Left Commentary on Last Week's Shootings

Clayton Morgareidge selects and reads from some of the commentaries from the left about the shootings last week in Minneapolis, Baton Rouge, and Dallas. 

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The sources are:

• DALLAS POLICE SHOOTING: BLOWBACK FROM IMPUNITY AND STRUCTURAL RACISM, by Kevin Gosztola 

• The Racist Killing Machine in the Age of Anti-Politics, by Henry A. Gliroux

• Death in Dallas and America’s existential crisis: Our new “civil war” over the nature of reality, by Andrew O'Hehir

•  Black Lives Still Must Matter, Even After Dallas. But the attack is a reminder that no life will be safe and truly valued until we also confront the broader American culture of violence. By Kai Wright

Other good sources include:

• It's Not Hyperbole: This Week's Police Violence and Political Mayhem Show a Fragile and Flailing America: Where to begin making sense of the senseless around us, By Steven Rosenfeld

• There Is a War Over Race in America. But it’s not whites vs. blacks. By William Saletan

• Police Killings Won't Stop Until U.S. Comes to Grips with its Racist Foundations. Paul Jay and Gerald Horne on the Real News Network.