re: Why are black people so emotionally invested in these police shootings?

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I think it is safe to to say that the majority of white people really don't give a shite when some random white person is killed by the police especially if that person has a violent criminal past. Why do black people act like it was one of their family members who died. I constantly here people talking about holding back tears, expressing their unbridled anger and disgust etc.... It does not make sense to be so emotionally invested in some random person on the other side of the country.

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A black high school classmate of mine was spouting off of this on the facebook. The answer if you had any question... white supremacy.

You see white people get to be individuals, but white supremacy requires all minorities to be judged by their race, so black people are pre-conditioned to think as a collective, and feel things more deeply and connectively as a community.

I tried to point out the self defeating logic of that line of thought, but he just got mad. I wanted to ask why they didn't hurt that deeply for instances of black on black crime, but I didn't feel like loosing my business this week.