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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Black lives matter has instructed blacks to verbally abuse and resist arrest. There's your problem.[/quote]

No, they were already doing that before.  BLM is now asking everyone to videotape, edit, and send out to social media.  [/quote]

... and now there is proof  that some blacks are poorly raised understanding the not soft society but they still wonder why that segment of our country continues to struggle.[/quote]

Some people, period, are poorly raised. I know kids of a variety of races who have decent manners in public and a few kids of a variety of races who behave badly. I think race and BLM are irrelevant to the thread's title question.

Fact: Kids shouldn't act up or cause an inconvenient ruckus in public.

That's related to parenting, and I don't think it has anything to do with race to say that parents should be raising their kids to be respectful of others.

Fact: The BLM movement perceives that people of minority races are subject to disproportionately harsh treatment by law enforcement and is attempting to bring national attention to the issue because they consider it wrong.

Unless someone presents a clear and present danger to others, many people find it reasonable to say that police should not use violent or lethal means against the person. Disrespect does not warrant injury or death. No other professional would say it did if they were disrespected at work, and I personally would hold trained, armed, agents of the state to at least the same standard as the rest of the population.

Both of those facts can be true at the same time, and neither necessarily negates the other. Yes, all parents should raise all teens to behave decently in public. But I think that's a separate issue from the idea that police should treat all citizens with equal respect and should be careful to use only necessary and proportionate means in carrying out their duties to maintain public order and safety. If some people (BLM) don't think that's happening in our society, it sounds like an important issue to raise, however that's nothing to do with the idea that kids need to be taught good manners and proper behavior.[/quote]

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