The President Claims Race Relations are Better, Are They?

It would appear that Race Relations in the Country have taken a massive step back over the last several months.  The President claims they have gotten better, but have they?

Protests have erupted around the Country over deaths of Black Men at the hands of White Cops.  The actual facts of all of these cases have seemed to become irrelevant and in every instance it has become a conversation about race.  Did race really play a role in any of these cases?  You could make an argument that since it was White Officers and Black Men that yes race did play a role.

The narrative has been that it was the White Officers at fault in each of these cases.  I would argue that there is a great fault in that thinking.  The evidence in these cases have shown that the actions of the Officers, be them White or Not, was justified.

How about we take a different and not so popular look at these cases.  What if the Black Offenders would have been approached by Black Officers?  Would Mike Brown have attacked the Officer?  Would Mike Brown have escalated the situation?  Was race at issue because Mike Brown was dealing with a White Cop?

In Milwaukee the narrative has been about the Mental Illness of Dontre Hamilton in the Police Shooting that killed Mr. Hamilton.  It is tragic that this situation cost a man his life.  However you have to look at the situation.  How was the Officer to know that Mr. Hamilton had a Mental Illness?  Does the Mental Illness excuse the actions of Mr. Hamilton beating the Police Officer?  What was the Officer expected to do?

The President, Attorney General and Mayor of NY claim that the Police handle these situations differently in the Black Community.

A majority of the Crime in Milwaukee is in an area that is predominately black.  85% of Homicide arrests are of Black People.  78% of the Homicide Victims are Black.

Wouldn't this tend to support the Police handling things differently in the Black Community.  If a majority of the crime is there, then you expect the Police to be more aggressive in that area.

This isn't about race, it is about crime.

If you listen to the narrative coming out of all of these protests, Police Officers patrolling the Black communities should also be Black so that we can take race out of the equation.  Is that how we solve the race issue?  We should also stop the aggressive Police activity in the High Crime areas.  I also guess that the actions of a criminal don't seem to matter.

It amazes me that every night on the nightly news we hear about all the killings.  We hear about kids being killed in the cross fire or from shots that are just fired at houses indiscriminately.  Don't see protests or the level of outrage that we have seen over the deaths that involve Police Officers.  Maybe if we as a community would stand up and not tolerate these thugs and criminals we would see a dramatic stop to the crime and killings.  If we didn't allow people who have a long list of criminal offenses back out on the streets for yet another chance, we would have all this crime.

This isn't a problem the Police can solve until we as a people stand up and say no more.  A criminal is a criminal.  If they break the law then they pay the price.  If the law is a silly law, it isn't the Police at fault, it is the Politicians who pass said laws.  We can't let a criminal become the victim, when you put yourself in that situation then you have to expect bad things can and will happen.  We have all to often tried to give chance after chance to criminals until something bad happens then we blame the system.  The system is US!!!!

This isn't about Race.  Black Lives Matter, White Lives Matter, ALL LIVES MATTER!!!  It isn't about race.