Just thinking about the police and wondering what it must be like to be a black cop. Torn between being black and blue during a time the country is divided over a color you can take off and a color you can't take off. Having the protection of being an officer while at work but finding himself uncovered when he's off duty. I've heard about black officers on duty in plain clothes and off duty in plain clothes being "mistaken for" or "fitting the description of" other black men in the area who happened to be labeled as criminals even though they've done nothing wrong. Either way, the danger for their lives are real. It must be exhausting, the mental fight that goes on in an officers mind to know the truth about black people and following company policy and protocol if what the officers who blew the whistle said was true.
Just thinking about the police and a spirited debate with some white people related to my niece in law over race in this country and their disappointment in Beyoncé's 2016 Super Bowl halftime show and her tribute to the Black Panther Party. One of the women tried to make her point of how bad we blacks are by letting me know that they are taught to look out for black men and trained that black men are looking to kill them just because they are cops. Well, if this is true, their police department has done them a disservice by teaching them that black men are their #1 threat when they are not. Plenty of white men kill cops. Plenty of men from other races kill cops as well. Believing otherwise will put a cop in danger. While he is watching the smoke from the magic trick / being distracted by lies, a white man can sneak up on him and kill him. You know why? He's not considered a danger to cops until he is actually a danger to cops yet he still get to walk away with his life.
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