(July 19, 2016 at 2:30 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Does it matter....? We're discussing problems with the police force, not an individual potential racist. I think it;s amusing that you reference the big picture all while trying to needle in on something that avoids the only thing the big picture -could- refer to.
Ask yourself this...if it turned out that every black man shot by cops was shot by a black cop.........would that make the situation seem more or less sinister, more or less explicable? Obviously, it wouldn't change the fact that blacks are shot at rates many times greater than whites.
Contrary to what your opinion and your answer would be, my opinion wouldn't change in the slightest, but since you are using an obvious "white cop kills.......", then we know which angle you are coming from and thus there really is no need to carry on. To continue would be futile knowing full well that I could bring statistics to the table and you would still use your own bias to skew the argument. You are a good poster and pretty much liked here, and I am a newb here. However, I can tell the difference between the being objective and subjective, the difference between suppositions and actual facts. Furthermore, I have never in this thread stated that the statistics are false, in fact they are very real. However, we know the number of blacks being unlawfully killed is not just and could never be justified; I would still need to see a complete breakdown of statistics of the cops who killed the black population in a particular area. Is this not reasonable to ask?
