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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]more deflection from ANY sort of responsibility. PPs (including me) have said MULTIPLE times that the police have work to do to improve. yet you can't acknowledge that maybe not everything is the police's fault.[/quote]

I have to agree.  I am not arguing that blacks aren't jailed more often for minor offenses. There are stats proving that - and there's Clinton who legitimized the Super Predator image with the Crime Bill.

But that doesn't excuse illegal behavior. Just b/c Affluenza Andy gets off for smoking pot in his dad's Mercedes doesn't excuse the fact that a young black boy who got high was caught for the same illegal activity.

Of course, it still needs to be addressed so that law enforcement becomes cognizant of their own biases.

However,  institutionalized racism, while it exists, should not be the "go to" excuse. If I'm not paying my bills on time b/c I can't get my calendar straight, do I blame the utility company? Or do I get my life organized instead?

Again, I'm not denying that this racism doesn't exist, but rioting by destroying honest businesses and by scaring innocent people in cars and by looting is NOT the answer.

OK, to be fair, I'm certain that there's a media bias, too, as these sources tend to highlight the extreme to make money.  If that's the case, then recognize that it will be THAT MUCH MORE important to fight these images projected by the media.  So the (throwing this out there) 10% doing the damage will therefore look like 90% on television.

And still, that 10% should not get an "excused note" for poor behavior.
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1) I see people  explaining rioting, but I don't see anyone including myself excusing it

2) get the F out of here with the black folks don't pay their water bill and they are blaming the man and institutionalized racism,that's some bullshit you made up in your own mind

3) it is the true height of arrogance for you to tell people who have dealt with a particular issue how in the hell they should address it
     If I'm dealing with racism who are you to tell me that what I see feel and here is illegitimate, not valid and unreal

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So you think that fighting back constructively means destroying businesses and looting?  or terrorizing innocent people?  Again, I have no stats, but even if it's only 10% of the population activating dangerously, that 10% should be punished.

as SHOULD the 10% (or however big that stat is) of the cops who use excessive force

But you don't want to see both sides. You just filter things through your narrow lens.

not a constructive route toward progress - And that's why we'll never get past this division.

never[/quote]

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