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In reply to the discussion: In Ferguson - Guess Who Gets Arrested? [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)in Ferguson. If the same rights are NOT afforded to Blacks, then what do you suggest be done about it?
Do you think our Government is going to do anything about it? They've had decades, of both parties and it has only gotten worse.
Neither party has protected either the rights or the lives of AAs.
Lots of rhetoric is heard during campaigns, then nothing, until it can again be used as a political football in the next campaign.
Rights and lives ARE being taken from AAs in this society. This is a matter of urgency for our Government, THEY have the power to step in and do something, such as when the local authorities fail to deliver justice, the DOJ can step in, as they did in the Rodney King case.
Why haven't they done so? Hundreds of American citizeins, mostly AAs have been mowed down by our Civilian Police since JANUARY of THIS YEAR alone.
We are all over the world CLAIMING to be protecting American lives for a group that has not taken a single American life so far.
Yet, right under the noses of the same government making that claim American lives are being taken almost on a weekly basis and they ignore it.
The problem with saying we should give the same rights to AAs and not remove them from others is that it hasn't happened.