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SPC Alisha Hodgin
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It is a symptom of a larger problem. Society as a whole no longer accepts responsibility for their actions. There are issues. Racism and hate do exist. Riots are not bringing anyone together. It is driving a wedge in the heart of the community. People see what they look for. When you buy a new car you suddenly seem to notice how many there are on the road. If we as a society continue to focus on the negative it will become the lens through which we view everything.
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SSG Michael Hartsfield
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Hang on now.
The president isn't the responsible for the riots happening in America. Martin Luther King, Jr. said that "Riots are the language of the unheard." The riots highlight many of the issues that many living in the inner city have always known: Lack of job opportunities, being stereotyped as thugs, and being under intense, often unwarranted, police scrutiny. The issue is not seeing riots just as something that destroys communities or something that brings us together or drives us apart. Looking to find the root cause of the riots and doing the hard work to minimize other occurrences is how we regain trust and bring people together, not by trying to lie it at the feet of the president.
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SPC Alisha Hodgin
SPC Alisha Hodgin
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It is not the responsibility of the president for the failings of many or the few. It is the failure to instill the virtues that the military stands on in the youth of this country. This is an hour from my home town. I have family there. So please tell me how choas and violence in response to feeling oppressed is a solution. Please tell me what this solves. Please tell me where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ever said violence or riots were the answer. It may be a response that is part of the human condition. It is not the right answer. It is not the only answer. To assume that these officers are guilty until proven innocent is against what we stand for as a society. Vietnam era our soldiers were spit on for being "baby killers". Our brothers in arms were beaten and berated. Did our service members riot. They were stereotyped based upon the agenda. I ask you this, if your brother or sister in green was presumed guilty of a war crime until they were presumed innocent, on whose side would you stand? Until we stop seeing this as a police issue versus a society issue anarchy will continue. I know that racism and hatred are real. I know that is possible for any person to be filled with hate and malice. I know what it is to be hated. People need a solid voice. To quote him directly "Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love." Dr. Martin Luther Kin. Jr. (1958). He never once promoted the use of force or the use of violence. the police and the military are both Microcasms of society. Would you have your worth, your actions, your motives judged by the actions of the few who wear the same uniform.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
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I'm with You SSG Michael Hatsfield. Can just as easily blame it on the Not So Covert Racism Encouraged by Organizations Like FOX, Breitbart and Town Hall.
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Cpl Justin Caulkins
Cpl Justin Caulkins
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So, I guess you missed his entire presidency?????? He has had this divide and concour attitude. He has encouraged the parasitic "Race baiters" and funds terrorist organizations called blm who openly call for assassination of police and white people. Obama opens his mouth often inserting his husbands size 12 flip flop. He jumps the gun claiming racism before all the facts are herd he taints the pool and then when no charges get Filed he gets everyone's skivies in a knot. Facts are that 13% of America are 12x more violent and commit 9x more felonies even though they are a fraction of overall population.

Jobs,jobs,jobs, the Democrats are to blame the are the true ..... but not by race but by class, a sort of class warfare. He has enslaved practically shackling a class of people only now it's not a skin color. It's the poverty stricken folks so dependant on big government it's literly enslaved them. They no longer look for work nor are they counted in the unemployment statistics.

This leads us back to Obama his anemic growth 2% is still within the error margin

So yes! Obama is a failure

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MLK also said that we should judge people not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Those rioting in the immediate aftermath (before actually hearing the facts and giving the family their day in court) are showing their character. It is doing nothing to promote any cause.
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SSG Section Chief
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It's the beginning of the end the era of a new Third World Country.
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TSgt Frank Shirley - Well the majority of all the third world countries. Each country goes through a cycle of life where the country starts off poor then it starts to modernize internally and externally though technology and industrialization. That goes so far then it forgets it's principles and starts to deteriorate from the inside out with everyday riots, explosions chaos things like that.
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