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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(Photo: David Tulis, AFP/Getty Images)
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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.
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.
Kwame Rose, a social activist, artist and producer at The <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/The Real News" 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;">Real News Network</culink> in Baltimore,gained attention after confrontations over news media coverageof the #BaltimoreUprising.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opini...-gray-kwame-rose-editorials-debates/87365206/
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(Photo: David Tulis, AFP/Getty Images)
</aside></section>
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.
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.
Kwame Rose, a social activist, artist and producer at The <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/The Real News" 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;">Real News Network</culink> in Baltimore,gained attention after confrontations over news media coverageof the #BaltimoreUprising.