"The problem is black vs blue" (Opinion Piece in USA Today)

Here is a perfect example of how many (most?) blacks view the "cop issue". It's absolutely amazing that in 2016 anyone in this country, with a half-black POTUS, and literally blacks in every position of power, leadership, seniority would think this way. Additionally, these people are teaching their kids these things...so they continue to grow up with the same feelings that they are victims. The cycle will never end due to poor role models (family, teachers, leaders, pastors, etc). Keep in mind, this story is running in a national newspaper today. Take a read on this and you will either laugh or shake your head.....or both.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opini...-gray-kwame-rose-editorials-debates/87365206/


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The problem of police relations with the black community is often misunderstood as a black vs. white issue. But, no matter what the race of the officer is, the conflict that exists between black people and law enforcement comes down to one underlying fact: Our society has forced law enforcement to operate in anti-blackness, or fear of black bodies.
Regardless of a police officer’s race, as soon as that uniform is put on, all black people are perceived as a threat, and any sudden move during an interaction with law enforcement could result in death for a black civilian.
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke’s comments on CNN this week that <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Black Lives Matter" title="" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; z-index: 9000; border-bottom-style: dashed !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(100, 98, 94) !important; background: inherit !important;">Black Lives Matter</culink> protesters spew “hateful ideology” proves that the problem is in fact a black vs. blue issue.
Clarke, a black man, sees peaceful demonstrators protesting police violence as a threat to a social order that has never protected the life of black people. The current social order is that when law enforcement comes into contact with a black person, officers fear for their lives. They act based on that fear, and events then justify their fears.
Putting black bodies in police uniforms won’t solve the issue, at least not until we are all ready to admit that anti-blackness is the root cause of police violence in black communities.

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POLICING THE USA: A look at race, justice, media
All police officers — regardless of their race — are trained to target black drivers, patrol black neighborhoods, and maintain “social order.”
The trials of the six Baltimore police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray — three of them are black — prove that officers of color are too often dedicated more to the blue line than they are to the protection of black lives.
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Nice Temporary "Fix" would be for us to find a President somewhere that would

a.) Be On Tour visiting and speaking in every major American City that is a "Hot Zone", Chicago, NYC, LA, Dallas, Cleveland, Detroit etc. and delivering a moving speech in each location asking for the violence to stop and pledging that a "Town Hall" style Meeting will take place lasting not just 2 hours upon one night but taking place over the course of 3 days and nights, such is the Seriousness of this Issue. Black Leaders & common people, Whites, Latinos all will come together to aire grievances and work together towards Resolution, Progress and Repair.

"Your Voices are Heard and Change will be accomplished. Violence creates More Violence and makes danger for all, including yourself. Please Stop This. Please Join Us and be a part of the Solution, please please please do not elect to be a part of the Problem and to make the problem worse."

b.) Town Hall Meeting, 3 days & nights, televised live as Presidential Speeches sometimes are: on all networks at the times when Key Speakers are taking questions, answering those and broadcast Live throughout on certain channels.

If we had a President who genuinely wanted to Stop This, who wanted to do his Job then an impact could get made as soon as that President completed that First Speech of that tour.



From National Review:

Barack Obama has taken Black People in America on a long ride in reverse. Even liberal black broadcaster Tavis Smiley has criticized Obama for this. As Smiley told HuffPost Live’s Alyona Minkovski, “Sadly — and it pains me to say this — over the last decade, black folk, in the era of Obama, have lost ground in every major economic category.”

Smiley is almost completely correct. Based on the Obama administration’s own latest-available statistics by the most basic economic-performance metrics — with one key exception — black Americans are worse off now than when Obama was sworn in on January 20, 2009.

The one bright spot is the unemployment rate. For black Americans overall, that number from the Bureau of Labor Statistics has slid from 12.7 percent when Obama was inaugurated to 8.8 percent last month — down 30.7 percent. The unemployment rate for black teenagers (ages 16 to 19) also declined over the same period, from 35.3 percent to 23.3 percent — down 34 percent. But, more ominously, the seasonally adjusted labor-force-participation rate for black Americans across the board has slipped from 63.2 percent to 61.7 percent — down 2.4 percent.

• The World According to O: The seasonally adjusted labor-force-participation rate for black teenagers also sagged from 29.6 percent to 28.8 percent — down 2.7 percent. During Obama’s tenure, the percentage of black Americans struggling below the poverty line has advanced, according to the most recent Census Bureau data, from 25.8 in 2009 to 26.2 in 2014 — up 1.6 percent.

Real median income among black households during those years, according to the Census Bureau, sank from $35,954 to $35,398 — down 1.5 percent.

• Obama’s Legacy Is Already Collapsing The number of black food-stamp participants exploded across that time frame from 7,393,000 to 11,699,000, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports — up 58.2 percent. Also, from Obama’s oath of office through the fourth quarter of 2015, the percentage of black Americans who own homes foundered from 46.1 percent to 41.9 percent, according to the Census — down 9.1 percent.

Rest of article at: http://www.nationalreview.com/artic...k-obama-going-backwards-under-president-obama





My Point is that a President has an Obligation to not just deal with National Crisis but confront that energetically rather than just making an occasional speech from the white house.

The current President is failing his duty to the nation miserably

and placing the nation in greater danger by refusing to do his job.