re: #BlackLivesMatter shutting down a major intersection in Louisville right now

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No what makes them hypocrites is that they're spending their time protesting in a lily white part of town insteads of actually acting like black lives matter and putting their time into improving those lives. Like volunteering at a soup kitchen in a predominantly black part of town where the unemployment rate is 1 out of 4. Or how about working on improving the lives of young black men by mentoring at their schools? I can think of about 100 things that would really make

"black lives matter" instead of this dumb shite.

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Meh. Not disagreeing with what you're saying, but no one is obligated to be the most efficient in their grievances, or not allowed to have a grievance if their time can be used more efficiently elsewhere. The Ferguson thing seems like a dude robbed a convenience store, and went after a cops gun and ended up dead. The guy getting choked out was ridiculous. Again, I think it's cops having little man syndrome, not racism. I mean race might have made them feel more comfortable with using excessive force, but it's a cops being pricks issue in my mind. And what's come out of it? More and more pressure for cops to wear body cams, which statistics have shown drop police officer complaints(by white and black citizens) staggering amounts. Some instances of up to 90%. So yes, they could spend their time improving the community instead of pointing a finger, and I think all of those things you mentioned would do more good than what they are doing, but I don't think that makes them hypocrites. Am I allowed to think that something is a problem unless I devote all my free time to personally solving it? As I stated, they are making race the only issue, instead of it being one of the lesser truths, but still, people are allowed to protest without making them hypocrites, IMO.

Again, just my opinion.