Didn't want to ignore this topic as it is a fireball of a speaking point for elections 2016.


I am gonna say something really politically incorrect here: I don't see it as blacks vs cops. I do not. I see it as perceived poor (and much more likely to commit criminal acts - especially violent crimes) vs cops. I bet poor white trash are treated like blacks by police. Maybe?


Also- and it really takes a leap here - as a black male I see many others frustrated that nothing really changed for lower income people - even after 8 years of a black president. Barrack didn't roll through the projects handing out corporate jobs and paying off our credit cards like some expected. And that is frustrating b/c there may be no hope after all.


Also, gone is the excuse that blacks can't accomplish the same as whites because having a black man rise up to POTUS twice takes it away. I can complain that my race has been systematically oppressed, and that your grandfather got a job that mine couldn't, and went to better schools that were 100% off-limits to mine, so yours had many better opportunities than mine to set up your dad with wealth so his kids could succeed even further... But a black man was elected 2x to the highest office in the land.


Gone are the excuses, and that is frustrating. And I think those frustrations are manifesting rapidly into reactions. And here we are.

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