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Kind of Blue

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5. Please, there is no soft-pedaling here.
Mon Nov 2, 2015, 02:43 PM
Nov 2015

I'm not sure you read or watched the video to see that police brutality will not go away even if all minority groups were removed from the prison population. The division and conflict that's sold is to keep everyone's eyes on us "inherently criminal" black people while diverting from the real fact that bodies in general are necessary to maintain the prison industrial complex. You think if they stop the killing and imprisonment of blacks that the vileness will stop there? I don't think that will change because they're brutalizing and killing whites, to a lesser extent than AAs, and killing Native Americans at a higher rate than AAs.

Furthermore, my family just came out of the most awful 5 years of police brutality and false imprisonment of my sibling. All charges dropped but we're left to help pick up shattered lives of my brother's family. This is not something that I'm new to and trying to provide a distraction for. I do not want ANYONE to ever go thru what we've experienced.

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