AngelWings444
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Chief Brown was on State of the Union this morning. He's an incredible man.
https://youtu.be/S3QtUSfFVYQ
https://youtu.be/S3QtUSfFVYQ
This is such a great post. I thank you.And I do not understand what the problem is in understanding that today in America white people still may have more power (and there are numerically just more white people than any other group) but nearly EVERY group has enough power to negatively affect others via racism, or to choose to positively affect social dialogue and influence societal change. We have not just a black president and attorney general but many black and brown legislators, mayors, police chiefs, military officers, business owners, authors, musicians, athletes with huge platforms, etc., etc., etc. That is VERY different than the way the world was even 40 years ago, but it is the way it is now.
There is no group of people in America today more racist than another, and the racism of no group is benign. This week it was very publicly shown just how deadly it can be. We don't yet know if racism motivated the shootings in LA or MN but we DO know it was the motivation of the Dallas shooter.
We are all accountable for how we treat others in society around us. We all must be committed to challenging our own assumptions first, BEFORE we think it is our job to go around pointing the finger at everyone else. Value signaling may feel good, and we've all probably stooped to that at one point or another, and probably even on these threads, but when it is just used to mask ignorance and as a way to deflect from uncomfortable challenges, it harms the causes of justice and equality and unity and reinforces the obstacles to peace.
Some of the newer movements discussed here seem like maybe they get that. I don't doubt there won't be some in our country who are determined to be the Archie Bunkers of their own time, hopelessly insistent on living in the past, shaking their fist at a world where their verbal daggers have lost their potency. I admit that every day I find it a little harder to have sympathy for them, whatever 'side' of any debate they are on.
Another great post today. Ty. Wow, if WebSleuthers ruled the world....A few weeks ago a college student from a family I know and admire well, went into Chicago to attend a party. He left early because he had work the next day. As he approached his car, he was set upon by four other young men. He did what they told him to do: he gave them his watch, his wallet, and laid down so they could remove his shoes. They then proceed to kick him mercilessly...aiming for his head and gut over and over... knocking out his teeth...just one vicious kick after another to a young man who had given no resistance. The victim and his assailants were all Black.
Always missing from the conversation about police encounters is the hellholes that so many of our cities have become. Places we dare not enter after dark, and Black, White or Green have to have that "other talk" with our kids: stay away! Because of poverty many are condemned to live in these heinous areas, through no fault of their own. Shopkeepers try to service these neighborhoods and eke out small livings for themselves and their families. Often "gentle giants" like Micheal Brown push in, steal their merchandise and bully and threaten them into taking a loss. Shops are looted , merchandise stolen...and the shopkeepers close up and leave, causing more hardship.
But police put on a uniform everyday and try to deal with the gangs, the bullies, the tough guys who terrorize to TAKE what they covet. The MSM tries to imply that these events happen in Mayberry RFD where gentle souls are just taking a Sunday drive. Our President, who wisely implores us after horrific terror attacks to never blame ALL Muslims, wait for facts, blah, blah. But he NEVER makes that his first statement after a police killing. Why not apply the same tone, rhetoric, and reasoning?
We DO not walk a mile in the shoes of the police who deal with the element that kicked a young man....of their color...for SPORT. We imagine the populations of these dangerous areas as gentle disenfranchised souls, preyed on for no reason. We are forbidden to talk about the truth of these neighborhoods by political correctness. ALL sympathy must be directed ONE WAY only...never to the young police officier trying to get home to his family.
That's what our young friend was trying to do that night. Just trying to get home, get some sleep, and go to work the next day. Instead he spent days in the hospital. But he was lucky. Over 100 souls lost their lives in Chicago that weekend. It's a killing zone...and it's not police doing THOSE killings!
We must speak up and stop being intimidated by political correctness...to make those who think Kumbya is all we need. It's time for responsibility to be TAKEN by all of us, ALL of us...not just fingers pointed one way. Our cities have had money poured into them for generations to address a problem that has gotten in NO WAY BETTER...for all the sympathy, hard work, and tax dollars.
Yet people still deny and justify why POC are deserving of being treated as less. Why? I know many whites who know zero people of color yet they despise them. Why? I imgine many whites have never even been to the home of or had a POC to their home. It is all very strange to me.
Good article by a distinguished black man-- Leonard Pitts, Jr.
http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/4096090-155/pitts-america-has-gone-mad-and
Hmm... Seems he's done enough research and deliberation this morning while enjoying a cruise of Greece to find several police officers guilty of murdering two innocent black men. I stopped reading when he delivered his verdict.
Perhaps it would have been good to read the whole thing then before delivering a verdict on what he is saying?
Why? He has already delivered his verdict on the officers without knowing the full situation of what happened.
Exactly. US has a highly armed populace. Not so much in Europe and many other countries.
Perhaps it would have been good to read the whole thing then before delivering a verdict on what he is saying?
I hope when I write my article you will include by a very distinguished white man and good looking too!
Actually I liked how he frowned on the guy who thought it appropriate to carry an AR15 to event. Don Lemon also got on him, said I have a reason to wear a belt, I do not have to but I choose to because it holds my pants up. Why did you feel it was necessary to carry an AR15 to a public event?
Did you read the article to see what he was saying?
Chief Brown was on State of the Union this morning. He's an incredible man.
https://youtu.be/S3QtUSfFVYQ
I remember quite early on in this same thread, you were concerned about if the officers were getting paid when they were waiting at hospitals etc while this was all unraveling.
I think the BLM movement should be presented with a bill for all of the policing hours required for all of their protests, how would this sit with you? Every single night in so many cities across our nation, officers are really wasting much more time IMO than the few hours you were talking about when this unfolded.
Hmm... Seems he's done enough research and deliberation this morning while enjoying a cruise of Greece to find several police officers guilty of murdering two innocent black men. I stopped reading when he delivered his verdict.
Or, the bills for that policing can be added to the civil liability of rascist cops, especially those who use lethal force on unarmed and/or unresisting blacks.
Or, better yet, maybe the most just, efficient, cost effective, and life saving approach for police departments nationwide is to adopt--immediately-- a zero tolerance for racism or excessive force policy.
Both BLM ---AND COPS-- have said REPEATEDLY that bad cops jeopardize blue as much as black.
If that simple reality isn't being heard by some, IMO, it's a willful tuning out, and part of the problem.