On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 16:08:55 CST, Chris Morton <cmorton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>>..there are any number of cops I would have liked to off at one time
>>or another, but the end result was that I didn't. Hampton wasn't doing
>>anyone any favors with his rhetoric, and the old saw..."he who lives
>>by the sword will probably die by it"...rings very true. Regardless of
>>how thoroughly you castigate the cops, and it is needed...the fact
>>remains that a Black man in today's society has more to fear from
>>another Black man than from a cop.
>
>Yes, but I don't pay that other Black man's salary.
...if you pay taxes or buy insurance you do.
>It's one thing to be murdered. It's another thing entirely to have one's
own
>tax dollars finance that murder.
...I'd call that excessive.
>As long as there are humans, there will always be violent murderers.
That
>doesn't mean that we need to keep them on retainer...
...they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent, but to paint them
all with the same brush is just another form of stereotyping...
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