Black Lives Matter. Still

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So much of what James Baldwin said is still relevant today.

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Charles M. Blow (CharlesMBlow)

Samuel Sinyangwe (samswey)

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It’s worth reading the replies to this:

✊🏿Black Aziz aNANsi✊🏿 (Freeyourmindkid)

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Protesters march after death of man who wasn't mall shooter

Oops, the guy we killed was not the shooter, but he was black and fleeing, so we assume he was involved.

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Brother Tyrone X (tyrone345345)

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Alabama police suggest black man shouldn't have pulled out his gun

Of course, the “good guy with a gun” is assumed to be a white guy, and a black guy with a gun is known as a “target”. “He shouldn’t have been holding the gun” that he had a permit to carry in a situation where someone was actually shooting. He would be a hero if only he had less pigment…

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ashley yates (brownblaze)

The casualties go beyond the direct targets.

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4 Police Officers Indicted On Federal Civil Rights Charges For Protest Abuses

Hope, maybe? Of course, the fact the victim was an undercover cop makes this a fairly unique case.

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Bishop Talbert Swan (TalbertSwan)

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ABC News (ABC)

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“My son was murdered by this officer…That ain’t training. That’s cowardice.”

The father of a 21-year-old man “mistakenly” killed by a police officer in an Alabama mall says an independent autopsy shows his son was shot three times in the back. abcn.ws/2RyVmsy https://t.co/Ivpj6dzs5x

FTFY

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Bishop Talbert Swan (TalbertSwan)

Cyntoia Brown. Marissa Alexander. Jacqueline Dixon.

Notice what they have in common?

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@Wanderfound

Every damned day.

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@Wanderfound

Every damned day.

https://twitter.com/meritlaw/status/1072670026405199872?s=21

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I hate the British press

Adam Keyworth (adamkeyworth)

And now the S*n are saying it isn’t their fault that racism is coming back to football and Sterling was called a B***k C**t on Saturday.

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Thread.

Gregory McKelvey (GregoryMcKelvey)

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For a FUCKING calculator? Jesus fucking christ on a cracker.

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FBI leadership claimed Bureau was “almost powerless” against KKK, despite...

The testimony then noted that the Bureau was almost singlehandedly responsible for the impressive growth in the KKK’s membership which Adams had just lamented. According to the Bureau’s numbers, not only were 20% of the KKK’s members working for the FBI, the FBI was responsible for 70% of the recent growth in the KKK’s membership and that rather than having the effect of reverting violence, it resulted in “the tail wagging the dog.”

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Notice what they have in common?

Land Back Now 🔥

Defense seeks evidence victim in homicide was under investigation for abusing...

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Black people in N.J. say they're more likely to be punched, kicked by cops....

Among the findings:

• Black people are three times more likely to face some type of police force than whites.

• In 68 cities and towns, black people were at least five times more likely to face force. In Millville in South Jersey, they were seven times more likely. In Lakewood, they were an astounding 22 times more likely.

• Black people were more likely to face nearly every kind of force used by police, including punches, kicks, pepper spray, baton strikes and dog attacks. They were more than twice as likely to be shot.

• Black children faced a disproportionate amount of force. Of the more than 4,600 uses of force against people under 18, slightly more than half were black. But they account for only 14.5 percent of the state’s child population.

• The data shows white people are more likely to show aggressive behavior toward police, like threatening or attacking police with a car, knife or gun. Black people are more likely to run away.

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