I think I liked it better when people couldn’t comment on newspaper articles. Seeing what the readers had to say on this article about ministers who want the Chicago Police Department to hire and promote more Black officers makes me really question some of my assumptions about people, like whether we all really want the same things. But then, when I think about it, that idea hasn’t changed. Everybody wants to get his fair share…and if his share is a little more fair, then no harm there. Reading some of these comments, though, it’s like, there is no such thing as civility. But that’s the price of anonymity.
As technology shortens the communication cycle and makes the “viewer” more of a participant, it seems that so-called regular people display their worst communicative tendencies. Jokers go for loud and obnoxious over just about anything else. I mean, I can tolerate somebody expressing an idea that I don’t particularly agree with. I can even handle somebody saying something that I think is both asinine and flat-out wrong. But to go all the way off topic and say something inflammatory just for the sake of being inflammatory? I can’t deal with it. That’s that juvenile stuff. What’s more, it kinda makes me think that the militants might be right - or at least, more right than I want them to be.
Made me so mad, I couldn’t even concentrate on the fact that I think the preachers need to return to the main text. Cuz they do. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for community policing, but what would help the police to seem like less of an occupying force and more like community servants might be to get them out of their cars, rather than simply assuming that a Black cop is gonna care more or be better for the ‘hood than a white one.
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