Are you projecting here? We see back people as humans, with feelings, thoughts, skills and potential. We see them with opportunities like everyone else.
It's you and the rest of the left who see them as lessor people. The left are the ones who see themseves as the white saviors. The left sees the black man as less and needing all kinds of help because they are not able to succeed in their own.
We see that black people are fully capable of being a success all by themselves. All they need is for the left to stop telling them they can't. When you are beat down so much by people telling you "you can't succeed on your own without my help" and then you reinforce that with media social media and politicians it's pretty hard to start believing in yourself.
Conservatives believe black people are fully capable of being successful like anyone else. We are the ones who believe in MLKs dream. There is nothing holding the black man back from being all they can be. There are no laws that prevent them from living anywhere they want, having any job they want, attending any college they want. They can be teachers, policemen, engineers, plumbers, entrepreneurs, scientists, presidents or anything else they want to pursue. They can drive any car they want, they can ride on any bus, fly any airplane. The world is open to them.
And we conservatives WANT them to take advantage of the opportunities this country provides. We are not the ones telling them they can't. The left is the ones running around telling they can't. We say they CAN. And furthermore under Trump they did.
You mean, the opportunities that black people and their progressive allies had to fight and die for, against conservatives?
Here's an idea - take everything you've written here and send it to your local BLM chapter. I'm sure they'll be enthralled to hear your insights into their circumstance, motives, and psyche.
I work with cops all the time. I think they are overall great people who have one of the most difficult jobs in the country. I admire them for what they do.
That's nice. It certainly can be a difficult job.
And they suck at it. Here are the clearance rates for 2018, for crimes with a victim,
Clearances
The good news is, reform will mean limiting the workload we currently put on cops, such that they can exclusively focus on these types of crimes. There is no reason to be sending cops to deal with mental health crises, for example. That's part of what "defunding" means - restructuring the budget to pay for specialists in particular tasks, such as mental health, homelessness, domestic abuse situations, etc, instead of an overfunded, ineffective, overworked, and undertrained "catch all".
Cops have such good training and skills that their rate of excessive force is TINY. In a job where people refuse to be arrested, fight them, assault them, verbally abuse them they have to use force to take them into custody. In those circumstances the times they use excessive force is TINY.
Yet they somehow manage to kill civilians at a
much higher rate than any other wealthy country on the planet. Those stats aren't difficult to find, for anyone who cares to google them. Personally, I think we can do better than places like Iraq, Bangladesh, and Mexico.
Mexico. The only place my cop brother has ever been robbed at gunpoint. Not by street muggers, mind you, but
by the Federales.
Again, I guess I just hold cops to a higher standard than you do.
No you guys will excuse the rioters and then try and point out the small percentage of people who are doing it, but staunchly refuse to give cops even the slightest same consideration.
You're right. I won't. Because I hold them to a higher standard than people who have zero barrier of entry.
I'm not a leftist. I'm a bit left of center. You have probably never encountered a real leftist in your entire life.
I don't really blame you for thinking I am, though. In this country, "leftist" seems to mean anyone to the left of mass murdering homeless people for profit.
...refuse to recognize that the unions are at fault as much as anything else. If there is a cop with a bad record they are almost impossible to get rid of. Unions need to be reformed to allow police departments to get rid of bad cops.
Nope. People in favor of police reform already know this. In fact, you're the first self-identified conservative I've ever encountered who realizes this is a huge problem. I'm grateful that you do.
And I'll even do you one better - police unions shouldn't merely be reformed, they should be abolished.
And those involved in protesting ought to quit making excuses for members who get violent.
No one is making excuses. All I've said is this,
If you expressly communicate to people that traditional means of peaceful protest - marching, picket lines, sloganeering - will at best result in nothing changing at all...what exactly do you think is going to happen? They're not going to throw up their hands and say "oh well, back to the status quo, I guess." They're going to find some other means of getting your attention. That can manifest in a number of ways, some of them violent. If you radicalize people far enough, it can even be deadly.
This isn't an excuse, or a threat. It's the entire history of civil unrest. I would prefer to learn from history, and not radicalize people by ignoring and/or trampling on their voices.