Two years later, Ferguson is still here

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Originally Posted by hillbilly

Racial resentment? Just stating a fact. If a white man had killed him you and I both know that it'd be on every mainstream outlet putting other news aside in order to add fuel to the fire to give themselves an even bigger story to cover. Anyone can see that.

Not true. The news organizations were receptive to the apparent use of government force against citizens of color. Whether an officer killed in the line of duty was killed by a white man or a black man is not the story. He was killed in the line of duty and that it the sad and important news.

Maybe those who are fed a steady diet of Fox News and Breitbart can "see" it, but others viewing it objectively are likely to see it another way. Those media outlets are trying to fan other flames. Anyone can see that.

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Originally Posted by hillbilly

I'm sure it's not important to BLM since a white man didn't do it.

Originally Posted by hillbilly

Racial resentment? Just stating a fact.

Except it's not a fact. It's a claim you are making. Your statement begins with "I'm sure..." It comes from you, and expresses what you think of BLM.

Originally Posted by hillbilly

If a white man had killed him you and I both know that it'd be on every mainstream outlet putting other news aside in order to add fuel to the fire to give themselves an even bigger story to cover. Anyone can see that.

Again, what I hear here is racial resentment. You feel white people are being attacked by BLM, and you resent it. You imagine BLM being quiet here because they don't have a white man to attack.

As I tried to say before, what BLM protests is what they see as an establishment uncaring attitude toward abuses and killing of black people. Since there is of course tons of official caring about the death of a law enforcement officer, this case does not present the issue they are raising.

The big thing here, seems to me, is you don't think BLM has a legitimate issue. So you view their activities as unjustified, and motivated instead by desire to attack whites, either for political advantage, or just for it's own sake. Would you say I'm reading your views correctly here?