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We remember the officers who were murdered:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national ... story.html

What the f**k is wrong with people anymore, wtf, WTF....and serioiusly WTF!
I remember people are just getting the f*** murdered and I am seriously thinking just WTF. I dont even want to go out in public anymore becase I don't want to get shot or blown up. When the third world problems become the first world problems. As I say what is the world coming to.

Yesterday, when my wife and I attended the black Lives Matter demonstration with a friend, special care was taken by the organizers to remember the murdered police officers in Dallas.

Before the I-94 riot in Minneapolis was over 21 officers were injured by rocks and Molotov cocktails and over 100 protesters were arrested
Police chief 'disgusted' by violence at I-94 protest; 21 officers hurt

It got nasty in Baton Rouge also
Protests Continue in Baton Rouge and St. Paul Following Night of Arrests

On the other side:

http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index ... _says.html

A good example of "us versus them" in effect.

This is the type of thinking you don't want to catch on, where people think say, if they're "black", then they're part of the "us", and it makes a form of moral compartmentalization.

It's arguably the thinking of a racist, bigot and other extremist.

That woman is a cretin, and is doing nothing to help the situation.

not a peep is uttered about all the black lives lost in Chicago mostly to other black people, apparently black lives only matter when they can be exploited politically and divide us racially.

It's fine protesting one issue without touching another, really.

You just need to make sure the issue that you're protesting is actually real (blacks are treated unfairly solely because of their race by the executive and judicial branches).

Implicit, or unconscious, racial bias is real:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/won ... ce-system/

http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article ... al_justice

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/u ... ndexrk.htm

Blacks shouldn't have to be afraid of the police, but feel they must be. That's why Black Lives Matter demonstrates against police shootings, but not gang shootings.

Dispatch Audio From Castile Killing Reveals Cop Pulled Him Over for Having “Wide Nose”

According to the report by KARE 11:

A KARE 11 viewer, who gave us audio clips of police radio traffic, claims they captured the moments just before Philando Castile and his girlfriend were stopped by St. Anthony police – which ended in police shooting that killed Castile.

KARE 11 has attempted to confirm the authenticity of the recording with police officials, but so far they have not responded.

We have verified that the license plate mentioned by police in the recording matches the plate of the car Castile was driving. The location the officer gives also corresponds to the locations of the traffic stop.

“I’m going to stop a car,” the officer says on the recording. “I’m going to check IDs. I have reason to pull it over.”

“The two occupants just look like people that were involved in a robbery,” the officer says.

“The driver looks more like one of our suspects, just ‘cause of the wide set nose,” the officer continues.

A minute and a half later, the recording captures the first report that there was a shooting.

I'm not black but I imagine that each of them are reminded every day of their lives that their identity is linked to the melanin in their skin. I attended a indigenous cultural awareness program some years ago and the speaker made a powerful point that even if he chose to see himself as an "Aussie" that the wider white community would choose to identify him as a black man. So in terms of "us" and "them" the blacks are already in the "them" basket however hard they try and integrate.

Absolutely. So much for conservative bullsh*t about a "color blind society."