Great post. As a veteran psychologist who has noticed some of these trends too(by the way I'm brown but not brown enough that people call me black, they call me white, a lot of my friends are brown, or pink, or olive brown, and even grey brown, but I have no actual albino friends) I would like to agree. The media, by [i]hyping up[/i] all the riots, all the shootings, is completely overshadowing that there is a real problem where a disproportional number of "black" people are shot by police. The thing is that the media never delves deeper. They never bring up that they, the media, and I mean news, social media, television and movies, continuously portray young "black" men as violent and unable to be reasoned with. Then you have music that portrays all young "black" men as "thugs" and gangbangers which further propitiates the vision, role and stereotype that they desire for "black" men. But guess what? Not all black men are like that. A lot are just average guys doing extraordinary jobs like my friend Bradford that works with me to help children find homes, stay in their biological home, get therapy and get adopted. He's brown enough to be called "black" and he's not any of those things. And the unfortunate thing is that he [b]could[/b] be shot by a policeman by accident just because he reached for his registration from his glove compartment. As a society, we need to purge the media and Capitol Hill of these people that have the agenda of dividing us. They want us to fight amongst ourselves in order to distract us from them stealing from us or further enslaving us. All lives matter, black men, black cops, white culture vultures, Japanese business men, Russian ballerinas, white women, black women, everyone matters and the media is trying to force us to take sides in an issue that shouldn't have sides. We need to seriously take a look at why black men get shot by any color policeman. We need to take a serious look at why people are being manipulated to think that we shouldn't take a look. And most of all we need to take a look at the people running things and why they would incite riots and push for more violence, all the while creating a further divide and propitiating racism. We all are of one blood, let's stop spilling it for these puppet masters and start spilling their blood instead. The real purge 2016.