Quote:Ok let's try again. One more time. To explain something that has been explained over and over again. 

 

It started as a means to bring awareness of the perception the black community has that blacks are treated completely differently by law enforcement than whites or even other minorities. That is the point of it. Not that white lives or mexican lives don't matter but that, in their eyes, black lives matter less to law enforcement. 

 

What it has done is brought wider awareness to things like excessive force by police, disproportionate sentencing for blacks and other minorities as well as general us against them mentality when it comes to police and communities. That said, you don't believe  any of that but that's not really the point. To a whole lot of the country police abuse is a real thing, you just see these abuses as perfectly fine because cops. 

 

Now, you have had it explained again. You won't care because it goes against your boys in blue and that just can't be for you. They are terrorists to you and I have just wasted my time explaining again to you what it means. 

 

 

You won't believe this because I don't give them a pass to do whatever they want, but I respect the hell out of police. It is a dangerous job and they do a service most of the populace can't or won't do but that's just it, they are doing a service and due to their position in our communities I hold them to a higher standard than the average person.

 

The system is failing true police officers and letting the corrupt ones run free.  It makes for a situation where there is distrust between the community and the police.  The system needs to be changed.  The war on drugs needs to be ended and community policing needs occur.  There was actually a good discussion on solutions in another thread that was very productive.

 

This discussion with this particular poster is lost, unfortunately. 

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