The problem of SJWs

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BLM is a national social justice movement, not a bunch of nannies that are able to control everyone in a crowd when emotions are high. But go ahead and throw the whole thing down the toilet because someone threw something.

They aren't. Both BLM and the Dallas shooter were reactions to the news.

In my (I believe informed) opinion: There is still racial discrimination going on.

In my opinion: You can't blame cops, in general, for shooting these people; you have to blame the individual cop who did the shooting.

In my opinion: People have to experience things before they can truly represent that a thing occurred.

In my opinion: There is absolutely no excuse for anybody shooting cops--or shooting these people whom the cops shot.

In my opinion: Some people with Black Lives Matter go way overboard.

In my opinion: Many people in that organization do not condone violence

In my opinion: The leaders of this organization must stamp down strongly upon anybody who uses violence. Otherwise, the organization carries little credibility.

I don't care for the organization myself---but I understand why it exists.

If anybody within that organization deigns to commit violence to further their agenda, they should be arrested.

We have a fine tradition of peaceful protest--we should continue along this path.

A few bad apples doesn't make all criticism of the police valid either, there isn't a racist conspiracy to kill black men by the police. That narrative is fundamentally false and absolutely poisonous rhetoric. The Dallas PD who is led by a black police chief and has instituted the proactive reforms that these protesters wanted years ago is the one attacked by this assassin. Did he even know?

Chief David Brown has been an inspirational figure thru all this, he has exemplified true leadership in the midst of tragedy and crisis unlike our own President who took the opportunity to play politics.



We need practical solutions, we need people actually interested in bettering their communities instead of venting their rage and hatred towards the cops sometimes thru divisive or destructive means as if they can't make a difference.

Looks like some people heard the call

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/national/d ... own/nrxjG/

I would say playing politics at a memorial service to these fallen officers is in particular bad taste, the difference is that the president should be above all this partisan nonsense but he's not. You're implying I'm dismissing the legitimate grievances against the excessive use of force by the cops but I am not, how is it supposed to be addressed? When you try to have this conversation about what can actually be done all the sudden people are parched for ideas and are unwilling to look in the mirror, Chief Brown has implemented many reforms to address the concerns of these groups years ago and his call yesterday saying 'we're hiring' I think is especially poignant. Does venting rage at the police get us anywhere? A more coherent and focused message based on practical solutions(I don't know how many times I'm going to have say that phrase) will do a 100x the good than making offensive chants at the police there to protect you at these protests. Violence and violent rhetoric needs to be repudiated or else there will be more extremists like Micah Johnson to come out of the woodwork.

The reason people are saying they're not really interested in bettering their communities is because a lot of them aren't, a lot of them are simply white tourists to this whole thing and sympathize for partisan/ideological reasons. Look at our nation's inner cities many of which look more like bombed out third world warzones than somewhere in supposedly the richest most powerful nation in history. You can't talk about the issues with policing without talking about why they're policing to begin with and if you refuse to even start there then nothing realistically will ever be accomplished. I see it primarily an issue of poverty, the resulting culture of poverty, as well as our ill thought and disastrous War on Drugs. Again, Chief Brown spoke elegantly on that fact that we leave almost of all societies failures to to the police to pick up the slack and solve even tho that should never been part of their job to begin with. Reducing the unneeded interaction with people who have committed no crime but onto themselves will go a long way in solving this issue, ending prohibition and destroying the culture of gangs will go a long way in reducing the violence in their own communities and the fear that these officers have to work under because again they risk their lives for a $40k a year salary. Body cameras are great, I think every police department in this country should have them so we won't be stuck with the ambiguity of what might of happened and what the ideologues wish to exploit so know what happened.