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Haven't been around here much...but I did have to rant about that town hall last night.

With all due respect, Mr. President, that town hall was bulls*it
by Chitown Kev

I love you Mr. President, but that town hall was weak sauce.

First of all, law enforcement officials appear to not to want to accept any culpability in these problems whatsoever and you seem content to let them get away with it.

Again with the black male-on-black male crime and the fact that the police perceive black men as a threat.

Mr. President, you know that most people (male and female) in black communities are law abiding American citizens who would like to have crimes like murder and drug trafficking and gang violence reduced in their neighborhood.

We need law enforcement in our communities to do their job in capturing the criminals that are a threat to our own safety.

A man selling bootlegged CDs to make a few extra bucks is not perceived to be a threat; in fact, he had the permission of the store owner to be there.

And Alton Sterling sure didn’t deserve to be shot in cold blood.

A broken taillight (or having a “wide-set nose”) was enough to get Philando Castile killed even after he duly informed the LEO that he had a firearm and a permit to carry it. He was murdered in front of his child.

Selling loose cigarettes got Eric Garner killed.

And I don’t even remember the minor traffic violation that resulted in the eventual death of Sandra Bland in Texas.

Rekia Boyd, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Laquan McDonald...that list goes on and on and on…

And I’m just talking about the legally sanctioned killings of black people...lets not EVEN get into issues involving LEOs that use black communities to gin up city revenue (such as what happened in Ferguson).

Let’s not even get into police departments infested with “ghost skins” and Klansmen...those LEOs are probably not going to be a threat to white people….and that was reported by the FBI a decade ago.

Mr. President, a problem cannot be solved if one of the parties is unwilling to admit that there is a problem and/or whines and rationalizes when confronted with solid evidence.

Police unions are not dealing in good faith with black communities in that regard and you know it.

Oh well...it’s an election year and have to keep the white folks happy I guess...after all, it is an election year.

In regards to what BLM is protesting, black citizens are not the problem, law enforcement is the problem.

And until you and law enforcement admits that, there’s really nowhere we can go with the problem of policing in black communities, nothing to be reconciled, and no healing to be had….except for the white folks, that is.