Me neither… I really do associate it with atrocious historical events more than anything else.
Yeah, it needs to be said, and more often by people who are considered white.
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this is still maybe in the alleged category. pretty terrible if true though 
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Controlling Black youth is pretty much all they care about, hmmm? They have to know they have already lost this case, but they can’t let the kid “win,” so…
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and not an unnatural color or variation
Braiding is not an unnatural variation for Black folks, dammit!
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Or, say a Norseman…
Any old excuse.
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Archive: https://archive.ph/OFEx7
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Broward State Attorney Harold F. Pryor and his team also expressed their condolences… “The Leonard we knew was a smart, funny and kind person,” they said in a statement. “After he was freed and exonerated by our office, he visited prosecutors at our office and participated in training to help our staff do their jobs in the fairest and most thorough way possible.”
Working a steady job, Cure was aspiring to go to college for music production and was in the process of purchasing his first home near Atlanta
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Upstate. That figures.
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A French wax museum just turned a guy of Black Nova Scotian and Samoan ancestry into Mr. Clean. I don’t think Lumière was made out of wax that white.
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The next day a captain with the Sacramento police told Stewart the suspect they are looking for is a teenager, according to Stewart. Brandon, a third grader, is about 3’10”, 56 pounds.
I suppose it could have been worse, though.
Brandon got out of the vehicle afraid that his mother would be arrested or worse, according to Stewart. He screamed and pleaded for her to come back to the car. The 8-year-old, not realizing the officers thought he was the suspect, approached them frantically explaining that his mother was just taking him to football practice and hadn’t done anything wrong. It was at that point that Stewart believes the officers realized that Brandon wasn’t the suspect.
It’s incredibly sad that I am amazed he was not shot. But this is the world we live in.
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These parts caught my attention:
Police told ABC News they first misidentified Brandon through helicopter surveillance, as he and his mother were leaving their home to go to football practice.
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“From a distance, officers observed a juvenile who they believed to be the wanted suspect, enter a vehicle with tinted windows,” Sacramento police told ABC News through a statement.
If this is how they identify suspects, it’s no surprise cops make a lot of “mistakes.” They also know cases involving traumatizing/terrorizing/terminating Black lives aren’t likely to cost them their jobs:
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