The only thing I agree with him on is this (this was from an interview he did today, I believe): a hairdresser has more schooling than a police officer.
Apparently, it only takes a few months to become a police officer. This does seem kinda crazy, and I had no idea until recently that you could become an officer in that short amount of time.
It takes 19 weeks to become a police officer, but those are not 830-3pm classes, either. You also have to pass a mental evaluation, background check, physical, and then you have about a year of SUPERVISED field training (you're not turned loose on your own). You can get cosmetology in as little as eight months or as much as two years depending.
Furthermore, that's kind of a stupid analogy anyway Colin K is making. We could argue that technically it only takes 12 weeks to turn a person into a killing machine for the US Marines.
And what is meant by 'more schooling?' This is where there's a huge difference in book learning and street smarts.
And again - this argument ASSUMES what has yet to be proven - that there's this massive epidemic of rogue cops shooting unarmed blacks at random. That very central point is simply not true by any stretch of the imagination. What we have here is a protester without a genuine cause to protest.
This is what upsets me about the media in this country (and I include 'social media' in that). About a year ago there was this huge massive cry and hub-bub about people afraid to go to the ER because they might get Ebola. We had ONE FATAL CASE of it. ONE!!!
You're FAR MORE LIKELY to get and die from the every day common flu, but nobody is protesting that.
Let me bring it right down to my own job - there were FIFTY-SIX blood transfusion related fatalities in 2014 (FDA and CDC are still investigating 2015). Even if we assume that every single one of those 39 unarmed black people killed by police was an arbitrary innocent and the cops lied (and most of them were resisting arrest), you still have more people dying from blood transfusions than from cops killing unarmed black people.
And then remember there are a reported 440,000 deaths annually attributed to flawed medical care - and that number is probably under-reported.
Quite frankly - a black person is far more likely to be killed accidentally by his or her doctor than intentionally by a cop. So I reiterate - what 'oppression' is Colin talking about? He's talking dead bodies in the streets.
Which dead bodies? Which black lives? And why the concern about the one and not the other?
Btw - for anyone who doesn't know - it takes a WHOLE LOT LONGER to be even a general practitioner than it does a cosmetologist or cop.
