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If you were to solve all the police brutality, and you had none next year, 99-percent-plus reasons for the murder of black men would continue. You mean racism has created more problems than just the racist corrupt police force? Well I'll be damned. Let's take that on next!

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The wingnuts are going to misrepresent our position no matter what we do.

Isn't that the whole point of the Kaepernick saga? He took a knee in silent protest of injustice, they made it all about the troops and the flag. You're not going to win playing semantic games with these people, they are much better at it than we are.

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Those two guys need a good beating to give them the proper perspective.

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She's only concerned about all this uppity-ness. What if it gets out of hand?

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Her husband wasn't beaten by the police during his arrest, was he?

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Isn't everything punishable by death these days?

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Amazing how wingnuts look to talk about black on black crime but never offer any solutions for it. It's almost like they're homing those communities just destroy themselves so they can get in the gentrify the ruins.

And yes, the "almost" part is sarcastic.

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Good to see the judge giving an ex con a break

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And there are hundreds of thousands others.Not that 100,000 deaths matter to them, as we have seen.

World War Three sucks as much as we thought it would.

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She does that every night when her husband comes to bed.

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Obvs what we need is the voices of more old white men to tell us how to solve race problems in this country, if race problems were even really a thing.

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There is literally no "good" way for black people to interact with the police. Pick any scenario: running, on their knees with their hands up, sleeping in their own bed, etc. And you will find an example of the police straight up shooting a black person for whatever reason. Police are trained to think of blackness as an inherent weapon that requires lethal force as the only possible recourse.

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We can only hope.

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If Ramses II was still around....

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what are they, dawgs? (the way to get dogs to run is to pretend to run from them cuz they like chasing. My dog also likes riding in the car.)

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#ReallocateResources for Community Improvement#RedistributeResources for Community Programs#MoveMoney

We had this discussion in another place a few days ago

Say This, Not That: Say “Move Money to Community Resources” or “Direct Money to Community Resources” instead of “Defund the Police” #MoveMoney #SayThisNotThat

It's really frustrating to watch folks stumble about when you've already handed them the answer. I think Sherrilyn Ifill Esq. and Senator Kamala Harris are the bees' knees, but as many times as they've tried to do this for Americans since even before the 2016 election, and their suggestions went completely unheeded while white men waited for their tired brains to think of it only to come up with the answer too late or not at all, I wouldn't be them for anything.

It's the worst kind of Cassandra crap in the world to be PROVEN RIGHT multiple times when all you're trying to do is keep the world from setting fire to itself, and nobody wants to hear it.

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