StarfishSaver
StarfishSaver's JournalKimberly Jones has an eloquent answer to the question "Why are they looting?" Listen to her
Let's ask ourselves why in this country in 2020, why the financial gap between poor blacks and the rest of the world is at such a distance that people feel their only hope and only opportunity to get some of the things that we flaunt and flash in front of them all the time is to walk through a broken glass window and get it.
That they are so hopeless that getting that necklace, or chain, or TV, or bed or phone, whatever they want to get is that in that moment when riots happen that's their only opportunity to get it.
Why are people that poor? Why are people that broke? Why are people that food insecure, clothing insecure that they feel their only shot is walking through a broken glass window and getting it.
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And they are lucky that all black people are looking for is equality and not revenge.
That time when Kamala pressed Kavanaugh on whether he agreed that LGBTQ had right to marry
and he refused to answer.
She had his number https://twitter.com/mayaharris_/status/1272560846972030979
The Supreme Court likely just invalidated Trump's roll back of LGBTQ protections in health care
I suspect the Trump team was confident this case would go the other way and rushed through the revocation of the regulation because it thought they were all in sync.
The action last Friday revoked an Obama-era regulations interpreting the Affordable Care Act prohibition against discrimination on the basis of sex to include prohibition against discrimination against LGBTQ people.
Although today's case applies to the Civil Rights Act, its ruling that the definition of sex discrimination in the Civil Rights Act includes LGBTQ means that the same prohibition in the ACA would also apply to LGBTQ.
So now the administration no longer has the power to issue regulations interpreting the law as it chooses since the Court just told them, in no uncertain terms, what the law says.
Sweet ...
I am really sick of having to explain why a black man who was shot in the back by a police officer
in violation of law and police procedure would have reason enough to be afraid of being harmed by the police even if he complied that he would resist arrest and run away.
C'mon people. Think.
Chalk Wall lady's husband got fired too
Racism sometimes has consequences ...
https://twitter.com/AliVelshi/status/1272531198976372739
Dude gotta go!
This one never gets old ...
https://twitter.com/CapehartJ/status/1272284515361329155
Turns out Lindsay Graham is one Biden's most effective surrogates!
Thanks, Lindsay for this great ad!
Officer's first words after shooting Rayshard Brooks twice in the back: "I got him"
https://www.cbs46.com/news/fulton-da-murder-or-felony-murder-fit-if-charges-are-filed-in-rayshard-brooks-shooting/article_c3e516d6-ae79-11ea-b4df-1b99cd01b118.html
Time to stop arguing on DU whether Rayshard Brooks' shooting was justified
The Atlanta Police Department and the Fulton County D.A. - not exactly a hotbed of liberal cop haters - seem to have settled the issue.
Not only did the PD summarily fire the shooting officer, the DA plans to bring charges against him.
The Fulton County District Attorney criticized the police officers' handling of the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta on Friday and said that a decision on whether to bring charges could come around Wednesday.
".(Brooks) did not seem to present any kind of threat to anyone, and so the fact that it would escalate to his death just seems unreasonable," DA Paul Howard told CNN's Fredricka Whitfield on Sunday.
"If that shot was fired for some reason other than to save that officer's life or prevent injury to him or others, then that shooting is not justified under the law."
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/14/us/atlanta-protests-rayshard-brooks-sunday/index.html
So, please. Stop trying to argue that the shooting was justified.
Black men have every reason to fear the police
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