a thoughtful web.
Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking.   Login or Take a Tour!
comment by Quatrarius
Quatrarius  ·  3212 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: America's struggle

Police brutality isn't just a race problem, it's a poverty problem, it's a policing problem, and a race problem. Denying that race has anything to do with police killings is equally incorrect as saying that race is the only problem.





AfraidofVWoolf  ·  3212 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Absolutely, that's something that people never seem to talk about. It's either A or B, and that's such a "black or white" (excuse the phrase) way of looking at it. The problem is, looking over a lot of the recent police shootings that have received major media coverage, whether it was racially-driven or not, the victims happened to be black.

Ty-Guy  ·  3212 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I second this. Both extremes (always about race, never about race) are incorrect and harmful to the well being of all people in our country. What upsets me about these police brutality incidents are 1) that they ever happen at all and 2) so many people jump on the cases as a reason to generalize police offers as either never, or always, being racist in their decisions.