Everyday someone (normally a white person) tells me that racism doesn’t exist and if we just stop talking about it will just go away.
Everyday I come across at least one story (normally more) like this.
Five deputies with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office in Ohio are under investigation for allegedly sending racist text messages.
Two officers, Capt. Thomas Flanders and Detective Michael Sollenberger, have been placed on paid administrative leave while the other three – who are as yet unnamed – remain on the job while the investigation continues.
The accusations came to light after an anonymous source passed on hundreds of pages of the messages to the Dayton Unit of the NAACP.
One text said, ‘I hate N******. That is all.’
One deputy ‘joked’ to another: ‘What do apples and black people have in common? They both hang from trees.’
Another read: ‘We stopped at a Walmart in Birmingham, there are a lot of Black people in Alabama. It’s all Martin Luther Kings fault.’
Remember these aren’t random people texts, these are cops, who can kill people on the street and get away with it if they say “they felt their life was in danger”.
You think all their arrests have been fair and unbiased?