>>>>>>It's kinda obvious who's holding the moral high ground here and actually interested in fixing the PROBLEM. Hint: - it's not the GOP, and in this case doesn't seem to be the police either.
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>>>>>>I am glad that you are so smart that everything is so obvious to you. This is a very complex issue with nothing obvious about it. One thing that I do know for sure: hard cases make bad law.
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>>>>>>Do you think that it was the deputy's fault that he was executed?
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>>>>>Of course not.
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>>>>>> Are your sympathies with the shooter. From everything you write here, I infer that you hate the police and think that they should be "Pigs in a Blanket"...
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>>>>>No - the point I was making is that perhaps someone needs to address why so many people are anti-cop.
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>>>>An important question. If you haven't yet read Ta-Nehisi Coates' new book, it's worth it. Though short, it's eye-opening in its look into a life very different than my own.
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>>>>Tamar
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>>>Do you mean "Between the World and Me" ??? Someone gave me that book just last week but I haven't read it yet.
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>>Yes. In one sense, it's an easy read. It's short and the prose is beautiful. In another sense, it's one of the hardest books I've ever read. I had to work really hard to push my inner voice screaming "not me, I don't do that" to the background so I could really hear what he was saying.
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>>Tamar
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>I haven't read it, but I've seen him interviewed. He's powerfully articulate and well informed but he considers himself a writer- not a reformer.
>Someone called him a modern James Baldwin.
>Baldwin was just as upsetting for my generation and he accomplished a lot.

I don't think I've read Baldwin (if it did, it was back in HS), but I think Coates is accomplishing a lot, too, by letting other people see through his eyes.

Tamar