> If I can believe the current narrative things have been going from bad to worse to black people walk the streets in fear of their lives from racist cops in th

> If I can believe the current narrative things have been going from bad to worse to black people walk the streets in fear of their lives from racist cops in the last few years. That's not new, it's just better publicized now: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/12/movies/boyz-n-the-hood-john-singleton.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/12/movies/boyz-n-the-hood-jo...: > ‘Boyz N the Hood’ at 30: A Vivid Examination of Racism at Work > ...This is evident when Tre (Cuba Gooding Jr.) interacts with Los Angeles’s finest. As a child he sees how even a Black police officer doesn’t take his father, Furious (Laurence Fishburne), seriously when he reports a home break-in; when Tre is older, the same officer pulls a gun on him during a routine traffic stop. He quickly learns that the cops are there to neither protect nor serve him or his neighbors. What Singleton shows us about the relationship between the police and Black residents may be well understood now, but at the time it was rare for the Black community’s view on policing to be so well embodied by Hollywood. I was always taught to be wary of officers as a young Black man, but this was one of the first times I saw the rationale for that fear onscreen in a major American film. ---- > Either everyone has been blind for decades or the current narrative about racism is a lie meant to achieve some political purpose. I do not believe the former to be true so the latter seems to be the answer but that makes me wonder why the parent poster brought up the bad racism in SF and LA and the racism in Boise, Idaho. Like most things, it's not that black and white, but a little bit of column A and a little bit of column B.