07-18-2016, 04:15 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-18-2016, 04:19 PM by Eric the Green.)
Blacks are tired of being shot down on the streets by police for no reason. Profiling and unjust treatment has gone on for decades. Police harass and arrest young blacks far more than others doing the same things.
Our gun nut fanatics contribute mightily to the problem (as yes they do also to suicide) by putting guns in black neighborhoods that don't want them, so that police are always afraid that some young black guy might have a gun. That fear is behind a lot of the shootings.
Why are there "black neighborhoods" at all anymore, that police are afraid to patrol? Largely because of 35 years of Reaganomics. Those who are poor or lower middle class have no route to economic prosperity in America. Economic and social mobility is worse than in any other developed country, despite the myth that America is the land of opportunity. It isn't. Police are the only government presence in black neighborhoods now, because Reaganomics has cut social work, recreation programs and education, etc.. Police are called on to solve all the problems of poor people.
Blacks have been restrained in their attacks on the police until now, just demonstrating and occasionally rioting. Now a few well-armed nutcases are acting out by killing a few cops. Horrible, and I disagree strongly with killing police. Our communities including poor and black communities depend on them to protect us. But, it's less a racial issue than it IS a police and gun issue, and an issue of Americans who vote Republican, or younger Americans don't come out to vote at all during midterm elections. Far more blacks die in police shootings than do police, and police do not get punished for their crimes, which adds a lot to the resentment.
Media calls this problem "race relations at a low in America" just to divert attention from the real issues. Young white people have no problem with young black people. They watch them on TV (including scientists), buy their records and listen to their rap music, and follow their sports exploits. They vote for them for political office. Blacks are accepted for who they are by most white people. No, it's Reaganomics and the Republican voters and politicians, who blow and answer to the dog whistle that their taxes are being used to pay for lazy blacks who don't work. It's the gun nuts who think gun control is prohibition, and it's the police who aren't properly trained and equipped to handle gun-infested conditions in angry and poor black neighborhoods-- and expected to be social workers, community organizers and teachers too in the bargain. And it's possible that police work attracts a few nutcases too.
welcome back "Marx and Lennon"
Our gun nut fanatics contribute mightily to the problem (as yes they do also to suicide) by putting guns in black neighborhoods that don't want them, so that police are always afraid that some young black guy might have a gun. That fear is behind a lot of the shootings.
Why are there "black neighborhoods" at all anymore, that police are afraid to patrol? Largely because of 35 years of Reaganomics. Those who are poor or lower middle class have no route to economic prosperity in America. Economic and social mobility is worse than in any other developed country, despite the myth that America is the land of opportunity. It isn't. Police are the only government presence in black neighborhoods now, because Reaganomics has cut social work, recreation programs and education, etc.. Police are called on to solve all the problems of poor people.
Blacks have been restrained in their attacks on the police until now, just demonstrating and occasionally rioting. Now a few well-armed nutcases are acting out by killing a few cops. Horrible, and I disagree strongly with killing police. Our communities including poor and black communities depend on them to protect us. But, it's less a racial issue than it IS a police and gun issue, and an issue of Americans who vote Republican, or younger Americans don't come out to vote at all during midterm elections. Far more blacks die in police shootings than do police, and police do not get punished for their crimes, which adds a lot to the resentment.
Media calls this problem "race relations at a low in America" just to divert attention from the real issues. Young white people have no problem with young black people. They watch them on TV (including scientists), buy their records and listen to their rap music, and follow their sports exploits. They vote for them for political office. Blacks are accepted for who they are by most white people. No, it's Reaganomics and the Republican voters and politicians, who blow and answer to the dog whistle that their taxes are being used to pay for lazy blacks who don't work. It's the gun nuts who think gun control is prohibition, and it's the police who aren't properly trained and equipped to handle gun-infested conditions in angry and poor black neighborhoods-- and expected to be social workers, community organizers and teachers too in the bargain. And it's possible that police work attracts a few nutcases too.
welcome back "Marx and Lennon"