But, I think anyone who cares about black lives needs to acknowledge that problem pales in comparison to the underlying social and cultural decay in black communities that leads blacks to commit crimes at a far higher rate.
Gee, it's almost like if you were to look behind the curtain of BLM and were listening to black people and what they have to say directly, you would find them discussing this exact thing in-depth.
As they have been for 35+ years.
Fair point. I think a lot of the BLM people are "leftist activist" agitators who want to speak for black people, but don't represent anyone. I'm generalizing somewhat to be sure and I'll bet there are people within the BLM umbrella who aren't as bad as the image.
This would be news to black people, 86% of whom believe more needs to be done to give blacks equal rights (and now 53% of whites do, up from just 39% in 2014). Or the 66% of blacks who say that they only sometimes, rarely, or never trust the police to do right by them. The 83% who say blacks and minorities still face discrimination, the 57% who say the police need more oversight, or the 51% who say BLM movement is supporting reforms to ensure everyone is treated equally.
Black Lives Matter was not born out of a bunch of lefty internet agitators who need a new cause to champion; it has been born out of decades of continued poor treatment of minorities, especially black people.
You are buying into this conservative white Republican mentality that anytime minorities, whether they be black or brown or Muslim, stand up and say "We are being treated unfairly by people who are supposed to be the ones upholding a fair and just society", that we need to smack them down and talk about deflect to things like problems within those communities.
You can address problems of police brutality while also addressing problems within those communities. That's what BLM is pushing beyond the police brutality narrative.
Complete liberal nonsense. Blacks have issues that reach wayyyyy beyond police departments which in them selves dont make laws. They only enforce what your local and state heads come up with and supposed voters.
Yes, blacks are feed up with getting the dirty end of the stick and now its liberals like you who hoodwick them into blaming a boogeyman ... police forces. Because if they ever figured it out(which they wont) they takes away a group of people you have exerted power over.
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