All Lives Still Matter
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82 Law Enforcement officers killed so far this year and it doesn’t look better at all for the rest of 2015 or for the rest of us. Innocent people who were not racists were shot down in cold blood because white people are irredeemably racists, or so the rhetoric has been flapping in the breeze like a rebel flag.
Maybe the ugly dream people like Dylann Roof have of starting a race war isn’t as hopeless as you might think. Maybe it just takes enough wild-eyed activists and sensationalists in the media to to boil the kettle over. Maybe the people like Julius Jones insisting that only racists say “all lives matter” should think twice, because racism isn’t a black or white problem, it’s a human problem and has existed everywhere humans have existed. If white people are murdered because some nut job thinks “he’s in the field” is a racist comment, shot by a black man who thinks “swinging by” is a reference to lynching and if people of all kinds are murdered for wearing a uniform, then the narrow and narrow minded rhetoric about race and racism needs to be rethought.
“And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?”
Asks Shylock and perhaps that’s just what the intention is. No one who hopes to benefit by a race war, hot or cold or guerrilla style is the friend of justice, liberty, equality or the brotherhood of man. To take the phrase from people who don’t want to talk but to preach: we need to have a conversation and it’s not about guns, “military style” or otherwise. I don’t care about the agenda of any activist group or about the terminology they’d like to force on all of us. I care about stopping the hate, the vendettas, the violence the hate speech and calls for violence. There will be no conversation without shutting them up, drowning them out or ignoring them — without dignifying vicious angry people, praising them, elevating them with damnation so faint I can’t hear it at all. There’s no conversation if one side dictates what you can say and with which words. There’s no conversation when one party can demand revenge.
No man is an island, nor any race or religion or characteristic. People who make up stories about it being open season on black children don’t get to hunt policemen or anyone else because of some equally insane premise about universal white racism.
We can make this about guns, but doing so isn’t going to counter the urge to go out and get one this race war engenders — and it’s not about guns, it’s about hate. We need to have a conversation. We need to make it a real one.
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If you haven’t already you should: write a book that is. You’re fucking brilliant man.
Killing cops accomplishes nothing, except to piss off the public at movements like Black Lives Matter. These fucking loons need to tone down their rhetoric. Marching in Minneapolis and chanting “Pigs in a blanket fry like bacon” makes them look like the hate filled fools they are. They need allies not enemies and the only allies they are making are more fools.
Yes. If we’re going to have a conversation we definitely need to make it a real one. If black people continue to ambush police officers however, I don’t see that happening anytime soon. I spent 40 years in LE and I never, ever saw anything like this. It would be really hard to be a cop in this day and age.
Excellent point Glenn. I have heard the call for a conversation numerous times but there never seems to be one of any consequence. The reason is that the MSM tries to have by bringing who they perceive to be leaders onto their shows to discuss the issues. This does absolutely ZIP, Nada, toward resolving anything. The conversations need to happen on the ground between people who are living in close proximity if it is going to mean anything. So called leaders cannot fix the problem with their great speeches or interviews or even their heartfelt ideologies because when they are through the people are still looking at their same situation. If a police department does not already have the trust of the people they police they cannot just suddenly gain it after an incident. Studies going all the way back to the late 1960’s have shown that police departments have to work at keeping the trust of all the community. Since the police have the power it falls to them to develop and keep that trust. Community policing has been shown to work but many departments simply do not use it because it takes time, patience, and determination. This is true with all parts of the community regardless of race or ethnic group. It is there where the conversation has to start and continue on a day to day basis.
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