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Black Lives Matter
I can't understand why some people hear the term "Black Lives Matter" and immediately take offense. It is in no way implying that white lives, or any other lives don't matter.
The whole movement is about the racial inequality that is happening to black lives. Black Lives Matter. That should not be insulting to anyone. I question whether the people who find offense in the term are not seeing or accepting the fact that racial inequality still exists.
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Shootings Further Divide a Nation Torn Over Race
And suddenly, the panoply of fears and resentments that have made this a foreboding summer had been brought into sharp relief.
Police accountability and racial bias have been at the center of the civic debate since August 2014, when a black teenager was killed by a white officer in Ferguson, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis. Mass murders in Newtown, Conn.; Charleston, S.C.; Orlando, Fla., and too many other locales have revived gun violence as a social issue and national shame. Both black anger at police killings and the boiling frustrations of some whites who feel they are ceding their long-held place in society have been constant undercurrents in politics since January and the Iowa presidential caucuses.
Now, in the space of three days, the killings of two black men by Louisiana and Minnesota police officers and the retaliatory murders of five Dallas officers, this time by a black Army veteran, have coalesced all those concerns into a single expression of national angst. In the midst of one of the most consequential presidential campaigns in memory, those convulsive events raised the prospect of still deeper divides in a country already torn by racial and ideological animus.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/09/us/shootings-further-divide-a-nation-torn-over-race.html
Why can't the media walk and chew gum at the same time?
Why do they refuse to address the issue of the fractured relationship between the police and the black community?
Just in the past few days, two young black men were killed by the police in very questionable circumstances.
Those horrific events earned some air coverage, although quite a bit of it was biased against the men.
Then last night, 4 police officers lost their lives due to the actions of a clearly deranged individual. A horrific and heartbreaking event which understandable gets air coverage.
But the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile are seemingly now forgotten by the media.
All of these tragic and senseless deaths need due coverage.
The media seems to be playing a game. Pitting one group against the other, in their quest for ratings.
Will we ever regain responsible journalism? Will we ever again have integrity in the media where they can tell the whole story, factually, instead of just playing sound clips that fester hate for ratings?
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Hillary Clinton Calls On Whites to Empathize With African-Americans
Hillary Clinton called the killing of five police officers in Dallas “an absolutely horrific” event, but she also implored white people to try to empathize with the experiences of African-Americans who fear encounters with the police.
“I want us to remember that just 24 hours before, we had a killing with a loss of life in Baton Rouge and Minnesota,” Mrs. Clinton told CNN on Friday afternoon.
“We’ve got to do more to listen to one another,” she added. “We’ve got to do everything possible to support our police and to support innocent Americans who have encounters with police.”
Mrs. Clinton praised the bravery of the Dallas police force. “When the shooting started and everyone else was fleeing, the police were moving toward the danger,” she said in her first extensive remarks since the attack in Dallas the night before.
“We’ve got to do more to bring the police together with the communities that they protect,” she said, citing her plan to retrain the police and make law enforcement officials more interwoven with the communities they serve.
But she also said that police forces needed to “go after systemic racism,” and she pleaded with white Americans to try to understand “those African-American families who fear every time their children go somewhere.”
http://www.nytimes.com/live/news-dallas-shooting-protest/hillary/
mother, mother, there's too many of you crying
and brother, brother, brother, there's far too many of you dying
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some loving here today
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ever reaching
hugs on a heartbreaking night.
Is anyone else watching CNN's coverage of the protest outside of the Capitol?
Beautiful. I'm with them in solidarity.
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