"or if they still feel the police are an occupying force"

What about the other occupying force, what? You don't remember the drug dealers, and gangs walking the streets?

Does anyone remember NB story asking is anything will change if Obama was president? Now you have your offical answer...NO. 

Obama just justified the victim mentality. Welcome to the new world, looks like the old one to me.

  The man has gotten filthy rich exploiting the misery of the minority community why wouldn't he want it to continue?

Parasite:   An organism that grows, feeds, and is sheltered on or in a different organism while contributing nothing to the survival of its host.

"...yo Dre, I got somethin' to say"

Look, I think it's possible to like that song, to appreciate the cultural landscape from which it emerged or, if you like, to appreciate that it's an example of sincere - if not misdirected - racialized hatred, without buying whole hog into the sort of violent bravado that NWA was rapping about (not necessarily promoting) back in 1989.  

Just as it's possible to enjoy Scorsese's The Departed without feeling compelled to go out and kill Irish cops (or gangsters, for that matter) in Boston; or to enjoy Braveheart without wanting to overthrow the British Crown. 

These things are cultural and literary texts.  I think that because it was a bunch of young black men rapping the song in question, we're more likely to take it purely at face value.  If you listen to NWA's entire Straight Outta Compton album - not that I imagine most NBers ever would - you'll notice that hidden among the violent narratives about inner-city life, there are some genuinely positive observations and messages.  The song Dopeman, for instance, describes the life of a crack cocaine dealer.  It also features the not-particularly-subtle line "If you smoke [co]caine, you a stupid motherf----r".  Doesn't get much more cautionary than that.

As you can probably tell, I'm a big NWA fan.  I know of what I speak.

I feel like the IRS is an occupying force. Same for state agencies who take away children based on rumors and parking authtorities who charge me money for the priviledge of parking on a street that my tax dollars paved.

Unless you speak out against those intrusive forces, this just sounds like you hate cops. 

I will say that what offends me about this article is that Russell Simmons seems to think that some bad cops only target black people. Some bad cops also target white people as well. Case in point: My mother, who was a protestant Christian with a severe drug addiction, got me and my father (who's a moderate Jew, just to be clear) thrown to the ground by the police when I was eight years old. She was so sick in her mind with her cocaine addiction, she just had to force my father to take her and me to the bad part of town so she could get some cocaine to "ease her pain". I know, it made things worse for her in many ways, but there was no way out of it. She could be overpowering against my father and I when she needed to.

So, we ended up taking my mother to the bad side of town, when a patrol car pulled us over. I could understand that they would want to put my mother against the ground since she did have a record in the area, but they also did it to my father and I. And this is why I mentioned that I was eight when this happened. I was an eight-year-old boy who didn't know any better what was going on, and I was put face forward toward the ground by the police. Even though what my mother did was clearly wrong and only brought this upon me through her negligence, was it necessary for the police to put an eight-year-old boy against the ground, whether they're white or black?

To this day, I've feared the police in a way that, well, it's not hatred or loathing. It's just that I don't like the police in general. I have never committed a crime because of what happened to me that day, but I still have a negative view of the police. I know most of them are good, upright citizens who try to protect the good of us, but I can't shake off that feeling that some of them are bad apples. All I can say is that we need to be constantly vigilant of our surroundings for the good of us, try to avoid breaking the law at all cost, and make sure we don't run into the bad apples among the good, healthy apple tree that is the police.