@jaycool2: They think the police are systematically oppressing them. From what I've seen they think black people dying >>> white people dying.
It should be treated equally but you rarely ever see a white guy in the news who got short for stupid reasons even though it statistically happens far more. Any unjust shooting deserves an inquiry and protest, no matter the race of who was shot
The sentence in bold is patently false. Do you have ANY verifiable statistics or facts to back up that claim in underlined sentence? Because that is directly opposite every verifiable statistic I have ever seen on the subject.
Like some others on this thread, I support the idea of BLM. In the beginning I was all in on it. I have never experienced police brutality, but I absolutely have experienced racial profiling and because I live in a predominantly caucasian town, I get stopped for 'driving while black' far too often. In recent years, however, it has become even more unsettling with the knowledge that at any point, my next encounter with the police could be my last. Because of this, I was very much a supporter of black lives matter.
Unfortunately, BLM went off the rails with some of the 'disband the police' and anti-police rhetoric that facilitated even greater divisiveness on an already far-to-divisive topic. And my disillusion with the movement began right around the time that a God fearing, kind-hearted public servant/church drummer named Cory Jones was killed by a cop while waiting for a tow truck, literally 2 miles from my house.
So I guess my point is... this is far too complicated a topic to dismiss with condescension and misinformation. It's too bad that those seem to be the only moves in the ever growing "alt-right" playbook.
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