How about this excuse: the NRA doesn’t give a shit. They grow their bottom line on spreading fear of black and brown people in white people.

THE 2ND AMENDMENT IS ONLY FOR WHITE PEOPLE.

Yes, people don’t account for how recent it is and how long things like this can affect families/communities, etc. Some things I point out to people. On one side of the family, my grandparents were share-croppers on cotton farms. Black sharecroppers in my grandparents’ time were not slaves of course- but they were not…

Re. The legacy of slavery, it’s worth pointing out that slavery existed in our nation for longer than it hasn’t when you factor in the colonies, and that we’re only 150 years away from the Thirteenth Amendment. That’s two 75 year old grandmas back to back. Our senior citizens are old enough to have known people who…

Becoming even a cop of the lowest rank requires three years of training and the equivalent of an associate’s degree in my country. Consequently, American cops kill 38 times the amount of citizens per capita each year than our cops do.

My way: no bullets. You don’t get a firearm until you’re on the job for one year or 2500 hours. You can have a taser and your more seasoned partner can have a firearm. Rookies don’t get/need guns until they’ve proven themselves and have experience.

People can make themselves believe in anything. 20 % of Americans believe that angels are real. Many Germans made themselves believe that their Jewish neighbors were “resettled” in Eastern Europe when the brownshirts came for them, nevermind that Germany was riddled with hundreds of concentration and labor camps.…

I am crying. I cannot get out my head the image of his face as he is fading away. The sadness in his eyes. The expression of “this is how I will die, it is unfair and idiotic”. Poor soul.

I’m a white lady and I get anxious every time a cop is driving behind me. I don’t know how POC handle it, because they are infinitely more likely to be harassed, abused, murdered, for doing nothing. It’s really scary out there :(

I honestly wonder if the cop is afraid the victim will live long enough to testify. There is no other reason, with the resources available to them, that they never seem to call for immediate medical care.

I wish I could give you 1000 stars. You’ve nailed the reason that the “bad apple” defense is bullshit. The “good” apples virtually always circle the wagons around their own, no matter how fucking blatant and horrific the offense. The entire police culture is rotten from the bottom up, and is protected by district…

I stopped speaking to a co-worker who insists that cops who stay silent aren’t bad cops, they’re victims too. That we the citizens who pay their salaries, should excuse them from doing their jobs, because they fear for their lives and their families. That’s nice ... we do too.

Black Women less at risk of murder by white cops, more at risk of rape and sexual assault by their hands, though. That’s not better.

I believe that whole heartedly, but it happens everywhere. Look at the Catholic Church same exact thing. Stop protecting people who don't deserve your protection

I remember seeing a stat mot long after Tamir Rice’s murder that 83% of police brutality complaints were filed against 6% of the cops.

I read Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me recently, and was struck by his purposeful use of the word body, over and over. To have your body taken away, to have black bodies stolen. That was a strong reminder that this is a violent physical thing that happens to real people, and not some abstract thing from…

As Frank Herbert wrote long ago, fear is indeed the mind killer. Too many brain-dead fools in blue out there.

You said what you needed to say. I saw no rambling.

I used to tell myself, “They just don’t know how bad it is. When people know, things will be different.” I can’t tell myself that lie anymore, and the truth that it reveals—that there is a substantial group of white people in this country that just don’t really care about black people—is heartbreaking. I’m so sorry…

Thank you Kara for giving words to this sheer sense of anger, sadness and frustration.