Actually it’s not enough, given Yale’s historical ties to slavery. Let them also send Angela Bassett an apology and a check for bunking down and being assigned to Calhoun college. Not to mention that Elihu Yale was a blasted slave trader. Reparations?

Take it several steps further. Offer 3000+ Free scholarships for black American students every year.

I keep feeling the need to edit your pictures:

We ask them to be willing to lay their lives down for their fellow citizens, even if those fellow citizens might be criminals. They are supposed to protect us, and protect us from ourselves first and foremost. Their own safety is supposed to come secondary to that.

No, but because they chose it nobody wants to hear them whining about the difficulty that no one forced them to take. What? Is your life in danger?Guess what, that’s the goddamn job. Do your job and shut the fuck up and stop whining about how hard it is when you’re called out for shitty judgement and killing unarmed…

they shouldn’t be pulling out a gun until a possible weapon is visually seen. shoot first, ask questions later is a bad mentality for keeping trust between citizens. Yes, they need to protect themselves, but if they are truly meant to serve and protect the citizens, they really need to do everything possible to keep…

“Michigan is an open carry state [if you’re white].”

point 4 is the opposite of justification.

1 - Our police and emergency responders have a very tough job. They often deal with the worst people in our society on those people’s worst day.

You are telling me that 5 white kids would get treated like this?
I want you to reply and swear to me that you believe that.

The fact that you try to justify this speaks so much about your internalized racism.

Yeah, I’m aware, unfortunately.

They may be kids but they’re black kids.

Michigan is an open carry state, so even if one of them did have a gun, it is their legal right to have it out. When he got to the scene, it should’ve been immediately clear that nobody was brandishing the alleged weapon. Since the officer was not in immediate danger, there was zero reason to behave this way, even if…

That last one is always what makes me the angriest - like, I or someone I love could have died a moment ago, and I’m supposed to be ‘meh’ about it?!

“Wrong place at the wrong time” famous last words of every cop who pulls a gun on someone that is innocent. The witness said 2 kids, 2. Not a group of 5. The office may be a parent but he has no clue what that mother or the others go through. I feel ashamed for those people. The police should apologize.

Okay, cops and cop apologists, let’s set aside the whole (known fact) that law enforcement treat people of color completely differently than they do their white counterparts.

This bullshit is why I can’t fucking stand cops.

And this is why “white people just don’t get it”.

This is in no way an exaggeration.

I agree with your statement, and while also not black - can understand the concern of the author. It’s really really crazy out there right now for folks of color (and yes, we get it all lives matter hivemind, it’s crazy for everyone at this point), and this isn’t an exaggeration sadly. I know if this man showed up in…