(December 3, 2014 at 11:47 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Erm.. I do believe Hoops was joking, Brian. Thought he demonstrated that in his response to my silly question.
Ok, I am a little raw on this because I am admittedly taking this personally. There would have been a time in my past where I would have sided with Wilson blindly. But since I moved down here where I am now and the first time in my life I interacted with blacks and worked with them on a daily basis and seen the racism and profiling first hand. I never was raised a bigot, but most blacks I ran into growing up were merely in passing and never daily contact.
None of this is excusing anyone. None of what I argue is saying all cops are bad. I am saying there is too much over simplification that prevents far too many from understanding the reaction to Brown is a long term result of conditions.
Text is hard to determine sarcasm sometimes. Sorry.
