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In reply to the discussion: We must NOT buy into the narrative that a cop's life is worth more than any other [View all]heaven05
(18,124 posts)I had the same thought when reading about what the President did as a politically expedient gesture for public consumption. Murdering cops is not going to do anything to ease the tension of cops murdering unarmed people, minority mostly. When will this society's culture move away from the culture of bigotry, racism, hate and guns? WHEN/IF that happens we will again begin to start being the beacon of light envisioned in SOME of the WORDS of our constitution and bill of rights.
America is a country that is an ideal that has remained stillborn and disincarnate simply because the history that created this culture stymied the creation of a true democracy for and by the people. It started with ALL benefit being for and by the white male and because of the continuing control issues surrounding that fact, never got past the concept of a free society for all. Tell that free stuff to Native-americans still living on reservations. Tell that to all down through history who have faced slavery, segregation/Jim Crow, 'integration' and finally with the present SCOTUS and the incoming congress voted in by freedom loving amerikkkans , de facto segregation, real racism of the most violent kind, you know the lynchings, castrations, burnings AGAIN is guaranteed. Hell the shooting down of unarmed citizens, minority mostly, has reinforced the continuing reality of the 'amerikan way'. Already has started with the limiting of minority voting/human rights, gerrymandering and just out and out legislated hate that is and will be coming from the elected officials in Washington, D.C.
Yeah, President Obama did the right thing, yet the beat does and will continue to go on.....with or without all this breast beating about the shooting of two cops and the politicization of that act by ONE apparently mentally unstable individual. The hypocrisy is disgustingly overwhelming.