| Many people are assuming that the group, Black Lives Matter, is just wanting to draw attention to black people being killed. While certainly, a percentage of people take it only that far, it has to be understood that this movement is stereotyping whites and the police as oppressors. Black people rightfully fought against negative Black stereotyping and need to open their eyes on their own stereotyping. |  |
 Blog on much more on this subject. | December 2014, I wrote a blog regarding much of the same issues. I show great distress at the negative inculcation black youth and children are getting by their community. A few days after this blog, 2 police officers just sitting in their patrol car and in very cold blood were shot and killed. This was in New York City where the black protesters were the most active and days after chants of ‘what do we want, Dead cops’ were chanted by hundreds in a march. |
| The results of the inner-city black community clearly show oppression. However, the cause of that oppression needs to be identified. Many just assume that if black people are incarcerated at higher rates, earn less, and achieve fewer degrees, that the cause is that they are discriminated against at high levels by whites, police, businesses, and government. |  |
 | When stereotyping whites, police, businesses, and government as oppressors, this group inculcates their children with the mentality of victimhood and ‘not having a chance.’ THAT OPPRESSED INCULCATION IS THE TRUE OPPRESSION. A small child holds a sign saying ‘Don’t Shoot’ and sees their parents and neighbors holding others signs about police hunting them down to shoot them. Over the years they are entirely convinced that cops are the enemy that WANTS to gun them down, so when they do something foolish as all kids do and encounter the police, they decide to fight for their lives. They will often end up dead or in prison for a minor mistake. |
| I am not a statistician, and even if I were, the complexity of trying to determine how groups of different races are treated by police is overwhelmingly difficult because the factors are so numerous and reporting so incomplete as to render the studies very suspect. Not totally worthless, however, one has to be very careful to understand how the data was collected and data that was omitted. |  |
 | Confirmation bias is when you have a set theory and accept data that confirms your theory and dismisses all data that challenges your assumptions. The earlier in your life you start learning your world view, the harder it is to overcome ‘confirmation biases.’ It is very concerning to many that so many young inner-city black toddlers are instilled with a foundation of ‘being oppressed’ that will significantly limit their chances and opportunities in their lives. |
| ‘Black lives matter,’ and the ‘hands up, don’t shoot’ movements are continuations of a long list of other movements that have kept the black populations in an ‘oppressed mentality.' Government programs such as welfare, affirmative action, anti-voter-ID, minimum wage, among many other ‘Protecting People’ programs and policies have added to the inculcation that black people are inferior to whites. |  |
 | Good and honest, as possible, studies have seen that black populations that are multi-generationally intact (mother, father, and children), living moral and honorable lives and inculcated with positive messages have similar statistics on income, incarceration, education, and quality of life as whites of similar backgrounds. While a mentality of oppression is the focus of this article, undoubtedly other factors such as fatherhood, education, ambition, envy, and good morals are incredibly important. |
