I don't think you're baiting, Jags...  And maybe my response to you was too cute by half.  My point is, that I think your question is a rhetorical one...  One which is used as a device by some to flip the blame from brutality on innocent people back on to them.

 

Philando Castile and the therapist in miami were doing all the right things and were still shot.  So, there comes a time when no matter how much you comply, it appears that there is a subset of terrible cops that are just gonna shoot you, or pull you over, or give you a hard time, just for being black.  And it's happening in every community all across the country.  Not all of these encounters end in murder.  Some of them just end with humiliation.  But humiliation is still oppression and it's still brutality.

 

Heck, Niel Degrasse Tyson, you know the black physicist, talks about how he's been harassed and humiliated by police authority.  Now he hasn't been shot, but the pervasive feeling within the black community is that they are profiled and sought after more than other classes or races just because of their skin color.

 

How much more should Niel Degrasse Tyson do?  Should he work on a vaccine that cures blackness?  Maybe an aggressive vitiligo serum that works instantly? 

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