled wrongly, for whatever reason. To mirror the physical currency being rejected as a means of bringing up racism is a dick move by those who produced it.