No, I am not. Why I inserted an explicit bit about being spoiled in a different country.
However, I guess I can say "I guess I can say I've educated myself about the country's history, culture plus followed the news closely for the last few years (also visited a while back)." as well. I have been reading NYTimes, PBS, Washington Post, etc, for long enough to legitimately remember a time when they would have been at the forefront of the Snowden leaks, as opposed to defaulting to the likes of The Guardian and The Intercept. American history is taught extensively, considering how entwined it is into our own, and modern western major events.
People need to cut it out with the divisive politicking online, or in person. Cops have, and always will be members of the community first. Community events like Gay Pride Parades need to be explicit about having people from all walks of life, putting forward demands that the police have a reduced presence is precisely how you make sure people do not see eachother as people, instead only as the enemy. There needs to be, at every level of government clear, and equal consequences for breaking the law. Yes, police are constantly placed in fucked up situations, an unfortunate amount of time where they need to respond to violence/real threats in kind, but they still end up in court to face charges of manslaughter. People need to call out any comments that of violence towards police as justified out, especially, as I thought it didn't need explaining, they are split up municipal, state, and national. Tougher policy changes for the US are the private industrialisation of prisons, the prohibition on marijuana. Take money out of the people who profit from the current state of affairs. However, the only practical, immediate solution is going to be more drones, more militarisation of the police force in America. Because until online discourse of "All Lives Matter" is not dismissed as racist, it will only get worse,. because somehow in the past twenty years, MLK teachings have been not nearly as stressed as they should be. EDIT: Missed some important words.
EDIT 2: Even though it is hilarious given the context of the Clinton FBI/State investigations, I am quoting aspects of what Lynch has said recently that I agree with:
“After the events this week, Americans across the country are feeling a sense of helplessness, of uncertainty, of fear. Now, these feelings are understandable and they are justified. But the answer must not be violence. The answer must never be violence,” Lynch said.
“Rather, the answer must be action: calm, peaceful, collaborative and determined action. Calm, peaceful, collaborative and determined action. We must continue working to build trust between communities and law enforcement. We must continue working to guarantee every person in this country equal justice under the law,” she said.
Cops have, and always will be members of the community first.
Wishful thinking. Cops typically don't live where they work. Police departments were established to protect the merchant and professional classes in urban areas, performing the traditional function of a county sheriff and a territorial army regiment on a mass scale. The notion they serve the general population is Pollyanna nonsense. I've known a lot of law enforcement. Their jobs aren't boring. I wouldn't, as many would, describe them as toadies. They are troops, though. However modern.
Community events like Gay Pride Parades need to be explicit about having people from all walks of life, putting forward demands that the police have a reduced presence is precisely how you make sure people do not see eachother as people, instead only as the enemy.
Sounds nice. Too bad for all that flowery talk that police have always been natural predators of the LGBTQ community. Or are we supposed to pretend, now that we're some few decades into the sexual revolution in the U.S. and cops no longer openly roust most LGBTQ folks as a matter of course, that it never happened, or still doesn't happen today.
Spend a night in the Tenderloin and see whether ‘community policing’ is fact or fiction.
"But the answer must not be violence. The answer must never be violence."
The greater context here is tragedy. All of these stolen lives are tragic, wounding to so many, and clearly and terribly wrong. As is the context beyond that and so on into regress.
However, since you seem not to know it, the social revolution in the United States around civil rights, womens' and sexual liberation, did not come about without fighting.
It was before the Stonewall Riots that LGBTQ people started fighting back against brutal police raids. You don't get your Disneyfied late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. without Malcolm X and the Black Panthers. I've known plenty of the people on all sides of the courtroom to do with some of those struggles, and I can tell you one thing for certain: they were all scared shitless of one another, and that fear kept them safer than they'd've been ofherwise.
That's one reason I'm uncomfortable in suburbs. You meet a better class of person when everyone knows foolishness can get you shot.
No, I am not. Why I inserted an explicit bit about being spoiled in a different country.
However, I guess I can say "I guess I can say I've educated myself about the country's history, culture plus followed the news closely for the last few years (also visited a while back)." as well. I have been reading NYTimes, PBS, Washington Post, etc, for long enough to legitimately remember a time when they would have been at the forefront of the Snowden leaks, as opposed to defaulting to the likes of The Guardian and The Intercept. American history is taught extensively, considering how entwined it is into our own, and modern western major events.
People need to cut it out with the divisive politicking online, or in person. Cops have, and always will be members of the community first. Community events like Gay Pride Parades need to be explicit about having people from all walks of life, putting forward demands that the police have a reduced presence is precisely how you make sure people do not see eachother as people, instead only as the enemy. There needs to be, at every level of government clear, and equal consequences for breaking the law. Yes, police are constantly placed in fucked up situations, an unfortunate amount of time where they need to respond to violence/real threats in kind, but they still end up in court to face charges of manslaughter. People need to call out any comments that of violence towards police as justified out, especially, as I thought it didn't need explaining, they are split up municipal, state, and national. Tougher policy changes for the US are the private industrialisation of prisons, the prohibition on marijuana. Take money out of the people who profit from the current state of affairs. However, the only practical, immediate solution is going to be more drones, more militarisation of the police force in America. Because until online discourse of "All Lives Matter" is not dismissed as racist, it will only get worse,. because somehow in the past twenty years, MLK teachings have been not nearly as stressed as they should be. EDIT: Missed some important words.
EDIT 2: Even though it is hilarious given the context of the Clinton FBI/State investigations, I am quoting aspects of what Lynch has said recently that I agree with:
Wishful thinking. Cops typically don't live where they work. Police departments were established to protect the merchant and professional classes in urban areas, performing the traditional function of a county sheriff and a territorial army regiment on a mass scale. The notion they serve the general population is Pollyanna nonsense. I've known a lot of law enforcement. Their jobs aren't boring. I wouldn't, as many would, describe them as toadies. They are troops, though. However modern.
Sounds nice. Too bad for all that flowery talk that police have always been natural predators of the LGBTQ community. Or are we supposed to pretend, now that we're some few decades into the sexual revolution in the U.S. and cops no longer openly roust most LGBTQ folks as a matter of course, that it never happened, or still doesn't happen today.
Spend a night in the Tenderloin and see whether ‘community policing’ is fact or fiction.
The greater context here is tragedy. All of these stolen lives are tragic, wounding to so many, and clearly and terribly wrong. As is the context beyond that and so on into regress.
However, since you seem not to know it, the social revolution in the United States around civil rights, womens' and sexual liberation, did not come about without fighting.
It was before the Stonewall Riots that LGBTQ people started fighting back against brutal police raids. You don't get your Disneyfied late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. without Malcolm X and the Black Panthers. I've known plenty of the people on all sides of the courtroom to do with some of those struggles, and I can tell you one thing for certain: they were all scared shitless of one another, and that fear kept them safer than they'd've been ofherwise.
That's one reason I'm uncomfortable in suburbs. You meet a better class of person when everyone knows foolishness can get you shot.