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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
But it didn't come from thin air. To go counter to "SJW" when the cause is factually relevant is to be contrarian for the sake of being contrarian. It really doesn't matter whether the problem is being overblown or not, There's an incredibly serious problem
I agree with CliffFletcher on many issues where he takes more complex and broader positions on this issue, but he's obfuscating this issue. Unarmed black people are brutalized and killed disproportionately by the very forces that should protect us. I get it's en vogue and popular and a cause du jour. That doesn't disqualify it
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I'm certainly not disqualifying it. At all.
Black people have very good reasons to fear the police.
But it's also not unfair to say that more - way more - blacks are killed by other blacks from within their own community. To point out that a lot of the problems the community faces are due to systemic collapses of key institutions - political, economic and social - is just being astute.
People who refuse to address these larger issues, while still acknowledging that blacks suffer from institutional brutality are just blind.