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"Police violence is the source of black pessimism."

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If it were no longer a regular occurrence for black men to be killed for no reason, black Americans would adopt the "get over it" orientation that many wish they would adopt.

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The point isn't to be anti-cop. Their lives matter too. The point is that "police violence is not just one of the many issues in black America's take on racism: It is the central one."

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Those who claim that race has nothing to do with these widely-publicized incidents bear the burden of presenting a list of white men who've been killed under similar circumstances year after year.

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"...In these widely-publicized incidents, the case can almost never be made that these African American men deserved to be shot dead or that the cops who shot them had genuine cause to fear for their lives."

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"In Ferguson, Mo., the evidence didn’t support the story that Brown was shot surrendering with his hands up. And yes, some victims of these shootings were hardly choirboys — right-wing websites already delight in tabulating Alton Sterling’s decidedly un-pretty rap sheet."

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"...a central tenet of what I’ve learned is that the core of what ails black people about racism, and what makes most black people think of racism as defining black existence in America, is a fear of being senselessly cut down by the police."

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The 1965 Watts riots and other incidents that occurred around the country in the 1960's were sparked by actions taken by police, not cultural appropriation.

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The same Pew poll shows that 84 percent of black Americans think the police treat black people unfairly v.s 50 percent of whites who think so. This is the only issue that black Americans were so united in.

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Many black people, including those who grew up middle class and after the 1960's, feel that racism is a central facet of their lives.

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Racism is frequently discussed with reference not only to police shootings, but other issues such as “microagressions,” “cultural appropriation” and “white privilege.”
Examples: "Whether the first black president should have done more for black people. Whether it's okay for Blake Lively to compare her physique to black women’s. Somebody said the n-word; maybe they were even black."

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Black Americans say the reason that racism persists is because of the cops.

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"In a recent Pew Poll, 41 percent of white Americans thought race was discussed too much these days, vs. 22 percent of black Americans."

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