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/// The emotional reaction is - Another racist while police cover-up, my only means of registering my disgust and anger is to head out on the streets and make some noise. ///
Please forgive me if I am wrong, but did you mean to say "another racist white cover-up"?
Because if you did that is precisely what the problem seems to be i.e. a black person gets apprehended, arrested, physically restrained or indeed shot by a white policeman, and he is immediately classed as racist and any inquiry that goes against the black person and once again it is classed as a white cover-up."
Yes, that is exactly what I said, and meant.
If you re-read my post, you will see that I cited this as the 'emotional' reaction to the incident, and by definition, that reaction is not reasoned, valid, or necessarily correct - it is sim;ly that - an emotional reaction - to which we are all prone from time to time.
The problem is, with the history of unequal treatment meted out to African Americans for the last sixty years by the powers of the state, their emotional reaction tends to run along seriously well-worn lines.