While you are reading the New York Times, page 1 "Analysis Finds No Racial Bias In Lethal Force" Study of ten major cities, blacks were more likely to be stopped while police were more likely to fire their weapons at whites without first being attacked and white and blacks involved in police shootings were both equally likely to have been carrying weapons. Both results undercut the idea of racial bias in police use of lethal force. Having said that, address and remove the inequities of the system without cow towing to lessen proper law and order.
I dont pretend to understand the perspective of black experiences with police but Ill shed my own , as a young man I had my labrum torn found out down the line) by having my arm pinned behind my back while thrown over the hood of a police car when I tried to push a drunken friend back into his house. Arrested and jailed overnight and wrongfully charged with disorderly conduct for which I paid a large fine. that set me back and a record that took three years to self expunge. Recently, my underaged lily white nephew in a lilly white neighborhood had guns drawn as he exited a fast food when someone saw a black water gun in his back seat of car. Handcuffed and brought to station for questioning before being released to parents, all shaken but didnt take issue because understood the age we live in. i told him he could have been shot if he had the water gun on him when exiting. Circumstances and overactive cops arent a good mix but Id rather address the excesses of a few than have the disorder and chaos without them.
Ill be direct, people want to lessen racism, preconceived notions, profiling then the black community as a whole need to help themselves by raising their culture by prioritizing what many other successful minorities have done. Good parenting, active involvement in educating, instilling a work ethic, discipline and respect and having goals from early age on so the corrosive effect of welfare doesn't become rooted. White flight hasn't collapse towns that have become predominantly Asian. Finger inequities but also wrongs within. Address the ghetto culture and help reduce the criminal element, mentor the youth. It shouldnt have been me as a teenager serving as a big brother to Paterson youth in the summer but black young role models. People cite stats that just 13% of U.S. population is black yet there have been social programs created and geared to help whether it be welfare, education funding, job hiring , college admissions. For a few to blatantly charge that America and whites in general plot to keep blacks in poverty is nonsense and does nothing but dilute the credibilty of black voices with real issues. If white America were so wired to suppress then we wouldn't have a twicely elected Presiden. President Obama must be exasperated at the lack of educational and job progress made by blacks under his tenure. I am as I voted for him twice to close divides so my kids can live in a more harmonious environment as our demographics shift.
My post may annoy some here who are obviously intelligent and hard working individuals with valid points but my added perspective cultural shifts upward in accountability and self determination would lift the whole and help to close some socio economic gaps that cause so many chasms
