iclfan2;1811225 wrote:This is my main issue with the Kaepernick, BLM, etc. It is borderline retarded to think that there is a nationwide conspiracy to jail black people, even among black cops. OR the reality is that most crimes happen in the same neighborhoods, are then policed more, and more crime is caught. Derp. Then people complain about police, they stop actively policing, and you end up with Chicago. More derp.
While you'll never hear it really put this way I think the point is more subtle than a claim of a nationwide conspiracy. They see instances wherein young boys of color (just an example) are getting killed in their neighborhoods. Even if we accept that the boys bring this on themselves in a way by pointing the guns at cops, the broader thought is that somebody like me grew up in an all white suburb with real guns, toy guns and big yards to play in and point our toy guns around with no pervasive police presence.
You can say what you will about the parents and what ultimately creates these circumstances but the idea might be that the average 13 year old boy of color with toy guns lives in a much different world than the average white boy with toy guns...and these are circumstances that they themselves did not choose. And for folks who were once young boys of color they feel a sense that there is an injustice that occurs under conditions that we would not all mutually accept if were going to be forming our society from scratch not knowing if we were going to be born a white boy in the suburbs or a black boy in the inner city.