Black Lives Matter. Still

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The Minnesota Reformer reported that MPS teachers of colors face job changes and budget cuts at a higher rate than their white counterparts. On top of that, 23 percent of teachers laid off in the 2020-21 school year were Black and brown while only making up 18 percent of the workforce.

Sounds like they were already considering race, in effect if not in intent. At a guess, white teachers tend to have more seniority due to historical hiring practices, hence less likely to be laid off than teachers of color. Sounds like an effort to confront this fact. It will not go well, since denial of systemic racism is one of the core foundations of the new fascist movement.

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Michael Harriot’s take on the Minneapolis teachers controversy:

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The best guess, at this point, is that one police officer randomly fired shots at Fanta and her family, and the other police officers, as officers often do, just started firing because they saw their partner firing.

Geez, like turkeys gobbling.

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That is truly disgusting. I did not think i could be shocked by cop behavior anymore. Guess i was wrong.

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W.T.A.F.

hip hop rap GIF by WE tv

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Well you see, learning about things like that would make the white students feel bad about themselves.

/s :roll_eyes:

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Good news (if he stays unemployed in law enforcement):

Bad news:

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I posted this in another thread, but the second half of A Closer Look last night had the comments by the special prosecutors…

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The police are claiming that since it can’t be proven precisely which of their bullets killed Fanta, that none of them should be charged at all. But what’s clear is that if any other set of three everyday people unloaded their weapons on an innocent 8 year old girl, all three of those shooters would likely be in jail for the rest of their lives.

i mean people have gotten life sentences for felony murder because of a borrowed car ffs. if you’re shooting bullets at someone and they die, that seems pretty straight forward

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By offering cops more and more special privileges, authoritarians are gradually reinventing aristocracy and feudalism

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That last one is so common among the closet Q-nuts. But it was Fox News that spread all the lies about BLM protests that mainstreamed that BS.

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According to this Federal court ruling a Jim Crow-era law that was explicitly enacted to “Exclude the Negro” from the ballot box isn’t unconstitutional because it was “cleansed” of its “discriminatory taint” during the 20th century.

Dude, have these guys even seen the history 20th century? It was arguably even more racist than the 21st century! And this century has been pretty fucking racist so far.

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