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Originally Posted by jimjamuser
Hypothetically, let's put the shoe on the other foot - what if their point of view is that, "no Black person will ever be safe until the police are brought under control"? Given the Jim Crow History of the US, I for one would not blame them. You see how EMPATHY and just simple Christianity can highlight a different viewpoint and add some clarity to ANY situation. PLEASE, Please, take just some small amount of time and PRETEND that you are Black and how your world view would change. Long ago, a man used good makeup to appear to be Black to see how others treated him differently. Then he wrote a book. Maybe now is the time to ask Santa for THAT book under all our Christmas trees. What if the law REQUIRED every white person in the US to put on that Black makeup just ONE day out of the year. Would your post be so hateful?.......could you maintain that hate? ...........I don't think so!
Lots of people here will want to write that they just HATE the looting, NOT the looters. I will save you that exercise. Or is it just a rationalization?
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Sorry, but that dog don't hunt. Put myself in a black person's shoes? It's not your fault that you don't know me, but you are assuming. Now, try this one on for size. Put yourself in the Chinese shoes that built the railroad, etc. Put yourself in the shoes of our American Indians (indigenous Americans). Put yourself in the shoes of the Japanese that were institutionalized (to put it nicely) in camps during WWII. Put yourself in the shoes of the WHITE indentured servants that were before the black slaves. Sorry, but everyone has an excuse for bad behavior if they search for justification and rationalization. The law does not stipulate ethnicity. Believe me when I say that honest, law abiding Americans of any color or gender want law enforcement, not pity from those that feel they are better than them. If you wish to empathize with a minority, try empathizing with those that are law abiding and are embarrassed by the thuggery of the criminal element.