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This Week:
My “Black olives matter” photo drew some criticism earlier this week. I’m “making fun”. How dare I! Liberals “care about” people. So, they don’t have fun. Right?
My thoughts on the “Black lives matter” campaign: Everyone’s wrong. I see hateful people shouting down Bernie Sanders from stage—though they weren’t from the official “Black lives matter” group. It is a violent way of thinking. “All lives matter” shouldn’t make anyone feel invalidated or angry.
At the same time, there does seem to be a deficiency in general police intuition about profiling. Profiling is necessary. The alternative is Nazism. But profiling must be accurate. And we don’t have enough White cops who know enough good Black folk. That is not a “police” problem; it’s a “police training” problem.
So, does the “Black” in “Black lives matter” deserve some special emphasis? · · · →