We get it, Joe. You don't want to discuss the specific issue raised by the brunt-bearers of all this -- that being, an operational model for law enforcement that mimics that of an occupational force and functions with deadly impunity in non-white communities throughout this country.
It offends you.
Yet, as you've continued to call upon all parties to engage in a "real conversation about race," why not, in this instance, push forth a familiar straw-man argument for a moment or two -- complete with all the crafty caveats and compromising qualifiers -- and simply call it a day. Why not engage in a tit-for-tat exercise of dueling atrocities?
Anything to help you feel just a bit more comforted, Joe.
Is this not essentially the way both "Moaning" Joe Scarborough and his irrelevant cross-dressing cohort, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, furiously attempted to frame the discussion about the protests over the failure to indict the cop that killed Michael Brown?
Both publicly blew gaskets over the growing outrage displayed in various forms by American citizens critical of the decision.
"I don't want to discuss the criminal-justice system," moaned Scarborough December 1st on his MSNBC show, Morning Joe.
"I don't see how this case normally would have even been brought to a grand jury," bawled Giuliani a few days earlier on Meet the Press.
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