I'm going to drop this here...

[tavalon]

78. Even if you were in the audience in Seattle,

those people weren't actually talking about you. They made it seem like they were, but they were just co-opting a really big audience for their message. They didn't express it well but they tried. I'm a Seattlite and missed the rally but I get what they were trying to say. Our police force is highly racist and anyone here who pretends otherwise is pretty blind. Many people here are pretty self congratulatory around their "tolerance", a term I find kind of amusing. Tolerance? How about acceptance of all? Seattle isn't there yet and I know it, even though my skin melanin is lacking, my brain cells aren't.

I do have a hard time understanding why I'm supposed to get my dander up over a little truth telling. Sure, calling all whites "white supremacists" wasn't the most elegant way of starting a conversation but start it it did, so there's that. I just wish every one would take a deep breath and start listening to #BlackLivesMatter.