Organizers of Anti-Brutality Rally Say They Are Devastated Police Died - reported by Dallas Morning News
FR should be aware that whoever did the shooting was not related to those who were involved in organizing the protest, which included pastors and church members from many different denominations and communities across the city.
It seems to me that whoever did the shooting was trying to stop the Christian community from leading and trying to promote peaceful solutions to the problem of racism.
Many in today’s African American community want nothing to do with MLK’s ideas.
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“It seems to me that whoever did the shooting was trying to stop the Christian community from leading and trying to promote peaceful solutions to the problem of racism.”
Bullshit. Pure bullshit. You don’t “promote peaceful solutions” by marching with terrorist groups. That’s no different than waling with the KKK or the Nazi Party to “promote peace.”
BULLSHIT.
There is no doubt that racism exists, however I believe you misstate the objective of BlackLivesMatter, which is not combatting racism, rather combatting their perception of overt racism by the police resulting in the disproportionate killing of blacks by police.
Personally I question their conclusion.
Blacks are about 13% of the population but 25% of the victims of police shootings. On the surface, disproportionate.
Blacks are about 25% of the victims of police shootings, and commit about 25% of the crimes per FBI statistics. I would suggest that's not disproportionate, as police are more likely to come into contact with individuals, regardless of race, who are committing crimes.
Violent crimes might especially precipitate contact. Blacks are 13% of the population, yet commit about 50% of murders and robberies. That is disproportionate.
Personally regarding the two killings yesterday, which precipitated the demonstration, the one in Minnesota appears to be problematical, imo the one in Baton Rouge far less so, but in neither do I see any evidence of racism on the part of the officers involved.