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I want to agree, but we did actually just "have a conversation", and the evident result is that Black people really are now being killed at significantly higher rates than they were before. The strategy that you, I, and most others have settled on is to ignore this fact and hope it goes away on its own, which it is unlikely to do, and which will definately result in many thousands of additional murders over the next decade or two, with all the cascading negative effects for the communities those murders are concentrated in. Judging by past results, this is likely to cause another "conversation" a decade or two from now, that causes the same problem again, and on and on it goes.
Adams is intentionally getting people upset, but the fact is that people should actually be upset, because the reality is upsetting. His actions are not actually a solution, but they are perhaps closer to a solution than anything you or I are willing to act on. Blacks need to take responsibility for their tribe's problems. They need to withdraw active support and solidarity from the portions of their community that have adopted an unrepentant criminal lifestyle, the same way whites have done. They need to support the police that suppress their community's criminals. They pretty clearly aren't going to do any of those things while they can get away with simply blaming racism for all their problems, and they are going to keep blaming racism for all their problems so long as its the only answer we allow as a society.
If the taboo is not broken, there is no hope for change. And of course the first people to break the taboo are those insulated from the consequences; why would we expect anything different?
This is the key. I believe America will only be "post-racial" when we get to the point where, when a chronically disordered individual who happens to be black "fucks about and finds out" with the cops, the majority of black Americans who have jobs and no criminal record shrug and say "play stupid games, win stupid prizes", like I do when the same thing happens to some toothless, tatted up white meth addict. The fact that so many intelligent and educated black Americans continue to feel identification and kinship with thugs and knuckleheads simply because they share a skin color is baffling to me.
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