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RE: Black Lives Matter Shine at Pro-Trump Free Speech Rally
jamell, you are right; perhaps I should have written "aggressive" violence. Defensive violence is the only justifiable violence. This was the case with the American colonists against the British. Also, I cannot agree that black Americans are "undervalued" in the U.S.. They have reached the apex of practically every area of American society and are among the highest paid in their fields - from sports to entertainment to music to the military to politics, economics and sciences. Even if what you claim were true, I would argue that it would be a societal problem in nature, CAUSED by the government's policies. Murdering police is NOT a solution. MLK faced REAL problems and he did it with non-violence. He was heard.
I agree 100%. I want to make it clear that I neither support or defend the BLM movement. I just can see it from their point of view and think that answering their grievances, which can be legitimate at times, with their terminology would go farther than pure logic and rationale. Basically no one suffers today, based on race, anywhere comparable to early 1900's blacks. I think their feelings of being undervalued should be addressed, but not incentivized. I should say that I think any problems with law enforcement and the system that surrounds it are true for all races, but I can see why black people would be more suspicious of this system, given the history, than whites would.