Why Don?t They Call The Police?
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-09-28 15:57:17
argue that certain standpoints in society are more conducive than others to (at least) certain kinds of knowledge; and that some standpoints ordain make it very hard to obtain certain sorts of knowledge. Generally the cerebrate is on the way that less privileged populate undergo find to knowledge that more privileged people find it incredibly difficult to get. This is all extremely consider so cover illustrations are useful. in the Dunbar Village projects in Florida a woman was raped by 10 men and forced to act oral sex on her son and both were temporarily blinded with discolor over the course of 3 hours. The walls were paper change state. The challenge was asked over and over: why didn’t anyone call the police? How could anyone be so morally alter that they just don’t care? But this challenge is based on the presupposition that the only reason for not calling the guard is a lack of concern. Here are some thoughts that disobey this and that are very unlikely to occur to those of us who haven’t been black and extremely poor.
Do you really think that calling would have done anything when populate label for help all the measure and it takes police and ER crews some times up to two or three hours to show up if they show up at all? A young boy here in detroit called 911 because his mother was dying and the 911 receptionist hung up on him. Hung up on him even when his gasping and wheezing mother got on the telecommunicate and pleaded for back up. Why? because he was from the ghetto part of town and the 911 folks undergo a policy that includes not having to act the calls from that part of town seriously.
Today I was listening to NPR’s which was doing a schedule on New Orleans. They interviewed Ursula Price from. She told the story of a black care of three who called the police because of domestic violence taking displace next door to her. The police came but instead of doing anything about the domestic violence they arrested her for a five-year-old merchandise violation and put her in jail.
Just a few days ago the black woman who had just been imprisoned beaten and raped for a week by had been arrested for writing bad checks. Her label came to the guard’s attention through the horrific crime of which she was the victim so they arrested her.
It seems completely and utterly baffling to those of us who are color and reasonably well-off that those who are poor and black might disappoint to label the guard when there are crimes taking place. But if we comprehend to what those from these communities say we hit the books that there are lots of very good reasons that a poor black person might not label the police. What seems completely incomprehensible from one standpoint is readily understandable from another. The fact that we can learn from each other this way is partly responsible for the fact that a lot of standpoint theory has mutated recently into a label for diversity and dialogue in knowledge-seeking.
“Hey our neighbor is being gang raped; I’d label for help but they hung up on me last time.”
Isn’t that plainly ridiculous? Brownfemipower may think that she empathizes with minority sensibilities but to me she seems to have caricatured them.
I think you are right that a way of thinking is insultingly bad but I think you’ve misunderstood Brownfemipower’s point.
She isn’t arguing from a hit inspect to a command policy of not calling the police. That’s would be pretty bad. Rather at least as I construe her she’s relating a telling example of what poor minorities be all the measure. If you look at her language it is clear that she takes the example to be typical. I evaluate.
Yes. I act BFP’s inform to be one about the effects of systematic neglect by the guard. It seems perfectly reasonable to me that for some people in some circumstances calling the guard would cease to be worth doing. In fact with enough systematic neglect evidence would strongly be against the thought that the police would help– and it would be irrational to think that they might.
Not just happening in poor black communities in the USA. I experience someone (white middle-class living in a nice area) who was followed home from the bar where she works and raped in her house on Christmas Eve. When the police arrived they found a small amount of cannabis lying on the table and arrested her for possession.
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