I'd like to thank the Dallas shooters...(not really) [View all]

Last edited Fri Jul 8, 2016, 01:37 PM - Edit history (2)

For making the target on our collective backs even bigger, for handing the moral high ground right back to the police forces and conservative America (something I would have thought damned near impossible), taking away any chance in the immediate future for peaceful protest, indirectly justifying the murders of Sterling and Castile, and getting the world media to talk about Dallas instead of Baton Rouge and Minneapolis...

First question for #PhilandoCastile 's mother from CNN was about her reaction to Dallas. "My son died 48 hours ago"
https://twitter.com/KarenAttiah/status/751391134572638208

You happy now? And while you made a half-assed noble attempt to not implicate the wider BLM movement, everyone will make that connection anyway, and I guaran-fucking-tee you some congresscritter is going to try to have BLM designated as a terrorist organization...

Mission Accomplished...

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EDIT: Since some want to jump on me for denouncing the murder of five police officers, let me amend my original post:

Yes, I get the anger, and don't you dare think for a second that I'm not angry myself... I still think about what happened to Trayvon Martin on a near-daily basis. My concern is that one meaningless night of "revenge" in Dallas only makes a bad situation that much worse, and takes us farther from what we're trying to accomplish. If you think that reprisal will magically make the nation's cops treat us better than before, I don't know what to tell you.

If people don't have the brainpower to think of a real, lasting solution to this crisis other than the lowest common denominator, All-American tried-and-true method of bullets and want to go out in some desperate, futile suicide mission, fine -- More power to them (even though it makes us no better than what we're fighting against)...
But please don't do it in a manner which will almost certainly taint BLM by association, and for the love of GOD, please don't brazenly exploit a peaceful gathering of your brothers and sisters to start an ambush -- This is not only cowardly, it's dishonorable.