Tim to "the blacks" : Stop killing each other
Judge Timothy Philpot
addresses the concerns of the Black Lives Matter movement in his
autobiographical novel: https://www.amazon.com/Judge-Irretrievably-Broken-Tim-Philpot/dp/0692634967
In the book his alter
ego and hero , Judge Z, muses:
"Judge
Z had seen them all in court. All the signs of a bad outcome were there. The
gang tats, the drooping pants hanging so low it looked like they had repealed
the law of gravity, the hoodies and white T-shirts, the gang signs they flashed
to each other. All were black. All were killed by other young black men. ...
Every year more young black men were murdered in Lexington. All by other black
kids. Not by cops. But the cops were always the targets of protests and
accusations about police brutality and excessive force."
Broad stereotyping,
in this instance, racial stereotyping, is improper on its face and represents
an overly-simplistic way of looking at serious issues that, in real life, have
nuance. To imply that the wearing of white T-shirts and hoods by black people are
predictable “signs of a bad outcome” is racial profiling at best. Any young
African-American male in Judge Philpot’s court who does not meet his standard
of sartorial panache is likely to be at a disadvantage.
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