| Sidelle |
07-22-2016 05:42 PM |
More of this needs to happen...
http://i.imgur.com/akhUcs7.jpg
Quote:
Originally Posted by Washington Post
Activist A.J. Bohannon had organized more than 1,000 Black Lives Matters protesters to march the streets of Wichita on Sunday. But then, days before, he received a call from the new police chief with a different idea. Instead of having an event that drew a hard line between protester and police, why not bring them all together for an evening of summer revelry and open dialogue?
So instead of marching, they gathered in a wooded park where the police department cooked and served up burgers. The officers played basketball with kids. They took group selfies. One officer did the “whip and the nae nae” and the “Cha Cha Slide” in a crowd of dancing girls — a video that instantly became a viral sensation.
They called it the First Steps Community Cookout, a nod to what they see as the seeds of an ongoing effort to ease the tensions heightened by the recent shootings of and by police officers.
(FULL STORY: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...pm_local_pop_b )
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Obviously America's problems won't be magically solved overnight, but positive ideas and actions that unify us is a hell of a lot better than the cold-blooded murders of citizens on our streets and the equally cold-blooded retaliatory cop assassinations we've been witnessing. Unity can only make us stronger as a nation, so anyone that prefers to encourage racial divisiveness are the enemies of us all. Watching us hate and try to kill each other is cheap entertainment for them. It's reality TV. Free drama, but the blood and death is very real and costs all Americans dearly. Enough is enough.
(TL;DR) Love each other, you dumbfucks.
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