Black people have had problems with the police for many periods of time for many different reasons. You cannot minimize those problems the way you're trying to do raphjd, it's much too complicated of an issue. We do not trust the police because of the many times the police have wrongfully treated us historically and presently. Many, many police departments were linked to white supremacist groups and often aided murderers to lynch black people based on false convictions as recent as 60 years ago. No, that does not happen today but the problem was never really addressed and no efforts were made to restore the trust. Fast-forward to today, you have some black people committing heinous crimes against other black people because they do not view black life as important enough to preserve and protect. They know if they commit a crime against another black person, it will not be taken as seriously as a crime against a white person. Do you want to guess why that is?
Another thing is you're acting like this is a strict black and white issue when in reality, it's not. Are you not aware of black police officers treating black people unfairly? The Atlanta police departments have many, many black officers and black people in leadership, yet the same problems are present there. This is an institutional problem. This is a self-worth problem. Once again, do you want to have the discussion of why some black people do not view other black lives as important enough or worthy of even living?
Lastly, no one in this discussion is calling you a racist. We're pointing out how biased and flawed your arguments are. When I called your statements racist in other threads, it was usually because you were using one black person to say they spoke for all black people which is a racist thing to do. If you can say one black person speaks for me, then why can't I say David Duke speaks for you? David Duke does NOT speak for you so no black person–-except myself---speaks for me. Simple as that.
