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Originally Posted by billethkid

If the media would not continue to glorify the protests by giving them so much coverage the disruption would not be seen as broad as they make it out to be.

For example the 20 or so that were demonstrating in Orlando yesterday, trying to block an intersection.....totally and absolutely news unworthy....yet there the cameras were watching a bunch of parrots walking around with their hands up without a clue what they are doing there except being a public nuisance.

For what is might be worth....

.....If there is a racial bias in our justice system, then EVERYONE should attack that issue and solve it. The two cases being bandied about and making the headlines, in my opinion, had nothing to do with race. It is not racial simply because the media and a few others with agendas call it that.

.....To make a good point, the choice of the fellow in Ferguson and the fellow in NYC were not good choices. In Ferguson, the man strongarms a store, consistently refuses to obey a police officer and then attacks that police officer. In NYC, BLACK SHOP OWNERS had called the police to complain about the man killed and asked the police to come. He had over 30 arrests, and it matters not what they were for. I am sure that there are other cases that can be used for a national movement.

.....BOTH grand juries followed the law. We are a country of law. In Ferguson, an indictment would have been totally opposed to the law. In NYC, the hold used was against police procedure, no doubt. It was not against any law. The choke hold was a DETERMINING factor along with a myriad of other physical problems this man had.

.....These marches and destruction are widening the gap, not narrowing it. There are a number of folks not of color who really have empathy to what is going on, but not going to get involved in this stuff.

.....The media is complicit because there are folks, and I cannot even fathom this, who enjoy watching this stuff. The media know who to follow and who to watch to make this kind of "news" and those who are in the power, know the media will prostitute themselves for this kind of film.

.....The leadership is really bad. The largest and best known leader of these movements is a convicted tax cheat, a man who lost his law liscense and is best known to me for the choice and selective words he had for those of the Jewish faith during the Brawley case in NY. This is not someone that anyone should follow.

MLK, as I said before would stay within the law...he would use the law to have things changed. His actions would get support from lawmakers who just will not get dirty associating with the likes of Sharpton. A huge mistake is being made by the black community, and it will undermine the police and what they rightfully are trying to accomplish.

Does anyone think that these actions and inflamatory words will change any bias that might exist in a policeman ? Or might it not make it worse ? Will the next black young man think he can be a hero by not listening to a police officer ?

I think that nobody wants racial bias in our justice system. I think that nobody wants our police to be handcuffed and unable to protect us. I think that people are just sick of certain groups looking for excuses to cry race. If they think that will actually help the problem or the people involved, they really have not thought this through.

OR, maybe they have and this serves their purpose, ie. continue to take advantage of a group and insure that they are always victims !!!