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romanic

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1. Damn right.
Sat May 2, 2015, 06:32 AM
May 2015

Especially this part.


Do the indictments mean people in Baltimore have jobs? Do they have better health care? Does their live expectancy now equal to that of whites?Are their schools better today than they were yesterday? Are their neighborhoods better? Is their housing less decrepit?


There's so much more that needs to be done. Stopping police brutality is a noble goal, but even without police brutality there's still gang violence, lack of jobs, crappy underfunded schools, broken homes and broken families that plague Black America more than any other ethnic group. Black lives should matter all the time, not just in regards to the police but with black people still living day by day. Economic justice = social justice, two sides of the same coin that we all should fight for.

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