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Posted by
Nilet
on Thu Aug 21 19:27:58 2014
fiogf49gjkf0d I figure with all the racists posting racist articles, OTChat could use an antidote.
Want Peace? Killing Black People Needs To Be Treated as a Crime
It’s been a little over a week since Michael Brown was killed in broad daylight for, basically, jaywalking, in Ferguson, Missouri. Later, police tried to justify his death by changing the subject to shoplifting. It made me think of that campy Jane’s Addiction song, “Been Caught Stealing,” with its even more campy music video about white people shoplifting in grocery stores. It always seemed funny to me before, but this last week it has seemed like a testament to the way white people are rarely seen as a threat in popular culture—a view that’s ridiculous given that white people commit more crimes than anyone else.
Full article.
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