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Mohamed Noor the policeman who shot, the Australian woman in Minnesota is a Somali-American and is, in all probably, a Muslim. He's not your run of the mill black cop. He is a college graduate and became a cop because he had a calling to go into law enforcement. He also has previous complaints lodged against him because of his aggressive behavior. I'll reserve judgment on this case. However, unlike ZEON, i'm a little less inclined to give white cops the benefit of the doubt. And perhaps where i live influences this. In Chicagoland, there is literally an "us-against-them" relationship between white cops and black people, and these white cops are not backing down. They shoot at the drop of a hat and if they don't start out as racists they become them after dealing with black folks. And just because black people are also guilty of being racist doesn't prove anything except that 2 rights don't make a wrong. . A WEB site run by a white cop was uncovered by authorities in the city and what the thousands of white cops were posting on it was as racist as you could get. And yes, these bullies harass white people as well. There is also a high rate of sexual harassment of female cops by their fellow officers. And make no mistake about it, they are a Fraternal Order who protect their own. My opinion is that white people who aren't racist, who are even-tempered, and capable of exercising good judgment don't become cops. They go into other professions. And if they do enter law enforcement, they eventually quit, becoming disillusioned after observing the misconduct of cops of all races. Finally i would say that these young black punks out there need to stop testing these trigger happy cops, and other blacks should use common sense with dealing with them. These guys want to be looked up to and treated with respect and since they are in authority, humoring them is the best defense against them, albeit an unreliable one.

Saw WFTPOTA a few days ago and it wasn't a bad flick. I personally liked the original more low budget sagas of the 60s and early 70s much better, but this modern trilogy wasn't too bad. But I must say, there was so many subliminal messages in that movie it was disturbing. Deray McKesson and Tariq Nasheed caught a little heat from saying that the movie had racist undertones in it but I have to agree with them whole heartedly that the movie was subtly racist. My only issue with Deray and Tariq is that they used to weakest points to make their case like one of the characters wearing a blue vest. Hell, there were about 10 or 15 stronger points in this movie that would support any claims of racism aimed at it. We don't really need to grasp for straws. Let's start with some of the soldiers wearing signs that read, "The only good ape is a dead ape". That line was clearly lifted from older racist rhetoric from the Jim Crow era. Or the fact that they kept the apes in concentration camps. That wasn't a part of the original movie of the 70s, the apes had their own government. In this one they basically make them slaves and holocaust victims giving it more racial undertones. The female apes often wore beads in their hair for decoration.....and most of us know Black girls tend to wear beads in their hair for decoration. There are so many subliminally racist messages in the movie it ain't even funny.

Well you know white folks really believe Black people are really a missing link between monkeys and themselves. Again modern science explains that, genetically, white people are more different than each than we are from them. But hey people like to feel superior to others and perpetuating these stereotypes plays well to and resonates with the white masses. I'll wait for it to be available online later this year...

To emphasize Cynique's point. if anyone one of the characters in 45's Whitehouse were black they would have been deservedly laughed out or consideration. Look at that kid Kushner; does anyone that absent his inherited with, whiteness and ,marriage to 45's daughter that he would be doing anything but working some minimum wage job (all due respected to minimum wage job workers)? @Pioneer1, sure you are right regarding the nature of traffic to the site. I know much of what I push will not appeal to the masses. But I would rather people "reach" to engage with the content here, rather than me trying to speak down to people to increase engagement. Besides the competition for appealing to the lowest common denominator is STIFF. That demographic's attention span is short and fleeting. It takes a powerful machine to crank out that type of content with the regularity to compete on traffic. The most successful entities in this space, like social media, have there own visitors produce this content for them. This is why I don't publish content on social media and why I think those that do should be paid. One of the most popular pages on my site, often hundreds of visitors a day, is obtained by people running the query "who is elias gutierrez" When I first noticed this a few years ago. I had no clue who Elias Gutierrez was, and someone explained it to me. I posted that explanation on AALBC.com and now THAT page is #3 on the search results! This is what you would describe as pure "Gossip." I could greatly expand content on this dude to attract more traffic, but again I have no interest in doing this... But one thing I'l will to do that appeals to more folks is lists. These lists ALL generate a great deal of traffic. My new database allows me to create these lists very easily and update these lists and I find they are a great way to introduce readers to new authors and books. As far as reaching out to academia at universities even the one I work for is something to consider. Outside of the folks at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, I have not engaged with universities or colleges at all.

I may have told my "ask" story before but check this out. When i was working on my MBA and NYU's Stern school of business I was giving a preliminary presentation for a final project in a marketing class. Now keep in mind this is an all white class, the professor, my teams members and my class mates--all white. During my portion of the presentation I said, "We axed over 100 people which brand of sneakers they prefer." No one batted an eye or made a comment. Later however one of my teammates, a guy I became friendly with, told me the professor told him that I mispronounced the word "asked." The professor NEVER said a word to me! But felt it perfectly OK to talk about me with the other white people, in my absence. I was angered by this, but trust me I never EVER mispronounced that word again. I simply was not aware that I was mispronouncing the word. It was the way I was taught to say the word, and no one even after 7 years of college, at that point, ever corrected me--not even that racist professor at Stern, and she was racist--otherwise she would have immediately corrected me the way I do my students. Obviously, I was much more sensitive to this and have observed many Black people across all classes and education levels mispronounce the word the way I had. I also wonder how white people negatively judge Black folks on the way we speak in general. Now my experience is just an anecdote, but I think it is reflects of how we are judged by white people and even sidity Black folks based upon the way we speak.