MEYERS: Yeah, we’d say ‘s racist, but more importantly, it’s redundant because everything in our country and our culture already screams white lives matter. They said the movement is meant to achieve equality. “It’s going to bloom”, said Jade Dudley, of Black Lives Matter. But so easily do members of the public and the news media encourage Black Lives Matter to abandon their radical racial justice stance and adopt a position that’s more inclusive and less threatening to the establishment and the status quo.
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Obama related numbers about disparate rates of police shootings, arrests, and searches, among other things, without mentioning the single most important factor to put such figures in context, which is that blacks commit criminal offenses at higher rates than whites.
Buchanan said that lawlessness inspired by Black Lives Matter will propel voters to support his preferred candidate, Donald Trump: “If Black Lives Matter does not clean up its act, Obama and Clinton will have to throw this crowd over the side, or the BLM will take her down”.
This division has been highlighted by the deaths of Philando Castile, a black man, in Falcon Heights, Minn., Alton Sterling, a black man, in Baton Rouge, La., and five white Dallas police officers who were gunned down just days later. “I’m left with questions and they don’t want to give me any answers”.
“I believe I saved a lot more black lives than Black Lives Matter”.
Clemmons demanded justice for her daughter and her two friends who also drowned that night; she and others think police could have saved the three but chose not to.
Regardless of anyone’s allegiance to the Black Lives Matter protests or police officers, Dr. Williams shared a sentiment most people can agree with: violence is never the answer.
Biden told CNN after Monday’s meeting that a couple of the police groups criticized the president while others told him he was “doing it just right” with his comments. “It always feels like in America. if you take a stand for something, you automatically are against something else”.
She speaks of President Obama and former President Bush speaking at the funerals of some of the fallen Dallas officers, but says, “that’s not necessarily the case when cops kill black men”.
This guest columnist stated, “Police departments or unsympathetic journalists dig up old mug shots and petty rap sheets, or any suggestion the deceased might have used drugs or had a record”.
Neither side should stereotype the other, said Gregory Thomas, president of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives. “This is where we’re stuck”. “It’s gotten so far down the tracks that I’m afraid even people who want things to be resolved don’t have a loud enough voice”.
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Jesse J. Holland covers race and ethnicity.
