Last week's unrest in Charlotte was hard for me to watch, not just as a black man, but as an American.
It's a metaphor for where we're at as a county.
We're a country desperate to be divided, to choose one side or another,
and to reduce complicated societal problems into simple campaign slogans
and cable news soundbites.
Certainly, we saw this play out in the
conservative media last week after the violence in Charlotte: not only
did conservatives' talking points fail to resolve the unrest, they sent a
dangerous message to minority voters (whom the GOP claims to be
courting)—Give us your vote, but don't bother us with the issues you care about.
Conservatives need a reality check. The Black Lives Matter movement is
raising a very legitimate issue that reaches beyond the police killing
black people. They're talking about policing in general in communities
of color. And they're talking about the criminal justice system —which
everyone from the Koch Brothers, to Paul Ryan, to conservative stalwart Senator Mike Lee to Bernie Sanders agree is in desperate need of reform.
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Source: NBC News
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