The crime rates in those black communities are high. That is a fact. We must deal with it. The assumption, then, turns out to be quite right: how else are we supposed to feel the fear if not based upon the fact? They should look scary and alarming. We certainly should not assume that on the individual, but SHOULD assume the crime rates are high among them, so should the police.
Unless we can be sure that crime rates are the same or lower for those groups of people, we should not assume the same behavior from the police. Any individual, of course, can insist that he or she is different from them. Take for instance, the rich black people. They no longer equate himself with the rest of the poor members of the poor community. That claim, however, can not to be applied to the entire community, unless the crime rates go down.
So what is 'police'? There is not such thing in this country. Instead, there are tens of thousands of organizations. Expressing anger against some entity that does not even have face will not achieve any objective. Are those activists having any sort of objectives at all? It does not seem likely.
What is this all about then? An expression of frustration about being black? Is this something of a show of the disappointment in Obama's performance? Why are those white activists acting like black?
Whatever that might be, here let me mourn for the NYPD officers that were shot dead by a black man.
