They Dared Me to Post This...

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5. I double dog dare you to respond to this.

For instance, Scott feared being arrested and thrown into jail because he was behind on child support. How is that not an economic issue?

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/04/16/3647872/walter-scott-child-support/

The first time John Singletary met Walter Scott, the man whose April 4 death at the hands of North Charleston Police Officer Michael T. Slager has now attracted worldwide attention, Scott had fallen behind on child support payments, according to Singletary, and was trying to change his situation.

At the time, Singletary was the employment coordinator for the Father to Father Project, a North Charleston-based program that aims to help dads reconnect with their children and catch up on child support payments. Some men enter the program voluntarily; others are required to take the classes by a court order. The program's director estimates Scott entered the program in 2007 or 2008 but says he cannot remember whether he enrolled by choice.

"He owed child support," Singletary says. "Many of the people in there owed child support, and what he actually did was he came to the program, we got him a job, and then he started paying his child support, and from there on he was pretty straight."

Sometime after that, Scott began to slip on his child-support payments again. When Officer Slager pulled Scott over on April 4 for a broken car taillight, Charleston County Family Court had an active bench warrant out for Scott's arrest, according to a county spokesman. Reports have varied as to what Scott owed in back child support, but NBC News recently put the total at more than $18,000. Court records indicate that Scott had been taken to court before for missing payments.

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http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/TheBattery/archives/2015/04/13/walter-scott-attended-program-for-dads-who-are-behind-on-child-support-payment

The vast majority of the black men shot and killed by cops are POOR. Got that? That's an economic issues AS WELL as an institutional racism issue.

As far as the pos cop goes, nothing you legislate will stop crappy humans from trying to cover up their actions.

Now, onto those upper middle class black men that get pulled over: Yes, that's institutional racism and it needs to change. but those who live upper middle class lives live in safe neighborhoods, their life expectancies are longer. They don't need to worry about their children going hungry. Their kids go to good schools and are headed for college. That counts for nothing to you?

There is no evidence that the murder of Ennis Cosby had anything to do with racism. It was a robbery late at night on the side of the highway. He was changing a tire on an expensive vehicle

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=94100

The disgusting and loathsome claim that "poverty in America is not like poverty in Africa...." is the very definition of a red herring. Poverty in this country, KILLS. It shorten lives. It imprisons those that can't afford or justice system. It degrades and humiliates. It literally causes brain damage. It lowers IQs. It means a shit "education". We have a large homeless population. I could go on and on.