I don’t watch the news anymore. Once in a while I’ll flip past to reinforce my disgust with a system that is more interested in filling a 24 hr cycle with fabrications of what matters than really digging deep enough to consider what is really going on. It is for this lack of watching that I am so behind on the most recent shootings of black men by cops. I found out from Apple. An article by Micheal Eric Dyson popped up denouncing the shooting and the response. Later as I was surfing for more information I came upon information about the snipers in Dallas, TX who have opened a Guerrilla war on the cops.
This is wrong.
We as a collective race are angry, but we cannot be angry at the idea of cops. We cannot indiscriminately murder cops and make the problem worse. This does nothing to solve it and in fact furthers the argument of why cops are killing black men. Again, this is wrong. This is counterproductive. I fear this is also the isolated situation of a state and city that is batshit crazy when it comes to race. Dallas is madness and anyone paying attention to this blog or this situation must not conflate black anger with what is happening there. Unfortunately, I know that most people will conflate the two and for a very long time every stop of a black man will carry an extra edge of potential violence. Every Black Lives march will be in the shadow of a near military response.
None of it will make our country safer, smarter, or better.