What are your thoughts on Black Lives Matter?

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answer:The best analogy to BLM is five kids at a dinner table, one of whom is black, who says “Black kids are hungry”. To which the other kids say, “all kids are hungry”. To which the black kid says, “Yes, but y’all are eating and I am still hungry and hoping for some food.” There are a lot of different problems described in your post. I will not discount any of them. But they all need to be addressed. Just because there is a lot of black on black violence does not mean that cop on black violence is justified. And, when cops model violence on the population, the population learns that violence is the way to deal with problems.

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