'We are being killed because we're black and because we refuse to be subservient to angry white men'

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32. So that was, what? 50 years ago? And apparently nothing SUBSTANTIAL has changed.........

And if you dig deeper it gets even worse. For the masses of black people the stats show that they are TWICE as likely to be unemployed, SIX times poorer than non-Latino white people, last hired, first fired during recoveries and the inevitable capitalist downturns. THAT economic cost is a violence perpetrated by the system that, although not as dramatic and final as a cop's bullet, is consistent and daily lived.

It's been over fifty years since the deck chairs on the Titanic of capitalism RE: civil rights for POC were rearranged, AND NOTHING SUBSTANTIAL HAS CHANGED FOR THE MASSES. And it's because capitalism as a system CANNOT change racism because racism results in super exploitation of a subset of the proletariat (black workers) which results in super profits for the owners. Malcolm X said it best right before he was assassinated:

"You can't have capitalism without racism". To get rid of racism, you must get rid of capitalism.