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[GitRDun]

7. The white (my) community, including many progressives just cannot come to grips with what's real..

It's hard for many people to come to grips with, and accept the guilt / sins of the community. Call them sins, whatever you want. I see it every day on my FB feed, "Blue Lives Matter"! "All Lives Matter"! Yeesh! It's depressing.

To accept real, rather than "reasonable" or "measured" change means acknowledging and accepting that societal racism is still a very large problem...not so easy for most to do.

I see it here on DU all the time, self reflection and a willingness to really hear others is often in short supply.

White authority structures indiscriminately kill black people in HUGELY disparate numbers; that's the truth, simply put. White people enable these structures by continually voting in politicians who dog whistle the status quo. It would take hundreds of incidents like we had in Dallas last week to make a comparison relatively equal.

Measured reform will do nothing but maintain some form of the status quo, because we (white people) are in power, without the capability to see the world thru the prism of the black community, IMO.

The only rational solution is MAJOR reform, one involving not just reform for police, but gun control, changes to drug laws and funding for communities who need it to advance law enforcement reform.

Tweaking around the edges is a waste of time.