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In reply to the discussion: When the National Guard and/or federal assistance is sent in when a cop kills a black man [View all]rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)They have chosen to pay particular attention to the black community. Why? Not because they are racists, although some are but that always takes a backseat to greed, but because they can rationalize it or justify it, because a lot of Americans that watch Corp-Media believe that black males are thugs. So what is the white community think about all this? Seems to me that they are largely ambivalent or possibly moderately sympathetic, but over all ignorant to what is really transpiring here.
Who does the police department work for? They work for the community. So are the police doing the bidding of the community? If you don't think so, take action. Tell the mayor, set up a citizens review board. In my opinion the white community needs to step up. We can't sit back and wait. If we don't step up, at some point, the black community, will have enough of the killing and racist treatment and will rise up and fight back. This, of course IMO, is the worse thing they can do, but I would totally understand. The whole community needs to step up and get those police that work for us to treat people like we want them treated before the situation reaches the exploding point.
Don't let the Power That Be divide us.