Stereotypes: Murdered cops another awful example

On Jan. 10, Natalie Corona, in her first year of duty, was gunned down in California simply for being a police officer. A few days before that, it was another California cop, Ronil Singh, a legal immigrant from Fiji with a five-month-old son.

I am sickened by the murder of police officers, and by a national atmosphere where they are viciously stereotyped.

Yet these murders belie a bigger problem. Stereotypes kill. And the far left projects stereotypes as dangerous as those of the far right. They express the same energy - hate.

Just we must not stereotype people of color, immigrants, Muslims, and the poor, neither should we stereotype police, white males, Christians and business owners (‘evil capitalists’).

American politics is so toxic because politicians appeal not to personal conscience, but to tribalism and group identity.

When shall we regain our sanity and remember that we are all members of one human family, whether white or brown, male or female, immigrant or native, Christian or Muslim, Republican or Democrat?

And being human, we are sovereign individuals, each of us incomparably unique.