Senator Scott Shares Personal Experiences with Law Enforcement Officers

[Dan '82]

[Bob Butler 54]

There is a paragraph that comes to mind from MLK's Dream speech.

Quote:We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" we can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

The Civil Rights acts and other fallout from the awakening were no doubt major steps forward, and for a time folks were to some degree satisfied.  Progress against prejudice seems to come in surges.  We seem to be in a time when what has satisfied over the last several decades is no longer tolerable.  Senator Scott's experience ought to strike home.  It is no longer a time to tolerate such.

[Bob Butler 54]

This isn't directly tied to Senator Scott.  The following quote is from a CNN article, Attack in Nice: New terror in France months after mass shooting, but one of the points touches closely on a major theme of Senator Scott's speech.

The French have a large number of people of North African heritage, the result of having colonies in North Africa for quite some time.  They are not being treated well.  They are not being assimilated into French culture.  They are the targets of racial profiling by the police and others.

CNN Wrote:Why France?

CNN terrorism analyst Paul Cruickshank said no nation in the West faces as many terror threats as France.

"They are absolutely exhausted after a year and a half of intense efforts to try and protect this country," he said. "The police and army have been at maximum deployment and Nice is one of the cities that was hosting some of the big games of the Euro 2016, so it was already on high alert."

While the identity of the Nice attacker is unknown, experts say previous major terror attacks have been carried out by terrorists from disenfranchised communities.
"You have a very large disaffected North African community. They are French citizens now ... but they've been excluded from French society," Robert Baer, a former CIA operative, told CNN's Don Lemon Thursday night.

"I went to school in France ... I worked there and they are really totally excluded," Baer added.

"And it keeps getting worse since the attacks in Paris because (police) are using profiling and they are stopping people who look like Arabs on trains and buses, checking their IDs, which we don't even do in this country. The French have been very aggressive ... radicalization of people of North African origin is actually picking up rather than lessening."

So.  You want a revolution?  You want violence to transform your society?  One way to go about it is...