The problem resulting from these incidents of apparent police abuse is that they reinforce two powerful dynamics in the culture of American identity: (1) majority (white) culture criminalizing of urban (black) male conduct/image - exacerbating stereotypes and discrimination; (2) and the feeling of alienation/disconnection by the minority group (black males) from the American system of identity affirmation. This is a downward cycle with dire consequences for only one.
This dynamic perpetuates continued alienation and marginalization of urban (black) youth from the only means of redirecting this downward trajectory of justice: purposeful, collective and peaceful civil disobedience-protest.
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