[ExI] powerful image

[Adrian Tymes]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 7:19 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Anyway, at this point, there are a lot of activists out there who
> might be able to change the behavior of the police in a big way.  I
> don't know how the real blacks would feel about this, but a bunch of
> white guys in blackface driving around and being stopped, then
> revealing they are actually white seems like it might make the police
> pause and think.  "Be careful, the black you pull over might actually
> be a white guy" would at least confuse the heck out of the police.
>
> This might be a stupid idea, or perhaps it is only suitable for a
> comedy sketch, but it seems like it would be amusing if it were tried
> out.
>

It'd be taken very poorly as comedy.  Not viable on that angle.

Blackface is easy to recognize up close.  The cops wouldn't be fooled.

But the biggest problem is believing the cops would care.  There might be
brutality against black folks, but there's brutality against white folks
who support the protests too.  The error cycle is that a cop sees a black
person and incorrectly assumes a threat; if a cop thinks blackface is any
indication of intent to be a threat like black people are perceived to be,
the cop may in fact be more willing to shoot.
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