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Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts) Wed Jun 3, 2020, 12:42 PM Jun 2020

ANY oppressed group, enslaved group, will likely have larger criminal record

statistics because they are born into a system where being BORN makes them criminals.

Drug laws ALL are designed to IMPRISON people with black skin.

Redlining laws are designed to protect oppressed people but the system still allows redlining.

Is it a coincidence more AA are dying from the virus statistically? That school systems are poorer in their communities?

BTW, if you reversed all this, the horror white people would visit on the land would make this look like a cub scout outing.

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ANY oppressed group, enslaved group, will likely have larger criminal record (Original Post) Eliot Rosewater Jun 2020 OP

Example. NY distancing laws. 40 arrested. 35 of the 40 were black. During the open up protests. LizBeth Jun 2020 #1

Black communities have been aggressively over-policed since Jim Crow laws were enacted in the sop Jun 2020 #2

Exactly, the same crime I wont even get pulled over for in the first place, like speeding Eliot Rosewater Jun 2020 #3

LizBeth

(9,952 posts)

1. Example. NY distancing laws. 40 arrested. 35 of the 40 were black. During the open up protests.

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Original post)

Wed Jun 3, 2020, 12:44 PM

Jun 2020

sop

(10,146 posts)

2. Black communities have been aggressively over-policed since Jim Crow laws were enacted in the

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Original post)

Wed Jun 3, 2020, 12:59 PM

Jun 2020

years following reconstruction. That over-policing policy continues to this day in many minority communities.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)

3. Exactly, the same crime I wont even get pulled over for in the first place, like speeding