Hauty-tauty arrogance via the SPLC.
Let's see, "white officers shot Philando Castile? A "white Hispanic" (a la George Zimmerman?)? This is the first red flag to this article and then, it becomes 5 Dallas police officers were killed. Now, are we leaving the race of the victims and perpetrator out of the equation? Burned me up from the get go here.
Three Days of Violence: Baton Rouge, St. Paul, and Dallas
This week has been a hard one for all of us and a telling one for the country.
On Tuesday, it was the murder of Alton Sterling at the hands of white police officers in Louisiana. On Wednesday, it was the slaying of Philando Castile in Minnesota.
Both were grim reminders of how little progress we've made since Michael Brown was killed by a white police officer in Ferguson nearly two years ago.
And then yesterday, five Dallas police officers were killed in what appears to be a misguided act to even the score.
That was a reminder of what Dr. King often said: "Violence begets violence; hate begets hate; and toughness begets a greater toughness. It is all a descending spiral, and the end is destruction — for everybody. Along the way of life, someone must have enough sense and morality to cut off the chain of hate."
That "someone" is every one of us, every person in our country who believes that black lives matter and that the time for action, and not just soul searching, is now.
More At: https://www.splcenter.org/news/2016/07/08/three-days-violence-baton-rouge-st-paul-and-dallas
