Who is the "we" having this "conversation"? Because frankly it sure seems like the answer is "educated, well-heeled urbanites and knowledge-industry workers," or people who mostly don't get stopped by the cops on a regular basis, live or work in the few blasted urban communities where the vast majority of black crime happens, or take an active hand in criminal justice or police policy. Moreover, the "conversation" is almost exclusively at 40,000 feet; discussing monolithic "Blacks" and "Whites" and "Asians" instead of actually looking at individual communities and lives.
I submit that the fact of the conversation is itself toxic, and everyone would be far better served if people would just tend to their own gardens as best as they could instead of pontificating. To borrow an old saying, "those who can, do. Those who can't, talk."
Well said. A person has to wonder how many small, formerly-pleasant rural communities have been made worse by the rhetoric of well-paid Northeast Corridor rabble-rousers in reaction to a handful of "injustices." (The only injustice in Ferguson was the treatment of the cop.)
Who is the "we" having this "conversation"? Because frankly it sure seems like the answer is "educated, well-heeled urbanites and knowledge-industry workers," or people who mostly don't get stopped by the cops on a regular basis, live or work in the few blasted urban communities where the vast majority of black crime happens, or take an active hand in criminal justice or police policy. Moreover, the "conversation" is almost exclusively at 40,000 feet; discussing monolithic "Blacks" and "Whites" and "Asians" instead of actually looking at individual communities and lives.
I submit that the fact of the conversation is itself toxic, and everyone would be far better served if people would just tend to their own gardens as best as they could instead of pontificating. To borrow an old saying, "those who can, do. Those who can't, talk."
Well said. A person has to wonder how many small, formerly-pleasant rural communities have been made worse by the rhetoric of well-paid Northeast Corridor rabble-rousers in reaction to a handful of "injustices." (The only injustice in Ferguson was the treatment of the cop.)