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Pretty ridiculous that the media and some people now think there's something wrong when people don't automatically protest (and violently riot) with huge crowds every time a Black person gets shot by police.
Lindsay Myeni and her South African husband moved to Hawaii, where she grew up, believing it would be safer to raise their two Black children here than in another U.S. state.
Three months after they arrived, Honolulu police shot and killed her husband, 29-year-old Lindani Myeni, who was Black.
Of Hawaii’s 1.5 million residents, just 3.6% are Black, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. Yet in Honolulu alone, Black people made up more than 7% of the people police used force against, according to Honolulu police data for 2019.
While there have been some local gatherings and small protests decrying Myeni's death, it hasn't inspired the passionate outrage seen elsewhere in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd, a Black man killed last year by a white officer in Minnesota, and other killings by police.
Myeni's death “would have generated mass protests in any other American city,” said Kenneth Lawson, a Black professor at University of Hawaii's law school.
“When you're told you live in a paradise and you point out that it's not paradise for people of color, that makes people uncomfortable,” he said.
I heard about that shooting days ago. I didn't want to talk about it, but I was shocked. Hawaii? Given that a large portion of Hawaii's Black population is in the military or is higher achieving than Black populations in other states (even though Blacks are about 3.6% of Hawaii's population), I would expect better from Hawaii.
There is a lot of racism in Hawaii. Especially against white people. It's not hard to imagine that this type of racism doesn't flow over to black people as well. The residents there probably don't care much that this person died.
There is a lot of racism in Hawaii. Especially against white people. It's not hard to imagine that this type of racism doesn't flow over to black people as well. The residents there probably don't care much that this person died.
White people are certainly resented in Hawaii. No doubt. At the same time, the first person I hear about being shot in Hawaii (and this is the first time I've heard of it), it had to be a Black person.
It's still hard to imagine this happening in Hawaii. That's one of the last places I would expect. I would expect this in most places in the mainland (I've become very jaded over the years). And the person who got shot was an immigrant who didn't expect this.
You can claim I'm playing the race card all you want. However, this is one thing that always goes through my mind whenever I think about moving somewhere: How I will be perceived as a Black person being there. It is something in the back of my mind.
According to police's account of the fatal shooting, Myeni entered a home that wasn't his, sat down and took off his shoes, prompting a frightened occupant to call 911. Outside the house, he ignored commands to get on the ground and physically attacked officers, leaving one with a concussion, police said.
From the OP article. ^
If so, yet another case of a person combating police and not complying.
Also, this man is from the South Africa, which has some of the most violent culture on earth, for a country not at war.
Pretty ridiculous that the media and some people now think there's something wrong when people don't automatically protest (and violently riot) with huge crowds every time a Black person gets shot by police.
Was the policeman in Hawaii who did the shooting, also black?
White people are certainly resented in Hawaii. No doubt. At the same time, the first person I hear about being shot in Hawaii (and this is the first time I've heard of it), it had to be a Black person.
Yes, this is the first time you heard of it because it was a black person.
If they guy they'd shot had been white it never would have been made into national news.
Unequal reporting has thus created a perception bias.
The police did something/anything involving a black person and there isn't a protest you say?? Sounds like progress in the right direction.
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