Week 1 -- Black person shot. Massive uproar...BLM...beyonce pauses a concert etc etc
Week 2 -- Black cop shot. Nothing.
Week 3 -- White man shot. Nothing.
One of the many obscene and utterly horrible things wrong with our world is things like this:
The policeman who shot said he didn't even know himself why he shot.
It's also things like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Police_Department#Homan_Square
and this:
and many more.
Sure, white people are also sometimes victims of such unfair police brutality, but disproportionately it's black folk. There are many complex societal reasons for this, and a ton of hellish hate. For the most part, I support the struggle of the black American.
Tho' I really thought that by now, 2016, we in the West would be largely colour-blind, mixing races in the family bloodlines more often...but sadly this isn't the case.
Genuine racism such as those linked has given birth to some decent, but also some questionable movements: the regressive
identity politics movement of liberal media (of which BLM is a part) is unhelpful and largely causing further separation of people, resulting in such retorts from critics like
"so white lives don't matter or what?", while black people culturally are made to feel ever more
black (black people in 80's/90's films/tv/music were mostly just people, nowadays they are all about their blackness).
In all this black & white drama, you've got millions of people who identify themselves as brown, asian/oriental, indian/pakistani, arab and the rest who probably feel quite bemused about never being talked about. Except the Mexicans, they get a lot of airtime.
So a lot of bollocks, but at the end of the day there are tons of real victims and there will be tons more...nothing we seem to be doing is helping, so people feel helpless and thus rather easily fall into groups defined by their opposition to other groups, furthering only the cause of divisive
identity politics while not really helping real victims.