I welcome calls to continue to perfect our nation.
Still, I'd like to know if class plays a role in who gets into confrontations with police officers.
Do police in the United States beat and kill white people? How many? Why don't we hear about this nearly often enough? Are the white people who are beaten and killed poor and/or working-class? Or are they white guys who have lived the kind of life President Trump has lived? Do white "victims" and their families remain silent because they think they got what they deserved? Is white life in America different enough than the life experienced by people of color to teach white people to keep quiet and "respect" the police?
I don't know the answers. However, these are some of the questions that have popped into my aging brain as I follow the protests in our country.
I raise these issues to provide context, not to deny what demonstrators are telling us. In fact, I think a broader examination may teach us that all kinds of people share similar experiences, even if we live different lives in some important ways.
Maybe Bob Dylan put it best when he wrote and sang "Only a Pawn in Their Game."
These words stand out to me decades after Dylan made his case:
"And the poor white remains
On the caboose of the train
But it ain't him to blame
He's only a pawn in their game"
.bobdylan.com/songs/only-pawn-their-game/
Do many of us have more in common than we realize?
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