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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's really nothing left but to insult your intelligence, for you aren't bright. From her Facebook page: "Another unarmed black man was shot in a police incident. How many times do we have to see this in our country? This is just unbearable, and it needs to be intolerable. And so maybe I can, by speaking directly to white people, say, look, this is not who we are. We’ve got to do everything possible to improve policing, to go right at implicit bias. There are good, honorable, cool-headed police officers. We have seen them in action in New York over the last 48 hours because of the terrorist attacks. We can do better. We have got to rein in what is absolutely inexplicable. And we have got to have law enforcement respect communities and communities respect law enforcement because they have to work together."

Where does she "condemn" white people? Where does she "condemn" police officers? If there are so many unarmed white people gunned down, surely you can provide their names. Did you ever read Al Franken's Lies and the Lying Liars That Tell Them? Of course not. But there's a chapter in that book in which he talks about loving America (here you could substitute white people and police officers) like a grown up - it doesn't mean it has to be revered as perfect, it means you can love the good parts and work to fix the bad parts.[b] You're kidding yourself if you don't think we white people have some stuff to fix.[/b] [/quote]

Listen to yourself. 
Let me just change your sentence ever so slightly. 
“You’re kidding yourself if you don’t think black people have some stuff to fix.”

Anyone who says something like this would be labeled a racist.  To group all people, of ANY color, into one group as you have done and as Hillary has done is just plain wrong.  [/quote]

No, it's not "plain wrong," and you didn't respond to any of the substance in my post.

Clearly, something is wrong when the default for a shocking number of officers is to shoot a black person when that black person is unarmed or near their broken down car or is following the officer's instructions. Do you know why these killings are such a big deal to the AA community? And I'm a white person, an outsider to the AA community, but it seems to go a little something like this (and I won't go too far back in time because I know it bothers white supremacists to hear about slavery): black people have been subject to very uneven official policing - aggressive enforcement of minor issues, disparate sentencing, community concerns being ignored, as well as unofficial policing. What kind of coverage do missing black people get? Relisha is the only one I can think of getting significant coverage. And then let's talk about the real ugly apple - lynching. That wasn't so long ago, and law enforcement usually enabled it or looked the other way.

Can you really not see that as a community, white people have some work to do?[/quote]

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