Not really. It's like saying you don't like politicians or slaughterhouse workers. Disliking a certain profession because of the abuse of power some of them exhibit is perfectly normal; and while it might be prejudicial, it's a different animal than racism and/or oppression altogether.
Sure it is but it doesn't mean you aren't judging the whole because of the few, look I can be as prejudiced as the next guy, doesn't mean I don't recognize it in myself and catch myself before I do something bigoted.
See here's the thing when we say "you're a racist" ,if you can't finish the sentence honestly with "and I'm not" who the hell are you to to judge me?
I believe the thought process is pretty well the same self justification for a global but erroneous attitude ,I hate the press , I don't go out and hunt them up to terrorize. When we ALL get to the realization that ALL OF US ( black ,brown,white ,red or yellow) have racial attitudes that they just fit on a continuum and we just KEEP imposing our standards of what constitutes racism ,that we aren't going to always agree, if we can be that honest with ourselves and more importantly with uthers we can have a constructive dialogue .
There are about 780,000 police officers in the US ,if anyone had interaction with 1% of them it would be 7,800 cops I doubt most cops even do that, so judging them based on our experience is a pretty poor sample size and forming a love or hate thang ,to go to the extent of rioting over an attitude formed by the few cases where the interactions turned out the way the Wilson/Brown case did, to advance the idea so demonstrably to others that ALL these cops would shoot an unarmed black man even if he had his hands up is IMO NO different than racism towards another group.
IOW the rioters CAN'T finish the sentence with " and I'm not" so who the hell are they and who the hell are the people who wear those idiotic t shirts to judge, to advance their bigotry? Either we judge people ONE AT A TIME ,on the content of their character, or we find a reason to judge them on an aspect about them that we've decided is our excuse to lump them in with those we think we are justified in judging .
BTW I don't like politicians ,but I vote ,and mostly for what I consider the lesser evil , but truth be known many of those guys are no worse than I'd probably be in their situation,I don't doubt if a guy as big and strong as Mike Brown started kicking my ass in my
j cop car ( one on one here) I'd shoot his ass ,he wouldn't get ten feet from the car,and I don't believe anyone who says they wouldn't cuz until you are in the situation you don't really know.
GOIN scripture on ya here. The story of how Jesus tells Peter that Peter will deny him three times before the DNA rifle crows and Peter say ,"no man you can always count on me " ,I think Peter meant it , and really failed himself , but when he said it he wasn't at the end of a Roman sword and once there the situation was way different . We think we know what we will do, but until we are in the situation we never really know. That is the lesson I take from that regardless whether you believe in any deity ,the lesson is what matters and I think it's just that.
Runnin late gotta go to a kids tournament ,may even coach a few matches.