Once again, a black man resists arrest and is shot dead. Does resisting arrest prove toughness? Non-black citizens need this explained.?

Video: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-567265...

Saying blacks will end up dead in jail anyway simply isn’t true often enough (though, it has happened) to make resisting a smart thing to do. The vast majority convicted of a crime serve sentences and are released. Many prominent black citizens have told their kids not to resist arrest because it’s common sense. It takes being shot to death out of the equation. Is it a cultural sign of weakness to accept being arrested and prove your innocence in court? If guilty, or even wrongly convicted and imprisoned, wouldn’t families rather have that person alive?

I understand when slaves were being hunted down and when lynching was commonplace, resisting was the better, and often only, option to remain among the living. That reasoning simply doesn’t apply today even in the most racist communities. Racism doesn’t want publicity.

When I think of black toughness, I think of that famous photograph of a slave whose back appears to have been whipped to shreds multiple times. That man chose to live in spite of what he must have known were the consequences. And, he was innocent.

Daunte Wright dying while resisting arrest for a misdemeanor crime belittles what that slave suffered in his effort to become a free man. Revealing white racism or police brutality where it really exists is an honorable thing. Rioting because a man chose to resist arrest for a minor crime is not something I understand or agree with.