re: Barack Obama, Ferguson, and the Evidence of Things Unsaid

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I see it more as lip service. When it comes down to it, this board is on the "law and order" bandwagon. They don't seem to have lost much sleep about the St. Louis cop who was wildly pointing his rifle at civilians and screaming he would "fricking kill" them.

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Lip service? What does that even mean? This is a message board, people post messages. Go look around here and the OT board right now. There are a couple threads about police injustices, and the majority of people are AGAINST the police.

What exactly are you doing to help curb police injustice? You are doing exactly what everyone here is doing, posting on a message board about it. For some reason you have this view of yourself as some vigilante against injustice, but what have you actually done to help that cause that anyone here hasn't?

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That's very true. But often the boiling over point happens in relation to an event that is not perfectly aligned with the narrative. Certainly you recognize this. Is it so hard for you to understand that the militarization of the police has really harmed black people in neighborhoods like these?

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No, I don't understand illogical actions. When you have a legitimate cause to protest for, you protest, and the message is taken much more seriously.

When you use a case like this (and Trayvon for that matter), as your shining example of injustice, people do not take it seriously, and it hurts your cause further because it is illogical. Burning down buildings in the name of a criminal does not help your cause, I'm sorry.

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I don't agree. I think they think it's a daily war with white America.

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That's all it is. Trade Wilson for a black police officer and none of this would have happened.