Officers down in Dallas

What`s sad is that kids look up to people like this. And what makes it even worse is that the Browns reportedly just brushed it under the rug until the tweet really got noticed..

Cleveland Browns Running Back Posts Picture Of Police Officer Getting His Throat Slit | Daily Snark

It`s also reported this was the same picture a women in Dallas had as her Facebook profile picture in this story.
Kansas officer fired over threatening post on Dallas woman's Facebook page after ambush | Dallas Morning News
 
Perhaps what is REALLY "interesting" (and unsettling at the same time) is the number of views and post this off-topic has received.
I am old enough to remember the race riots of the mid 1960`s and the burning of many American city`s black-dominated neighborhoods. It was a very scary ordeal to watch on the-then 5:30 PM Nightly News with the three national TV affiliated networks(ABC, NBC, and CBS) as a 9 year-old and I could not fathom how this could be happening in America. But then I was an isolated young white male in an all-white area of the nation, so I could not relate nor could I even remotely understand what ALL people of color were experiencing in the areas that they lived at that time.

Anyone can point out a problem: the real person to be trusted and respected is someone who can come up with (a) workable and reasonable solution(s) to the problem. So what is the solution to the problems that people of color face in America??? Take away all guns? Don`t arrest as many blacks? Provide equitable-living wages and jobs for all blacks? Hire more blacks on police forces in black-dominated communities?? Elect another black president? No the REAL answer is within the heart. It`s a matter of genuine love and respect of one another that NO government laws or programs will ever change. Until that happens within individuals on BOTH sides, expect the worst. Until we see each other as bothers and sisters made in the image of God, NOTHING will change. I may be an idealist, but it is THE true answer.
 
IMO the wholesale assignment of Collective Responsibility is not only wrong, but it dilutes the perceived value of Personal (i.e., Individual) Responsibility and contributes to the latest variations on the "Us vs. Them" theme of Tribalism.
 
Accumulator said:
IMO the wholesale assignment of Collective Responsibility is not only wrong, but it dilutes the perceived value of Personal (i.e., Individual) Responsibility and contributes to the latest variations on the "Us vs. Them" theme of Tribalism.
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You mean what he says he`s against ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
 
Lonnie said:
Perhaps what is REALLY "interesting" (and unsettling at the same time) is the number of views and post this off-topic has received.
I am old enough to remember the race riots of the mid 1960`s and the burning of many American city`s black-dominated neighborhoods. It was a very scary ordeal to watch on the-then 5:30 PM Nightly News with the three national TV affiliated networks(ABC, NBC, and CBS) as a 9 year-old and I could not fathom how this could be happening in America. But then I was an isolated young white male in an all-white area of the nation, so I could not relate nor could I even remotely understand what ALL people of color were experiencing in the areas that they lived at that time.

Anyone can point out a problem: the real person to be trusted and respected is someone who can come up with (a) workable and reasonable solution(s) to the problem. So what is the solution to the problems that people of color face in America??? Take away all guns? Don`t arrest as many blacks? Provide equitable-living wages and jobs for all blacks? Hire more blacks on police forces in black-dominated communities?? Elect another black president? No the REAL answer is within the heart. It`s a matter of genuine love and respect of one another that NO government laws or programs will ever change. Until that happens within individuals on BOTH sides, expect the worst. Until we see each other as bothers and sisters made in the image of God, NOTHING will change. I may be an idealist, but it is THE true answer.
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Well said. Thanks for that.

You have addressed the real issue that no one (either in this thread or usually elsewhere) is addressing. You`re dealing with the deep root of the problem rather than the superficial BS we see all around us. You`re dealing with the actual issue rather than looking at it from a political or other self motivated angle. I appreciate your post.
 
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