The title of this post is a quote attributed to Carl Jung...I read it as a facebook meme. Unfortunately that day I also read this:
A hero New York City cop was shot in the face by a dirt bag, thug, violent career criminal on Saturday night. Sitting behind the wheel of his patrol car, the officer was questioning ex-con Demetrius Blackwell about a suspected weapon when the perp whipped out the handgun and shot Officer Brian Moore at point-blank range. Clinging to life, the cop remains in a medically-induced coma.
As far as I know, no civil rights marches are planned.
Nobody deserves to die in police custody. But urban cops deal with the worst among us. Before we judge their actions on the streets we have to walk a mile in their shoes.
Update
Officer Moore has died. He was 25, just like Freddie Gray. Don't cop's lives matter too? Where's the outrage? Where's the demonstration?
That was a facebook post by (allegedly--since who knows who really controls his facebook page) Geraldo Rivera. I only had the misfortune of reading it because a friend had "liked" it. I also mistakenly read way too many comments applauding Geraldo...and not even a handful calling him out on the absurdity of the comparison.
I can not understand how anyone who would take the time to read this and then THINK about what it is saying can possibly agree with it. It can't just be me that sees that comparing a cop being shot to black men and children being shot weekly (daily?) by cops is the same thing...thereby warranting a civil rights march.
I mean REALLY??? Let's think about some facts, because this issue divides many people, which in and of itself is stupid...because do those who are so outraged by the Black Lives Matter mantra really believe that anyone is saying cops lives don't? Or that to say Black Lives Matter is to side AGAINST the police?
I am not anti-cop. I am against racism. I am against people who try to deny racism by making excuses when cops shoot black people. I am tired of the excuse "You try doing their job"....Last I checked no one is forcing anyone to be a cop and to add to that shooting people is not part of their job, so they are NOT doing their job.
Next we hear the tired argument that these people (thugs, we now call them, I am guessing that is the PC way of saying the n word) somehow deserved to die....if they were just following the law, if they didn't run...only problem is that excuse doesn't hold water in many of the instances of the murders (yes I will call them murders).
We have the man who had his back to the cop, leaning on a TOY gun in a Walmart....did he run? was he breaking a law? and the final test of racism....would he have been shot if he wasn't black?
How about the 12 year old boy shot within seconds of the police arriving at a park, responding to a 911 call that stated they didn't believe it to be a real gun...was he a criminal for playing with a toy gun in a park? Oh but he took off whatever tag that identified it as a toy...yup that warrants murdering him...do you know any 12 year old boys that do stupid things? I sure do...would they be shot in the same situation...if they were white? But he ran....most kids do run when they think they are about to get in trouble...I am betting growing up as a black kid, seeing these stories on the news, that he didn't have much trust in the cops...so yes he ran...did he deserve to be murdered for that?
How about the guy pulled over for a broken tail light...he took off running, because he owed back child support..do you know anyone who owes child support, that may have a broken tail light? Should they be shot in the back while running away after being tasered? Would you not be outraged?
Then there's the guy, who didn't die, shot after he pulled over for a traffic stop...oops by mistake...caught on film...he was doing nothing wrong...just an itchy trigger finger...but cops have a stressful job...we should just excuse these lapses...do we excuse lapses by doctors who are grossly negligent doing their job? NO! They are sued and often lose their licenses..why must we be defend ALL cops, when it is so obvious some do not deserve to be defended?
Now let's discuss the "thugs"....you know the ones with records a mile long...one simply walking in the street (yes he had just robbed cigars (CIGARS!! are we okay with murdering someone for stealing cigars??) but we don't really know if the cop knew this, do we?)...so does he deserve to die for previous crimes committed, does he deserve to die for stealing cigars or giving a cop attitude? But the grand jury found the cop innocent...oh ok...let's ignore the reports of DA misconduct and just call this one ok....NO....a cop is not an executioner...I won't say this cop murdered in this instance but it certainly could have been handled better, no one should have died that day.
What about the choke hold guy? He was selling cigarettes illegally...but he's big and scary...how many cops were holding him down? Did he need to die?
Finally, let's talk Baltimore. There still hasn't been a reason given why this guy was being arrested...other than he made eye contact with a cop and ran.....everyone is so much in denial about the problem that we now resort to manufacturing stories for the cops, they don't even need to do it....he had a prior injury, based on some lawsuit...oops turns out the injury was lead paint poisoning, but no, let's cling to the narrative we like, the one that let's us sleep easier believing we don't live in a country that violates people's civil rights based on their skin color....we'll just stick with that prior injury story, even after if it's been proven wrong and even removed from the original site that published it....that's how much denial we are in as a nation...let's ignore that a 2 minute ride to the station lasted 40 minutes...let's ignore the millions paid out in lawsuits by this one city for misconduct by police...let's ignore their policy of giving "thugs: a rough ride....it isn't comfortable to THINK about it, so let's just judge Freddie on his past mistakes and the future we assume he would have lead...and let's be okay with him being murdered because hey...isn't' Baltimore better off without him??
So go on....judging every time a cop kills a black person...it isn't just men or even boys...just judge...jump to the conclusion that the cop is telling the truth, the cop did what he had to do....don't waste time THINKING about what may have really happened, or THINK about why it happens so often and disproportionately to black men...just keep talking the talking points...thugs, blacks kill blacks (because what? whites don't kill whites?...and name me a black serial killer,off the top of your head?...they are such thugs, shouldn't there be at least ONE you can think of?)
Don't be outraged by the crimes committed by white people...that affect millions of Americans...and go unpunished...just sit there and be appalled that no one is throwing a march when a cop dies...because it is totally the same thing as what is happening in the black community.
And please shut the fuck up about how they are like animals destroying their own neighborhoods...implying that they are inferior to the white community who would never do that...as riots continue to break out all around the country when a basketball team loses or a parade goes crazy....I will not defend rioting, but I will not suggest that black people are the only morons doing it...their anger is a little bit different...people are losing their lives not basketball trophies...so stop judging and THINK...
When a cop wakes up in the morning, I imagine as he's looking at his image in the mirror he wonders "Will I die today?"...he chose this profession and it is not an easy one. I could google it but I am guessing in the majority of towns all across America most cops don't really have to worry about it too much, sure in cities it's a very real threat...but...
when a black man looks in that mirror he, too, wonders "Will I die today?" not for a crime I may have committed and done my time for, not for a crime I am about to commit...but simply because I am black and I may cross paths with a cop who believes that he can get away with killing me, because so many already have..."
His threat is real too, only he didn't chose to have black skin.
And if you think that just "thugs" are harassed, ask black actors...I forget which one sold their Mercedes and bought 3 Prius's instead because he was tired of getting pulled over for being a black man in a Mercedes...
Racism is real...too admit it, does not make you guilty of anything but to deny it does...you are guilty of not really THINKing about it, but instead choosing sides because the truth makes you uncomfortable.
If they invented a drug that would make you color blind....blind to the color of one's skin....would you be ok with taking it? Or do you feel you NEED that information to accurately judge the person you meet? THINK about your answer....consider situations in which you think knowing the skin color of someone would help you --walking down an alley in a city, picking a seat on a bus...and then THINK about what that means. Would you take that drug? What would happen if cops were forced to take it? Would statistics start to change?? THINK about it.
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