Discussion: FBI Director: U.S. At Crossroads On Race Relations And Policing

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But another truth is that minorities in poor neighborhoods too often inherit a “legacy of crime and prison,” a cycle he said must be broken to improve race relations with police.

Seems a bit disingenuous without mentioning the connection to the War on Drugs.

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He joined Attorney General Eric Holder in calling for better data about how often police use force.
Such information is needed to make sound policy decisions, Comey said.

Data is well and good.
If the use of violence is reported accurately.

There-- is seemingly, the rub.

jw1

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Two hackneyed “ain’t it awful” sound bites from an entire speech? Was there any good info or analysis in the speech?

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Is it really up to the civilian population to “improve race relations with the police”?

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Apparently the police are unable to improve race relations on their own…

Especially with LEOs with those in authority like Joe Arpaio…

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Data is kinda sciency…

Ergo is suspect.

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“He’s throwing cops under the bus!”

Fuck the final acknowledgement. Tell me how you’re going to stop cops from violating the rights of millions of tax paying, law abiding African Americans.

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Sorry, only one massive injustice can be mentioned at a time.

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There were some clips and a good discussion just now on The Reid Report, with Joy and Marc Morial. An important, honest speech from the sound of it (complete with “Avenue Q” lyric recitation wrt unconscious biases), especially from a white FBI director (sad but true). Comey’d already proven his decency with the Ashcroft’s-bedside standoff; this just increases my admiration. A model public servant.

(If you’re interested, that Reid Report segment should be online in an hour or so: msnbc.com/the-reid-report)

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Oh America, you reap what you sow. Centuries and decades of all kinds of maleficence from so many sources. Race relations my foot. You don’t give a fig about race relations.

Why don’t you just own up to the fact that you must sustain the prison industrial complex and the only way to do that is create a ready supply of fodder - minorities - to keep them going and growing.

You have no shame.

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Ok, thanks; I’ll check that out tomorrow when I have time. I’m glad there was more to the speech than this write-up!

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Since I literally just sent someone an email with these four links, they’re handy:
Joy Reid with Marc Morial:

Chris Hayes with Phillip Atiba Goff:

full video of speech:

full transcript:

The speech is a little over 20 minutes, and the discussion segments are about 5 minutes each. All well worth watching if you can; it’s quite a speech, and – suddenly – a hopeful moment, maybe.

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Great, thanks!