Constitutional Rights a Minor Inconvenience

We the White People Want “Safe Streets”

In America, this would be normal stop and frisk patrol, but it’s Europe so not your normal day on the job [Photo by Baudouin Wisselmann on Unsplash]

The topic was continued abuse of stop and frisk in NYC. The comment that disturbed me most occurred right after one in an article about repression of natural rights against coloreds that said the opposite, which I put after it:

“Being stopped while hanging out on the corner near a bodega is a minor inconvenience, being shot by bullet is a major inconvenience.” That’s almost an exact quote.

This occurred right after one that said: “Those not subject to his humiliation considered it a minor inconvenience. Perhaps they should be subjected to searches of their home. I don’t enjoy being a criminal at the whim of the police.”

The routine violation of the Fourth Amendment has become so routine, white people have created reflexive responses to justify how police violate foundational rights. That complete lack of understanding of those rights shows a profound lack of education on those rights. But at this point in our country’s history, this education should occur starting routinely in first grade and no one should graduate to high school and then from high school without passing a basic test on the meaning of — not the memorization of — those rights. Without that happening, we get these bogus “safe streets” arguments, which reflects white reasoning.