Having "The Conversation"

Friends and I talked about this Saturday night...we are white. We specifically instructed our white children on how to behave if pulled over. Keep your hands on the wheel unless instructed to reach for your documents, be polite, don't argue, say yes sir and no sir. Interestingly, in a town nearby here, there is currently a lawsuit against a police officer for excessive use of force. WHITE cop, WHITE 57 year old man the 'victim'. It's not just black people.

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as if any white, Asian or Hispanic kid can now taunt, cuss or run away from police and get away Scott free.

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It's fricking common sense how to talk to anyone in a position of authority if you have respect for authority and don't want to get jammed up. frick people are stupid.

Chris Rock - How not to get your arse kicked by the police! NSFW language

while my dad was mostly absent from actually raising me, i did absorb "the conversation" from the news/movies/tv

and i give "the conversation" to many clients who never got it from a father figure. i give y'all the same thing all the time

don't give them a reason

What is this? When I think of "The Conversation," I think of the really uncomfortable sex talk parents have with their kids.

Do people actually have a how to talk to police conversation? That's new to me.

My dad told me to respect the badge, but people earn respect and if the cop is not respecting you, you're not obligated to respect him/her. Never consent to a car search, and if you're caught doing something wrong that could lead to an arrest, refuse to talk without a lawyer present.

We are experiencing the symptoms, of a greater philosophical argument. The core of the argument - and this "conversation" - goes to respect for Authority.

And like D'Souza pointed out in his documentary "America"..."Barack Obama did not create the movement...it created him". The 'movement' - and it's symptom, disrespect for the prevailing, traditional Constitutional Authority - is what inspires the folk who express contempt for the social, economic *injustice* that is manifest in the streets.

Everybody that can't get stuff by working the production of a good or service (job) route...wants stuff; and a lot of those will gladly blame society/Capitalism, which defines them/their ability/their worth for their inability to attain affluence. So, the perceive that it's the 'system'...and Obama/Progs/Marxist Egalitarian Ideology...lend moral and intellectual support to this narrative. So, all who buy in are in effect, aggrieved, persecuted, and have a moral right and impetus to fight against the unjust Capitalist system which holds them down.

That's it. It won't go away, because as the Marxist ("spread the wealth around") policy SHRINKS the economy, QE goes south, and the pie becomes smaller and inflationary costs get larger...the indignation and contempt for Authority will only grow. Attempts to control violent outbursts with a necessarily 'militarized' Authority - for the sake of civility and the dissemination of essential goods and services - will be met with an increasing level of self-righteous contempt, and sooner or later...the terrorism/martyrdom card. Remember the guy that shot the cop...and within a day, there was a memorial to the shooter in the street.

This will run it's course. There is no solution...because from the TOP (Obama/Progs/Egalitarian Marxists Ideology), down to the Hood...perception becomes reality. Quantum Theory confirms the ultimate affect of Subjectivity. It rules.

Earth 2014. Humanity figuring out the rules, "tilling the soil" after the 'fall'...and moving forward to true freedom, glory and Greater Love.

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I'm an old white guy who grew up in Mississippi but I also clearly remember my Dad having The Conversation with me. You don't talk back to cops, you treat them respectfully, you say yes sir and no sir... or they'll shoot you dead for looking at them wrong

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Sorry you left off part of the conversation. FIFY