Eh. We can celebrate one person doing something heroic and acknowledging some people are generally decent people while still also acknowledging that an overall system needs to be updated and corrected and analyzed as it leads to profiling and violence.
But mostly I was waiting for the funnies. So far no one is doing funnies.
We can celebrate one person doing something heroic and acknowledging some people are generally decent people while still also acknowledging that an overall system needs to be updated and corrected and analyzed as it leads to profiling and violence.
If both those facts were acknowledged in equal measure, maybe I'd be a little more receptive to PR fluff pieces about good police. But there's way too much of the former and not enough of the latter for me to throw a (tea) party when cops do their jobs properly. As I said, I'm glad the little girl made it, but I'm also hyper aware of the fact that if she'd been the wrong skin color in the wrong neighborhood the police probably wouldn't have shown up fast enough to save her life. If they'd showed up at all.
It's cute. We really need to see a lot more of this kind of thing, for the sake of having better officers. The recruits who join because they see themselves having tea parties with toddlers are probably a different quality than the ones who join because they watch COPS incessantly.
this is lovely. thanks for posting, OP; i agree it doesn't negate the issues that others have brought up, but it's still a really nice story and we can all use a little sweetness in our lives right now. :)
I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that name. After laughing at the tea party pun and thinking "Aww, isn't that cute," my next thought was, "Someone named their kid Bexley?" Lolol
I knew that names ending in "ley" or "leigh" were popular but wasn't aware that they were a particularly southern thing. Interesting! :-p
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But mostly I was waiting for the funnies. So far no one is doing funnies.
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If both those facts were acknowledged in equal measure, maybe I'd be a little more receptive to PR fluff pieces about good police. But there's way too much of the former and not enough of the latter for me to throw a (tea) party when cops do their jobs properly. As I said, I'm glad the little girl made it, but I'm also hyper aware of the fact that if she'd been the wrong skin color in the wrong neighborhood the police probably wouldn't have shown up fast enough to save her life. If they'd showed up at all.
/bitter black Texan, ignore me
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that name. After laughing at the tea party pun and thinking "Aww, isn't that cute," my next thought was, "Someone named their kid Bexley?" Lolol
I knew that names ending in "ley" or "leigh" were popular but wasn't aware that they were a particularly southern thing. Interesting! :-p
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