If I can be serious for a moment.

People who use dangerous drugs, get behind the wheel of a car, by the grace of God didn't kill anybody and die in an altercation with police have my sympathy and some degree of understanding. Not because they are Black but because they are human beings. On the other hand they do not have my "support" nor will I show "solidarity" with them, regardless of what color they are.

Like many families, my own has been touched by drug abuse. And I can tell you that the only thing that has been consistent about the problem from one to the next is that it leads to death and has caused the death of both the user and those near to them in all circumstances. Drugs are death plain and simple. And in every single instance, the problem was prologed because people around them were ignoring that, making excuses or outright denying it was a problem. When I read that artilce from BlackAmericaWeb that I posted it was all deja-vu. I have heard that bull crap where family cover for their member's drug problems over and over again.

Let me say it again. Nobody deserves to die at that age, whether at the hands of police or whatever. But here this...drugs are death, one way or another. And the sooner the Black community wakes up and stop this everlasting scapegoating, excuse making and "solidarity" with drug users the batter it will be.

In an ideal and a fantasy world, everytime someone is acting strange in public, those looking on will make an elegant and accurate clinical diagnosis and someone "trained in mental health" will appear by magic. But we live in the real world where people abuse drugs, kill themselves, kill each other, kill loved ones and, yes, kill police officers too.

That is the reality. Grow up.