By Uriah J. Fields

      Hear each other out is an idom and expression that calls for a person to hear all of what someone has to say - to listen to someone until he or she is finished. The question is, "Why don't we hear each other out?  It maybe because we don't want our own views to be challenged or because we believe that  they have something to say that may be more convincing or believable than what we are advocating or embracing..Whatver the rationale for not listening to each other must cease to be practiced if there is to be consensus and peace in our personal lives and in sociery.

       The refusal to "hear each other out" accounts, to a large degreee, for the turmoil involving police killings of  37-year old Alton Sterling of Baton Rouge, Louisiana on July 5, 2016, 32-year old Philando  Castile of Falon Heights, (St. Paul suburb) Minnesota, on July 6, and a sniper killimg on July 7 of 5 police officers and wounding 7 other  police officers and two civilians in Dallas, Texas, by Micah Xavier Johnson, a Marine veteran  who served in Afghanistan, and two days later the arrest of 120 persons, including Black Lives Matter leader DeRay Mckesson who were protesting the killing of black men by police officers.

     I want to cite two incidents where "hear each other out" or the lack thereof that I experienced which impacted me in a way that made me a strong practitoiner and advocator of "hear each other out." This is particularly important for the black community and white police officers in resolving the distrust many black people have of white police officers and white police officers' unnecessary killing and brutalizing unarmed black people. ... (continued)

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