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wyoming and adverpoke, some context for you guys. Good video...

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Basically, white unarmed people are shot at the same rate as blacks. Lots of factors at work to drive up the things that disproportionately put young black men into these confrontations with cops.

We have a serious problem with police brutality folks. In general. Making this a racial divide is just a distraction from the militarization of local police forces. Who benefits? Why?

BLM is a terrorist organization calling for the killing of cops. It is being positioned as a counterbalance to police brutality. Why?

This Dallas shooting required advance knowledge not only of the route of THAT protest, but of access to the shooting perches, triangulation of the kill zone and synchronized timing. This was planned far in advance and incubated until a convenient and inevitable event to create the protest diversion.

This is not a civil rights movement, and our "president" pushes the race narrative with absolutely no comment on black on black violence or the contextual conditions that have led to a disproportionate number of black men being shot. Why? Who benefits? This does not happen in a vacuum and one thing Barak Obama is not is stupid. He knows context and he knows numbers. Yet his narrative is one of racial division when the simple thing before us at the time of his comments was police brutality without any clear racial component.

Why does he push these artificial narratives? @davidallen I would love your input on this. I at least believe you will ask yourself these questions before you answer with a tribally appropriate regurgitation.
 
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This is pretty much aligned with what I have said.

The biggest problem is overreach and police brutality being unchecked by the state.

Along with that is some percentage of racism that is a little more difficult to quantify.

Sorry. You are either a racist, dumb or a dick to deny that this isn't somewhat in play.
 
Is BLM even an organization? I don't think they have any sort of national leader or any power structure in place at all, I don't think it is like the Black Panthers or Ku Klux Klan or anything. I think it's more of a statement that took on a life of its own, with each city having its own independent mishmash of protesters.
 
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Basically, white unarmed people are shot at the same rate as blacks. Lots of factors at work to drive up the things that disproportionately put young black men into these confrontations with cops.

We have a serious problem with police brutality folks. In general. Making this a racial divide is just a distraction from the militarization of local police forces. Who benefits? Why?

BLM is a terrorist organization calling for the killing of cops. It is being positioned as a counterbalance to police brutality. Why?

This Dallas shooting required advance knowledge not only of the route of THAT protest, but of access to the shooting perches, triangulation of the kill zone and synchronized timing. This was planned far in advance and incubated until a convenient and inevitable event to create the protest diversion.

This is not a civil rights movement, and our "president" pushes the race narrative with absolutely no comment on black on black violence or the contextual conditions that have led to a disproportionate number of black men being shot. Why? Who benefits? This does not happen in a vacuum and one thing Barak Obama is not is stupid. He knows context and he knows numbers. Yet his narrative is one of racial division when the simple thing before us at the time of his comments was police brutality without any clear racial component.

Why does he push these artificial narratives? @davidallen I would love your input on this. I at least believe you will ask yourself these questions before you answer with a tribally appropriate regurgitation.
Slept on this one to make sure I wasn't just reacting emotionally to the content... so here is my take:

Blaming culture is really a bit of a cop out - culture is as much a symptom as a cause IMO. America has a growing income disparity problem - this underclass disproportionately impacts new immigrants and persons of color with 27% of African Americans living below the poverty line. We have dysfunctional education systems in many inner cities with half of black young men who attend urban high schools do not earning a diploma. Despite the rates of drug use and selling being comparable across racial lines, people of color are far more likely to be stopped, searched, arrested, prosecuted, convicted and incarcerated for drug law violations than are whites. Is this the fault of gangster rap? Or is gangster rap an inevitable result of the economic, educational, and social reality a segment of our population is experiencing? I would tend to say it is a vicious cycle - one begets the other.

As much as we want to hope and believe we live in a post racial society, the numbers just don't support that conclusion. I wish it were so. In regards to Gloves link to the study from Washington State - what struck me in that summary was not the proposition that cops are more cautious when dealing with a black or hispanic subject, but that the EEG could predict the race of the simulated assailant/bystander. Per that study, in our brains, whether we want to admit it or not, test subjects had a measurably different biochemical reaction for a black subject vs. a white subject. Part of the solution here has to be admitting that we aren't as far along as we had hoped we were...
 
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