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nolabels

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38. It's about guns, the cops and the cop mentality
Mon Jul 15, 2013, 12:25 PM
Jul 2013

I never signed up for any of it. To me, it's the whole civilization thing and the way it's structured. It's about control and it's a convenience for that non-thinking public at large. They assume that's the way things are because they see those images produced by that civilization in that larger aggregate. If you peruse a media with a language other than english you would notice that white-people-in-charge stereotype is not used because it doesn't sell products.

It's the reward-benefit treadmill, if you don't play the game correctly you will not get all the goodies you wanted.

I have a hard time to feeling worried or involved thinking much of this as real race issue (but that is just me) The President i voted for is black, the branch manager my work is chinese, my boss is black, my two supervisors are latino and shift lead man is black and me as a white folk, i am a minority in my workplace and the larger community at large.

To me, it is ideal of what propels this is what one might want to find the root of. To me it seems more like the police state we live in. How the story goes is, that he who has a gun and looks like he should posses it gets the pass, the rest us are just collateral that might be pushed aside or done away with.

If you look to other places where capitalism is the rule, education is lower tier and race is more of a mono-type then in them places the police state is pervasive and obtuse. It also occurs to me that where the billionaires can use race as a ruse to divide us, they have more opportunity to get their way with that cop mentality as the enforcer.

And no i don't find it coincidence that majority of the billionaires of that european heritage, it revolves of who looks like who that controls the wealth with the guns.

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Hey white people...its on us! [View all] sheshe2 Jul 2013 OP
Recommended. (nt) NYC_SKP Jul 2013 #1
Thanks SKP~ sheshe2 Jul 2013 #2
K & R! Triana Jul 2013 #3
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I need to read this but just want Cha Jul 2013 #6
Here's the thing sheshe2 malaise Jul 2013 #7
I think you're close Half-Century Man Jul 2013 #9
Good point - it is his descendants that I mean malaise Jul 2013 #30
I know malaise, sheshe2 Jul 2013 #11
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I recall trying to express how I felt a kinship with a black gal I knew in college. SleeplessinSoCal Jul 2013 #10
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In defense of white people, protect our future Jul 2013 #15
I too am white, protect our future. sheshe2 Jul 2013 #19
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And some of us are parents of African American children too notadmblnd Jul 2013 #41
It is up to the white people, and there may be hope for that, in spite of this case.... Moonwalk Jul 2013 #16
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White southerners need to lead the way instead of whining about others being bigots toward them coldmountain Jul 2013 #18
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In the 1970's I went to junior high and high schools in far Southern California cpwm17 Jul 2013 #22
If that's what you come away with sheshe2 Jul 2013 #23
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the racism that killed martin and set his killer free noiretextatique Jul 2013 #39
typical, self-serving, white denial/dismissal noiretextatique Jul 2013 #40
It should've always been a situation for white people to remedy RainDog Jul 2013 #24
"When confronted by someone with a badge or a gun, do not flee, fight....." Nye Bevan Jul 2013 #25
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You didn't do anything... Pelican Jul 2013 #33
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It's about guns, the cops and the cop mentality nolabels Jul 2013 #38
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