It really helps your message when you're on the street looking for a white person to attack... This really needs to stop on both sides
What is needed is moral clarity here.
There are police that overstep their bounds with the use of force. And there are municipalities whose legal systems focus on funding their courts with fines and fees for trivial infractions that police rigorously enforce. These are real issues, and need to be addressed.
It should be made clear, however, that the PRIMARY and MOST SEVERE threat to the lives of predominantly black folks in predominantly black neighborhoods in America's major cities does not come from the police. The primary threat comes from the actions of remorseless criminals living in their midst that are violent, and heavily armed. Many of these remorseless violent criminals are members of highly organized gangs and drug cartels, with structures, rules, and networks to other criminal organizations nationwide, and even trans-nationally. It is not an exaggeration to compare these gang leaders to warlords one might see in other countries, claiming "turf" and using displays of brute force to coerce the folks in these neighborhoods who are not actively a part of this violent criminality into silence.
People like Van Jones (who I watched this week on CNN) make me puke. When they act as if police are somehow equally culpable in this issue, they are willfully blind to blacks in their own community who are intimidated NOT by whites, but by folks in their own midst, and sometimes in their own families. Parents who live in these neighborhoods who give half a crap are terrified over the almost inevitable fact their teenage children will travel down, due to the permeation of this problem down to the school levels. People see violent crime, but are afraid to report it to the police, and it's not because they are afraid of the police, either.
This is the REAL threat to the lives of black folks in the inner cities. There should be no wavering on this fact, and no pandering to BLM. These folks are being intimidated, they live in fear to a point where they're used to it, but it is not the police that are causing that fear on the part of law-abiding citizens. When we, as a nation, get real with this, the degree of control over the lives of ordinary folks that criminal gangs exert over citizens in many urban neighborhoods will reduce itself. These criminal gangs are as much a threat to the lives of ordinary American citizens as Jihadist Terror Cells.
