I encourage everyone, as we see more of these stories unfolding, to pay attention to how often all sorts of people with all sorts of agendas, all leap to proclaim that this has provided more tragic proof that they are right to shout at other people.

We have anti-black racists proclaiming that because the suspect is black, that this proves that they are right in their hatred; we have anti-gun control people proclaiming that this sort of thing proves that we should ALL openly carry guns, and point them at every stranger we see; we have pro-gun-control people who proclaim that this proves that they are right, and that very stringent laws against guns should be enacted; we even have people (including exactly one Presidential candidate) advocating that more be invested in Mental Health.

Please note, I am not pointing my finger at anyone HERE, I think that so far, most of us have been reasonable.

However, I do also think that more intelligent and careful attention needs to be paid than has been, to the whole DYNAMICS of these episodes.

For one thing, many of them are being abetted, or even directly CAUSED to occur, by the people who think they are loudly working to oppose them.

Already mentally ill people, and desperate people, and genuinely downtrodden and socially victimized people are again and again, being pushed to commit horrible acts, not just by the vile wannabe despots of the world, but also by careless proponents of freedom and justice, who eagerly and I would say thoughtlessly, use exaggerated language to express their outrage over other unjust situations.

In short, some of these kinds of things are happening because of HOW many people are going about opposing them.

This is the "hope and change".

Not exactly, hope waits for circumstances to present an avenue, radical ideas supersede hope, hope can not bring change. Radical ideas do and can bring change.

Hoping is waste of valuable time. In my opinion.

Radical ideas don't always bring the desired change.

This is the "hope and change".

The genocide of innocent whites, committed by racist blacks...

The term "genocide" was coined by legal scholar Raphael Lemkin in 1943, writing:

'Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves.

The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of personal security, liberty, health, dignity and lives of the members of such groups... '

Not all radical ideas are good.

well, this cop was cowardly murdered... shot in the back and then shot a few more times as he lay dying... that was 2 days ago

I have yet to see any of the so called national black leaders come out and condemn this murder.

So what does that tell you?

Farrakhan, Sharpton and the others are too busy to make a comment about a killing that everyone in America knows about? Is that the case?

Why are they so quiet when things like this happen?