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Kind of Blue

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2. I don't think so, qwlauren35.
Mon Nov 2, 2015, 06:37 AM
Nov 2015

Just including this little video because I have to get to work and can't find ready links. The police, though we are easy pickings for them, are targeting whites as well. The prison industrial complex "has swept up all people of limited means, hunting minorities and the poor. Even if we took all of the minorities out of the equation leaving only the white majority, we would still be over incarcerated, we would still have vile police brutality. So just as the days of early slavery, we would still have a three-tiered system. The white majority is confused and make all kinds of assumptions. And the white minority who are aware of the horrors of the criminal injustice system, but unaware of the history of black America, feel themselves being lumped in with the white elites." ~ Matthew Cooke.

It just hasn't reached white America yet, just that they've come for their pockets, but believe it, the monster has to be fed and they're coming after their bodies as well. The sooner they wake the hell up the sooner we can join together as a force. But until their breaths are threatened, their pocketbook is the main concern, they overlook their own undergoing the same treatment.

As Black Elk said after visiting New York and Europe, "I could see that the whites did not care for each other the way our people did before the nation's hoop was broken. They would take everything from each other if they could, and so there were some who had more of everything than they could use, while crowds of people had nothing at all and maybe were starving. This could not be better than the old ways of my people.”

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What if... [View all] qwlauren35 Nov 2015 OP
because many don't look at young black kids as kids JI7 Nov 2015 #1
I don't think so, qwlauren35. Kind of Blue Nov 2015 #2
???? heaven05 Nov 2015 #4
Please, there is no soft-pedaling here. Kind of Blue Nov 2015 #5
I stand corrected heaven05 Nov 2015 #6
Please not necessary but thank you! Kind of Blue Nov 2015 #7
Years ago the Black neighborhoods were targeted by CIA and others for cocaine randys1 Nov 2015 #3
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