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[Brett Fitz]

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[MrScorpio]

1. Out of control cops are a danger to us all, Black people have always said this...

Unfortunately for a lot of white people, that message never seemed to resonate until some whites became victims as well.

[Buzz Clik]

4. If you're under the impression that the cops started this shit storm, you are mistaken.

These ass hats were primed, and the cops were merely the catalysts.

The problems with some out-of-control cops does not translate to "every violent incident involving cops is the cops' fault."

[MrScorpio]

7. The problem is clearly with the system...

Law enforcement in America is flawed and abusive, there's no way to avoid that fact.

[Buzz Clik]

9. Now that's a fact!

The system is enabling these bastards, and that needs to stop NOW.

In the 60s, dozens of reforms were instituted to get the police under control. The Miranda Warning is typical of these changes, and we need sweeping reforms that turn the cops from adversaries and mercenaries into civil servants.

[daleanime]

2. ......

[MrScorpio]

3. Check this out...

White America’s Silence On Police Brutality Is Consent

Late Tuesday, news broke that yet another unarmed American, a black man named Walter Scott, was killed by a white police officer. As with Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, and Rodney King nearly 25 years ago, the brutality was captured on video for the world to see. The New York Times put the damning evidence at the very top of its homepage and it quickly spread throughout social media networks provoking outrage, disgust, horror, grief. These reactions have come most vocally from black Americans. The silence from white activists, elected officials, public figures, and citizens has been deafening.

If you’re white and have made it to this paragraph you might be thinking, or headed to the comments to write, “not all white people…” To be sure, there are white Americans active in efforts toward police reform. That population is, however, nowhere near the critical mass needed for change. Take for example New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. He made some unprecedented comments expressing “pain and frustration” after a grand jury failed to indict the NYPD officer who choked Eric Garner to death on film. He was quickly pressured to walk back that sentiment and, without the support he needed, did exactly that.

The bottom line: The majority of white Americans believe the nation’s police are doing a good job despite that work often ending in the deaths of unarmed black people.

In every major speech on race that President Obama has delivered during his presidency, he has reassured Americans of our collective will to form a more perfect union. When his 2008 campaign was in danger of being derailed by his Chicago pastor, Obama remarked on the “vast majority” of Americans who want a more equitable country. After George Zimmerman was acquitted of murder charges for killing Trayvon Martin, Obama reminded us that, “Each successive generation seems to be making progress in changing attitudes when it comes to race.” And, when a grand jury failed to indict a white officer for choking a black Staten Island man to death, the President instructed: “…it is incumbent upon all of us, as Americans, regardless of race, region, faith, that we recognize this is an American problem.”

http://thepoliticalfreakshow.me/post/116034575146/white-americas-silence-on-police-brutality-is

[Buzz Clik]

5. Rein it in, Scorpio. You are quickly approaching "delusion"

The outcry by millions of white people in every incident has been loud and public.

[MrScorpio]

6. As well as the millions of whites who are silent and supportive of cops...

You know, there was a fund created to help Slager's defense?

It's not like this stuff hasn't been noticed.

[Buzz Clik]

8. Yeah, we know. Many of the same turds who did the GoFundMe for Memories Pizza.

They're out there, but they aren't silent. They are really, really noisy in their racist shit.

No doubt there are a lot of white people who are disgusted by recent police actions but aren't making a lot of noise, and perhaps they should be more vocal. But don't even attempt to sell the point that black people are in this alone. Not this time.

[MrScorpio]

10. Blacks aren't in this alone... We're just the most vulnerable to police abuse

We've always been the canaries in the coal mine. That's because America was founded on white supremacy and it's still with us.

White supremacy harms everyone, including whites themselves.

It's good that a lot of good white people are waking up to that fact... By listening to the voices of black people, many of them.

[Buzz Clik]

11. We're getting to the same place. +1

[MrMickeysMom]

12. Predictions when we'll all wake up?

[MrScorpio]

13. All?

Well, this is America, so my best guess for all would be never.

But, I regarding this as I do things like sexism and wingerism... Works in progress.

[blkmusclmachine]

14. http://images.sodahead.com/polls/003512989/1549114870_l_answer_4_xlarge.gif

[father founding]

15. beat down

I'm sorry ,but these asshole deserved the beatdown, notice how big bird fled like a pussy with his mommy when things got hairy.