Some Personal Thoughts

This is largely a problem of accountability.  Leftist tend to excuse black misbehavior and belittle police behavior.  Consequently whether legitimate or not blacks and leftist tend to blame white police officers for conflicts with them, labeling them racist.  Here is the dilemma.  Both blacks and police need to be held accountable for their respective actions. That is not racism, that is the right thing to do. But it is not a part of the leftist agenda.  Agitation, rabble rousing and blaming whitey is.  Blacks have long been conditioned to have negative attitudes towards police, hence they tend to approach any encounter with an attitude. This has been fostered by rhetoric within the black community and exacerbated by black radicals as well as white apologists and the leftist media and is deeply engrained in the black culture. This is the attitude displayed by both Obama and Hillary in the first paragraph in this section and it is totally absurd.  It implies that only whites are racist.  The fact is that racism cuts both ways.  The sooner everybody admits that fact the sooner the problem can be solved. Still, there can be little doubt that the troubled feelings blacks have are real and not to be minimized. That must change.  It is true that blacks have a history of resisting or being suspicious of any approach by the police, especially if the officer is white.  It is little wonder that their behavior often displays hostile/threatening attitudes and/or unpleasant gestures and words. Of course this is not always the case and most often such encounters end without incident. Regardless of who and what caused the rise of the current unsettled climate, it needs to stop and cooler heads prevail. Hostile or intimidating black behavior needs to be modified and bad actors held accountable when they are in the wrong.  Police must maintain a calm non-threatening demeanor until or unless facing an obvious threat while always abiding the law and not let attitudes, words or gestures provoke them into taking foolish actions.  No one should ever rush to judgment that either a black person or the police involved in an encounter were at fault.  If it is determined that the police were wrong they must be held accountable.  Failing to do this engenders automatic suspicions of police behavior.  This is not a perfect world.  Following serious interracial police encounters, the public and media piling on to defend their respective sides without the facts needs to cease. Obama has repeatedly violated this common sense rule. Judgments should only be made when the facts are established.  This is a problem endemic to both sides, and all concerned need to cool it and await the facts.  It is inevitable that mistakes will be made on both sides but transparent accountability by involved parties should always prevail. All of us regardless of color, ethnicity or creed need to have trust in our police - their job is to maintain the peace. Until attitudes change the problem will remain.  I realize this is a simple common sense narrative and surely understood by readers but the current climate has reached the point where common sense is absent. Further, I am convinced nothing will change as long as the left, black agitators, the media and black apologists regardless of color or position continue their current practice of demonizing the police, especially white officers.  They are wrong to focus only on the relatively small number of white on black encounters while far more deaths result from black on black encounters. Such imbalance in reasoning promotes racism and certainly does not promote accountability.  Notably when a black cop kills a white person, it is not news and that is the way it should be whether encounters involve white or black cops. Our progressive left culture is filled with charges of white racism, white privilege and the like which fosters racial tensions, producing a false narrative that only whites are racist.  Cease spouting such nonsense!  And that includes everyone from the President and Hillary on down.  The fact is the police can help resolve the perception they are racist but they alone cannot change the feelings/perceptions those within the black community developed over a long period of time. That is where strong black leadership is missing along with an absence of black accountability.  Changing both the national culture and prevailing liberal/leftist narrative to one that is more tolerant, inclusive and non-racist is a responsibility all of us have.  All of us, especially leftists and blacks, are accountable for the consequences if that does not happen.

*This brilliant and honorable black man lays out his view of the blame for the racial mess and how to fix it.  Quote: "President Barack Obama and his first attorney general, Eric Holder, called for an honest conversation about race. Holder even called us “a nation of cowards” because we were unwilling to have a “national conversation” about race. The truth of the matter is there’s been more than a half-century of conversations about race. We do not need more. Instead, black people need to have frank conversations among ourselves, no matter how uncomfortable and embarrassing the topics may be. Among the nation’s most dangerous cities are Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Baltimore, Memphis, Milwaukee, Birmingham, Newark, Cleveland and Philadelphia. These once-thriving cities are in steep decline. What these cities have in common is that they have large black populations. Also, they have been run by Democrats for nearly a half-century, with blacks having significant political power. Other characteristics these cities share are poorly performing and unsafe schools, poor-quality city services, and declining populations." And, "Black people have the capacity to run the criminals out of their neighborhoods. Let me put the issue another way. Suppose it were the Ku Klux Klan riding through black neighborhoods murdering 7,000 blacks year after year. How many black people would be willing to wait for the Klansmen to behave themselves or accept political promises and wait for a government program?"    https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/07/walter-e-williams/challenge-black-people/

*This is serious!!!  Remember, Obama and the Democrat left created the environment that made this possible.  Quote: "We still have much to learn about the four snipers behind last night’s massacre of Dallas police that killed five officers and wounded seven others. While President Obama and many on the left have rushed to blame guns in their usual fashion, at least one of the snipers revealed in no uncertain terms that his motive was targeting whites — and, specifically, white police officers.  And now there are reports that a “black power” group is taking credit for the attack on police officers."  And, the group's Facebook account reports "More Will Be Assassinated In The Coming Days! Do You Like The Work Of Our Assassins? Get Your Own Sniper”.   http://www.allenbwest.com/michellejesse/breaking-this-group-claims-responsibility-for-dallas-police-massacre   I am sad to say this but I fully believe Obama was seeking this type of response and the resulting violence sure to follow.