Why are People Taking to the Streets? [View all]

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|By nadinabbott on December 9, 2014 •


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Dec. 9, 2014 (San Diego) People are getting inconvenienced. Civil disobedience tends to do that. We have seen multiple closures of interstates across the country. Yesterday saw a first, Amtrak service was stopped near Berkeley, California. So what’s the beef? Why are people so angry and for some, the police and the courts have no credibility, worst, have no standing? Well, first we need to peel the onion.

The first layer of the onion are the raw statistics. According to the Sentencing Project, 60 percent of African-American without a High School diploma have served time in prison. “And while blacks and latinos together comprise 30 percent of the general population, they account for 58 percent of prisoners.” These raw statistics are at times used to suggest that these two minorities, African-American and Latinos, are far more violent than their white counterparts.

This is the outermost layer of the onion. Since this is where many people stop. If they are in prison at such high rates, they must be violent right? Not quite. The second layer of the onion is policy. This has been the result of how we have chosen to enforce laws, and who we have chosen to enforce it on. The drug laws are the best example of this. We know from studies that African-American and whites use drugs at the same rates. Yet, more African-American people are in jail. Why? It is how the system deals with this.

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Here is the onion peeled for you. As annoying as it may be, next time somebody, or likely a large group close down an interstate, or roads in San Diego, this is why. They are not trying to inconvenience you. They are trying to get a conversation started. This is not my view. It is the view of many of the people who are in the streets, becuase they are tired of the treatment they are getting from law enforcement, the courts, the system. They are chiefly tired of their youth becoming criminals before they graduate from high school, and truly, of having to watch their Ps and Qs because people are afraid of them.

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http://reportingsandiego.com/2014/12/09/why-are-people-taking-to-the-streets/

Photo Gallery: UTSA students hold ‘die-in’ to protest #EricGarner, #Ferguson deaths


Posted on December 10, 2014 by SouthernGirl2

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UTSA senior Chris Brown initiates the event by falling first to the ground Wednesday Dec. 10, 2014 during a Die-in in honor of Michael Brown and Eric Garner

UTSA senior Chris Brown initiates the event by falling first to the ground Wednesday Dec. 10, 2014 during a “Die-in” in honor of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, where they laid for 15 and half minutes at Sombrilla Plaza. The event was sponsored by the UTSA NAACP chapter in an effort to shed light on police brutality and injustice, with about 80 people participating.

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http://3chicspolitico.com/2014/12/10/photo-gallery-utsa-students-hold-die-in-to-protest-ericgarner-ferguson-deaths/

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Did you hear that? "They are trying to get a conversation started."

ARE YOU LISTENING OR JUST INCONVENIENCED? Wake the hell up America. It is past time for WHITE AMERICA TO TAKE THE LEAD AND CORRECT THE WRONGS that were committed and still being committed against PoC. Please wake up America, you do her a grave injustice when you remain silent.