Please read this #blacklivesmatter

First of all. What does a bunch gangsters shooting each other up have to do with the average black American doing an honest job. Please. Talking about fix out neighbourhood first. Ok man what you have to realize about these neighbourhoods in the first place is that they run by fear. The no snitching rule is only in place due to the hold that the gangsters in the area have on your family and friends if you do snitch. Its for the safety of everybody that you don't snitch to be honest. Call it the same "save yourself before you save others" crap you see on the aeroplane.

When you live in these neighbourhoods all that idealistic stuff of 'help your neighbourhood' is out of the window in place of survival. No one wants to die trying to change the system, cause it leaves a burden on your family. Again its that fear aspect that runs this mentality. You have no right to judge these people for this when you sit behind your expensive computer in your decent house with internet connection, oblivious to the battleground.

My stance on #BLM might be slightly different to other people's appreciation on it but I believe in the movement because you have innocent BLACK men getting fatal dealt with like Philando, Sterling, Eric Garner, Ezell Ford and many more. Most of these people's lives are taken away so easily and so brutally as if THEIR LIVES DIDN'T MATTER. That the whole point. The use of excess force by the police always seems to happen towards black men and does not vary according to the severity. You might find yourself getting bodyslammed by an officer for selling CDs the same way a drug fiend will when caught with some product. There is no fine line.

BLM highlights more than just police violence against black people (lets not forget that it does exist ok) , its highlights that absurd shoot to kill crap, the gun laws in america (i mean you have the right to carry an arm, but you might get killed for it?), racial stereotyping and the low quality of policing in America. Until the police are adequately trained to not have to pull their gun out or use deadly moves at every tough spot and until they can be able to not treat the people they serve according to a book of stereotypes, then BLM will have a reason to stand. The police have a history of unfair treatment to black people that roots all the way back to slavery of course. I think thats the reason for this anti cop culture and to be frank, police don't do a good job of changing the perception anyway.

I in no way accept the Dallas killings. That is not the way forward. If we are in the business of thinking that there can actually be a way forward then we must learn to acknowledge both sides of the story. This is my #BLM version of the story.

You do realise that blacklivesmatter has actually driven a lot of the police even further from a lot of these ghettos right? #BlackLivesMatter is actually making the gang's jobs easier. Also, don't lecture me on what I can and cannot say and then claim I don't understand what the fear is like, I am fully aware of what It is like to be on your guard at ****ing 4am too.

If you truly know the fear then you'd understand how severe standing up to a gang is then. Perhaps you wouldn't call genuine problems as insignificant. Perhaps you understand that you are putting everyone you love in danger. Then probably you understand that even being on your guard in a ghetto is already a bad move, you shouldn't find yourself in that situation in the first place. But hey, BLM is driving police further from the ghettos. Well its not like the police were heavily involved in rough neighbourhoods anyway. If the ghettos hoodrats are in a war agains the police then so be it. Catch the 'bad guys' as Donald Trump would say. Just don't come to minor cases of crime or broken law with that same mentality you use on the gangsters and start choking a guy selling cigarettes to death for resisting arrest and shooting someone on the unproven basis that he was going to shoot you.

First of all. What does a bunch gangsters shooting each other up have to do with the average black American doing an honest job. Please. Talking about fix out neighbourhood first. Ok man what you have to realize about these neighbourhoods in the first place is that they run by fear. The no snitching rule is only in place due to the hold that the gangsters in the area have on your family and friends if you do snitch. Its for the safety of everybody that you don't snitch to be honest. Call it the same "save yourself before you save others" crap you see on the aeroplane.

First of all. What does a bunch gangsters shooting each other up have to do with the average black American doing an honest job. Please. Talking about fix out neighbourhood first. Ok man what you have to realize about these neighbourhoods in the first place is that they run by fear. The no snitching rule is only in place due to the hold that the gangsters in the area have on your family and friends if you do snitch. Its for the safety of everybody that you don't snitch to be honest. Call it the same "save yourself before you save others" crap you see on the aeroplane.

When you live in these neighbourhoods all that idealistic stuff of 'help your neighbourhood' is out of the window in place of survival. No one wants to die trying to change the system, cause it leaves a burden on your family. Again its that fear aspect that runs this mentality. You have no right to judge these people for this when you sit behind your expensive computer in your decent house with internet connection, oblivious to the battleground.

My stance on #BLM might be slightly different to other people's appreciation on it but I believe in the movement because you have innocent BLACK men getting fatal dealt with like Philando, Sterling, Eric Garner, Ezell Ford and many more. Most of these people's lives are taken away so easily and so brutally as if THEIR LIVES DIDN'T MATTER. That the whole point. The use of excess force by the police always seems to happen towards black men and does not vary according to the severity. You might find yourself getting bodyslammed by an officer for selling CDs the same way a drug fiend will when caught with some product. There is no fine line.

BLM highlights more than just police violence against black people (lets not forget that it does exist ok) , its highlights that absurd shoot to kill crap, the gun laws in america (i mean you have the right to carry an arm, but you might get killed for it?), racial stereotyping and the low quality of policing in America. Until the police are adequately trained to not have to pull their gun out or use deadly moves at every tough spot and until they can be able to not treat the people they serve according to a book of stereotypes, then BLM will have a reason to stand. The police have a history of unfair treatment to black people that roots all the way back to slavery of course. I think thats the reason for this anti cop culture and to be frank, police don't do a good job of changing the perception anyway.

I in no way accept the Dallas killings. That is not the way forward. If we are in the business of thinking that there can actually be a way forward then we must learn to acknowledge both sides of the story. This is my #BLM version of the story.

It has nothing to do with the average citizen. It has everything to do with defining the average. The rates of black on black murder compared to any other race are massively higher, this defines both police reaction to and perception of. The no snitching rule only stands because people let it and in itself shows the problem, criminality is so rife in poorer areas those who 'control' them establish a rule never to reveal the truth and breed a dislike of police based on the commonness of criminal enterprise, I was born in such a type of place. A collective effort to drive out crime, every and all snitching would work but human nature defeats it as people worry about themselves and their own thus refusing to endanger. Intimidation only works if you let it. As for your comment about no right to judge when you dont come from that background what a load of rubbish. If that were the case people would be unable to comment on anything outside their personal lived experience. I often think these sorts of situations are misrepresented by a lack of understanding of the functionality but that doesnt make all comments from outside sources inherently worthless.

BLM is pretty much a hate movement, the chants such as 'what do we want? Dead cops' and the first major set of protests with people shouting things such as 'Kill all these cops, kill their kids too' and throwing bricks at law enforcement officers is not (a) helpful in fostering a different view of black people and (b) will not cause calm dialogue being racist hate. Its culminated in the shooting of 'specifically white officers' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hos7HouJ4DQ

As for the unfair violence its only racial in so far as the average black person is more likely to be a criminal due to social and economic circumstance. That is simply a fact. Police deal disproportionately with criminals and are in a lot of danger a lot of the time. With Americas gun culture, it takes half a second to be shot dead because you let your guard down. When this reality is put on people with a few weeks training - normal civilians not conditioned towards it, it breeds a trigger happy culture. Even soldiers take a long time to condition and to become used to making high stress calls based on their RoE - the training to do so is difficult and shines a light on what people in these positions face, take it from someone who has been through it. American police have an issue per se with violence and overuse thereof which is entirely inexcusable. The idea they are intentionally and consciously shooting black people because of their skin colour is rubbish.

edit - fun fact, the reason people refer to police kills as 'brutal' often is because they keep firing until the suspect is grounded. This often ends up being ten shots or so. The reason is you have no idea how a person will react to being shot. Some go down first time, others will be so pumped on adrenaline or well enough trained they wont even notice and will return fire as if you didnt already shoot them. It is impossible to predict. Firing one shot and stopping is simply a no go.

I think most Black Americans are already aware of this. I do think they need to focus on black on black crime issues more though.

Blacklivesmatter activists believe police use unneccesary force and sometimes end up killing many black people just because they are black. Black people do not kill other black people just because they are black. So i don't see how "black on black" crime is even relevant in this.

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Listen man, this is exactly the type of thing that makes this world so ****ed up. I don't know where you're from but to a black person with a family to take care of, fighting the snitching rule is the last thing on their mind. If you like, call it a save yourself before you save others mentality which is broadcasted on aeroplanes that you need to take heed. A gangster wont give a moment notice to put you or your family down for standing up, they really don't feel like lives matter. Endangering yourself doesn't bring any needed stability to the community and in fact you could argue that the social effects of such local outrisings could spark more violence and crime. As you said, with the gun laws in America being so pathetic, it could end up really bloody and all for nothing. I'm in no way defending the submissive nature of these communities, but in drawing light to it we can let go of personal emotions when discussing these issues.

Your video link passage or whatever the hell it is, you make such big comments and then do not back them up with a case study or article or any trusted source but a youtube video of some random guy. I don't know how you expect that to make your arguement stronger. Besides that and falling into some hasty generalizations. Id give this paragraph a 2/10.

You last paragraph is exactly the point man. BLM shines light on so many other things than just racial profiling. It highlights how difficult it is to live in America under the current economics, that gun culture they have that just spreads fear amongst police, perhaps inadequate police training and the subsequent trigger happy policing. Admittedly, it does this subconsciously but it does and once we are made more aware we can work for a better situation.

But your last point missed my heart. Shooting someone 10 times is a death sentence. Are you telling me there is absolutely no other alternative to subdue a suspect besides killing him? This is the point man. Police live and die by the book 'shoot as many as you want,' to them a mans life is no big deal, as long as they can go home and hug their children. You don't think Philando's wife and child are suffering because of this method of submission? To think also that a man selling CDs should get riddled with bullets as if he were a terrorist - and thats OK?? Even when firearms aren't involved cases like Eric Garner, Tanisha Anderson and Freddy Gray show that in some instances cops don't take your life into consideration, especially if you from a tough neighbourhood. Another prison cell left empty i guess huh?