Black Lives Matter. Still

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Rapper Meek Mill Is Granted Retrial After Years-Long Legal Fight

Rapper Meek Mill has been granted a new trial by a three-judge appeals court panel in Pennsylvania, for a case that dates back 12 years. The only witness who testified against Meek was a police officer who was later found to have committed theft.

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Today is officially the 100th year memorial to the catastrophic Race Riots:

https://chicago1919.org/

There are events all year, but today is focused on public lectures/discussions in “Bughouse Square” (officially, Washington Square), which is Chicago’s equivalent of Speakers Corner in Hyde Park, London.

How far have we come in 100 years? Yeah, exactly.

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Hell most of the USA still refuses to realize there is a problem.

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Even ‘little’ aggressions like this:

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More on the Race Riots:

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Wow. I cannot imagine anything less healthy to do to “avoid” lashing out when angry than finding a rag doll (a racist caricature rag doll at that), beating the doll , and chanting “I FEEL GOOD” the whole time. Whoever made these has serious problems and bad ideas about how to deal with it. That’s basically just rehearsing violence against black people as a form of “self care” and that’s a new level of fucked up.

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And one more good summary on the “Red Summer” in 1919:

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I’m about 75% certain it was CasaPound.

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Another follow-up, showing the catastrophic economic losses to African Americans in Chicago alone:

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Amen brother

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Woah, thanks, that’s real truth to power. James Baldwin lives!

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Asshole. Stupid asshole, but still asshole.

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