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The “Invisible” White Male Holding The Camera at McKinney: White Privilege 101

Look at any of the gifs or the video itself. Every white person there was free to walk away and go about their business without being threatened or harassed by the police. No questions asked…of white people. The white person who filmed the police for several minutes,

Brandon Brooks, was not assaulted or spoken to rudely. Even the adult white woman, Tracey Carver-Allbritton who used racial slurs against and then physically fought with some of the (black) minors, was not detained, arrested or questioned

But almost without exception, every single black person there was instantly targeted and criminalized by the police – with absolutely no questions asked. Some of the black people there were invited guests at the pool party, others lived nearby…but as always their skin color and their skin color alone, and not their actions, was sufficient probable cause for the police to detain, brutalize and berate unarmed black children

And that is how policing is done every day in America. How do police determine who needs to be arrested, or who is an imminent threat or who is breaking the law? If you’re black then you already know the answer to that question. If you’re having trouble with the answer, then just think about Tamir Rice, John Crawford or Mike Brown, and the answer is obvious: cops make an instant “suspect” of whoever happens to be black

Being Black = Suspicious and Presumed Guilty. No questions asked

Conversely, “white privilege means, basically, that if a white person goes to someone else’s party, insults the black guests, calls them racial slurs, and starts a brawl—they can then call the cops and get the black people arrested.”

Related posts: Racism By Proxy and White Privilege – Unpacking The Invisible Knapsack