<div class="quote_poster">NTC187 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I'm not playing the race card at all, I'm just seeing a common trend of posts you're making that are all relating to issues about the African American race (not that there is anything wrong with that mind you), and I'm wondering to myself, do you actually care about the issues at hand in these kind of topics? or do you only care about the African American race?
I'm with I-Miss-MJ in that regardless of wether it was a Black, White, Hispanic, Asian person involved here, a Human was shot (or shot at)
50 times by "law enforcment" officers. I'm just under the impression that you're only concerned because an African American was killed here and that you would'nt have cared if it was a member of another race.
I'm not having a go at you, I'm just curious.</div>
reiterating the same point over and over again doesn't make your point my convincing btw. and just for added emphasis, here's what i said in response to that question.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting deception:</div><div class="quote_post">thats a laughably absurd deduction. first, lamenting the act itself is crying over spilt milk, cause unfortunately i can't bring sean bell back. since u claim to be familiar with american history, here's a refresher for u:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/0428-04.htm. in case u were curious, african americans make up 17% of the american population and that figure is declining every year with hispanics moving in, hence all the talk about disproportional numbers in the article. thirdly, i think we all abhor the act (irrespective if race), its kinda part of the human condition to take such a stance. although, my purpose is to prevent arbitrary exercises of forces by the men in blue in the future. lastly, to avoid race in policing or any other matter in america for that matter is avoiding the perennial problem. here's the analogy: donald watson has to run the 100 metre dash in 4 weeks but he's 15 pounds over-weight(race). clearly if donald aspires to do well, he'll lose the bulge (challenge the status quo) but if he's content with just completing the race, he'll maintain the status quo with his weight.</div>
i don't care if u and that dude are in agreement. plainly speaking- its evident u don't understand the issue, the sensitivity of the issue, the complexity and the correct questions to be asked in response.