CS> Ok, an example.  A cop has to shoot someone in line of duty. True lack 
of 
 CS> racism means the color of the persons involved, is not an issue so that 
 CS> only the rightness of the action is the issue.  Dont _assume_ because 
the 
 CS> cop may have been white, and the person shot may have been black, that 
 CS> racism is part of the shooting.  That vision of it perpetuates racism.
   There is a tendency, as there was in the early 60's in the services, to 
scream racism for something to do.
   We had an allegedly racist shooting here in Baltimore a while back - guy 
with a knife in a crowded place refused to put it down, and a crowd that 
wouldn't let officers back off to a safe distance.  Guy advanced (or appeard 
to be advancing) and the cop that perceived the advance shot him and he died.
Dead guy was black. All 3 cops were black.  Where's the racism?  The white 
leadership of the police department had brainwashed these cops (or so the 
popular tale was told).  I am certain that, had the shooting cop been white, 
we'd've had a riot on our hands.  Where's the reason in this?
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