African American
In reply to the discussion: I am not shocked I am just hurt [View all]Anonymous Martyr
(5 posts)I will agree that it becomes a race issue when white cops become afraid of black angry youth - who are just displaying a show of inability to be hurt by a system that keeps the masses in groups that lack opportunity. Where the race card should be played is when black = poor, just because they are easy to identify.
The system of justice in this country, starting with the police, has become corrupt through quick and easy profits like nearly every other social system has. The evils of short term profit to promote a pyramid of never ending growth deserves it's own thread. Ideally, if we are going to have a democratic government, let us have a strong government that is by the people, for the people, and protects the people - to the individual. The market, at least in accordance with social systems, should be social and paid for solely with taxes.
Policemen, like teachers, should be paid high salaries. It should take a four year degree to be a policeman. For gods sake these men are given guns and decide the fate of men.
When I heard that Wilson say that he was thinking out if he could legally kill Brown it made me sick. That seems to be the mentality of these cops. If they can legally kill someone they want dead they take the shot(s).
This is a major issue but as serious as it is it is another issue to keep our minds off topic of the real broken underpinnings of society in this US of A. Unless this country takes what equity it has left from the World Wars, and drops to a knee to apologize for it's imperialist sins, past and present, and offers to lead by example a world federalization of direct democracy with a social market system in all the political and social institutions, with a limited capitalist system controlled with regulation, and a speculative market that is channeled to protect diversity and the best products and services - a big unless - we will drop to both knees in the future where our ego and bombs become one.