re: Parents of Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin meet in Florida

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I'm in med school right now and i think you have to be pretty smart to get in here...there are plenty of black people here in medical school and none of them are rioting or speaking out etc about the injustice of the mike brown case

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Ok? Were you agreeing with me? I mean, I'm not rioting and carrying on either. Not saying black people like me deserve a cookie or anything, just chafing at this foolish outdated notion that there need to be "black leaders." Black people aren't some mindless conglomerate in need of singular leadership.

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these black men and women are smart, well educated, free thinkers that do not blindly support their own race before hearing the facts

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And that's the other thing. Not to pick on you, but I see so often when a case like this comes up where if a minority doesn't buy into the victimhood line, they're betraying their race. Again, I'm talking about independent thinkers like the AA's with whom you consort in med school. Folks who review the facts of this and any case and don't mindlessly regurgitate the rhetoric one way or another because they share a similar melanin count to the individual in question.