Posted on 07/21/2015 4:50:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The South Carolina public safety official says he hopes “this photo will be a catalyst for people to work to overcome some of the hatred and violence we have seen in our country in recent weeks.”
The black director of South Carolina’s public safety agency said Monday he was surprised a photo showing him helping a white man wearing a racist T-shirt went viral. But now that it has, he is hoping it will be a catalyst for people to work toward overcoming hatred and violence.
Leroy Smith said in a statement that the photo, taken at a Ku Klux Klan rally, captured “who we are in South Carolina” and represents what law enforcement is all about: helping people “regardless of the person’s skin colour, nationality or beliefs.”
“I consider myself like every other officer who was out there braving the heat on Saturday to preserve and protect,” he said..
(Excerpt) Read more at thestar.com ...
It’s a little further down.
But a white cop helping a black man wearing an anti-white t-shirt would just be doing his job, and performing his expected behavior.
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I’m guessing that cop changed a life.
One can only hope. God bless him in any event.
Probably not, racists are fairly set in their ways.
This is the big bad white racist boogieman the left constantly evokes.
He may well have changed a life of someone seeing the picture (or many someones), but I highly doubt that the guy he helped will change his views. If you're showing up at a Klan rally, wearing a t-shirt like that, at his age, I would think it would take more than a black cop helping you to change your opinions.
Maybe ‘may have changed a life’ would’ve been better. I have to think in his quiet hours that older man is going to reflect. ...or again, hope he reflects on what happened in that photo.
I hope so. I think it happens with the right circumstances.
Wouldn’t the cop be obligated to help, no matter what the shirt said?
I don’t know what goes through the mid of a KKK member. I couldn’t join. There’s just too much excess baggage for that group. No way...
That being said, I know there are a lot of White folks in this nation who have had it up to (figuratively) here, with watching the NAACP, the Black Caucus(es), La Raze, MALDEF, La Mecha, even the ACLU as yes the Liberal Left dismantle their culture.
There is a lot of pent up dissatisfaction. Does it drive folks into the KKK? I don’t honestly know if some of them are just upset by culture rot, or if they are flat out racists.
What I do know is there is a silent group here in this nation that is getting riled beyond what they’re going to sit still for much longer.
I don’t like this. I wish folks would be responsible for themselves and learn to respect others.
I don’t have as much as other people. I have far more than others. That is life. So what. You either choose to be happy or you choose to be unhappy.
If folks would back off and just work on themselves, this nation would heal in short order. It can’t, because Leftist agitators won’t let them.
The Blacks and Hispanics allow the Left to play them like fiddles. It angers me, but I can’t stop them from playing that game. I can only watch and realize that they are pushed too hard and being too unrealistic.
Rationality has nothing to do with what is taking place, and what’s more, they know it. They’re trying to achieve as much as they can right now, because they know they are wrong and the gravy train will end when Obama is out of the White House.
This officer is a good man. He’s a credit to the human race.
He has my respect.
He’s just doing his job, and that what each of us should do. Make this world a better place, one person at a time.
I salute him.
The parents should be ashamed...and shunned.
So I come to this great site.
And it never lets me down.
Exactly...
Sadly, in their circle of friends, they were probably praised, and proud...
That’s a touching picture in some ways, but dang, it makes me angry at those parents.
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