not nebulous "TPP!!!11!!!11" and "Wall Street bankster". It is NOT solely "economic" as some will keep insisting. The DOJ Ferguson report just released, established that this goes on and it is just a microcosm situation that is isolated to a small Midwestern town, but is a characteristic both in the smallest towns and the largest urban areas, in every state of the union. Someone "fits the description" and that someone is rarely "white" (or "white-looking"
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Just the ability to stand, walk, drive, shop, and vote without being targeted, followed, denied access, harassed, arrested beaten, or even killed without cause except for race, ethnicity, or orientation.
Having been on this planet for 50+ years, to this day, I am always on guard EVERY SINGLE TIME I walk in a store (no matter what type) and open my pocketbook to pull out a shopping list or wallet due to a fear of being "profiled" as a potential shoplifter. I'm never someone simply taking out money to buy something, but am always considered suspect to stealing, just because of what I look like.
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