Also, the OP does have a point. There does seem to be a double standard. Racist groups like the Black Panthers and Farrakhan's gang, don't seem to receive any attention from law enforcement. If a white group were to make violent threats like those groups have, they might very well be arrested. At the very least, they would be thoroughly investigated.
I don't know if that could be considered a threat since it was nothing personal. But you are right about the double standard. I mean, if I went into a black area with a tee shirt that read WHITE LIVES MATTER, what would be the implication of that? The implication is that black lives don't matter. Yet, Black Lives Matter is now a little trouble making group and the media doesn't even point it out.
Thats was a pretty naive post. Blacklivesmatter was made to draw attention specifically to police killing Black kids. Whitelives or Alllivesmatter was started to undermine Blacklivesmatter. It would be different if it was out there first but we all know it wasnt.
It wouldn't matter when it came out, it would still mean the same thing.
It's funny how black lives only matter if one was taken by a white police officer. Planned Parenthood, other young black males, no problem.
The most ironic thing about it is that black killings have such a simple solution: listen to the orders of the police. That's it. So simple.
But do they promote that? Of course not. It's better to start little groups, riot and burn down cities, have even more blacks break the law and get killed, instead of just doing something so simple as listening to the orders of a police officer.
In their defense, it's not always as simple as that. We do now live in a Police State. The Police have too much power. The American Police Force murders and imprisons its Citizens at a shockingly high rate. Both the murder rate and incarceration rate rank #1 in the world. And that is very shocking for a Nation that prides itself on Freedom & Liberty. So we do have a Police problem.
Police need to be retrained to respect and serve the Citizens. The People are beginning to resent the violent power-trip thing. They work for the Citizens. But somewhere along the line they forgot that. It's all part of the Militarization process. It's turned them into violent heavy-handed Rambo-wannabes. So Blacks, and all others Citizens do have a right to be concerned. The Police do need to be reigned in.
The police are fine. It's the criminals that need to be reigned in.
There is not one instance that I'm aware of where a subject listened to the orders of police and ended up getting killed. Police are like any other worker, they just want to get home at the end of the day.
Our police in this country are severely restrained. It has even cost police lives. Our prison population is not due to police, it's due to drug crimes. Our police don't murder. If they do, they are held accountable. Our police (like any average citizen) are allowed to use deadly force even against an unarmed suspect. But there's this false rumor going around that unarmed criminals are isolated from death simply because they are not armed. There is no truth to that.
Plain and simple: if you don't want to chance being killed by a police officer, just do as the officer tells you to do, and you'll live to see another day. If not, then what you brought on to yourself is your own doing.