Good for you. I can't say the same, personally, though these humiliations and violence were never "au faciès".
> they were dressing like rap singers
Yes. Just like cops harass and beat white punks, but won't bother a person in a suit: there's an intersection between class oppression and race oppression. Though in the case of muslim women (eg. in birkini) harassed by police, you can't really say that they were "swearing to cops".
> we have to be all same and opressed because cops are bad
Of course all cops are bastards, but of course not people are not all the same and don't live the same situations. Just because individual experiences vary does not mean there isn't some systemic factors at play.
> sending their kids to private school too so that they don't spend time with the immigrants sons
So true.
> we are all same below the 1% whatever our color those are the people that will make us suffer, lower our wage, push our retirement age
We are not the same: we have different experiences and perspectives. But i agree with your point that we all have interests in common against the vampires that profit off of our misery. But i feel like it's important to acknowledge our diversity and differences ; the traditional left in the first half of the 20th century has notoriously failed to incorporate antisexist and antiracist analysis in their worldview, insisting that class struggle is the unique struggle that matters. For women's rights, the situation has been reversed in the second half of the century, despite much hypocrisy and not going very far down this slope. The rise of a new generation of intersectional Left (inspired by eg. Angela Davis) could change the narrative, but this growing movement is not represented in the media or in mainstream (party) politics.
> the cops are just a piece of a broken system that are also victim of those 1%
That is true. Cops are just pawns. Yet they make the conscious decision to become pawns to those 1% and harass, imprison, mutilate or assassinate those who don't fit in this society. They are the armed hand of the State making sure people stay homeless when there are empty flats, or stay hungry when every supermarket has so much food they throw away.
Also, some cops (not all) are very happy to endorse the role of the persecutors and go beyond their role as neutral tools of the State. Police and gendarmes have famously over 60% votes for the national front. Many cops are part of conspiracies with neonazi groups or drug trafficking gangs, and they face few (if any) consequences. This is also related with how police recruitment, education, and equipment has changed over the past decades, but this is yet another can of worms to open. Overall, i would strongly recommend reading Mathieu Rigouste's books on the history of police in France.
Good for you. I can't say the same, personally, though these humiliations and violence were never "au faciès".
> they were dressing like rap singers
Yes. Just like cops harass and beat white punks, but won't bother a person in a suit: there's an intersection between class oppression and race oppression. Though in the case of muslim women (eg. in birkini) harassed by police, you can't really say that they were "swearing to cops".
> we have to be all same and opressed because cops are bad
Of course all cops are bastards, but of course not people are not all the same and don't live the same situations. Just because individual experiences vary does not mean there isn't some systemic factors at play.
> sending their kids to private school too so that they don't spend time with the immigrants sons
So true.
> we are all same below the 1% whatever our color those are the people that will make us suffer, lower our wage, push our retirement age
We are not the same: we have different experiences and perspectives. But i agree with your point that we all have interests in common against the vampires that profit off of our misery. But i feel like it's important to acknowledge our diversity and differences ; the traditional left in the first half of the 20th century has notoriously failed to incorporate antisexist and antiracist analysis in their worldview, insisting that class struggle is the unique struggle that matters. For women's rights, the situation has been reversed in the second half of the century, despite much hypocrisy and not going very far down this slope. The rise of a new generation of intersectional Left (inspired by eg. Angela Davis) could change the narrative, but this growing movement is not represented in the media or in mainstream (party) politics.
> the cops are just a piece of a broken system that are also victim of those 1%
That is true. Cops are just pawns. Yet they make the conscious decision to become pawns to those 1% and harass, imprison, mutilate or assassinate those who don't fit in this society. They are the armed hand of the State making sure people stay homeless when there are empty flats, or stay hungry when every supermarket has so much food they throw away.
Also, some cops (not all) are very happy to endorse the role of the persecutors and go beyond their role as neutral tools of the State. Police and gendarmes have famously over 60% votes for the national front. Many cops are part of conspiracies with neonazi groups or drug trafficking gangs, and they face few (if any) consequences. This is also related with how police recruitment, education, and equipment has changed over the past decades, but this is yet another can of worms to open. Overall, i would strongly recommend reading Mathieu Rigouste's books on the history of police in France.