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McCaskill needs to stay out of this...all she is doing is adding fuel to the fire.
I understand the emotion of the moment if the officer is white, and regardless of whether this was a justified officer shooting or not, a young man is dead and it is a tragedy for his family.
However, people claim you get tired over this incident and others like it? But do not mention in how many unarmed black men were killed by white men or white officers in circumstances that are unjustified. How many were there last year? The last 10 years? Not very many.
Why don't we compare the numbers of black men killed by white men or white officers without justification to the numbers of black men and women killed by black men. Certainly with the everyone is capable of looking up the statistics. It will take you about 5 minutes.
Would you like to know how many black men were shot or killed in Chicago or Los Angeles or Philadelphia in a month as a result of gang or drug or criminal violence? A year? Look it up. It is very depressing. Enough to make you more than tired. Exhausted.
At what point are African Americans and other so called influential black men going to get tired of a culture of raising black boys without a father, and multiple generations on welfare. When are you going to get tired of a culture that celebrates rap music with violence towards women and glorifies gang violence. When are you going to get tired of a culture that allows black men to control and terrorize their mostly black neighborhoods because they sell drugs and are looked up to by the younger black men. When are you going to get tired of blacks having the worst high school graduation rates, and the highest crime rates (mostly black on black).
When are you going to get so tired that you and all the people marching for Michael Brown get up and march and march and march every single day in their own neighborhoods and carry sticks and beat the drug dealers and gang bangers senseless whenever they show up.
When are you going to march every time a new black rap star spews out s**t on stage or music videos that continues negative stereotypes. When are you going to get so tired of young black boys and girls being so uneducated they cannot read or write or perform basic math and have no chance at a decent life and the rest of us will be supporting them and their children.
When people get tired of the things stated above, let us know and I, and millions of middle class people, white black and brown will march with you to help solve the real problems for young black men in the country. Hint, it is not a few white people losing it and shooting black men
Hopefully we will not be waiting 5, 10 or 50 more years for you to figure it out.
Paul Pierson · Top Commenter · Works at
Missouri Department of Social Services/Children's Division