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In reply to the discussion: Black Man Was Stopped by Police for Sitting in His Car, Reading C.S. Lewis [View all]zentrum
(9,865 posts)23. Yeah, that's the easy
..knee jerk unthinking reaction but why do those statistics exist as they are?
White people's treatment of Black people is the reason those statistics exist as they are in the first place. Look deeper for why they are so uptight and convinced by those statistics.
White people, on some level, know that they've visited a horror on Black people. That's the conversation that needs to happen.
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Night Watchman
Jul 2016
OP
The fact he was reported as "suspicious black man" and that it was a wharf...
63splitwindow
Jul 2016
#11
Yeah I drive off and park somewhere and read poetry all the time. Then I leave...
63splitwindow
Jul 2016
#26
I still do not see how a cop pulling this guy over for being black could be construed as a wellness
63splitwindow
Jul 2016
#29