(05-30-2020, 01:35 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(05-30-2020, 12:29 PM)jj82284 Wrote: 12 pages in and you've still yet to objectively isolate an it.  You have a right to feel however you want, but in order to have meaningful common citizenship there has to be a shared commitment to rational expressions of what is true.  Otherwise your nebulous "feelings" are NO DIFFERENT or more relevant than the feelings of a David Duke.

I've explained "it" to you multiple times. 12 pages in and you still can't read. 

"It" is :
  The widespread national distrust of police resulting from injustices real and perceived between police and the African American/people of color citizenship of our country. 

It's a problem that will continually create more problems if ignored or treated with half-measures. 

Your last sentence may be the stupidest thing I've seen you post, but that's a high bar. 
I'm not posting my feelings at all except maybe when I insult you. *shrug*
I'm posting about an obvious issue that is a stark reality in America and what I deem as some practical first steps toward repairing it. 

This has zero to do with my feelings or your feelings unless you're someone of color who is disaffected as a result of watching that man get killed by a cop while begging for his life.  There are millions of such Americans. 

The charging/sentencing of the officers responsible is the obvious first step - but my little corner of the discussion moved past that pages ago. That will happen - it's a given.  We can only speculate that outcome now. 
 
I thought a post several pages ago suggesting good will reform measures would be an obvious "next step idea" to repairing "IT" but that suggestion has been met with a dozen posts declaring:

There isn't a problem
There's a problem but it's so tiny it doesn't matter
Racism doesn't really exist in America anymore
This wasn't about race
And a number of other 'head in the sand" responses that ignore a problem that isn't going away on it's own.