EldritchCellar posted at 6:03PM Sat, 11 July 2020 - #4394341

Lol. Oh shit ??

I want to say something, as long as we've touched on it, but I don't want to derail this thread, so I won't say anything more about it... I hope. But I'm not a believer in systemic police racism. When I was a kid back in the 60's and maybe even the 70's, I'd have said yes. You also have to realise that I come from NC. A state that was deep in KKK territory when I was growing up. There was a KKK sign not more than 50 miles from where I lived that didn't come down until the early 80's. So I KNOW systemic racism when I see it. That's not the police today. Yes, they tend to be a hammer and everything looks like a nail. But frankly, we're treating the police today as bad as they treated soldiers returning from Vietnam in the 60's. They called them "baby killers" then, and that wasn't true then either. I had two brothers in the military back then, and actually just missed having to go myself.