S/O from the "Back the Blue" thread

So I think the differnce is that businesses, restaurants, and others aren't refusing to serve black people. They aren't putting glass in their food or verbally attacking them. They aren't calling for war on black lives matter like they are policemen.

I can be outraged by the shootings and still back the blue.

Oh, there's a key difference between the two.

Back the blue is about supporting public servants as they do their job. Black Lives Matter is about hate.

I'm sorry...What?

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This where I'm at as well. After the video tape of the shooting of the therapist in Florida, I cannot make sense of why that is okay.

I also have a BIL who is a cop. A few months ago, there was a house fire in his town. He was one of the first on scene. It was a family of hoarders and they couldn't get out the 2 people inside. My experience with police and knowing some personally has been overwhelmingly positive...but I'm not black. I prefer to look at *each* situation on its own and not assume the worst. I cannot fully understand what it is like to be a black person, but I absolutely believe it is more difficult.

I'm not sure if any of that made sense. Other than I understand why there is a movement for both.

Don't bother. People are going to see what they want.

as a person of color who has been on this board since 2001, I think I'm about to take a permanent break. I've never felt so unwelcome here in my life.  Some of the comments made recently are just disgusting and they hurt.

LEO chose their jobs. We didn't choose our color. I wish some of you could live just a few hours in my shoes  to truly get a understanding that things are so so so very different in this world when you are a person of color.  But since you cant, theres just no way to truly get it.

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You are 1000% right my husband along with 1000's of other Chose the job to be a LEO. If they didn't who would? Who would pull over the drunk driver, or arrest the man beating his wife and kids, the rapist, the drug dealer, the robber, the pedophile, break up bar fights and a million other things that most don't even know go on.
I'm sorry that we can't walk in your shoes, we can have empthany for others without being in their "shoes or skin" it's part of being a human being.
I will never know what it's like to be a person of color but you will never know what it is to be hated for putting on a UNIFORM.
I can have empthany for others without experiencing their personal situation.

You know, the OP respected your thread and stayed off of it. 

How about you reciprocate and stay off hers since you are so obviously "blue" blind.

Dani-Mani

I almost deleted my post right after I posted it but wasn't sure how that would play. I shouldn't have asked.

I absolutely hate that you feel the way you do and would be very sad if you left this community.

I'm really sorry.

Hugs.

Who would? Hundreds of bullies and assholes who enjoy the power trip, that's who. Hundreds who were bullied and now enjoy being the one in power. Racist assholes and raging egomaniacs.

Your DH may truly be a great guy, and I know there are so many good, decent men and women in LEO...But I have to tell you, I haven't met a lot of them. My personal experiences have tended to be overwhelmingly negative (not just my own experience, but that of family, etc) so I guess I'm coming at it from a completely different perspective than you are. I think you might not understand how awful a lot of power in the hands of a "little man" with an ego can be.

Just last year my daughter was pulled over, ordered out of the car, the entire contents of her car tossed about during a fruitless search for drugs, she was detained and insulted all on the pretext of some driving infraction. And that's just the most recent instance I can pull up for you. I guess he didn't like the type of car, it "looked like" there would be drugs, I don't know. She was pulled over multiple times in that car in the same area, never actually charged with anything. I bought her a more mom-looking car and she hasn't been hassled since. Profiling, of an innocent Mitsubishi Eclipse, I guess.

And I kept all this off your thread because I know, again, that there are very decent and honorable people who wear the badge. But since you asked...I answered.

This is one of the things I really don't understand.  The good cops should be LIVID that these asshole cops are putting everyone in danger.  You'd think they would want to weed out the racist jackholes, but instead all we see is circling of the wagons.  

I get it. There's a whole brotherhood of law enforcement. However, when someone is that out of line, you don't protect them. Wrong is wrong no matter who did it. 

Like I've stated if they don't choose their job who will?
Who will resond....be grateful that there are many that serve and protect with honor.

They are disgusted and many are outraged...they take their oath serious. They work on change from the inside out. Just because you don't see ranting, raving, marching or rioting does not mean they are supporting the bad apples.
They work on change and improvement in their department.
They choose to teach, they choose to train, they choose to engane, they choose to involve and explore new ways...to work with their community.
Being an adult is a way to find to inspire change without chaos.

I agree but isn't all racism based on hatred?

ETA I obviously misunderstood the post I quoted, I read this as the hatred being that of white people, not as the BLM being a hate group. I am leaving the post up because I hate it when someone deletes their post and later gets called out for it. My mistake.

Silence by "the blue" is implied agreement with the actions of cops who murder.