I am watching media coverage of yet another "police/black man" death in Rochester. As these "questionable death" events arise in increasing number, my liberal identity is being challenged severely. My issue is not that I have lesser empathy for these horrific injustices. My issue is that I see an escalation of power within the black community that I fear may lead to widespread social chaos, such that it will be un-containable.
No coalition of American Blacks have, until now, mobilized sufficient revolution energy to challenge "institutional governance"....but this, always standing, coalition has never had half of the population trying to defeat Trump in an immanent election....an election they cannot win without Black Coalition support. BLM finds itself in an unparalleled partnership with a "liberal media" during a time when "liberal media" is obsessed with defeating Trump. I hope the longstanding grievances of "Black America" do not, during this unique time, commandeer the institutional power of the fourth estate and ride it pell mell into the gates of Civil War II.