My qualms with the Black Lives Matter movement

I think it also goes without saying, that any movement which would suggest police are targeting blacks specifically, does so at the behest of the media's sensationalised politicisation of events, ironically introducing racial segregation into a matter where it need not arise. The facts simply don't support the narrative.

Few would deny that the history of the black community is laden with tragedy, oppression and injustice, the echoes of which, may never truly disappear.

But if we wish to reform and walk beyond mere sanctimony, we cannot do so by simply exclaiming racism. And no progress toward unity can be made when the very movement which seeks to eradicate racism is predicated upon one group, whilst openly denigrating the concept of "all lives matter." This in itself, no matter how well intended, is racism.

As Martin Luther King himself said:

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

There is no doubt that racism still occurs, and some surely may be found within police departments.

However, we should wait until all the facts are laid out before making assumptions and swallowing the media's bait of a racial undertone without evidence, as it has already led to the unwarranted vilification of policemen, and now the racist, unjust murdering of the policemen we've just seen in Dallas.

If you truly wish to remove racism, go out, find laws, institutions and individuals which conduct themselves in a racist way and expose them to due process.

Do not however, simply fall into the emotional and divisive milieu of the media without first researching the facts, as all it does is create the very segregation it claims to help.